Well, he sent a couple a crewmembers to the Cornfield. The Thasians just brought them back.
Star Trek TOS Re-Watch
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He did, but thematically, it's not the same. "Charlie X" is about people fighting back and trying to reason with the child. Whereas The Antares crew's experience with Charlie is more "It's a Good Life."
A little help here?
Same actor played Hollis on TZ and Mission Control guy on “Assignment Earth”. The former wanted to play a Perry Como record but
So Charlie, there's the short story, the Twilight Zone episode and Charlie X. From the story I think I remember that the superbeing could read minds and they had to be very careful about their thoughts based on to what awful things happened to others, and that the narrator wasn't certain that the rest of the world hadn't been destroyed. I don't think Charlie could read minds on the Enterprise and I'm not sure he had the power to destroy a world but did he destroy the Antares from light years away or did he leave the Antares with the damage already set up?
Did Charlie stop the Antares guys speaking out when the put Charlie on the Enterprise or were they too scared and wanted to wait until they were out of Charlie's range before they warned Kirk?
Also I don't think Charlie could have been so well-spoken if he's been by himself since age 3. I think he'd be more Tarzan-like. Obviously he doesn't understand body language but oral language is all about learning from interaction with others. I think he would have had to be at least 8 years old.
"Charlie X" came up on my TOS rewatch just this week.
It isn't clearly stated Evans has mind-reading powers, but it certainly seems that he must have some ability. He does present Yeoman Rand with her favourite perfume: presumably he discovered this information in her mind. On the other hand he does not sense the force-field trap plan of Kirk and Spock. On the other other hand, he admits he needs Kirk to run the ship, which suggests that his knowledge of ships's systems is coming from Kirk's mind?
It also isn't clear if Evans made the "warped baffle plate" on the Antares vanish before he left that ship, or later as an attempt to prevent Antares from warning Enterprise.
It isn't clearly stated Evans has mind-reading powers, but it certainly seems that he must have some ability. He does present Yeoman Rand with her favourite perfume: presumably he discovered this information in her mind. On the other hand he does not sense the force-field trap plan of Kirk and Spock. On the other other hand, he admits he needs Kirk to run the ship, which suggests that his knowledge of ships's systems is coming from Kirk's mind?
It also isn't clear if Evans made the "warped baffle plate" on the Antares vanish before he left that ship, or later as an attempt to prevent Antares from warning Enterprise.
My interpretation is he does it later, on the bridge when the Anatares contact the Enterprise to try and warn them.
Now that I think about it a bit more, that would fit Charlie's demonstrated impulsiveness as well as not forcing us to the conclusion that he planned mass murder in advance. I think I agree.
Well, Life Got In The Way again, but I'm back.
The Naked Time by John D. F. Black
I love first season! It's all so new and fresh.
Spock and Joe go down to a planet because the scientists aren't responding. Well, that's cause they're all dead. In weird ways too. Our guys are sensibly wearing hazmat suits. Oh no! Joe has to scratch his nose and stupidly takes off his glove, getting infected with... something.
McCoy and Spock tease each other in Sickbay and I love it. However, neither decontamination nor a medical exam found the infection. Joe is freaked by what he saw - "They didn't care."
I love the little snake hiss/rattle for the infection signal. Also, Joe (and later others) rubbing their hands together in the "out out damn spot" move.
Riley and Sulu talk fencing. They lampshade Sulu's love of botany. Joe gets grumpy, then depressed, and tries to kill himself with a butter knife. Riley gets infected here, possibly Sulu too.
McCoy is doing surgery on Joe. His frustration is palpable - "Why is this man dying?"
The planet is shrinking so the ship has to be in a tight spiral and in close. Everyone is supposed to be on their A game. So Sulu decides to play hooky! When Riley gets sent out, there's a Subversive Moment when Uhura takes over for him. Riley even comments on women's rights!
Riley then hits on and infects Christine, which leads to a heartbreaking scene later.
Meanwhile, Sulu has taken his shirt off and is playing Musketeer. I love the look on his face when he pricks himself with the foil!
The helm *and* engines are dead. "Captain" Riley has taken over engineering and looks like he's having a ball playing with switches and buttons.
Sulu on the bridge! Uhura tries to calm him, leading to the infamous, "Sorry, neither!" Time is running out and fights are breaking out everywhere. Riley mentions the bowling alley! He also mentions how the women of the ship should look, which has Uhura angrily trying to cut him off the intercom. Rand takes the helm, which I had completely forgotten! Scotty's in a Jeffries tube - is this the first time we see that?
The Scene in Sickbay. Nimoy and Barrett really nailed this. When Spock says, "I am sorry" to her, there's So Much There. A beautiful scene.
Spock's infected now and is trying to keep control... and failing. Again, Nimoy cannot be given enough credit here. He played a bunch of conflicting emotions and did it damn well. Then Spock infects Kirk and we get some nice work from Shatner. Kirk complains about his ship taking everything, but he also tells Enterprise, "Never lose you. Never."
Scotty mentions the laws of physics.
McCoy has made a breakthrough - the water on the planet changed! Being water, it didn't show on scans and it spread through sweat.
Kirk says Engage decades before Picard. The never-before-done way they started the engines back up gets us to Do the Time Warp. Saved! Kirk looks at Rand and his closeup is beautiful - all the regret and sadness there.
Whatever one thinks of the plot, the character work in this episode is superb. Everyone gets some nice bits. Kirk and Uhura's rising frustration on the bridge leads to a nice scene between them where the respect between them is obvious. All the actors do terrific jobs. There's some terrific humor in here, as well as some pathos. All in all, just a great episode; one of my faves.
The Naked Time by John D. F. Black
I love first season! It's all so new and fresh.
Spock and Joe go down to a planet because the scientists aren't responding. Well, that's cause they're all dead. In weird ways too. Our guys are sensibly wearing hazmat suits. Oh no! Joe has to scratch his nose and stupidly takes off his glove, getting infected with... something.
McCoy and Spock tease each other in Sickbay and I love it. However, neither decontamination nor a medical exam found the infection. Joe is freaked by what he saw - "They didn't care."
I love the little snake hiss/rattle for the infection signal. Also, Joe (and later others) rubbing their hands together in the "out out damn spot" move.
Riley and Sulu talk fencing. They lampshade Sulu's love of botany. Joe gets grumpy, then depressed, and tries to kill himself with a butter knife. Riley gets infected here, possibly Sulu too.
McCoy is doing surgery on Joe. His frustration is palpable - "Why is this man dying?"
The planet is shrinking so the ship has to be in a tight spiral and in close. Everyone is supposed to be on their A game. So Sulu decides to play hooky! When Riley gets sent out, there's a Subversive Moment when Uhura takes over for him. Riley even comments on women's rights!
Riley then hits on and infects Christine, which leads to a heartbreaking scene later.
Meanwhile, Sulu has taken his shirt off and is playing Musketeer. I love the look on his face when he pricks himself with the foil!
The helm *and* engines are dead. "Captain" Riley has taken over engineering and looks like he's having a ball playing with switches and buttons.
Sulu on the bridge! Uhura tries to calm him, leading to the infamous, "Sorry, neither!" Time is running out and fights are breaking out everywhere. Riley mentions the bowling alley! He also mentions how the women of the ship should look, which has Uhura angrily trying to cut him off the intercom. Rand takes the helm, which I had completely forgotten! Scotty's in a Jeffries tube - is this the first time we see that?
The Scene in Sickbay. Nimoy and Barrett really nailed this. When Spock says, "I am sorry" to her, there's So Much There. A beautiful scene.
Spock's infected now and is trying to keep control... and failing. Again, Nimoy cannot be given enough credit here. He played a bunch of conflicting emotions and did it damn well. Then Spock infects Kirk and we get some nice work from Shatner. Kirk complains about his ship taking everything, but he also tells Enterprise, "Never lose you. Never."
Scotty mentions the laws of physics.
McCoy has made a breakthrough - the water on the planet changed! Being water, it didn't show on scans and it spread through sweat.
Kirk says Engage decades before Picard. The never-before-done way they started the engines back up gets us to Do the Time Warp. Saved! Kirk looks at Rand and his closeup is beautiful - all the regret and sadness there.
Whatever one thinks of the plot, the character work in this episode is superb. Everyone gets some nice bits. Kirk and Uhura's rising frustration on the bridge leads to a nice scene between them where the respect between them is obvious. All the actors do terrific jobs. There's some terrific humor in here, as well as some pathos. All in all, just a great episode; one of my faves.
I'm always impressed that McCoy solves the infection problem, and Spock solves the engine restart problem (in his head no less) in literally 20 minutes. I mean damn.
I'm also always disappointed that, despite the title, no one actually gets naked in this episode.
I'm also always disappointed that, despite the title, no one actually gets naked in this episode.
I have a fanedit somewhere that sends this episode directly into Tomorrow is Yesterday following the Time Warp.
Emotionally, they all get very "naked". Also it's not that Spock solves the problem per se; Mr Scott mentions that there's no known formula for mixing matter and antimatter cold, but Spock recalls that scientists in the Federation have published a theoretical formula. It's just that the formula has never been actually tested in the real world.
Yes, that is an interesting thing about it.
And then he apologizes! I love that whole scene.Plus, it gets us (arguably) Shatner's best/most sympathetic emoting which comes close to matching Nimoy's. It's the episode which inspired thousands of fanzines. Plus again, Uhura gets to yell BACK at Kirky, even if he blows her head off 15 minutes later at the intercom.
He apologizes in the first scene but later when he screams at her from the briefing room, that goes unremarked. But I'm sure she understood.
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