Miri (Star Trek: The Original Series) Miri (Star Trek: The Original Series) "Miri" is the eighth episode of the of the American science fiction television series, "". Written by Adrian Spies and directed by Vincent McEveety, it first aired on October 27, 1966. In the episode, the "Enterprise" discovers an exact duplicate of Earth, where the only survivors of a deadly man-made plague are some of the planet's children. The "Enterprise" answers an automated distress call from a planet resembling Earth in every detail. A landing party of Captain Kirk, First Officer Spock, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, Yeoman Janice Rand and two security personnel find
Lords of the Starship the Starship" was "a bad and disappointing book on its own terms." Brian Stableford characterized it as an "earnestly stylish stud[y] of terminal cultural decadence". Lords of the Starship Lords of the Starship is a 1967 science fiction novel by American author Mark S. Geston. His debut work, it was written while he was a sophomore at Kenyon College. It was originally published in paperback by Ace Books, then reprinted for the British market in hardcover by Michael Joseph in 1971 and in paperback by Sphere Books a year later. Gregg Press published an archival edition in 1978 (a facsimile