Fortunate Son story
The cargo ship Fortunate is damaged by Nausicaan pirates and Enterprise offers a helping hand, only to find the acting-captain has secret plans. Directed by: LeVar Burton. Story by: James Duff.
12 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the desire for vengeance | choice | Matthew Ryan was on a mission to take vengeance on the Nausicaans because Nausicaan pirates had killed his family. |
| the pirate stereotype | choice | Nausicaan space pirates. |
| coping with time passing you by | major | Matthew Ryan and the freighter people had to adapt to a changing world where the Federation was taking jurisdiction of space and making them give up their old cowboy ways. |
| justification for torture | major | Matthew Ryan justified torturing the Nausicaan. |
| loyalty to one's family | major | Matthew Ryan was loyal to his family and he questioned Mayweather's loyalty to his spacer family. |
| the need to belong | major | Matthew Ryan and Mayweather discussed attachment to their "spacer" families and spaceship homes. |
| artificial gravity technology | minor | Matthew Ryan and Captain Keane tossing a football in a low gravity environment. |
| hollowed out asteroid habitat | minor | The Nausicaan pirates had a lair inside an asteroid. |
| male bonding | minor | Mayweather bonded with Matthew Ryan. |
| teleportation device | minor | Mayweather showed Matthew Ryan the Enterprise transporter. |