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
This Side of Paradise (Star Trek: The Original Series) This Side of Paradise (Star Trek: The Original Series) "This Side of Paradise" is the twenty-fourth episode of the of the American science fiction television series "". Written by D. C. Fontana and Jerry Sohl (using the pseudonym Nathan Butler) and directed by Ralph Senensky, it was first broadcast on March 2, 1967. In the episode, the USS "Enterprise" visits a planet where the inhabitants are under the influence of strange plant life. The title is taken from the poem "Tiare Tahiti" by Rupert Brooke and the novel "This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Enterprise" is ordered to