Star Trek Episode 2: Charlie X

This episode spends the first 2/3 showing just what a hard time Charlie, (a "raised by wolves" type) is having adjusting to life in the civilized world and then 1/3 showing him responding the only way he knows how, which unfortunately happens to be mass murder.
He is then punished in a pretty inhumane way and they all (everyone but Charlie and the people he mass murdered) live happily ever after. It is a Shakespearean level of tragedy. The tragedy I am referring to is the treatment of the murderer. I explain:
Charlie is raised by a race called Thasians (not "Thetans". Apparently that's what scientologists have. I had to look it up. I thought it was the same word.) which are aliens with no bodies who still need a space ship for some reason. We see one and he seems to be doing a wizard of Oz impression. Jury's out on whether they really look like this or its just what they use to communicate with silly humans who want people to have faces.

Things the Thasians succeeded in teaching him:

• How to speak English (mostly).
• How to find food (presumably. A lot is made of the fact that he didn't starve to death on the planet he was abandoned on. Spock even says that there is not enough edible vegetation to survive, but somehow non-corporal beings understand his need for food and manage to get it for him).
• How to make stuff disappear, suddenly have the yeoman's face on it, turn into an iguana, etc. 
• How to melt things. This seems like a separate power that he doesn't use as much as one would expect. This would be a much worse threat than "I'll make you disappear" and the fact that he doesn't use it means something. Maybe it means he is not too bright, but it means something.

They do not manage to teach him:

• What to do with all that angsty teen energy. 
• How to play 3D chess.
• That goosing a women is not a way of showing friendship.
• Fashion.
• The birds and the bees.

During the first part of the episode, Charlie tries his hardest to fit in. The people around him seem completely confused as to why he can't just know every nuance of social interaction.
Ok, I don't know who told him that its ok to slap a woman's ass, but he obviously did not realize it was unacceptable. Now Janice could have just told him "look, that's not something you do." or Kirk could have told him that. Instead, Janice got all weird and sent him to Kirk. Crazily enough, Charlie remembers to ask Kirk at a later time and Kirk gives him this very strange line: 
"There is no right way to hit a woman." 
There is something about this line which eeks me out. He proceeds to tell him that hitting men is totally cool and then gets called away and leaves Charlie obviously confused.
Kirk decides that this hitting men thing that he came up with is really the key to unlocking Charlie's inner social butterfly and so the next time he fails to explain something to Charlie's satisfaction, he takes him to the gym and hits him a little. Charlie responds to this in the way a teen with a history of being abused would: He becomes uncomfortable and asks to stop, then begs to stop. When Kirk coaxes him into raslin' and takes him out, the other gym patron laughs at him. Charlie loses control, making the laughing man disappear.
We already know that Charlie has been neglected to an insane degree and so anyone should be sympathetic to his discomfort with physical contact, but we have not yet discovered that he has actually not only been raised without human contact, but by a race of beings who do not understand and cannot help but make him feel shame for his wanting to touch.
Taking his upbringing into consideration, it is remarkable that Charlie is as well adjusted an controlled as he is. When he is sent back to the Thasians, he cries and pleads and begs. He explains that they are unfeeling both literally and figuratively. The Thasians profess to want what is best for him, but are clearly unable to satisfy him needs.
Now that Charlie has lived with humans for some time, we can only imagine that his desire to escape will be all the greater. Before, he was willing to sneak aboard a ship of humans, having no idea what would happen to him or how he would be treated. Now, he will be even more desperate, and the Thasians will need to watch him extremely carefully. He will essentially be a prisoner for life in a cross between solitary confinement and the matrix once you know its just the matrix.
I blame the crew of the enterprise 90% for what happens to Charlie, and the Thasians 10%. I found the outcome, in which Charlie is punished and everyone else is fine to be pretty disturbing.

Pet Peeves and Inconsistencies: (that have not yet been addressed)

• First, a quick shout out to that crazy green shirt that Kirk changes in and out of all day like a girl unsure what to wear on her date. At one point, he changes into it in between telling Charlie he can follow him to the bridge and arriving at the bridge with Charlie. There are 2 possible explanations:
  1) He and Charlie agreed that green was a better color for the bridge and that it was totally worth keeping them waiting a few minutes if it meant he looked fabulous!
  2) Charlie used his super power to change Kirk's shirt into Kirk's other shirt.
• Why did they (Thasians) give him these powers? It doesn't seem like it would be very helpful to them to allow him to do these things, if they already could do them. Maybe he was whining all the time and always asking them to turn stuff into iguanas and they got lazy and just said "ok, you do it!"
• Why do the Thasians have these powers? If they are non-corporeal, then what do they care what the physical world is doing: whether a rock is a rock, empty space or an iguana?

I guess I don't know whether I like the episode. I found it disturbing, but that's not a huge turn off for me. The problem is, I don't think I was supposed to be disturbed, and being treated like I don't think things through well enough to see the problems in this scenario is a huge turn off.