 The USS "Enterprise" meets the merchant vessel "Antares" to take charge of Charlie Evans, 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, learning how to talk from the ship's computer systems, which remained intact.Charlie is to be transported to his nearest relatives on the colony Alpha V. Crew members aboard "Antares" speak praises about Charlie, but seem pleased to see him removed from their ship.