History Recap / StarTrekS1E8Miri

* TheBeforeTimes: Referenced by name, in regards to the times before TheVirus killed all of the adults.

The ''Enterprise'' answers a distress beacon from a planet that seems to be a carbon copy of Earth. No one answers their hails, so they beam down to investigate. What they find looks like downtown UsefulNotes/{{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 building where a young girl named Miri has been hiding in a closet. 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.

%%* Adult Hater: The Onlies are violently suspicious of all adults who they refer too as "Grups".
%% Rogue Launched trope; remove comment once properly launched.

** A planet that is identical copy of Earth, right down to the same positions of the continents. Despite this startling and very implausible discovery, the planet doesn't have much relevance to the plot itself.

* 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.

* AbsenteeActor: Scotty, Sulu, and Uhura don't appear in this episode.
* ActorAllusion: Janice Rand says she always wanted Kirk to notice her legs. The Starfleet costumes went from sensible slacks in the second pilot ("Where No Man Has Gone Before") to miniskirts solely because Grace Lee Whitney complained they were hiding her "dancer's legs".

* HeroAntagonist: Jahn. Annoying little brat though he may be, he had every reason to suspect the away team's motives and to assume that they would be just as much of a threat to the Onlies as all the other Grups had been, and that they needed to protect themselves. Had [=McCoy=] not managed to find a cure in time, he would have been right (it would have been somewhat academic by then, as the Onlies would have run out of food within months, but Jahn didn't know that either).

** When Creator/JamesBlish wrote the novelization of the episode, he changed the planet to being a long lost human colony that lost contact with Earth, and not an identical copy. The plot of the story largely remained the same.

The ''Enterprise'' answers a distress beacon from a planet that seems to be a carbon copy of Earth. No one answers 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 building where a young girl named Miri has been hiding in a closet. 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.