Charlie X
Joe Siegler
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Charlie X
This Story: Season 1 Episode 2 (production code 1.8)
TOS Overall: Story 3, Episode 3
Trek Overall: Story 3, Episode 3
Airdate: 15 Sep 1966
Written by DC Fontana (via a story by Gene Roddenberry)
Directed by Lawrence Dobkin
Notes
- In the story, this episode takes place on Thanksgiving, as Kirk mentions wanting the synthetic food to look like turkey.
- The director of this story would later go on to act in a Next Generation episode (The Mind’s Eye) as Klingon ambassador Kell.
Links
[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | Amazon US Blu-Ray | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek Ep 2 - Charlie X - 15 Sep 1966 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) May 8, 2024
This ep freaked me out when I was little, especially the woman with no face. The Enterprise shuttles what looks like a teenager, but it turns out he's a god like being (like a Trelane or Q) who ends up harassing the pic.twitter.com/cLI4TDvEZT
#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek Ep 2 - Charlie X - 15 Sep 1966 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) May 8, 2024
crew to the point where you think he's going to kill them. The ending has a bit of a "his parents show up and force him to come home" to it, but overall I liked this. Shows crew downtime, which was nice. #UhuraSings pic.twitter.com/Ug9MzBaR5q
