This episode has its seriously hilarious moments. Charlie Evans is the only survivor on a spaceship for fourteen years. Nobody knows why he's alive seeing as how after a year all the food should have been depleted. And he was three when everyone died so it's pretty spectacular he taught himself to talk too.
Turns out Charlie has a pretty spectacular gift. If he gives you "the freaky eye" then you're in for a real treat. In the case of Yeoman Rand it usually meant he would shower her with gifts, card tricks, or make her disappear. For Uhura, he made her singing voice vanish. Crewman Sam disappeared and so did the weapons of a few other crewman. He melted Spock's 3-D chess pieces and blew up a whole ship...with 20 people on it. After a certain point in time Charlie takes over the Enterprise and just starts shooting his "freaky eyes" at anyone being mean to him... even if they weren't being mean directly at him, it just appeared that way. One lady lost her face because she was laughing around Charlie while he thought everyone was picking on him.
Some of my favorite parts in this episode are the little things. For example,Charlie's looks is just priceless. Another funny thing is when Charlie uses his "special powers" and Spock flies across the room. Kirk is in obvious pain but stands up. Spock is sitting awkwardly but looks in no pain. Kirk asks him to get up and as calmly as frickin' possible Spock goes "I can't. My legs are broken." His legs are broken and he's saying stuff calmly? I mean I know it's Spock and he's intellect before emotions but his LEGS ARE BROKEN! SHOW SOME EMOTION,DUDE!
The episode was amazing. I really felt for Charlie even though he was a freaky-eyed abandoned kid. But the end of the episode was just a real WTF moment. There's this giant battle between Charlie and Kirk and then suddenly this green blob ship starts to approach. Uhura says they're from faces, Rand reappears and then Charlie goes ballistic and starts screaming at the sky. "NOOOOOOO! No. Please. Don't let them take me. I can't live with them anymore." And then this giant green face pops into the room and explains he gave everyone back, he's sorry for everything, he gave Charlie the powers, he's afraid Charlie will use his powers for evil, and he's taking Charlie with him. Kirk tries to argue, Charlie begs to stay, but half way through Charlie's begging he disappears. WTF!!! And then Rand cries! Even though she was so pissed at him not even five minutes ago for being kinda creepy. Again...WTF!!!
But now I'll leave you with my favorite line of the episode: "Sir, I put meatloaf in the ovens. There's turkey's in there now...real turkeys!" I would've loved that to be real for a moment and to have seen meatloaf turn into turkeys! How awesome would that have been?
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