Miri story
After discovering what appears to be a duplicate of the planet Earth , Captain Kirk and his landing party find a population ravaged by a strange disease, which only children appear to have survived.
22 total · 2 choice · 8 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human-made pandemic | choice | The story turns on the Enterprise crew responding to a distress call from a planet where the entire adult population had been wiped out by a man-made plague that was unintentionally unleashed by scientists who were pursuing life-extension research. |
| society consisting of only children | choice | Onlies :: the Onlies society |
| anti-aging technology | major | Onlies :: the virus was produced accidentally in an effort to prolong life |
| child power | major | Miri :: Miri and friends |
| child's point of view | major | Miri :: Miri and friends |
| community of abandoned children | major | The Onlies were a group of children who, after all the adults died, had somehow formed a functioning little community, with a leader and lots of childish games. |
| dealing with children | major | Kirk :: Kirk with Jahn and the kids |
| human vs. contagious disease | major | Dr. McCoy and the landing party scrambled to find a cure for a lethal man-made plague that had wiped out the planet Miri's entire adult population. Those infected dropped dead following a brief bout of rabid zombiesm. |
| human vs. monster | major | The landing party faced zombie-like creatures. The creatures were, in fact, humans infected with a strange disease. |
| unrequited love | major | Miri :: Miri at Kirk |