- Captain Kirk must learn the limits to the power of a 17-year-old boy with the psionic ability to create anything and destroy anyone.
- The space vessel Antares rescues Charles Evans from the forbidding surface of the planet Thasus, and then hurriedly hands him off to the Enterprise. Soon, mysterious happenings dog the boy, who cannot seem to learn certain vital lessons of adulthood. Finally the humiliated teen reveals prodigious psionic powers that could even threaten the survival of the Federation. Who is Charlie, really, and where did he get these abilities?—CommanderBalok
- Charlie Evans is a teenage boy who has been raised by aliens since infancy. He knows little about humankind so when he comes aboard the Enterprise, he is now in a truly alien environment. He has few social skills and while he is very intelligent, he has the emotional maturity of a toddler and is quick to anger when he does not get his way. He also has great power and can change matter into any form. He takes an interest in Yeoman Rand without realizing the biological drives that are at work. Fed up with being told what he can and cannot do, he decides challenge Kirk's authority directly.—garykmcd
- Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) The captain's yeoman.
The Enterprise picks up Charlie Evans, an unstable 17-year-old boy, who spent 14 years alone on a deserted planet Thasus (His space craft crashed on a deserted planet, but he managed to survive). He was sent aboard the Enterprise from a cargo vessel who wants Enterprise to drop off Charlie to his relatives on Colony Alpha V. Charlie claims to have lived by eating local plants and learned to talk by interacting with the ships memory banks, which also survived. Charlie is curious and has never met females before. He says the people on the previous ship didn't like him.
Kirk wants McCoy to talk to Charlie about sex. Meanwhile Charlie has a crush on Janice. Spock meanwhile thinks there were Thasians on the planet where Charlie crash landed. Charlie can control other people, and can play all sort of card tricks. When Charlie finds out that the cargo vessel captain is trying to connect with Kirk, the vessel blows up, indicating Charlie had something to do with it. Spock defeats Charlie at 3D chess. He gets mad, and when Spock leaves, he mind bends the chess pieces. Charlie's crush on Janice is turning into an obsession. He wants to have sex with her.
Janice talks to Kirk to dissuade Charlie. Kirk tries to speak to Charlie that he cant have Janice. Kirk takes Charlie to the gym for some release. Kirk beats Charlie at wrestling and Charlie gets mad at a crew member who laughs. Charlie makes him "disappear" into thin air. When Kirk tries to arrest Charlie he makes all the phaser guns disappear as well. Charlie admits that he was responsible for the destruction of the cargo vessel as they weren't "nice" to him. When Kirk tries to contact Colony Alpha V, Charlie blows up the ship's communications. He wont allow Kirk to change course either as he wants to get to Alpha V asap. Charlie goes to Janice to have sex and she slaps him, so he makes her disappear. Charlie is more and more out of control of Kirk.
Charlie takes control of the ship and Kirk realizes that Charlie is maxed out. His plan it to overwhelm Charlie's mental powers to distract him and tranquilize him. As Kirk turns on every power system on the ship, Charlie tries to fight that and as a result loses control of the communications. A Thasus ship appears on the starboard side and hails the Enterprise. Janice is returned to the Enterprise. The Thasus leader tele-forms on the bridge and says that Thasians gave Charlie powers to survive, but he misused them and escaped. Kirk begs that he belongs with his own kind, But Thasian leader argues that Charlie will kill humans and humans will be forced to kill him to survive. Thasians offer him life in their own world. Charlie is taken away, he doesn't want to go as they don't feel anything.. and have no females.
This episode serves as the backstory for the unofficial mini-series Star Trek: Of Gods and Men.
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