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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.
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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