Charlie Evans Aboard the USS Enterprise

On stardate 1533.6, the starship USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, takes charge of Charlie Evans, a teenage boy from a small science vessel called the Antares. As a child he was the sole survivor of a transport ship that crashed on the planet Thasus. For fourteen years Charlie grew up there alone, stranded in the wreckage, and only learned how to talk from the ship's computer systems that somehow remained intact.

The boy is to be transported to his nearest living relatives on planet Alpha V and the crew of the Antares speak nothing but praises about Charlie. They seem, however, more than pleased to see the boy removed from their ship as soon as possible and after the transfer, they bid the Enterprise an unusual and very hasty goodbye and quickly proceed on their way. Charlie undergoes a cursory medical examination by Dr. McCoy and Charlie tells the doctor that the crew of the science ship didn't like him very much, and all he wanted is just for people to like him.

Charlie quickly begins to get obnoxious, and shows signs that he possesses strange powers. First, he develops an infatuation with Yeoman Janice Rand, who evidently was the first human female he had ever seen. Having observed a man in engineering seal an agreement to go to the rec room with a friendly slap on the rear, he does the same to Rand, to her objection of course. Later as an apology for his rudeness he gives her a bottle of perfume, which turns out to be her favorite kind, even though there was none of it in the ship's stores. Charlie meets Rand later in the rec room, where Mr. Spock (whom Charlie calls Mr. Ears) plays a Vulcan Lyre, and Lt. Uhura sings.