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David Ross - Security Guard #1., Keith Taylor, Ed McCready, Kellie Flanagan, Iona Morris, Darleen Anita Roddenberry, Dawn Roddenberry, Lisabeth Shatner, Melanie Shatner, and Scott Whitney - 'Children'Episode chronology← Previous'Next →' Miri' is the eighth episode of the of the American television series,. Written by and directed by, it first aired on October 27, 1966.In the episode, the discovers an exact duplicate of, where the only survivors of a deadly man-made plague are some of the planet's children.
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Contents.Plot The answers a distress call from a planet resembling Earth. A landing party of, First Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Yeoman and two security personnel find an abandoned, 1960 Earth.
They are attacked by a disfigured man. After Kirk hits the man three times, the man has a seizure and dies. Noises draw the landing party to an abandoned building. They discover a preadolescent, Miri, who ran away from them because 'grups' ('grownups') killed and maimed children before dying. She and her friends are 'onlies', the only ones left. The distress call is traced to an automated signal.The landing party, except for Spock, notice purple lesions on their bodies; Miri tells them that these are the first signs of the disease and they will soon become like the other adults.
The party find a medical research laboratory and look through documents for clues to the disease, and discover that it is a side effect of a life-extension experiment, affecting those who have reached; death follows a brief period of violent madness. The 'children' are over 300 years old, aging one month every century, but show the mental and emotional maturity of their biological age rather than their actual age.
When the disease begins, its victims have seven days to live. Although Spock is apparently immune, he considers himself a carrier who could infect the Enterprise if he returns.Kirk uses his charm on Miri to persuade her to show him to the other children.
However, mistrustful of the 'grups', they disperse when Kirk and Miri approach their hideout. Jahn, an older boy and the leader of the children, steals the landing party's communicators, rendering McCoy's search for a cure impossible without the Enterprise 's computers. When Yeoman Rand panics at their impending fate and Kirk comforts her, a jealous Miri runs away and schemes with her friends to kidnap Rand.McCoy discovers a possible vaccine for the disease, but without the ability to check the dosage with the ship's computers, the vaccine may kill the patient. Kirk tells Miri that the onlies will contract the disease if they do not help him find a cure.
Upon realizing that she herself is infected, Miri brings Kirk to where Rand is being held. At Jahn's urging, the children swarm and gang up on Kirk. An injured and bleeding Kirk then angrily begs the children to think of the youngest onlies, who will be helpless when the older ones are dead. He points out that their food supplies are running out; the children will starve within six months.
Convinced, Jahn gives the communicators back to Kirk. He rounds up the children and returns to the laboratory, but in desperation McCoy has already injected himself with a dose of the vaccine.
The doctor's sores fade, confirming the cure's effectiveness.Back on the Enterprise after vaccinating everyone and leaving the children in care of a medical team, Kirk sends for teachers and advisers to help the children improve their lives.Reception Zack Handlen of gave the episode an 'A-' rating, describing using children as the antagonists as one of the script's 'smarter twists.' Handlen felt that the sense of threat was maintained throughout as although the audience knew the crew wouldn't die, ' they don't know that.' Thought that Star Trek was in part a children's show and thought this episode included unpleasant topics. BBC ban Following the first screening of Miri on British television in December 1970, the received a number of complaints regarding the episode's content. The quantity and nature of the complaints were never made public.The BBC refused to show the episode again during its many repeats in the 1970s and 1980s, and also banned three further episodes: ', ', and '.Fans writing to the BBC to complain about the ban during the 5th repeat run in the mid-1980s received a standard reply: 'There are no plans to screen the four episodes because we feel that they deal most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease. You will appreciate that account must be taken that out of Star Trek's large and enthusiastic following, many are juveniles who would watch the programme no matter what time of day the series is put into the programme schedules.'
The ban was finally lifted in the early 1990s for the BBC's 6th showing of the series. Production The planetary exteriors were shot on the set used for fellow series, part of what had originally been known as the backlot in which had been acquired by.Apart from guest stars and, several of the children on Miri's world were portrayed by relatives of the Trek cast and crew. Among them were William Shatner's daughters Lisabeth and Melanie, 's son Scott, Vincent McEveety's son, and 's daughters, Darleen and Dawn.
Two others,and, children of actor, later appeared in subsequent Star Trek shows as well.This was child actress Kellie Flanagan's first television role. She played the Blonde Girl standing on the table in the schoolhouse. Between takes her agent, Dorothy Day Otis, got her a line to deliver during the scene, which led to Flanagan receiving her.Another of the actors playing the children, had played Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris in in 1962.See also., a Star Trek novel by Judy Klass which includes events occurring after the episode 'Miri'. (In this novel, all references to Miri's world being a copy of Earth were ordered removed; Miri's world is presented as a long-abandoned colony of Earth.)References.
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