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futurestarfleetcaptainSummary:
After spending fourteen years alone on the deserted planet Thasus, 17-year-old Charles "Charlie" Evans is picked up by the cargo ship Antares. From there, he is transferred to the Enterprise where they are tasked with transporting him to his nearest relatives. Since he spent most of his life alone on Thasus, Charlie is awkward and doesn't know much about social convention. However, from the beginning, he makes it clear that his main goal is to be liked. Charlie makes several attempts to be social, including developing an unhealthy obsession with Yeoman Janice Rand that she makes clear is not reciprocated. The senior crew, including Captain Kirk, attempt to mentor him, but to no avail. Growing increasingly frustrated with his inability to make people like him, especially Janice, Charlie starts showing signs of inhuman abilities. As time goes on, he makes less and less of an effort to hide them until he eventually takes over the whole ship and demands the crew does his bidding. He makes another advance on Janice which she shuts down yet again. In anger, he causes her to disappear and refuses to tell where he sent her or if she's even alive. In desperation, Kirk orders the crew to turn on every system on the ship in an attempt to drain Charlie's powers. As suspected, Charle grows weaker, and Kirk struggles with him on the bridge. During the altercation, a ship from Thasus appears. An incorporeal image of a Thasian materializes before them and explains that they gave Charlie these powers so that he could live, but in doing so made it impossible for him to live normally with his own kind. Charlie begs to remain on the Enterprise, but nobody listens. The Thasians return the ship to normal and restore any crew that Charlie "disappeared" before taking Charlie and departing.
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Personal Thoughts:
After spending fourteen years alone on the deserted planet Thasus, 17-year-old Charles "Charlie" Evans is picked up by the cargo ship Antares. From there, he is transferred to the Enterprise where they are tasked with transporting him to his nearest relatives. Since he spent most of his life alone on Thasus, Charlie is awkward and doesn't know much about social convention. However, from the beginning, he makes it clear that his main goal is to be liked. Charlie makes several attempts to be social, including developing an unhealthy obsession with Yeoman Janice Rand that she makes clear is not reciprocated. The senior crew, including Captain Kirk, attempt to mentor him, but to no avail. Growing increasingly frustrated with his inability to make people like him, especially Janice, Charlie starts showing signs of inhuman abilities. As time goes on, he makes less and less of an effort to hide them until he eventually takes over the whole ship and demands the crew does his bidding. He makes another advance on Janice which she shuts down yet again. In anger, he causes her to disappear and refuses to tell where he sent her or if she's even alive. In desperation, Kirk orders the crew to turn on every system on the ship in an attempt to drain Charlie's powers. As suspected, Charle grows weaker, and Kirk struggles with him on the bridge. During the altercation, a ship from Thasus appears. An incorporeal image of a Thasian materializes before them and explains that they gave Charlie these powers so that he could live, but in doing so made it impossible for him to live normally with his own kind. Charlie begs to remain on the Enterprise, but nobody listens. The Thasians return the ship to normal and restore any crew that Charlie "disappeared" before taking Charlie and departing.
Read about it here on Memory Alpha
Personal Thoughts:
- The patient way Kirk explains to Charlie that interrupting is wrong
- I'm convinced the sweater Charlie is wearing is a leftover Pike-era uniform with the Starfleet insignia removed. Think about it, he was on a DESERTED PLANET for FOURTEEN YEARS. The Antares had to have given him clothes, and if they had some old uniforms laying around, why bother using resources to replicate him new ones?
- Where did he learn to slap people's asses? Who taught him that? That's a learned behavior, he didn't just see her ass and was like "I'm gonna slap it" all on his own. I blame one of the Antares crewmen.
- When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy have that discussion about how Charlie needs guidance from a "father figure" and then they all just kind of look at each other because none of them want to do it lmao
- Spock smiling and playing music for Uhura <3. Also Uhura just making up those songs about Spock and Charlie. So talented. I'm in love <3
- "There's no right way to hit a woman." Why James T. Kirk is Actually a Feminist Not a Womanizer Like People Think: Exhibit A
- Charlie just???? Blew up the entire Antares????? Like he really didn't have to do that AT ALL. He could've just used his powers to stop the transmission or something but instead he blew up an entire ship full of people. That's intense. That's chilling. He just... did that.
- Jim and Spock playing chess!!!! And then Jim making that face like he's surprised and distressed by Spock's check before immediately moving a piece and declaring "checkmate".
- When Charlie is playing against Spock and Spock makes that sassy look when Charlie insists his move wasn't a mistake.
- "When you care for someone, what do you do?" "You go slow. You be gentle. It's not a one way street you know -- how you feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels, too." Why James T. Kirk is Actually a Feminist Not a Womanizer Like People Think: Exhibit B
- "Go to your quarters or I'll pick you up and carry you there." This is after witnessing Charlie make a man disappear into thin air. Kirk has BALLS.
- The way Charlie just goes from like 0 to 100 after everyone finds out about his powers. (okay maybe not 0, but like 10. Either way, HUGE jump in crazy in like .2 seconds)
- There was literally no reason to turn Tina into a lizard??? Literally the only motivation he could possibly have for that is just to be mean for no reason. Same with the crewman he turns into an old lady. Neither of them were even doing anything to bother him, he just passed them in the hallway.
- I love the lighting in Janice's room. She unapologetically loves pink.
- "Don't ever lock your door on me again, Janice." "I'll lock it when I please."
- When the Thasians come to get him and Charlie's begging to stay and he's like, "You said you were my friends remember?" Well, Charlie, you done messed that up for sure. Got no one to blame but yourself.
- Honestly I actually feel really bad for Charlie this whole episode? He was on that planet since he was 3 years old. He doesn't know how to interact with humans and all he wants is to be liked. Does he make a bunch of mistakes? Yeah. Does this excuse any of them? No, not really. But is it still sad? Absolutely. Janice even cries for him at the end and she was harassed by him the most out of anybody.
