STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season 1, Episode 2

Charlie X

Series: Original Series - (1966-1969)
Season: 1
Episode #: 2
Production #: 6149-08
Original Airdate: 09/15/1966

Writer(s): Dorothy Fontana
Director(s): Lawrence Dobkin

Guest Stars
Robert Walker as Charles Evans
Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice Rand
Charles J. Stewart as Captain Ramart
Dallas Mitchell as First Officer Nellis
Don Eitner as the Navigator
Patricia McNulty as Yeoman Tina Lawton
John Bellah as Crewman I
Garland Thompson as Crewman II
Abraham Sofaer as "The Thasian"

Uncredited Guest Stars
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Bobby Herron as Crewman Sam
John Lindesmith as the Helmsman
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Gene Roddenberry as the voice of the Galley Chef
Ron Veto as Engineer Harrison
Laura Wood as Old Command Crew Woman

Stardate: 1533.6

Synopsis

As Charles Evans, the lone survivor of a crashed colonizing expedition to the planet Thasus, comes aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise from the S.S. Antares, but when Captain Ramart of the Antares contacts Kirk about Charlie, the S. S. Antares is suddenly destroyed.

Charlie shows not only a lack of grief for the people who had become his benefactors, but almost an indifference to their deaths. He seems only concerned that his new "family" like and accept him. Unfortunately, teenage hormones and an isolated upbringing make that difficult.

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Strange events occur whenever Charlie is angered - he makes Yeoman Rand disappear when she rebuffs his advances, he breaks Spock's legs when the Vulcan tries to discipline him, and he causes injury and discomfort to anyone who he thinks is laughing at him.

Charlie demands that the U.S.S. Enterprise take him to the nearest inhabited planet, but Kirk fears that his uncontrolled temper and dangerous powers will create havoc for any civilization. Charlie gains control of the ship, but Kirk shortly overcomes him. Suddenly, an alien face appears on the bridge. It is that of a Thasian, the race who raised Charlie and gave him his extremely powerful psionic powers.

The Thasians had realized that Charlie has left their planet and thus sent their own starship to intercept the Enterprise. Despite Charlie's tearful pleas to remain, the Thasians take the lonely child back to Thasus. Before they depart, the beings restore the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew to normal.

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