USS Antares NCC-501

undefined The USS Antares NCC-501 is a fictional space vessel featured in the Star Trek multimedia franchise. It made a single appearance in the second episode of season one of the original Star Trek series entitled "Charlie X".

Description & History
The USS Antares was a small cargo freighter employed by the United Federation of Planets in the mid 23rd century. It was captained by a man named Ramart and his first officer, Tom Nellis. In the year 2266 on Stardate 1533.6, the Antares discovered a 17-year-old human named Charlie Evans who had been marooned on the uninhabitable planet Thasus since he was 14-years-old. Ramart picked him up and brought him on board. Investigating his background, he learned that Charlie's closest living relatives were on Colony Alpha V. Captain Ramart transmitted a message to a Federation starship, the USS Enterprise to rendezvous with them so they could pick Charlie up and take him to Alpha V. What Ramart and Nellis soon learned was that Charlie had been given extraordinary abilities by the planet's one non-corporeal indiginous race, the Thasians. Charlie felt that Ramart and Nellis were not very nice, so he used his psionic abilities to antagonize them. Ramart and Nellis were only too happy to dump Charlie off on the Enterprise 's captain, James T. Kirk.

A short while later, on Stardate 1533.8, the Enterprise came within proximity of the Antares en route to Colony Alpha V. Charlie was still bitter over his previous rescuers' attitud towards him, so he used his powers to destroy the ship, killing both Ramart, Nellis and any other crew members on board in the process.

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