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Favorite Son (episode)

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• 1.2 Act One
• 1.3 Act Two
• 1.4 Act Three
• 1.5 Act Four
• 1.6 Act Five
• 2 Memorable quotes
• 3.1 Story and script
• 3.2 Cast and characters
• 3.3 Production
• 3.4 Reception
• 3.5 Continuity and trivia
• 3.6 Video and DVD releases
• 4.1 Starring
• 4.2 Also starring
• 4.3 Guest Stars
• 4.4 Co-Stars
• 4.5 Uncredited Co-Stars
• 4.6.1 Deleted references
• 4.7 External links

Summary [ ]

Commander Chakotay suggests using a trinary star system as a focal map point for the sector the USS Voyager is passing through. Ensign Harry Kim asks if Voyager had been to this system before, only to have Tuvok suggest that he was experiencing a " paradoxical state dependent associative phenomenon ", or as Captain Janeway puts it, " déjà vu ".

When Voyager encounters an alien ship they have never seen before (the Nasari ship Nerada ), Kim instinctively transfers tactical control to his station . Though the Nasari show no apparent hostile intent, Kim raises Voyager 's shields and fires phasers without orders, claiming that the alien vessel is charging weapons.

Act One [ ]

Voyager takes heavy damage in defending itself from the Nasari vessel, forcing them to withdraw. Janeway demands Kim explain his actions, and Harry tells her that he just knew the Nasari were going to attack. Tuvok says he detected nothing but a tetryon surge coming from their ship, and points out that there could be any number of explanations for that. Kim is suspended from duty, and shadowed by a security guard, pending investigation of his overly-hostile actions. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres was severely injured during the attack in engineering and is brought to sickbay .

Kim's new rash

Kim then goes to sickbay on Captain Janeway's orders to look at a cut on his forehead and to watch The Doctor and Kes treating Torres' injuries. He feels extremely guilty over his actions and Kes comforts him, telling him that what's done is done and that he cannot change that fact.

During the night, Kim has a strange dream while asleep in his quarters and when he awakens, he goes to his bathroom to find he has a strange rash all over his face.

Act Two [ ]

In sickbay, The Doctor scans Kim with his medical tricorder and cannot find an initial cause. However, when Kim remembers dreaming about Mendakan pox he had as a child and suggests a possible connection, The Doctor half-sarcastically tells the ensign he will note it. Fortunately, Torres then wakes up and is all right, proving as such by teasing Kim about his condition.

Kim reports to the captain's ready room and admits fault about starting the last engagement. Janeway reveals that he was right about the Nasari ship charging weapons, and they would have caught Voyager with her shields down had he not acted. The question now is how did Harry know they were going to attack. Kim can only say this part of space has become increasingly familiar.

Tuvok suddenly alerts Janeway that there are three Nasari ships approaching them. Kim immediately has a star chart pulled up on one of Voyager 's computers at the ship's conn and convinces Janeway to set a course to a nearby system. Upon arriving, Kim sees a planet and knows its name is Taresia . Prior to being attacked by the Nasari, Voyager is defended by an unknown ship which forces the Nasari vessels to retreat. Voyager answers a hail from the unknown ship which is from Taresia. The woman communicating with Voyager from the Taresian ship recognizes Harry as a Taresian and welcomes him home.

Act Three [ ]

Kim, Janeway, Tuvok, and Paris beam down to Taresia. The Taresians tell a shocking story of how Kim was implanted with their DNA at birth. When he was an embryo , he was put in stasis and taken to Earth , where he was implanted in the womb of a Human woman, his mother . After the implantation process, Kim began to incorporate DNA from his "surrogate" parent, so he developed as a Human. Tuvok asks if all of their children are born to alien parents. Lyris tells him yes, and that each child that returns to their homeworld brings an infusion of genetic material as well as firsthand information of alien species. After this revelation, Kim decides to stay with the Taresians, at least temporarily, to learn more about his newfound species and himself. Voyager leaves orbit to attempt negotations with the Nasari. They learn from the Nasari, Alben , that the Taresian males who return to Taresia never leave, but, oddly, provides no more information and promises to fire if they do manage to get Kim back.

Voyager returns to Taresia where they find a protective polaron grid encircling the planet which also blocks communications. " I guess we're not welcome anymore ", Chakotay tells Janeway.

Act Four [ ]

Kim participates in the joining ( marriage ) ceremony of another male Taresian, Taymon , where he is joined (married) to three women. Eliann tells Kim that he will remember how to perform the ceremony with everyone else as soon as it begins. After the ceremony is over, Kim tries to contact Voyager through his combadge but is unsuccessful. Lyris tells him the ship may still be conducting negotiations with the Nasari and therefore delayed. She encourages him to join the wedding celebration while he waits.

Back on Voyager , Janeway and Chakotay walk down a corridor towards sickbay. Chakotay announces to the captain that the crew has been able to poke some holes in the tachyon grid, but Voyager is too big to go through. Janeway asks if a shuttle could, but Chakotay doubts it. Even if it could, a powerful Taresian vessel patrols the other side. Upon entering sickbay, The Doctor meets with the captain and first officer in his office to inform them that he discovered something about Kim's Taresian DNA: it was implanted, possibly by a retrovirus . The Doctor confirms that Kim is fully Human but warns them that the alien DNA from is beginning to alter his genetic structure; in a few days he will be indistinguishable from a Taresian. The Doctor reviewed the transporter biofilter logs and found that the alien DNA made its first appearance on stardate 50698. Chakotay remembers that was the date of the away mission on the planet where Vorillium was found. The Taresian's whole story was a lie but Janeway wonders why the Taresians would go to so much trouble to lure Kim to their planet.

Meanwhile, on Taresia, Kim is led to his quarters by Eliann. She tells him to lie on his bed and relax. " Lekaria san ", she tells him. She asks if he understands the Taresian word. " Pleasant dreams ", he replies. She asks him to close his eyes while she applies " the essence of rikka flowers " to Kim, something very soothing. Kim kisses Eliann and promptly falls asleep. However, Kim begins experiencing some more strange dreams, of Taresian women welcoming him home, of Janeway and Chakotay on Voyager 's bridge, telling him how lucky they've been to have him and how special he has been all his life. His mother appears and tells him he knows where his real home is. Suddenly, Eliann appears and asks him to stay with her as they begin to kiss passionately. Doubt begins to creep up on Kim after waking up to two very "interested" Taresian females, Eliann and Rinna . They try to reassure him but their attempts to do so instead make him outright suspicious. Kim ties up Eliann and knocks out Rinna so he can escape. Kim makes it to Taymon's quarters to try to free him as well. When he enters, he finds Taymon's corpse in bed.

Act Five [ ]

One of Taymon's wives, Malia , enters the quarters and Kim overpowers her. He learns what The Doctor discovered and that the Taresian reproductive process is deadly to the male, meaning that more males have to be repeatedly harvested from space due to the high female population. Taymon's other two wives enter the quarters. Kim throws Malia at them to continue his escape and they all fall onto Taymon's bed .

Voyager finally finds a way to get inside the polaron grid and beams Kim up as he is surrounded by more Taresian women who try to forcibly have him joined, armed with their staffs. When Voyager leaves the system, a Taresian ship fires at Voyager when three Nasari ships appear and also fire at Voyager and the Taresian ship. The Nasari later concentrate their fire on the Taresian ship allowing Voyager to leave.

Kim meets with Neelix and Lieutenant Paris at the mess hall where he tells the Talaxian the story of Odysseus and the call of the sirens , a tale strikingly similar to the situation he just found himself in. The captain of ancient ships ordered the crew to block their ears in order not to be seduced by the singing of the sirens. The sirens would cause the ships to crash, marooning the crew. Neelix says he's glad Kim is back aboard but admits he misses the spots Kim had. Kim tells Paris that he wished he was more like Paris with women. Paris states he has tried to be like Kim since he joined the crew of Voyager. Paris puts his hand on Kim's shoulder as he tells the young man he is " reliable, hard working, extremely punctual. Did I mention polite? " " Thanks a lot ", Kim replies.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" Perhaps you are experiencing a paradoxical state-dependent associative phenomenon. " " Déjà vu. "

" We raised you to be a responsible boy. " " I try to be. " " I'm suspending you from duty! " " Mom… "

" What's your next trick, Harry? Pull a shuttlecraft out of a hat? "

" Is this the standard "welcome home" reception? " " For males, it is. They're very rare. Our population is ninety percent female. " "Really?"

" Harry. What happened to your face? " " We're still trying to figure that out. " " It's kind of cute. Makes you look like a speckled targ! "

" Sometimes I wish I could be more bold, more confident with women, more like you. " " Like me? You might want to reconsider that, Harry. There may be prison time involved. "

Background information [ ]

Story and script [ ].

• This episode had the working title "Heritage". [1]
• While undergoing a typical episode rewrite process, this installment of Star Trek: Voyager was severely altered. Director Marvin V. Rush – who usually served as a Director of Photography on the live-action Star Trek spin-off series – noted, " It went through some rewrites. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 ) The initial storyline, from which Lisa Klink wrote a script , was organized in such a way that the entire episode was going to be about how Kim truly was an alien. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 33 , p. 35; The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 17 , pp. 38-39) Kim actor Garrett Wang commented, " They were going to keep it that way. They were talking about keeping me in alien spots for the rest of the series. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 17 , pp. 38-39) Recalling how the script thereafter evolved, Wang stated, " They changed it so that Kim ended up trying to get away from these life-force sucking women. Everything got flipped around. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 33 , p. 35) He further explained, " Some big-wigs looked at it and said, 'More sex, more action,' and suddenly, it became convoluted. The arc wasn't clear. They added in the vampire -like, blood-sucking women. But they didn't go all the way with it. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 17 )
• The episode's final draft script was submitted on 12 December 1996 . [2]
• The script was somewhat ambiguous. Marvin V. Rush noted, " The story was a little unclear as to what we were trying to accomplish. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 )

Cast and characters [ ]

• Garrett Wang described the earliest version of this episode's script as "excellent". In the early stages of the episode's development, he eagerly anticipated the chance to play Kim as an alien throughout the rest of the series. " It would have given me a chance to add a little more color to him, " Wang related. " I was very excited about that, because I had always said that it was easier to write for the non-Human characters on Voyager than the Human characters. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 17 )
• Lisa Klink noted that, ultimately, the installment leads Harry Kim to reevaluate his lifestyle: " This is an episode that forces Kim to question his identity a little bit. He gets to take a walk on the wild side, and then of course discovers that he is who he thought he was all along. Maybe it's not so bad to be Harry Kim. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 108)
• Ultimately, Garrett Wang still enjoyed performing Kim's central role of this installment and Marvin Rush was pleased with Wang's performance. Rush noted, " Garrett Wang had some fun doing it [....] Garrett played his part very well. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 ) Wang also regretted, however, that the episode turned out the way it did. " 'Favorite Son' was, to me, something of a miss-hit, " the actor related. " Intentions were good, but I don't think, personally, that it came out the way it should have. " For this, Wang blamed the collaborative method in which the episode was written, believing that too many voices wanted to have a say in its development. " There were different opinions in how the episode was to go [....] You end up with a mediocre [episode], because no solid choice in one direction is chosen, " Wang commented. " I think that's what happened with 'Favorite Son'. You have three or four different opinions of how this episode should be written, and all of a sudden you have no clear delineation of where this episode should go. It becomes gray. There are no colors in there. It kind of tired me out a little bit, especially after doing ' The Chute '. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 33 , p. 35) In essence, Wang thought this episode did not entirely achieve its potential. " It was an OK episode, " he commented, " but it could have been so much more. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 17 )
• Marvin Rush also worked with the performers playing the Taresian females of this episode, although their characters presented Rush with a challenge. " I had to maintain a sense of tastefulness about it, " Rush explained. " The best comparison to the society in 'Favorite Son' is the Geisha girls of Japanese culture. The Western mind thinks of Geishas as prostitutes. That's an element to being a Geisha, but they are far more than that. A Geisha is a woman whose whole purpose is to entertain men, in every possible way, intellectually and with great beauty. It's the entire package. A Geisha is not a dummy; she's a bright woman. But her role is to be completely captivating to men. That was the goal for the characters in 'Favorite Son': To be so totally devoted to the male that whatever he wants, he can have. These guest actors had to come in and play very non-'90s women. I had to do a little convincing, but we got there. It was a difficult show to do well. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 )
• Garrett Wang was ultimately dissatisfied with the design of the Taresian females. " They had these matronly women with no sex appeal instead of babes dressed like I Dream of Jeannie , " Wang recalled. ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 17 )
• This episode includes two past DS9 performers: Deborah May ( Lyris ) previously played Haneek in " Sanctuary " and Christopher Carroll ( Alben ) appeared as Gul Benil in " Second Skin ".

Production [ ]

• Marvin Rush noted that, during the production period, the cast and crew attempted to make this essentially "a male fantasy piece with a dark twist" and that they tried to give the episode more depth than was in the script. ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 )
• The Nasari ships were a reuse of a studio model originally used as a Romulan scout ship in TNG : " The Defector ". The Taresian starship was an oft-reused studio model previously utilized to depict such ships as Baran's mercenary ship in the TNG two-parter " Gambit, Part I " and " Gambit, Part II " as well as the Miradorn raider in DS9 : " Vortex ". ( Delta Quadrant , p. 176)
• This episode had a complicated shooting schedule, split in half by the Christmas holiday break. Marvin Rush commented, " It's hard to keep things focused when you have 15 or 16 days off between one part of the show and the next. It adds one more bit of complexity to the process. Sometimes there's no way around it. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 )
• Michael Okuda noted that the art department had forgotten to add the Taresian writing to the staff props used in the scene. Okuda and producer Merri Howard had to rush to the set with Sharpies to get them ready in time for filming. [3]
• Garrett Wang participated in reshoots during the episode's production, for which he blamed the design of the Taresian females. " As a result, we had to do a lot of reshooting, " he said. " The scene where we had the marriage was originally going to be shot differently. We had all these women and the lighting was different, but the producers didn't like it. We reshot it with darker lighting and no kissing–a very ceremonial, ritual wedding. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 17 )

Reception [ ]

• Executive producer Jeri Taylor cited this episode and the preceding one (" Rise ") as being among the weaker offerings of Season 3, feeling that they were both let down by their execution. She specifically said of this installment, " 'Favorite Son' was an interesting idea that in the making of it just came off as looking a little silly. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 31 , p. 12)
• Marvin Rush thought the cast and crew were successful in making this episode "a male fantasy piece with a dark twist." He commented, " I believe that's what we achieved. I would have loved for a little more depth in the piece. We tried for it, but I'm not sure we got it. ' The Host ' and ' The Thaw ' [Rush's previous directorial outings] had more depth. This one was not as satisfying an experience as the previous two. It was not as cerebral. " On the other hand, he added, " I thought it was entertaining and it moved along. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 )
• In lieu of any overarching theme or morals, Marvin Rush interpreted such a moral from a particular scene of the episode, in which Kim is tempted with drugs but doesn't take them and instead starts to realize that he is being drawn in by a corrupt culture. " That was a really important scene for me, " the director remarked. " If there's a message to that show, that's the scene with the message. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 15 )
• This episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 4.4 million homes, and a 7% share. [4] (X)
• This installment is the last in what is known to some fans as the "trilogy of terror" – three consecutive episodes that are often considered to be remarkably bad (the other two episodes being " Darkling " and " Rise "). ( Beyond the Final Frontier , p. 304)
• Cinefantastique rated this episode 1 out of 4 stars. ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 108)
• Star Trek Monthly  issue 30 , p. 59 scored this episode 4 out of 5 stars, defined as " Trill -powered viewing".
• The unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 176) gives this installment a rating of 2 out of 10.

Continuity and trivia [ ]

• The Doctor and Chakotay suggest that Kim was infected during an away mission to a planet while looking for vorillium , on stardate 50698, which places that mission shortly after the episode " Darkling " (where the Voyager crew were already looking for vorillium). Although in that episode, Voyager received a lead to an asteroid rather than a planet.
• Towards the end of the episode Lieutenant Tuvok responds to an order by Captain Janeway with an "Aye, sir." This form of address to a female officer was common, but eschewed by Janeway in " Caretaker ".
• In the "Virtual Voyager " sub-game of the Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force expansion pack , Seven of Nine mentions that Paris has written a holo-novel program entitled Man Slave of Taresia based on Kim's experiences on the planet.

Video and DVD releases [ ]

• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video ): Volume 3.10, 22 August 1997
• As part of the VOY Season 3 DVD collection

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

Also starring [ ]

• Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
• Roxann Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
• Jennifer Lien as Kes
• Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
• Ethan Phillips as Neelix
• Robert Picardo as The Doctor
• Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok
• Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim

Guest Stars [ ]

• Cari Shayne as Eliann
• Deborah May as Lyris
• Patrick Fabian as Taymon
• Kelli Kirkland as Rinna
• Kristanna S. Loken as Malia

Co-Stars [ ]

• Christopher Carroll as Alben
• Irene Tsu as Kim's Mother

Uncredited Co-Stars [ ]

• Elle Alexander as a Taresian woman
• Reba Shaw Alexander as a Taresian woman
• Debbie David as Russell
• Steve Carnahan as an Security guard
• Cheryl Eckelberry as a Taresian woman
• Jennifer Ferdinand as a Taresian woman
• Noelle Hannibal as a Taresian woman
• Stacy Hawkens as a Taresian woman
• Sue Henley as Brooks
• Kerry Hoyt as Crewman Fitzpatrick
• Linda Li as a Taresian woman
• Louis Ortiz as Culhane
• Julie Riley as a Taresian woman
• Richard Sarstedt as William McKenzie
• Rainelle Saunders as a Taresian woman
• Patricia Tallman as a Taresian woman
• John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
• Kenny Yee as young Harry Kim

References [ ]

Alpha Quadrant ; Ashmore ; bearing ; binary code ; bioscan ; blindfold ; blood pressure ; burn ; coordinates ; defense mechanism ; déjà vu ; Delta Quadrant ; density ; diagnostic tool ; DNA ; Essence of rikka flowers ; evasive maneuvers ; Federation ; generation ; genetic engineering ; genetic memory ; hatana ; hearsay ; hidden power ; Kim, John ; Kim, Mary ; Klingon ; level 1 bioscan ; lungs ; medical scan ; Mendakan pox ; microcellular scan ; Milky Way Galaxy ; milligram ; miracle child ; mood enhancer ; Nasari ; Nasari space ( Nasari territory ); Nerada ; Nerada -type ; neural tissue ; nucleation ; Odysseus ; Ops station ; oxygen ( oxygen deprivation ); paradoxical state-dependent associative phenomenon ; plasma conduit ; plasma injector ; polaron grid ; pulmonary regeneration ; pulmozine ; rash ; red alert ; respiration ; retrovirus ; rib ; rikka flower ; Sirens ; soup ; spots ; tachyon grid ; tactical control ; Taresia ; Taresian ; Taresian cutlery ; Taresian language ; Taresian chime ; Taresian starship (aka Taresian ship / Taresian patrol ship ); Taresian system ; Taresian system primary ; targ ; tetryon ; tone deafness ; transporter buffer ; trinary star (aka trinary system ); trinary system ; trinary system sector ; vorillium ; warp field

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Favorite Son is the twentieth episode of the third season of Star Trek: Voyager , and the sixty-second episode overall.

Starring : Kate Mulgrew ( Captain Kathryn Janeway )

Also Starring : Robert Beltran ( Commander Chakotay ), Roxann Dawson ( Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres ), Jennifer Lien ( Kes ), Robert Duncan McNeill ( Lieutenant Tom Paris ), Ethan Phillips ( Neelix ), Robert Picardo ( The Doctor ), Tim Russ ( Lieutenant Tuvok ), Garrett Wang ( Ensign Harry Kim )

Guest Stars : Cari Shayne (Eliann), Deborah May (Lyris), Patrick Fabian (Taymon), Kelli Kirkland (Rinna), Kristanna S. Loken (Malia)

Co-Stars : Christopher Carroll (Alben), Irene Tsu (Kim's Mother)

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• All Women Are Lustful : On Taresia, at least.
• Apologetic Attacker : Harry says sorry after giving one of his potential wives a Tap on the Head . After finding Taymon's desiccated corpse, he no longer feels the need.
• Assimilation Plot : Harry was infected by Taresian DNA while on an away mission to a nearby planet.
• A Threesome Is Hot : When Harry balks at staying in his room, both women offer to have sex with him.
• Big Damn Heroes : Voyager beams up Harry as he's surrounded by the Taresians.
• Chained to a Bed : Harry ties up a woman under the pretext of kinky sex, leaving her Bound and Gagged while he sneaks out of his room to find out what’s really going on.
• Death Glare : Janeway after Harry fires on the ship without orders.
• Discretion Shot : The Tap on the Head that Kim delivers to a Taresian happens just off-screen.
• Double Entendre : Loads from the Taresian females.
• Drugs Are Bad : The first indication that Taresian society isn't as perfect as it appears is when Taymon's suitors drug him up with a "mood enhancer." Kim, being a straight-edge Star Fleet officer, declines.
• Explosive Instrumentation : A plasma conduit ruptures in B’Elanna’s face, but she’s quickly healed thanks to the Doctor.
• Fatal Attractor : The first of a Running Gag for Harry.
• Future Society, Present Values : Harry's line about marriage being between one man and one woman would seem dated less than thirty years later, much less three hundred.
• Gender Rarity Value : With a population that's 90% female, the males are greatly honored and given their own harems . Too bad they don't live long enough to enjoy it.
• Genetic Memory : How Harry's Gut Feeling is explained away by the Taresians.
• Good News, Bad News : After Harry wakes up with strange Facial Markings , the Doctor gives him the good news that he's not infected by some alien infectious disease. Harry demands to know what the bad news is, even though the Doctor never gave the Good News, Bad News line (given that everything seems to be going wrong for Harry today, you can't blame him). The Doctor just looks annoyed and points out that if he can't isolate the cause, the problem will be difficult to treat.
• G-Rated Drug : Harry turns down a "mood enhancer" with "no side effects".
• Guilt-Induced Nightmare : Harry has guilt-ridden dreams of disappointing his mother and injuring his fellow crewmates.
• Gunship Rescue : The Taresian warship disabling the Nasari vessels.
• Gut Feeling : Harry is convinced the Nasari ship is about to attack them and turns out to be right. Subverted when his 'instincts' turn out to be programmed into his Taresian DNA.
• I Just Want to Be Special : Turns out that Harry has felt this way all his life, which is one reason why living as a Taresian is so appealing to him. Taymon: Don't be afraid to indulge yourself, Harry. Everybody here wants you to be happy. You're important to us. Harry: That's what my human parents used to say to me. How special I was. They'd been trying to have a baby for years until I came along. They called me their miracle child. Taymon: They were right. Harry: They spoiled me rotten, making sacrifices so they could give me everything I wanted. Taymon: Sounds like you were pretty lucky. They loved you. Harry: But I never felt like I deserved that kind of devotion. I didn't see what was so special about me. I used to imagine that I had these hidden powers. I'd grow up to be stronger than a Klingon or able to read people's minds. Anything to make me more than just an average kid. Taymon: Turns out your parents were right about you. You have been special all of your life. Feels pretty good, doesn't it? Harry: Yeah, it does.
• Lady Land : Taresia is 90 percent female. Turns out there are very few males born at all, so they have to get men from other species and harvest all their DNA.
• A Lady on Each Arm : How Taymon is introduced. And he couldn't be happier about it.
• Let's You and Him Fight : Janeway bets that the Nasari and Taresians will be more interested in shooting at each other than Voyager.
• Mars Needs Women : Except gender-reversed and that the planet's name is Taresia.
• My God, What Have I Done? : Harry is in deep mea culpa mode after the initial battle with the Nasari, especially after seeing B'Elanna's injuries, because he's the one who started it. Until it turns out that he'd just saved Voyager from a sneak attack that he'd instinctively known was coming.
• Only You Can Repopulate My Race
• Out with a Bang : Alas, poor Taymon...
• Poor Communication Kills : The Nasari never bother just explaining to Janeway what the heck is going on.
• Seen It All : If not by the protagonists, then by others. While trying to figure out what's happening, Harry and Janeway go over some of the standard Trek weirdness that everyone else has dealt with. Janeway: We'll have to consider every possible explanation. Harry: Oh, believe me, I have been. Space-time anomalies, alien telepathy, alternate realities. The list gets weirder as it goes on.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness : Tuvok suggests Harry is experiencing a "paradoxical state-dependent associative phenomenon", which Janeway has to explain means "déjà vu."
• Shout-Out : Harry compares the beautiful Taresian women to the Sirens from The Odyssey .
• Ship Tease : B’Elanna tells Harry his new spots make him look cute, like a ‘speckled targ’.
• Slip into Something More Comfortable : Kim's suitors convince him to change out of his Star Fleet uniform while frolicking with them in a rare exception to franchise's Limited Wardrobe standards. They're hoping to get him in the mood for Taresian loving as well as distance him from his Star Fleet identity.
• Team Mom : Harry dreams his mother saying she’s suspending him from duty (a line that Captain Janeway had given him that day).
• Underage Casting : Kristanna Loken who played Malia was 17 at the time the episode was filmed. This was a fact that an extreme surprised and apologetic Garett Wang only learned about when Loken mentioned it during a guest interview in a 2023 Delta Flyers podcast. She seemed to take it in stride.
• Was It All a Lie? : Yes, it was.
• Would Hit a Girl : Harry delivers a Tap on the Head to a Taresian woman to escape. It's downplayed by the fact that he apologizes for it , and the blow occurs off-camera to spare us the sight of our hero bludgeoning an attractive young woman into unconsciousness.
• Star Trek Voyager S 3 E 18 "Rise"
• Recap/Star Trek: Voyager
• Star Trek: Voyager S3 E20: "Before and After"

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David Paxton is the most unlikely of heroes. In a story of family, of dreams deferred, and of a final chance at redemption Paxton, returns to his hometown as much less the hero he once assumed he would become. 

Nearing the end of his minor league baseball career, he meets Joan Embry, and her son Ross, believing he has found a way to acquire the love, support and family for which he's long been yearning. But his overheated romancing of Joan makes her wary, and his attempt to mentor Ross meets with the boy's undisguised contempt. It appears his dreams of a future have died, and David's simmering rage threatens to erupt into violence. 

But David and Ross, a disturbed teenager heading down a path of increasing destructiveness, somehow forge an odd, clandestine friendship. David must break out of his own isolation to help the troubled young boy and confront the dark secrets that haunt both their lives. He must become a father figure in a way he never imagined, and in so doing become a genuine hero off the field.

From Our Director

I’m delighted that Favorite Son has found a new home with Passion River Films and is now available for so many to see. Our film tackles a very serious topic - the damage done by sexual abuse - in this case the victimization of athletes - and the resulting rage that can consume them. That’s a topic that’s been very much in the news of late; instances of abuse and cover-up against college and olympic athletes. Beneath the story is the real message of our movie; that most of us have experienced difficult, even painful times in our lives that lead to some secret we fight to conceal. It’s only the removal of stigma and shame that can lead us to find it easier to reveal that secret and so to communicate honestly with each other, and in doing so to overcome obstacles born of fear and embarrassment. That we were aided in our work by magnificent performances from Pablo, Connor, Kellie and Richard (Bekins) only serves to show that the secret of Favorite Son is that it was so enjoyable to make. Thank you to my friends and colleagues Ben Wolf, Michael Stewart, Emily Gumpel, the enormously talented Murray Attaway, and Mike Mills.

CAST & CREW

Pablo Schreiber

Pablo Schreiber  was nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway debut performance in the revival of Clifford Odets' classic Awake and Sing! directed by Bartlett Sher.      Schreiber has appeared in many films, including: Josh Radnor's Happythankyoumoreplease (2010), which won the Audience Award at Sundance, Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Tell Tale (2009), Nights in Rodanthe(2008), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Allegiance (2012), Breaking Upwards (2009), Into the Fire (2005), The Mudge Boy (2003) and Invitation to a Suicide (2004). Upcoming he appears in the independent features Fort Bliss (2014), The Dramatics: A Comedy (2015) and Preservation (2014). Television credits include his classic role as "Nick Sobolka" in HBO's critically acclaimed

The Wire (2002); and most recently as the menacing villain  "William Lewis" on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), NBC's "Ironside" and as "Pornstache" in Jenji Kohan's hit series Orange Is the New Black  (2013). He's also appeared in Stephen Frears'  Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight  (2013) for HBO and on  Weeds  (2005),  A Gifted Man (2011),  Lights Out (2011),  The Good Wife  (2009),  White Collar  (2009),  The Beast  (2009),  Life on Mars  (2008),  It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia  (2005),  Fear Itself  (2008),  Dirt (2007), John Grisham's  A Painted House  (2003),  Law & Order  (1990),  Law & Order: Criminal Intent  (2001), and  The Black Donnellys  (2007).      He's also appeared in Stephen Frears' Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) for HBO and on Weeds (2005), A Gifted Man(2011), Lights Out (2011), The Good Wife (2009), White Collar (2009), The Beast (2009), Life on Mars (2008), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005), Fear Itself (2008), Dirt(2007), John Grisham's A Painted House (2003), Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), and The Black Donnellys (2007).     Schreiber has performed in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway plays including: Desire Under the Elms on Broadway directed by Robert Falls, Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries at Second Stage, Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty at MCC (for which he won the Drama Desk Award), Dying City at Lincoln Center, Mr. Marmalade at Roundabout, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed at The New Group, Manuscript at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Blood Orange, his professional debut.

Connor Paolo :

 Paolo's acting career began at the age of nine, with his first TV appearance on the soap opera  All My Children  (1970). In 2002, he played Zachary Connor, a preteen murderer-rapist in an episode of  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit  (1999). His motion picture debut was in 2003 Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated  Mystic River  (2003) .  In 2004, Paolo got a recurring role in the daytime soap opera One Life to Live (1968) as Travis O'Connell. Connor has appeared in two films for Oliver Stone, Alexander (2004) and World Trade Center (2006). Paolo has also starred in  Snow Angels  (2007), directed by David Gordon Green.  Favorite Son  was his first leading role in a movie.

Connor Paolo

Kellie Overbey

Kellie Overbey has appeared on Broadway in Present Laughter . She also starred in Steppenwolf's production of Buried Child , for which she received a FANY Award for Best Broadway Debut, 1996. Overbey's Off-Broadway and regional credits include work at Yale Rep., La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf Theatre and work with playwrights Sam Shepard, Steve Martin, Jack Heifner, Beth Henley, and Christopher Durang. Most recently seen in the MTC Production of Comic Potential . For Film/Tv: Sweet and Lowdown and Stephen King's "The Stand." Overbey's first play, Oh, My Darling, has been optioned by Archlight Theatre.

Brian Gonsar/Producer  is an award-winning Executive Producer at Hill Holliday. He has produced a wide range of projects including TV commercials, feature films, digital executions, live events, websites, apps, and music videos.  He has worked both independently and with Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America, General Electric, Cadillac, PepsiCo, JetBlue Airways, Optum, and AT&T.  Most notably, he produced a Super Bowl commercial that featured a music video by U2 and raised millions of dollars for (RED). Brian followed Favorite Son with his second feature, Forgetting the Girl (2012), starring Christopher Denham and Anna Camp, which won awards at several film festivals. 

Howard Libov/Director, Co-Writer   wrote and and directed the films Men Will Be Boys, starring with Joel Murray (Second City, Mad Men) and David Pasquesi (Groundhogs Day, Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Sally Murphy (August: Osage County, Scent of a Woman); Little Man with Frankie Muniz (Malcom in the Middle) won “Best Dramatic Film” at the International Sports Short Film Festival, the “Silver Illumination” award at the Crested Butte ReelFest” and was selected for more than 25 film festivals. Libov is the director, and co-writer, of the feature films Midnight Edition , which starred Will Patton (A Mighty Heart, Remember the Titans) which won Best First Feature at the Festival of Fantastic Film in Spain. He is also the director of the award winning documentary films, Aglow and Fourteen Stations in the Under the Radar series about contemporary artists. Libov is the Director of Film Production in the B.A. and MFA programs at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he also serves as Chair of the School of the Arts.

Michael Stewart/Co-Writer  is the screenwriter of Eye of the Storm, produced by Gale Ann Hurd and directed by Fred Schepisi  (1991) and, with Libov and Yuri Zeltser, Midnight Edition (1993). As well, he and Libov wrote the short film, Little Man , which was developed into a feature film as  Favorite Son . Stewart, a NYU graduate, began his career developing film and TV projects for such companies as Vizcom Inc, TriCoast Productions, and ArkType Productions. 

Ben Wolf/Photography: Ben has over 20 years experience shooting both narrative features and documentaries. His recent work includes the horror film Another Soul (dir. Paul Chau), the drama MAKI (dir. Naghmeh Shirkhan), The Musical Life of an Actress (dir. Paul Chau), additional photography on Art Jones’ award-winning feature Forbidden Cuba , the horror film She Wolf Rising (dir. Marc Leland), Arthur Vincie’s lo-fi sci-fi film Found In Time and Shoja Azari’s Venice Biennale entry The King of Black . He recently shot the web series Breeding Grounds (dir. Susan Skoog), and the second season of The Other F Word (dir. Caytha Jentis).  Ben’s long-form documentary work includes Amsterdam Stories USA (dirs: Rob Rombout and Rogier van Eck), which won awards in Portugal and Serbia.   Deceptive Practice (dirs: Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein), a film on the magician Ricky Jay, screened throughout the U.S. , Food Chains (dir. Sanjay Rawal) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. His work on Gold Mountain won him the Student Academy Award for Best Cinematography.  Ben also teaches cinematography at DocNomads in Belgium, Montclair State University, and has taught lighting seminars at SVA, Brooklyn College, Wright State University, and SACAC in Delhi.

Emily Gumpel Clifton/Editor  has more than 20 years experience in post-production, editing more than 25 feature films, shorts and television shows in that time.  From her first professional gig - as intern on Ernest Dickerson’s film “Surviving the Game” (Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, F. Murray Abraham), working with the editor, Sam Pollard, who, as Emily says,  "recognized my dedication and moved me into an apprentice position. Getting to stand behind him and watch as he worked, trying various takes, lengthening or shortening reaction shots, changing the order of lines, I began to understand the magic of editing. I knew right away that I wanted to do that. I wanted to learn how to tell stories. After assisting on 35mm features, I began cutting during the emergence of the first-generation Avid. In 1996, as a first assistant and eventually an editor, I developed the workflow for one of the first multi-cam reality shows, Baseball, Minnesota (FX, then Fox Cable). I now work with today’s tapeless HD workflows in both Media Composer and Final Cut Pro. Technology may have moved on, but the editor’s goal remains the same: to tell a compelling story, keep the audience engaged, and remember that the best cut is the one the audience doesn’t see. I see it as my job to help the director and producer achieve their vision, sometimes in a way that might even surprise them. I believe a good editor doesn’t impose a style, but develops an individual style for each project that best serves the story.  One of the things I love most about editing is the variety of challenges that comes with working on many different types of stories. I’ve edited dramas, mysteries, comedies. Scripted features, verité documentaries, and reality tv. One was a project directed by Russell Crowe on his band's tour of Italy (60 Odd Hours in Italy); a television drama for ABC set in a psychiatric hospital (Wonderland); a verité documentary on a troubled rapper in East New York (Black Picket Fence); and several entertainment shows for Fuse and Vh1. Projects I’ve edited have won awards at several festivals including Sundance, Silverdocs, Brooklyn International, Urban World and Full Frame.

The Students at FDUFilm: Favorite Son was the first in a series of professional films, shows, and streaming web series crewed by students in the film production program at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. On set, the lead actors were professional (Screen Actors Guild) and the director and cinematographer were also professionals. But most all other crew positions were held, and their jobs done at a, well, professional level, by students in the program.  The lighting crew, the camera and dolly crew, our Assistant Director, Production Designer, etc… all handled by students, who were given great responsibility and responded at that level of trust. 

Murray Attaway: Original Score/Songs: The lead singer, guitarist and one of the founding members of the band Guadalcanal Diary, which recorded four albums from 1984 to 1989 on dB and Elektra Reccords. Murray's solo debut, In Thrall , was released by Geffen Records (DGC). Recorded in Los Angeles, the many talented players on the record included drummer Jim Keltner, keyboard players Nicky Hopkins and Steve Nieve, and features a cameo by Jackson Browne. The album was produced by Tony Berg. Murray also scored Libov's films "Little Man" and "Midnight Edition". 

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Michael Edward Mills: Songs  Mills is a founding member of the band R.E.M .  Previously, he wrote the score for "Men WIll Be Boys", a short film also directed by Howard Libov. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, percussion instruments and occasional lead vocals. He contributed to a majority of REM's musical compositions.

A Note About the Content in Favorite Son

A lot of research went into the development and execution of Favorite Son, as part of our effort to accurately portray the devastating issue of childhood sexual abuse. As depicted in the film, some victims turn inward, away from contact with their friends and community. Others turn outward, often lashing out through their emotions, or with violence. In some studies, psychologists have found that a predilection toward violence against small animals, especially if it becomes more pronounced and moves up a ‘ladder’ from smaller to larger animals, can be a sign the victim might be on a path toward becoming a danger to people. That’s what we wanted to show in our film - that there were serious consequences on the horizon if the damage being done to Ross was not discovered - and if there was no intervention. That’s why some parts of our movie are, notably, difficult to watch. But they serve a purpose. 

Favorite Son has these sorts of difficult, dramatic actions and outcomes, in common with some other films of note; for instance, Manchester By the Sea has its’ ‘surprise’ - and won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. We’re in good company - drama sometimes requires that we watch people in difficult circumstances, making bad choices.

It’s always been interesting to me that no one has ever mentioned or complained about the violence taken against people in the movie, as for instance when David Paxton is badly beaten up, based on false suspicions about him. But the violence which tells us Ross needs help, raises our eyebrows.

Finally, please know that it was never more true; no animals were injured during the making of our film . In fact, Jake the dog, became known as “First take Jake”, because he always got it right the very first time. He was sweet and friendly, and great to work with.

It is, after all, a movie. 

Articles that document some of the incidence of sexual abuse against athletes:

•  13 Nassar Abuse Victims Seek $10 Million Each From F.B.I.

•  Michigan State’s $500 Million for Nassar Victims Dwarfs Other Settlements

•  It’s Not Just the Larry Nassar Case. We Are Failing Sexual Assault Victims Across the Country

•  Gymnasts abused by Larry Nassar reach $380 million settlement with Olympic organizations

• Her Tennis Coach Abused Her. Could the Sport Have Prevented It? - The New York Times

• It Is Not Just Gymnasts: We Are Failing Sexual Assault Victims Across the Country - The New York TImes.

•Abused by His High School Tennis Coach, He Now Protects Others - The New York Times

•Coalition for Empowered Athletes

•Inspector General Says F.B.I. Botched Nassar Abuse Investigation - The New York Times

•How Michigan football failed to protect one of its own from sexual assault - Sports Illustrated

•NCAA athletes more likely to be disciplined for sex assault

•I Am Breaking My Silence About the Baseball Player Who Raped Me - The New York Times

•Sexual Abuse in Sports: The most notorious cases - The Straits Times

•Simone Biles Withdraws – Star Says She Wasn't Mentally Right During Final - The New York Times

•Son of Bo Schembechler Says He Was Abused by Michigan Team Doctor - The New York Times

•Working with Male Survivors: How Sexual Assault Impacts Transgender Men Part 1 - National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)

If you need help or know someone who does, here are some organizations that can be contacted:

•Darkness to Light

•National Domestic Violence Hotline

•Childhelp