Star Trek: Charlie X

The starship Enterprise has a rendezvous with the tiny survey ship Antares to pick up a special passenger, Charlie Evans (Robert Walker Jr.). The sole survivor of a spaceship crash on the remote planet Thesus when he was three years old, Charlie spent 14 years alone, learning to talk and how to ...more

"Charlie X" is a Star Trek episode whose underlying concept offers strangely close parallels with a Twilight Zone script from a half-decade earlier, entitled "It's a Good Life." That script, written by Rod Serling and based on a story by Jerome Bixby, was about a community that finds itself held hostage, perhaps forever, to the whims of a six-year-old boy (Billy Mumy) possessed of deadly paranormal powers. D.C. Fontana's script (based on a story by series producer/creator Gene Roddenberry) ...more