Charlie X (Episode)

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"Charlie X"

"Charlie X" (TOS 07)

Series	Star Trek
Season	1
Episode	2
Production Number	08
Released	15 September 1966
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A powerful teenage boy wreaks havoc aboard the Enterprise.

The cargo ship Antares docks with the Enterprise to deliver young Charlie Evans, the lone survivor of a crash on the planet Thasus 14 years earlier. The personnel of the Antares—Captain Ramart and his first officer and navigator, Tom Nellis—seem unusually eager to leave—and when the Antares is destroyed, suspicion falls on Charlie.

Aboard the Enterprise, Charlie begins to work "miracles." At first these are harmless pranks, kept in check by Captain Kirk, whom Charlie comes to regard as a father figure, but when Yeoman Rand spurns his advances, she is erased from existence. Several other ship personnel are victimized, and in his eagerness to arrive at Colony Alpha V, Charlie assumes control of the Enterprise.

In an attempt to tax Charlie's control abilities, Kirk switches on the starship's interior systems to their fullest extent. Then a shimmering alien face materializes on the Enterprise bridge and identifies itself as a Thasian, come to take Charlie back. Despite Charlie's pleas, he vanishes along with the alien, doomed to spend the rest of his life alone on the bleak planet Thasus.

Image Gallery

Playing cards
3D checkers
3D chess
Vulcan lyre
Enterprise chef
Crewman
Engineering crewman
Charlie Evans
Helmsman
Captain Kirk in casual uniform
Tina Lawton
Navigator
Tom Nellis
Dr. McCoy
Captain Ramart
Redshirt
Sam
Science Crewman
Commander Spock
transporter chief-tos07.jpg

Transporter chief
Lieutenant Uhura
Vinci
biobed sensor monitor
Computer interface
data cards
life support
PADD
perfume
tricorder
U.S.S. Antares NCC-501
U.S.S. Enterprise' NCC-1701
Thasian ship
Iguana
Thasian
Enterprise Gymnasium
Antares uniform patch
Brig
Starfleet Uniforms (2266)
Starfleet Uniforms (2266): Doctor
Starfleet Uniforms (2266): Athletic

Related Data

Astrometrics	Colony Alpha V; Earth; Mars; quadrant; Saturn; Thasus
Chronology	Stardate 1533.6-1535.8; 2252; 22 November 2266
Culture	checkers; chess; devil; music; playing cards; Satan; Thanksgiving; Vulcan lyre
Education	doctor; doctorate; navigator; physician
Food	food concentrates; fruit; meatloaf; Saurian brandy; turkey; vegetables
People	Chef; Evans, Charlie; Kirk, James T.; Lawton, Tina; McCoy, Leonard; Nellis, Tom; Ramart; Rand, Janice; Sam; Science Crewman; Scott, Montgomery; Spock; Thasian; Uhura, Nyota; Vinci
Politics	governor; Starfleet; Starfleet Ranks (Crewman, Ensign, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain); UESPA; United Federation of Planets; Yeoman
Science & Technology	baffle plate; biobed; circuit; companel; computer; data cards; deflectors; forcefield; impulse drive; life support; light; minute; PADD; perfume; phasers (Type 2); sensors; subspace; subspace radio; tranquilizer; transporter; tricorder; warp drive; warp nacelle; year
Ships & Vehicles	U.S.S. Antares NCC-501; Constitution class; U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701; Thasian ship
Xenology	Humans; iguanas; roses; Thasians; turkeys; Vulcans
Miscellaneous	bridge; brig; Four-Oh; galley; gymnasium; perfume; quarters; rec room; sickbay; starboard; Starfleet Uniforms (2266)