Miri
- Episode aired Oct 27, 1966
- TV-PG
- 50m
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6.9/10
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The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.
Stephen McEveety
- Redheaded Boy
- (as Steven McEveety)
David L. Ross
- Security Guard #1
- (as David Ross)
Tom Anfinsen
- Crewman
- (uncredited)
John Arndt
- Ingenieur Fields
- (uncredited)
Iona Morris
- Little African American Girl
- (uncredited)
Phil Morris
- Boy - Army Helmet
- (uncredited)
Eddie Paskey
- Lieutenant Leslie
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaLeonard Nimoy was asked to allow his children to appear as extras but Nimoy refused to let his children be involved in show business. His son, Adam Nimoy, did grow up to become a television director, including a few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
- GoofsSpock states that he and the guards could not even get close to the stray children because they knew the area too well. His tricorder should have been able to locate them in seconds since there were no other humanoid lifeforms present. It would have been a simple matter to locate Yeoman Rand with a tricorder as well.
- Quotes
Yeoman Rand: That little girl...
Mr. Spock: ...is at least three hundred years older than you are, Yeoman.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in Bring Back... Star Trek (2009)
- SoundtracksTheme From Star Trek
Written by and credited to Alexander Courage
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Behave yourself, Kirk!
A distress signal draws the crew of the Enterprise into a perilous situation (for a change). This time, the message emanates from a planet that is, for some unknown reason, an exact duplicate of Earth. Beaming down to the planet's surface, Kirk, Spock, Bones, Yeoman Rand, and two red shirts find a world in ruins, the only inhabitants a gang of almost feral children. They eventually discover the reason for the state of the planet: three hundred years earlier, scientists attempted to develop a way to prolong life, an experiment that went horribly wrong, achieving the desired results in the pre-pubescent members of the population, but causing a disease in the adults that resulted in madness and death. Kirk and company soon start to show signs of the sickness, and attempt to rustle up a cure, but their progress is hampered by the children (who are, in reality, several centuries old), who view adults (or 'grups' as they call them) as a threat. Miri (Kim Darby) is the only one to help the crew, the preadolescent girl having fallen for the dashing captain.
Miri is an entertaining episode, but it's a problematic one. The whole doppelganger Earth aspect is totally pointless - no explanation is given for this one-in-a-gazillion occurrence. The crew beaming down to the the exact location where the virus was developed is far-fetched in the extreme. The entire crew leaving their vital communicators unattended is an obvious and irritating plot contrivance. Kirk and friends arriving on the planet just as the kids' food supply is about to run out-what are the chances? Michael J. Pollard in his late twenties as one of the 'children' - give me a break! And as for Kirk's inappropriate flirtatious manner with Miri... it's such uncomfortable viewing that it's little wonder that the ever-cautious BBC played it safe by not airing this episode for a couple of decades.
Miri is an entertaining episode, but it's a problematic one. The whole doppelganger Earth aspect is totally pointless - no explanation is given for this one-in-a-gazillion occurrence. The crew beaming down to the the exact location where the virus was developed is far-fetched in the extreme. The entire crew leaving their vital communicators unattended is an obvious and irritating plot contrivance. Kirk and friends arriving on the planet just as the kids' food supply is about to run out-what are the chances? Michael J. Pollard in his late twenties as one of the 'children' - give me a break! And as for Kirk's inappropriate flirtatious manner with Miri... it's such uncomfortable viewing that it's little wonder that the ever-cautious BBC played it safe by not airing this episode for a couple of decades.
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