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One of the many things I was going with in the first season; was when they stated, "The energy powering the Holodeck is different than the energy powering the rest of the ship; so yeah, we need to conserve energy, but NOT WRT the Holodeck..." -- again,
Surely the holodeck and the food replicators used a *similar* technology? In fact I am sure that replicators are partially incorporated in to a holodeck, I read it in a tech manual. Therefore shouldn’t replicator rations be equal to holodeck rations? Food or pleasure: take you pick - unless you want to come and eat at Neelix’s galley! This energy conservation was the main reason that Kes made a hydroponics bay. Keeping this all on topic, Sulu also had a botanical/hydroponics room in The Naked Time. Was he growing food for the crew to eat during their 5 year mission or was he just indulging in a hobby, taking part in scientific study and research of botanical life as security officers do? I don’t think that he would have eaten Gertrude though!
One of the many things I was going with in the first season; was when they stated, "The energy powering the Holodeck is different than the energy powering the rest of the ship; so yeah, we need to conserve energy, but NOT WRT the Holodeck..." -- again,
Or they could have made the alien systems run independently alongside Federation tech as long as the tech still performed a function beneficial to the ship and crew. Why would they need to be compatible as long as the tech powers up and does it’s job? Anyway, back on topic…
Gertrude anyone???
Salad, vegetable, fruit, or legume? I can’t see any nuts…. But they would be buried amongst the roots.
How would you eat and prepare your Beauregard? With a steak? I don’t think that it would need a steak… nor a salad.
I did not give my take on Kirk at all. I wasn't summing Kirk up as a character. I only pointed out one little aspect that rarely is explored at all, and when it is, there's just a hint of it. It goes against everything we tend to think about Kirk... and usually when they go in this direction, as in Enterprise Incident, it's a total fake out.
Embarrassing but.... I have to admit, I don't watch enough TOS.
TNG is my favourite series, not just Star Trek series but out of all that is out there.
I have gone through TOS but I really should revisit it.
But, I'm pretty sure that day will come.
This is what is great about voyager as there energy is limited they are forced to use the Delta flyer and (what seemed to be a endless amount of) shuttle crafts.
This is a good point. I consider myself pretty well-versed in Voyager (over time it has overtaken DS9 as my second-favorite Trek franchise series), and yet off the top of my head I cannot recall one scene in the transporter room outside of "Tuvix."
Episode 01x08 Charlie X, shown in broadcast order as episode 2, after ‘The Man Trap’ and previous to ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’.
I type stuff up here on TrekBBS using my phone, I had already written my thoughts about Charlie X but I lost it all before posting. Usually the incomplete post saves as a draft but when I came to edit it said that there was a security error. I lost my original wall of Charlie X text. I was disheartened to type it all again but have managed to do so and I am now back on track with my episode rewatch! I am now going to use the ‘Notes’ app to copy and paste incomplete posts in to just incase this happens again.
Anyways…
The Earth year 1533 was a very important year in British politics and in relation to the monarchy, in particular to Henry VIII’s reign and all the instability it brought between church and state. However, in the far distant future of the 23rd century on Stardate 1533.6 all of this ancient Earth history has long since been forgotten and most certainly consigned to text books and soon to be ‘period piece’ holo simulations. The cargo ship Antares is carrying a very unusual passenger, a young human male ‘castaway’ known as Charlie Evans who is scheduled to be transferred aboard the Enterprise (now being used as a taxi rather than a chilli pepper and salt transport) in order for him to be delivered to relatives on Colony V. Captain Ramart, First Officer Nellis and Charlie are beamed onboard the Enterprise from the cargo vessel to be greeted by our crew. The Antares officers wear standard ‘The Cage’ style Starfleet uniforms so must be part of Starfleet, meaning that the Antares is not a civilian vessel. This will make next weeks episode ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’ seem more familiar as the Enterprise crew themselves will seemingly be reverting back to these uniforms, but more on this later. We can tell almost immediately that something is not quite right about the Enterprise’s new guests. Charlie looks like he is hiding a secret… a secret that he does not want to talk about, perhaps this secret is something to do with his time alone as an orphaned castaway on the planet on which he was marooned and long thought dead, or perhaps there is something even more sinister going on. Charlie shares an awkward silent moment with Ramart and Nellis on the transporter pad, they exchange uncomfortable glances with the teen, flicking tongues at each other as their lips pucker and curl - we all know what this means from scenes as described in previous episodes, so this week these facial expressions seem out of context as surely these subtle acting cues are not ‘sexually suggestive’ as in previous episodes such as ‘Mudd’s Women’? At first, I get the impression that these two crew members had done something terrible to the young Charlie, perhaps they had not been treating him right onboard the Antares or had done bad things to him? The Antares crew seem nervous of Charlie, like he might say or do something…
The awkward silence and visual exchange is broken as Charlie’s eyes roll back in to his forehead, just like often happens in horror films.
“How many humans *like* me on ‘this’ ship…?” Charlie inquisitively asks the Enterprise crew as he dismounts the transporter pad, absorbing his new surroundings with almost child like eyes, in awe and innocence. This brings up the question of what Charlie actually meant when he asked this question; did Charlie believe that he was *not* liked by the crew of the Antares for some reason we do not know of yet? Or have we misunderstood the line? Was he asking how many humans *are* like him on the Enterprise not how many like him… hmmmm. “Over 400 Charlie… like a city in space!” Ramart responds after much hesitation, almost like a car salesperson or travel agent desperately trying to sell a holiday destination before the buyer backs out of the sale. It seems like Captain Ramart want’s to get rid of Charlie, like he wants to offload him on to the Enterprise before he changes his mind. Kirk duly notes that the actual crew compliment of the Enterprise is 428. Never downplay Kirk’s statistics… this correction obviously seals the deal for Charlie, his eyes now angelically blue and full of innocence. 428 who like him, or 428 who are like him though? Again, does Charlie want to be liked, or does he want to be with people like him? Let’s continue watching to find out.
We come to learn that Captain Ramart had rescued Charlie from a crashed ship on a planet called Thasus though it is only an assumption that Ramart rescued him as this is never explicitly stated in the episode. Charlie was the sole survivor of this tragic incident losing all of his family which resulted in him being marooned alone from the age of 3 without human interaction for much of his proceeding childhood. We are given no indication of how long Charlie had been travelling on the Antares since his rescue, though we can read between the lines and see that *something* bad had happened between Charlie and the ships crew during his time aboard the vessel. If Captain Ramart and crew *had* indeed done horrible things to Charlie, maybe he was starting to fight back against them in some way and was becoming hard to handle, maybe this treatment had caused him to go ‘off the rails’? Or perhaps the Antares crew are completely innocent and had shown nothing but kindness… could Charlie be the perpetrator of the ‘fear’ and anxiety that the Antares crew are seemingly displaying? But why wouldn’t Ramart warn the Enterprise if this was the case and Charlie was a villain of sorts? Perhaps Ramart was worried that Charlie would tell the crew of the Enterprise about his treatment aboard the Antares? Regardless, it seems that Charlie might be a bit difficult to control, he could have behavioural issues due to past trauma.
“We have a large selection of entertainment tapes if you want them?” Kirk offers Ramart. “….we’re making out just fine”. Ramart replies, marching back on to the transporter pad. Kirk is shocked that this cargo ship does not need any supplies whatsoever before their onward journey, they just want to vamoose… as an audience we can see that Ramart just wants rid of Charlie and to be gone. Captain Ramart is however *seemingly* happy that Charlie has been rescued from Thasus and believes that he learnt a lot during his time on the Antares, it was a pleasure to have him. Ramart and Nellis quickly depart leaving Charlie to continue his onward journey onboard the Enterprise, eventually to be dropped off on Colony V with relatives as intended . Hopefully these relatives can help Charlie to fully reintegrate back in to society after his traumatic experiences and ‘lost’ childhood. I hope that they have good counsellors. Maybe he should have been offered a counsellor as soon as he arrived on the Enterprise? It’s a shame that Elizabeth Dehner has not been replaced as of yet.
Charlie is excited to be onboard the Enterprise with hundreds of humans just like him, whether they *like* him or not he is still yet to learn. Having grown up alone I could imagine this experience also being quite overwhelming for him, causing quite the sensory overload - especially in crowded corridors. It’s a shame that Enterprise did not have more varied species amongst it’s crew members at this point in it’s five year mission, Charlie could have learnt more about other cultures at the same time if the demographics would have reflected true Federation/Starfleet representation in the 23rd century. Not only had Charlie not encountered aliens, but just as women are from Venus and men are from Mars, Charlie’s lonely and isolated existence has sadly meant that he has never set his eyes on a human female before, at least not ‘in the flesh’… in person. Charlie’s ‘first contact’ with a female of his own species comes in the form of Yeoman Janice Rand. He might have read a lot about them over the years though in biology text books.
“Is that a…. Girl?!” Charlie asks in awe of the sight before him.
“That’s a girl!” Kirk responds with a twinkle in his eyes, a subtle smile on his face. Surprisingly, he wasn’t looking at the Enterprise for a change.
Janice is *hopefully* only being sympathetic to Charlie’s plight, and decides to interact with him in a nurturing way in order to help guide him during his first encounter with an ‘attractive’ female (herself) rather than interact with him in a cold and off putting way which may be further detrimental to his mental health. That’s how I perceive it at least and this is made clearer later in the episode. Though it may seem that Rand is flirting with Charlie, I believe that this is *not* the case. I think that Rand is trying to helping Charlie ‘learn’ about his attraction and feelings in in a controlled way, but all of this could *really* back fire on her if she is not careful with how she handles this situation.
“He’s not… well…. He isn’t like Captain Ramart..?” Charlie asks Rand nervously about the Enterprise Captain, almost as if he is worried that Kirk could be like the Antares Captain. “No, Captain Kirk is one of a kind Charlie” the Yeoman replies somewhat defensively of her Captain, yet also somewhat reassuringly to Charlie. Perhaps Ramart hadn’t treated him right after all and Charlie was worried that Kirk would do the same, that Kirk would be like Ramart?
It now becomes clear that Charlie has confidence issues, that he is worried about other peoples opinions of him.
“Do you like me?” Charlie asks Doctor McCoy, seeking reassurance, acknowledgment that he is indeed ‘liked’.
“Why not!” McCoy exclaims, replying with a reassuring statement not a return question in return.
“On the other ship… they did not like me” Charlie’s response is ominous and makes us as an audience wonder even more about his past relationship with the Antares crew. It also reflects back to Charlie’s first comments on boarding the Enterprise :
“How many humans *like* me on ‘this’ ship?”
If there was something untoward about Charlie himself, surely the Antares crew would have reported this to Captain Kirk upon transfer of the passenger? I am assuming that the Antares is also a Starfleet vessel? Perhaps they were scared for some reason, but I am keeping an open mind and trying to avoid bias against either Charlie or the Antares crew at this point in the episode.
Charlie continues to explore the Enterprise, fascinated by the bustling corridors filled with the every day activities of life onboard a Federation starship, inquisitively observing all the people that he encounters as they get on with their lives and duties - to Charlie, it is almost like watching a movie. However transfixed he is seeing real humans, suddenly the scent of a passing Janice Rand allures him. He seems to be developing some form of attraction to her. Seeing an opportunity to approach the Yeoman, Charlie quickly improvises a gift which he presents to her, arranging a ‘date’ with Janice in the rec room at 1400 hours. Charlie then makes his first ‘real’ faux pas, he proceeds to slap Janice on the ass. Janice is understandably shocked and rightly stands up for herself after receiving this unwelcome physical contact, telling Charlie just how *wrong* and inappropriate his actions were. Rand suggests that Charlie speaks to Doctor McCoy or Captain Kirk about the incident, getting *them* to explain exactly why it is so wrong to behave in this way if he did not understand the explanation from her.
It is now that I notice the uniform inconsistencies in this episode. This episode is starting to look like it could be an episode from *earlier* in the production run, however ‘Charlie X’ is apparently episode number 01x08 despite being shown as episode two in airing. I would guess if I didn’t know better that this episode was filmed at least before The Man Trap/Enemy Within. Though perhaps the cast was much larger in this weeks episode so they needed to raid the wardrobe for more uniforms and they only had the old ‘Cage’ style variants available?
Spock and McCoy are understandably concerned about Charlie and his extreme displays of inappropriate ‘adolescent’ behaviour. Spock thinks that perhaps he needs a father figure - a role model which could be Kirk. Kirk however, flat out refuses to take on this responsibility, at least at first. Maybe Kirk does not think that he is a good enough role model and has ‘confidence’ issues himself in these early days of Star Trek? He might *not* even want Charlie to turn out like him? We are now introduced to a plot point which will undoubtedly be used to move the story on… Spock believes that a species known as the Thasians, native to Thasus, may be involved with Charlie’s upbringing after the crash - Charlie could never have survived after this incident on his own. We do not learn much about the Thasians from Spock in this scene… perhaps there is not much to know about them, they could be an almost ‘mythical’ species. If this was the case though, it would not be logical for Spock to suggest them as being possibly being involved with Charlie’s upbringing, he is making a ‘hunch’.
We are introduced to a *really* cool room on the Enterprise this week, the recreation or ‘rec’ room, a space where the crew can engage in social activities and games such as Poker and Chess whilst indulging in Saurian Brandy and other ripples of choice.
Though it looks better in the upcoming movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Spock is playing his Vulcan lute though Uhura enters and decides to sing, outperforming the Vulcan with a spontaneous yet beautiful musical number. Though at first annoyed by this interruption, Spock *smiles* and plays a piece of music for her to sing along to. Yes, he *smiles*. Just like this:
Somewhere on the Starship Enterprise,
There is someone who’s in Satan’s guise,
Who’s devil’s ear and devil’s eyes,
Could rip your heart from you…
At first his looks could hypnotise,
And then his touch would barbarise,
His alien love could victimise and rip your heart from you.
And that’s why female astronaughts be terrified and overwrought… to find what he will do.
Oh girl’s in space be wary, be wary, be wary.
Oh girl’s in space be wary… we know not what he’ll do?
If anybody else wants to try to interpret those lyrics, please feel free to do so. I have no idea what to make of them personally. It sounds like something that might be sung by someone who had been hurt by an ex lover. Had Spock hurt Uhura in the past? This is almost like her teasing him over a past experience or encounter that they have had… but I just don’t know. Maybe they will show why Uhura sings this song to Spock in Strange New World’s one day.
As Charlie enters the room, Uhura changes her lyrical attention towards the young man and his obvious attraction to Janice Rand. This embarrasses Charlie so he ‘level’s up’ his bad behaviour and uses some form of ‘super power’ to remove Uhura’s voice so that she can not continue to sing. Charlie also demonstrates his powers further by performing card tricks which would not look out of place on the ‘America Has Got Talent’ game show - though once again Charlie is inappropriate with the placing of one of the cards. Could Charlie be an Esper? Again, this episode really would have benefitted from Elizabeth Dehner’s counselling skills and expertise in the field of ESP.
Noticing that Charlie is starting to get a bit out of hand, perhaps in the same way as he did so onboard the Antares, Kirk decides to intervene. Could Charlie’s behaviour as depicted so far indeed be the result of his childhood trauma and the resulting lack of social skills and confidence which this would bring in a young adult? Kirk starts to reach out to Charlie by *trying* to explain just why he was wrong to make inappropriate physical contact with Yeoman Rand when he decided to hit her ass.
“Well… ur… ur… there are ‘things’…” Kirk responds awkwardly. “There is no right time to hit a women”. This reply is interesting in the context of previous episodes, in particular ‘The Enemy Within’ and ‘The Man Trap’. Luckily, Kirk is not left to this difficult conversation about inappropriate female contact with Charlie for long, Uhura calls…
The Antares has been destroyed, there is nothing left of the cargo vessel but debris. The Antares crew had tried to warn the Enterprise about something… but the communication channels were cut and the ship met it’s destruction before the content of the warning could be received.
Things begin to get even more sinister for our crew as down in the mess hall Kirk’s Thanksgiving dinner plans for his crew are dastardly thwarted. Kirk wanted turkey’s for his crew to indulge on at this feast, but now all of the turkey’s have somehow been turned in to meat loaves.
Debating recent events over another Star Trek episode staple game of three dimensional chess, Spock begins to wonder if Charlie knows more about the destruction of the Antares than he is telling… insinuating that perhaps he could be in some way involved. Teaching Charlie how to play the game, and perhaps also psycho analysing him at the same time, Spock easily wins and just as any child would after losing a game Charlie throws a tantrum… Charlie’s eyes again roll back in to his head - he melts the chess pieces with his telekinetic abilities.
Charlie is definitely showing extreme and inappropriate outbursts of frustration and obviously needs a serious mental health intervention in order to help him contain his outbursts.
Rand decides that Charlie needs introducing to a girl of his own age, though he dismisses this suggestion and it is made clear by Charlie that he only has eyes for Janice. Rand is getting a bit worried by Charlie’s obsessive behaviour towards her, so she confronts Kirk and asks for him to intervene and put this matter to rest once and for all. Rand has seen ‘that look’ which Charlie is beginning to show before, she doesn’t know how far he will go and does not want to ‘hurt him’. I am guessing that she meant that she doesn’t want to hurt him emotionally rather than physically… with a slap or scratch. But who knows what men are actually capable of in this day and age aboard the 23rd century Enterprise? Regardless, it is obvious that Charlie *is* really falling for Rand… or at least he *thinks* that he is. Is Charlie too young to know what love actually is, perhaps he just has an obsessive crush on the Enterprise Yeoman and is acting on impulse and hormones rather than actual emotional ‘love’.
I now think that this weeks episodes allegory is becoming quite clear. ‘Charlie X’ is basically about the extreme behaviours that young people can show as a result of ‘growing up’ and adolescence, though wrapped up in a sci-fi package. This episode is dealing with the overwhelming emotions and hormonal urges which can be hard for young people to make sense of, in particular if the said person happened to have had a traumatic childhood and background which makes emotions and experiences even more difficult for them to process and conceptualise. Charlie definitely shows magnified examples of unruly teenage behaviour, made all the more extreme by the Thasian powers that had been ‘gifted’ or ‘learnt’ by him. He seems to be developing powers similar to those of Gary Mitchell in ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’. Perhaps Charlie is as previously mentioned also an ‘Esper’ - a human with latent extra sensory perception, but this is not clarified in the episode.
“Tell him to Leave me alone!” Rand demands of Kirk in response to Charlie’s persistent and non relenting advances. Approaching the situation with caution, Kirk first asks Charlie about the melted chess pieces from his angry confrontation with Spock. But like a ‘typical’ stereotype of a teenager when challenged about their behaviour Charlie’s response is to ask why everything he does always ‘seems to go wrong’. Kirk then indirectly brings up the Janice situation, telling Charlie that some things in life you can have and other things you can not - that is just the way things are. Kirk is obviously speaking from experience here. We all know by now that as much as he wants to Kirk himself can not have Janice, but he can have the Enterprise. Maybe Kirk is actually more like Charlie than he realises? Kirk could be the perfect person to help out Charlie on to the right path being a mentor like figure. Charlie is however overwhelmed with emotion, his ‘love’ for Janice is a burden too much for him to bare. Kirk thinks that the next best course of action is to distract Charlie, to give him an activity which will help take his mind off things, off Janice, allowing him to express his frustration via a ‘safe’ physical outlet. Charlie is introduced to Kirk’s personal distraction of choice in the ships gymnasium - Judo. Charlie is not a natural to this sport finding it hard to learn and Kirk easily takes him down, another crewman notices Charlie’s easy knockdowns and begins to laugh at him. Again, frustrated, Charlie again rolls his eyes in to the back of his head and makes the crewman ‘disappear’.
Charlie is confined to his quarters as a result of his actions, he is scared and lashing out. Charlie’s defence is that he doesn’t want to be hurt (again?), he is just trying to protect himself. Again maybe his behaviour is a projection of his experiences during his time amongst the crew of the Antares? Perhaps he had to defend himself against them after they treated him badly, and this learnt response/defence to the trauma is now being instinctively directed towards the Enterprise crew without cause or reason. He might think that all humans will end up treating him ‘bad’ and might not perceive anyone that he encounters other than Janice as liking him? Of course, there could be serious psychological scarring here on many levels.
Attempting a panicked escape from confinement, Charlie again melts the security officers phasers and knocks the guards back. Luckily, Charlie *does* seem to have some sort of growing respect for Kirk and backs down when confronted by the Enterprise Captain, who perhaps is beginning to have some form of ‘father’ like influence over the ever increasingly delinquent Charlie.
“You have no idea what life is!” Kirk scolds, “You are a boy!”.
Kirk has now gained Charlie’s confidence, with him now admitting that he was responsible for destroying the Antares.
“They wanted to get rid of me!” Charlie shouts confused and angrily.
“What about *us* Charlie?” Questions Kirk.
“I don’t know…” Charlie walks off, failing to answer the Captain’s concerns.
We are treated to what I think is the first ever console explosion as Charlie walks on to the bridge - he does not want to go to Colony V to be reunited with his family and intends to use his powers to ensure this.
Charlie takes control of the bridge, manipulating the bridge crew like puppets with his Enhanced Esper abilities.
Charlie forces Spock to recite ‘poetry’
There is a tiger, tiger burning bright,
In the forest of the night,
I’m trying to Saturn rings around my head down a road that is Martian red.
“Very nice, mr ears!” Charlie responds to Spock’s performance. Spock now believes that Charlie will soon reach a point where there is no going back… very much like was the case with Gary Mitchel. Charlie next turns the young lady that he was introduced to by Rand in to a lizard. He then marches off to find his ‘true love’.
“Don’t ever walk in to a room without knocking!” Janice angrily advises Charlie. We have seen this done at least once before this season. Calling for help, Janice slaps Charlie in an attempt to get him to back off of her. In angry retaliation, Charlie ‘vanishes’ the Yeoman.
“Why did she do that?” Charlie says, genuinely confused. Obviously he is suffering from an ever increasing mental health crisis, but how do you deal with such a crisis and provide a sufficient intervention when the subject is turning in to an omnipotent being?
Charlie, in a confrontation with Spock uses his telekinetic abilities to break Spock’s legs… but in a show of power he soon reverses the process. Spock had hopefully been warned to back away from him.
“Growing up is not so bad, I am a man and I can do anything… you can’t”
Again, confined but this time in the brig Charlie shows the full force of his power by removing all of the walls which secure him… breaking loose for one final rampage aboard the Enterprise. Upon seeing the young that Rand had previously introduced him to, he angrily turns her in to an old women; she is *not* Janice. Other crew members he turns in to statues and those who dare to scream or look at him have their eyes, noses and mouths removed - being left to suffocate whilst suffering blindness, gasping for air in darkness and silence.
Charlie next begins to take full control of the Enterprise, all computer systems and electronics are becoming harmonised with his being. This gives Kirk a plan: perhaps they could turn all ships systems to full power and in some way overload Charlie’s mind? At the very least they could distract Charlie in order to sedate or tranquillise him?
Charlie is now in full command of the bridge.
“Get out of my chair Charlie and get out of it NOW!!” Kirk angrily commands.
A battle of whits ensues between Charlie and his mentor. Charlie does not want to hurt Kirk, but Kirk keeps on pushing him, resulting in Charlie pushing back. Charlie wants Kirk to like him, but he is being forced in to a corner, giving him no choice but to knock Kirk back.
Spock and McCoy continue with the plan to overload the ships systems in an attempt to break Charlie’s hold on the ship… however, we are introduced to what I believe is Star Trek’s first example of a Deus ex Mechana; The Thasians suddenly appear. The ‘disappeared’ Janice Rand is also returned in a pink toga, whatever had the Thosians done to her? She seems traumatised by her experience with them. The Thasians return the Wnterprise and it’s crew back to the command of Captain Kirk.
“Everything is as it was!” The Thasians proclaim and reassure.
The Thasian’s apologise for allowing Charlie to escape them, though I thought that he was rescued? They also apologise for his bad behavior and the resulting destruction of the Aantares. The Thasians intend to take Charlie back in to their custody despite his protests.
Kirk at first tries to support Charlie in an almost father like way, supporting his what must now be considered as a request for asylum aboard the Enterprise. The Thasians refuse to allow Charlie to stay; again, just like Gary Mitchel in Where No Man Has Gone Beforethey believe that Charlie will grow so strong that he will eventually destroy everyone around him… or that everyone around him will destroy him in order to prevent this.
Charlie begs and pleads not to be taken back, but the Thasians remove him from the Enterprise.
We are left with a saddened and traumatized crew in the closing scenes, Janie in particular.
I don’t think that anyone won in this weeks episode.
My important final questions:
Was Charlie’s behavior triggered by his treatment by the Antares crew? Was he is some way ‘mistreated’ by them. This is on top of his childhood trauma of being abandoned and isolated on Thasus.
Should Kirk have attempted a rescue mission for Charlie at the end of the episode, with the boy obviously not wanting to be left with the Thasians. Would Charlie have changed if his father/son bond with Kirk had been further developed, with Kirk rescuing him and *proving* that someone ‘liked’ and cared for him?
I grade Star Trek episode 01x08, Charlie X, 6/10. Next week ‘Balance of Terror’.
The ‘disappeared’ Janice Rand is also returned in a pink toga, whatever had the Thosians done to her? She seems traumatised by her experience with them.
This is a good point. I consider myself pretty well-versed in Voyager (over time it has overtaken DS9 as my second-favorite Trek franchise series), and yet off the top of my head I cannot recall one scene in the transporter room outside of "Tuvix."
Janice doesn't demand that of Kirk, she tells him, in a very compassionate tone, that she would be forced to say that to Charlie which she doesn't want to do to him.
Kirk, also, does not say that to Charlie. He says that ABOUT Charlie in the briefing room to Spock and McCoy. Far from scolding, Kirk is understanding.
A full list of references can found by copying and pasting this search string (ignore the hyperlink): site:www.chakoteya.net/Voyager "[transporter room]"
A full list of references can found by copying and pasting this search string (ignore the hyperlink): site:www.chakoteya.net/Voyager "[transporter room]"
Thanks. I remember The Disease now as well. And I checked Chrissie's site that way but must have blown something in my search as it didn't work. How many references did you see?
This is a good point. I consider myself pretty well-versed in Voyager (over time it has overtaken DS9 as my second-favorite Trek franchise series), and yet off the top of my head I cannot recall one scene in the transporter room outside of "Tuvix."
Wasn't there an episode where all the telepaths were hiding in transporter patterns? I assume we saw the transporter in that episode. I can't remember. You may have already mentioned it.
Mmmmmm do you think you can analyse TOS while not watching it properly - were you reading the paper?
When I looked at TNG by just glancing up from my computer a year or so ago all I could see in Season 1 was the camera focusing on Troi's boobs. I was watching Season 1 properly the other day and noticed other things.
with in the first season; was when they stated, "The energy powering the Holodeck is different than the energy powering the rest of the ship; so yeah, we need to conserve energy, but NOT WRT the Holodeck..." -- again,
Usually the incomplete post saves as a draft but when I came to edit it said that there was a security error. I lost my original wall of Charlie X text. I was disheartened to type it all again but have managed to do so and I am now back on track with my episode rewatch! I am now going to use the ‘Notes’ app to copy and paste incomplete posts in to just incase this happens again.
