Charlie X (Episode)
| Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
| Producer | Gene Coon |
| Associate Producers | Robert Justman and John D.F. Black |
| Created by | Gene Roddenberry |
| Episode Number | 07 |
| Release Date | 15 September 1966 |
| Director | Lawrence Dobkin |
| Story | Gene Roddenberry |
| Writer | D.C. Fontana |
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.
Captain Kirk in casual uniform
Lieutenant Commander Spock
Dr. McCoy
Charlie Evans
Tina Lawton
Lieutenant Uhura
Lieutenant Brent
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Harrison
Captain Ramart
Tom Nellis
Sam
Helmsman
Navigator
Crewman
Enterprise chef
Thasian
Iguana
Thasian ship
U.S.S. Antares NCC-501
Computer interface
Enterprise Gymnasium
Brig
Vulcan lyre
Playing cards
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