Miri
The Enterprise finds a planet that looks identical to Earth. Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, Yeoman Rand, and two security guards beam down to investigate. The planet looks decimated. The only people left alive are children. Kirk and the others discover that the adults all died off 300 years ago after a method to prolong life was discovered. The catch is that it prolongs life only until you start to become an adult.
Kirk and the others (except Mr. Spock) start to experience symptoms of the life prolonging discovery which killed off the adults. The children are aging at an extremely reduced pace.
Kirk and the others are running out of time as they race to find a cure.
I do not recall seeing this episode before but I might have.
The title of the episode is the name of a girl that Kirk meets. His interactions with Miri made my skin crawl. Kim Darby played Miri. She was 19 at the time the episode was made but clearly playing a younger character. She played Mattie Ross in the 1969 version of True Grit.
I was not terribly impressed or moved by this episode. Everything got resolved way too quickly for me. There was never any attempt to explain how this planet they found was an exact duplicate of Earth. I understand that they had bigger problems but how and why did it look just like Earth? This is the bottom of the barrel as far as I am concerned. I don't think I have been quite as turned off by an episode as I was by this one.
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