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Summary:
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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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 under the cut )
