Day 8: Star Trek the Original Series "Miri"

Ok day 8. I'm still a little tired from yesterday's shoot in Tulsa and I've seen this episode quite a bit in syndication so I'm not going to go wax on and on. The Enterprise comes upon a planet that is identical to earth except for the fact that all of the adults have died off. It seems that a virus kills kids as they enter puberty but slows down their growth. This means that all the kids are hundreds of years old and Kirk and the landing party immediately get the virus. Unfortunately this means Yeoman Janice Rand's legs get all fucked up. Nooooooo..... Eventually Spock and Bones find a cure and all is well. Although, Bones does infect himself with a vaccine without knowing if it will kill him, and all he had to do was wait roughly six minutes or so. It seems a like a pretty dumb-ass move, but I guess it created tension and what not, because you think he might be dead for a minute or two. Solid episode, a planet full of kids is pretty scary. Although no explanation of the the planet looking exactly like earth is given and Michael J. Pollard looks exactly the same age as he does now. Coincidence? I think not.