8) Charlie X

Published: May 2, 2021, 2 p.m.

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While the Enterprise is en route to Earth Colony 5, Captain Kirk becomes the reluctant father figure to an unusual passenger named Charles Evans. The teenager displays incredible powers, but he lacks the discipline to use them, which soon turns the Enterprise into a hell ship that terrorizes its crew. As we will come to see many times on \\u201cStar Trek,\\u201d absolute power corrupts, absolutely \\u2014 especially when that infinite power lies in the hands of an adolescent young man with raging hormones. \\u201cCharlie X\\u201d is a superior episode that\\u2019s gripping, suspenseful, powerful and haunting, and it\\u2019s the first \\u201cStar Trek\\u201d episode to be written by Dorothy \\u201cD.C.\\u201d Fontana, whose incredible contributions to the series over the next three years cannot be overstated.

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