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
Starship Enterprise D. Moore noted in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual" that real-life naval tradition would insist on calling such a craft the captain's gig, rather than the captain's yacht. Rick Sternbach later designed similar craft for USS "Voyager" and USS "Equinox", known as the aeroshuttle and the waverider, respectively. As on the "Enterprise"-D, however, these vessels were only depicted on technical schematics and never seen in operation or referred to in dialog. "Time" described each iteration of the "Enterprise" as "a character in its own right". Over many decades, the starship has influenced real-life activities of NASA and