Miri 

The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.

Director:

Vincent McEveety

Writers:

Adrian Spies, Gene Roddenberry (created by)

Stars:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Kim Darby

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
William Shatner	...	Capt. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock
Kim Darby	...	Miri
Michael J. Pollard	...	Jahn
DeForest Kelley	...	Dr. McCoy
Grace Lee Whitney	...	Yeoman Rand
Keith Taylor	...	Jahn's Friend
Ed McCready	...	Boy Creature
Kellie Flanagan	...	Blonde Girl
Stephen McEveety	...	Redheaded Boy (as Steven McEveety)
David L. Ross	...	Security Guard #1 (as David Ross)
Jim Goodwin	...	Farrell
John Megna	...	Little Boy

Storyline

The Enterprise receives an old style SOS signal and finds on arrival a planet that is virtually identical to Earth. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Yeoman Rand beam down to the planet only to find that it is inhabited solely by children. Kirk befriends one of the older children, Miri, but they soon learn that experiments to prolong life killed all of the adults and that the children will also die when they reach puberty. They also learn that the children are in fact, very old. Soon, the landing party contracts the virus and has seven days to find a cure.

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Plot Keywords:

child | derelict vehicle | strange behavior | year 2266 | 2260s | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

Adrian Spies considerably padded out his script with lengthy scene descriptions and stage directions, and when they were edited out the episode was found to be approximately ten minutes too short, leading to a late rewrite of the script by Steven W. Carabatsos. This, combined with the generally poor reaction to the story, led to Gene Roddenberry deciding to never let Spies write any more stories for the show.

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Goofs

In the opening scene, where the ENTERPRISE orbits Miri's planet, you can see the hole at the top of the globe used for the original version of the scene where it would have been attached to its stand. This has been replaced in the remastered version with a digital shot of that same planet.

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Quotes

Jahn: I'll admit, it'd be some foolie, Miri, but do you think it'd work?

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Alternate Versions

Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song

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Connections

Referenced in Enterprise: Terra Nova (2001)

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Soundtracks

Theme From Star Trek
(uncredited)
Written by Alexander Courage

User Reviews

Duplicate Earth Made No Sense

The basic storyline was fine, with the children & virus, but there was no point to their planet being a duplicate Earth.

The environment could just as well -- and more plausibly -- have been an Earth-like planet colonized by earthlings in the very early days of space travel, and forgotten by history. Some feature of the planet could easily have accounted for the longevity of its inhabitants.

There was no follow-up or explanation of the duplicate Earth aspect of the story, and the story would have been just as good without it.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

Greek English

Release Date:

27 October 1966 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Desilu Productions, Norway Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

50 min

Sound Mix:

Mono DTS (re-mastered version) Dolby Digital (re-mastered version)

Color:

Color Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

4:3