History Recap / StarTrekS1E8Miri

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A ''big'' mouse, at that. The ep begins with the Enterprise crew making the astonishing discovery of a planet identical to Earth. They beam down to investigate, and get caught up in a plot about a plague that [[OnlyFatalToAdults kills adults and leaves children alive.]] This presents a mystery and danger that is duly solved. The episode ends without any further mention of the fact that the planet is identical to Earth.

* DawsonCasting: Miri is supposed to be 12 (in appearance), and looks it even though she's played by a 19 year old. Jahn is supposed to be the same age, but is played by a 27 year old actyor - granted, one who doesn't look 27, but doesn't look like a preteen either.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A ''big'' mouse, at that. The ep begins with the Enterprise crew making the astonishing discovery of a planet identical to Earth. They beam down to investigate, and get caught up in a plot about a plague that [[OnlyFatalToAdults kills adults and leaves children alive.]] This presents a mystery and danger that is duly solved. The episode ends without any further mention of the fact that the planet is identical to Earth.

* CreepyChild[=\=]EnfantTerrible: The Onlies, even if they're ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.

* CreepyDoll: One hangs in a shop window.

* RedShirt: Averted; not only do the two in the episode appear to survive, but they don't even seem to get sick.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** A ''big'' mouse, at that. The ep begins with the Enterprise crew making the astonishing discovery of a planet identical to Earth. They beam down to investigate, and get caught up in a plot about a plague that [[OnlyFatalToAdults kills adults and leaves children alive.]] This presents a mystery and danger that is duly solved. The episode ends without any further mention of the fact that the planet is identical to Earth.

* CanonMarchesOn[=/=]FridgeHorror: The planet is a dead ringer for Earth... Does this include [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise the trench]]?

* BannedInChina: The first BBC broadcast of this episode led to protests over its allegedly over-horrific nature (since it involved children in peril and adults getting killed), and as a result it and three later episodes ("Plato's Stepchildren", "The Empath" and "Whom Gods Destroy") were suppressed from BBC broadcasts of the show until the 1990s due to being considered excessively violent and horrific. (Although the BBC was happy to broadcast much worse scenes on its own show ''Series/DoctorWho''. Maybe the BBC didn't like competition from America?)

* DawsonCasting: A particularly absurd case, as the two lead pre-pubescent children are played by actors who are 20 (although at least Kim Darby did look 15ish) and ''29''! (Possibly justified by their being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld?)

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Kid]]: Miri is Mattie from ''Film/TrueGrit'', the "Bonk Bonk" boy is Dill from ''Film/ToKillAMockingbird'', and Jahn is C.W. Moss from ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''.
* {{Narm}}: Kirk's "No Blah Blah Blah" line

* RealLifeRelative: The little girl Kirk picks up is played by William Shatner's daughter, Melanie Shatner.

* {{Woobie}}: Miri, when she cries and begs Kirk and co. not to hurt her.

** What happened to the balding RedShirt? Did he die? We never do see him again after Bones starts work researching a vaccine.

The ''Enterprise'' answers a distress beacon from a planet that seems to be a carbon copy of Earth. No one answer their hails, so they beam down to investigate. What they find looks like Downtown Detroit on a bad day. As Bones forlornly inspects a decaying tricycle, a strange person covered in blue lesions attacks him. The person cries over the broken trike after being wrestled into submission. And then he dies. Further searching brings them to a closet where a young girl has been hiding in a closet. She is the eponymous Miri of the episode's title. She tells the landing crew about the "Grups" who all got sick and killed each other. Even the animals died, leaving the "Onlies", children of pre-pubescent age.

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Tropes for this episode include:

* BannedInChina: The first BBC broadcast of this episode led to protests over its allegedly over-horrific nature (since it involved children in peril and adults getting killed), and as a result it and three later episodes ("Plato's Stepchildren", "The Empath" and "Whom Gods Destroy") were suppressed from BBC broadcasts of the show until the 1990s due to being considered excessively violent and horrific. (Although the BBC was happy to broadcast much worse scenes on its own show ''DoctorWho''. Maybe the BBC didn't like competition from America?)

* CreepyChild \ EnfantTerrible: The Onlies, even if they're ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.

* DepopulationBomb: A genetic engineering project got out of hand and killed off everyone over puberty. The children are still around, because the intended effect of the project was agelessness and it worked fine on anyone it didn't kill.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Kid]]: Miri is Mattie from ''Film/TrueGrit'', the "Bonk Bonk" boy is Dill from ''ToKillAMockingbird'', and Jahn is C.W. Moss from ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''.

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: Really cool coincidence: Two days after the airing of this episode, over in Great Brittain Series/DoctorWho would air the fourth episode of ''The Tenth Planet'', an serial that featured a twin-planet of earth and one of the main characters dying of an slowly acting disease.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A ''big'' mouse, at that. The ep begins with the Enterprise crew making the astonishing discovery of a planet identical to Earth. They beam down to investigate, and get caught up in a plot about a plague that [[OnlyFatalToAdults kills adults and leaves children alive.]] This presents a mystery and danger that is duly solved. The episode ends without any further mention of the fact that the planet is identical to Earth.
** Come to think of it, What happened to the balding RedShirt? Did he die? We never do see him again after Bones starts work researching a vaccine.

* DawsonCasting: A particularly absurd case, as some of the "children" are clearly in their 30s! (Possibly justified by their being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld?)

* CanonMarchesOn[=/=]FridgeHorror: The planet is a dead ringer for Earth... Does this include [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise the trench of death]]?

* FutureSlang: Adults are "Grups" (a corruption of "grown up") and children are "Onlies" because they're the only living beings left. "Foolie" is a violent game with about as much structure as CalvinBall

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Kid]]: The "Bonk Bonk" boy is Dill from ToKillAMockingbird.

* RulesOfOrphanEconomics: The Onlies in the Star Trek episode "Miri" have been living out of the supplies left by the original colony for three hundred years. Captain Kirk tells them they would not be able to survive much longer this way because the food's running out. Some fans speculate that they could have made it a while longer. Many children are capable of learning to take care of themselves, and space colonists would have emphasized this. Learning how to plant and grow food in gardens would have been a big deal; they would even have had books on it, and older kids would have taught younger ones to do this. Whether they'd have the patience to do so, however.....
* ShamingTheMob: ....is easy when they're all emotionally under 13. Kirk pointed out that he was hurt and bleeding and it's their fault. They're become no better than the Grups who murdered each other.

* TeenageWasteland: a planet where a virus had killed off all the adults, leaving the children to look after themselves.

* WeWillNotHavePocketsInTheFuture: Not made explicit, but affects the plot in its own way. when the entire crew leaves to investigate a noise, their communicators are all left on tables, allowing them to be stolen.

* BannedInChina: The first BBC broadcast of this episode led to protests over its allegedly over-horrific nature, and as a result it and three later episodes ("Plato's Stepchildren", "The Empath" and "Whom Gods Destroy") were suppressed from BBC broadcasts of the show until the 1990s due to being considered excessively violent and horrific. (Although the BBC was happy to broadcast much worse scenes on its own show ''DoctorWho''. Maybe the BBC didn't like competition from America?)

Soon after, Kirk realizes he has a blue lesion on his hand. They have to find a way to cure the disease, to save themselves and all the Onlies. Unfortunately, their communicators have been stolen by Miri's friend Jahn, the little bast-uh, scamp!

* BannedInChina: The first BBC broadcast of this episode led to protests over its allegedly over-horrific nature, and as a result it and three later episodes ("Plato's Stepchildren", "The Empath" and "Whom Gods Destroy") were suppressed from BBC broadcasts of the show until the 1990s due to being considered excessively violent and horrific. (Although the BBC was happy to broadcast much worse scenes on its own show DoctorWho. Four words: "Are you my mummy?")

* DawsonCasting: A particularly absurd case, as some of the "children" are clearly in their 30s!

* HatePlague: The disease causes its victims to be progressively short tempered.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The ep begins with the Enterprise crew making the astonishing discovery of a planet identical to Earth. They beam down to investigate, and get caught up in a plot about a plague that [[OnlyFatalToAdults kills adults and leaves children alive.]] This presents a mystery and danger that is duly solved. The episode ends without any further mention of the fact that the planet is identical to Earth.

* GreenEyedMonster: Miri betrays Kirk to the other Onlies after she sees Kirk give Rang a comforting hug.

* FutureSlang: Adults are "Grups" (a corruption of "grown up") and children are "Onlies" because they're the only living beings left. "Foolie" is a violent game with about as much structure as CalvinBall}}

* Woobie: Miri, when she cries and begs Kirk and co. not to hurt her.

Soon after, Kirk realizes he has a blue lesion on his hand. They have to find a way to cure the disease, to save themselves and all the Onlies. Unfortunately, their communicators have been stolen by Miri's friend John, the little bast-uh, scamp!

* FieryRedhead: John, the little ginger brat!
* FutureSlang: Adults are "Grups" (a corruption of "grown up") and children are "Onlies" because they're the only living beings left.

** Come to think of it, What happened to the balding RedShirt? Did he die? We never do see him again after Bones starts work researching a vaccine.

Soon after, Kirk realizes he has a blue legion on his hand. They have to find a way to cure the disease, to save themselves and all the Onlies. Unfortunately, their communicators have been stolen by Miri's friend John, the little bast-uh, scamp!

* TeenageWasteland: a planet where a virus had killed off all the adults, leaving the children to look after themselves.