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EPISODE
Charlie X
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series
Story by:	Gene Roddenberry
Teleplay by:	D.C. Fontana
Directed by:	Lawrence Dobkin
Novelization in:	Star Trek 1 by James Blish
Production information
Episode no.:	1x07
Production no.:	6149-08
First aired:	15 September 1966
Chronology
Date:	2266
Stardate:	1533.6

Introduction (blurb)

The cargo ship USS Antares transfers 17-year old Charles ("Charlie") Evans to the USS Enterprise on his way to Colony 5 from the planet Thasus. The Antares is mysteriously destroyed and Enterprise crew members disappear. Captain James T. Kirk realizes that Charlie is responsible but has no control over his deadly god-like powers.

Summary

The USS Enterprise is rendezvousing with the cargo ship USS Antares so they can transport a young teenage boy, Charles ("Charlie") Evans, whom they discovered while surveying the planet Thasus. Charlie beams over to the Enterprise with Captain Ramart of the Antares, and the ship's navigator and First Officer, Tom Nellis. Unknown to the Enterprise crew, Charlie has god-like powers. He does not inform Captain Kirk of his powers and is also controlling Rampart and Nellis, preventing them from informing Kirk of this. Charlie is supposed to transfer to the Enterprise, which is on route to Colony 5, where, ultimately, he will stay with relatives.

After being away from all human contact for so many years, Charlie begins to learn and integrate. Being a teenager, Charlie is also struggling with puberty and develops his first crush on the beautiful Yeoman Janice Rand. In one of the ship's recreation rooms, he secretly silences Lt. Uhura, who is singing, so that he can have all of Rand's undivided attention.

Later, when Charlie is on the bridge, Captain Ramart tries to contact the Enterprise to warn them of Charlie's dangerous powers, but the Antares is secretly destroyed by Charlie before they can get a message off.

Yeoman Rand eventually introduces Charlie to a girl his own age - Yeoman Third Class Tina Lawton. Charlie immediately snubs Tina and confides to Rand his feelings for her. Rand realizes Charlie's crush is becoming difficult for her and discusses the issue with Captain Kirk, who takes pity on Charlie and attempts to befriend him. Kirk takes Charlie to the gym for some self-defense exercises. After sparring with Kirk, Charlie falls down, which prompts laughter from Sam, one of Kirk's sparring partners. Feeling hurt and humiliated, Charlie makes Sam "disappear" - finally revealing his god-like powers. Ultimately, Charlie admits to destroying the Antares. Soon, Spock suspects that Charlie might be a Thasian, a race of non-corporeal, psionically-powerful beings, rumored to have lived on the planet ages ago.

Charlie begins to take control of the Enterprise at different levels. Attempts to stop him fail, so he wreaks mayhem on some of the crew. He turns Tina Lawton into an iguana, a young female crewwoman into an old lady, and makes Yeoman Rand "disappear" after Kirk and Spock try to rescue her from Charlie's influences.

Determined to stop Charlie before they reach Colony 5, Kirk tries to overload his powers by activating different systems on the ship all at once. Then, he attempts to physically subdue Charlie. During the midst of this struggle with Charlie, a spaceship suddenly appears alongside the ship. A translucent, floating human-like face appears on the bridge. The voice from the face informs the bridge that it is a Thasian, the powerful psionic beings Spock believed still existed. The Thasian states that it had taken its human form centuries ago so that it might communicate with Humans. The Thasians provided Charlie with psionic powers so he could survive. Thasians have the power to transfer psionic ability to other beings. Once they have done this, they either cannot or will not remove this power. Captain Kirk then suggests that Charlie belongs with humans and recommends that he might be trained not to use his psionic powers. The Thasian replies that "We gave him the power so he could live. He will use it – always." Since it would be impossible for Charlie to live a normal life amongst humans, the Thasians "transport" him to their ship and inform the Enterprise bridge that they will continue to care for him. The Thasians depart peacefully without incident.

References

Characters

Bobby • Sam Ellis • Charles Evans • Hadley • Harrison • James T. Kirk • Tina Lawton • Ed Leslie • Leonard McCoy • Tom Nellis • Ramart • Janice Rand • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Nyota Uhura • Vinci • Wilson

Starships and vehicles

USS Antares (Antares type) • USS Enterprise (Constitution-class)

Locations

Alpha V colony • England • Thasus

Races and cultures

Human • Thasian • Vulcan

States and organizations

United Earth Space Probe Agency

Other

baffle plate • energy pile • gymnasium • Nerst generator • non-corporeal species • record tapes • rose • Saurian brandy • solitaire • Thanksgiving • three-dimensional chess • "The Tyger" • Victorian • Vulcan lute

Appendices

The Antares as depicted in the remastered edition of this episode

• In James Blish's novelization this episode was titled Charlie's Law.
• The Antares was not seen in the original version of this episode; however, it is pictured in the 2007 remastered edition, the design strongly resembling that of the Federation drone ships of the TAS episode "More Tribbles, More Troubles".

Related stories

• The scenes where Uhura sings in the recreation room and where James T. Kirk disputes with Charlie Evans on the bridge are replayed, as dreamlike scenery from Janice Rand's memory, in the TOS comic: "The Dream Walkers".

Timeline

published order
Previous episode: The Naked Time	TOS episode produced	Next episode: Balance of Terror
Previous episode: The Man Trap	TOS episode aired	Next episode: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Previous story: First story in book	Star Trek 1	Next story: Dagger of the Mind
chronological order
Previous Adventure: The Captain's Table Where Sea Meets Sky Chapters 1 & 31	Pocket	Next Adventure: Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 Elegy for Charlie
Previous Adventure: The Janus Gate Past Prologue	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270)	Next Adventure: Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 Elegy for Charlie

Images

Captain Ramart and Lieutenant Tom Nellis of the USS Antares

Spock plays a Vulcan lute

Yeoman Tina Lawton

Sam Fuller

External link

• Charlie X (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

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Charlie Hieronymus Pace is a drug-addict and passenger aboard Oceanic flight 815.

Before the flight

Charlie was born the second son to the Pace family household in December, 1976. He was brought up in the United Kingdom, presumably playing music. At some point in his life, he learned to play the guitar, He also became either a casual user of heroin, or an addict of the narcotic.

Because these events predate the Incident in July 1977, they are assumed to have occurred in the alternate timeline as well.

Flight 815

Charlie asks Jack if he is alive. ("LA X, Parts 1 & 2")

Midway through the flight, Charlie attempts to swallow his stash of heroin by ingesting it in a mid-section lavatory. He is in the restroom for half an hour before calling the attention of the airline staff, who enlist the help of Jack Shephard when they assume something has gone wrong. When Charlie does not respond to their calls, Sayid Jarrah - a stranger - kicks in the door. Charlie is unconscious, and attempts to resuscitate him fail until Jack is able to reach the small plastic baggie lodged in Charlie's throat. After waking up, Charlie is less than thankful, ironically stating that he was "supposed to die". He is placed in makeshift handcuffs and reseated by the airline staff. ("LA X, Parts 1 & 2")

After the flight

When the plane lands in Los Angeles, police officers board the plane to escort Charlie into their custody. On his way out, the stewards retrieve his guitar case. ("LA X, Parts 1 & 2")

Trivia

Charlie's heirloom ring.

• Aboard the flight, Charlie is seen wearing his ring.

Unanswered questions

For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Charlie Pace (flash-sideways timeline)/Theories

Charlie Pace (X) Portrayed by Dominic Monaghan and Jeremy Shada Centric episodes "Pilot, Part 2" • "The Moth" • "Homecoming" • "Exodus, Part 2" • "Fire + Water" • "Greatest Hits" Flashback characters British priest • Buyer • Boone Carlyle • Cindy Chandler • Commercial director • Drive Shaft drummer‎ • Francis Heatherton • Lucy Heatherton • Noor "Nadia" Abed Jazeem • JD • Lily • Claire Littleton • Rose Nadler • Karen Pace • Liam Pace • Megan Pace (child) • Megan Pace (mother) • Simon Pace • Roderick • Shannon Rutherford • Jack Shephard • Dexter Stratton • Tommy Items D.S. ring • Greatest Hits list • Guitar • Peanut butter • Piano • Voltron

Oceanic Flight 815 crew and passengers (flash-sideways timeline) Leslie Arzt • Kate Austen • Boone • Cindy Chandler • James "Sawyer" Ford • Desmond Hume • Sayid Jarrah • Jin-Soo Kwon • John Locke • Edward Mars • Bernard Nadler • Rose Nadler • Neil • Seth Norris • Charlie Pace • Sun-Hwa Paik • Hugo "Hurley" Reyes • Jack Shephard

Why is his hair shorter than it was on the initial flight in Pilot, Part 1? Was his different hair cut intentional?