Charlie's Law

Star Date 1533.6: Charles Evans, a lonely young man, the only survivor of the Tazus colonists on the planet, gets on the Enterprise spaceship from the Antares cargo ship. A little later, when the captain of Antares Ramart contacts Kirk to warn him about something about Charlie, the cargo ship explodes.

Charlie to the deaths of the people who picked him up from Tazusa, reacted with indifference. Now he wonders how the Enterprise crew relate to him. However, many years spent alone make communication with the starship crew difficult. Strange events happen whenever Charlie does not like something: people who are not serious about Charlie disappear and maim, or simply laugh at him, or do not pay attention to him at all.

In the end, Charlie requires the Enterprise to drop him on the nearest inhabited planet, but Kirk does not dare to take such a step, fearing Charlie's abilities and character that could destroy any civilization. Charlie is trying to take control of the starship, but Kirk successfully resists. Suddenly, a representative of aliens, the indigenous inhabitants of the planet Tazus, appears on the bridge. It turns out that it was they who worked with Charlie for a long time, and it was they who gave the young man extraordinary abilities.

The Tazians discovered that Charlie left the planet and sent his spaceship to intercept the Enterprise. Despite the tearful requests of Charlie, who wants to stay among the people, the Tazians take him back to Tazus, previously restoring everything to the Enterprise, as it was before.

This series was redone for the fortieth anniversary of the series in 2006 and released on July 14, 2007 as part of the reprinted original series . In addition to the updated image, sound and fully computer Enterprise (as in all other series), there were also the following changes:

• Antares is shown along with Enterprise, which was not in the original series. The design of the ship is more like a cargo ship (shown in the series “More Tribbles - More Problems” in the animated series “Star Trek”) with the addition of a front end for the Antares crew.
• The Tacian ship took on a denser form compared to the original shapeless glow.

The prerequisite for this episode was part of a plot conceived by Gene Roddenberry called "The Day When Charlie Became a God." When the series was put into production, Roddenberry handed it over to D. S. Fontane for a stage version ^[3] . Perhaps this is a revision of the main idea of ​​Jerome Bixby’s 1953 short story “We Live Well!” (Also filmed in one of the Twilight Zone episodes in 1961) about teenage immaturity and emotional conflicts. Bixby composed four episodes for the original Star Trek, but is not listed in Charlie's Law.

During the production of the episode for some time was called "Charlie's Law", which is preserved in the novelization of James Blish . In a scene from a script that was not included in the series, Charlie’s Law reads: "Anyone better obey Charlie, otherwise ..." ^[4] . In Russian dubbing, there are both one and the other translation options.

Gene Roddenbury played a cameo role in the series (not credited), voicing Coca (or the head of the kitchen), who said that the meatloaf in the kitchen ship’s oven turned into a real turkey.

• Charlie’s Law on the Star Trek official website
• Charlie's Law in the Memory Alpha Encyclopedia
• Charlie's Law on the Internet Movie Database
• Charlie's Law on TV.com
• Charlie's Law Comparison of the old and new version on TrekMovie.com