Kirk, wanting to find the elusive children to get some answers, asks Miri to show him where they are hiding. Once they reach puberty, they succumb to the disease. It worked, after a fashion, but a miscalculation annihilated the adults, leaving only the children to survive on their own for the last three centuries. Spock discovers research dating back three hundred years: there was a project with the goal of prolonging life. McCoy begins to work, asking Lieutenant John Farrell to have a biocomputer and an electronic microscope beamed down from the ship. However, Spock becomes a carrier and the whole crew would contract the disease if he were to beam back to the Enterprise. Everyone in the landing party contracts the disease except Spock, thanks to his Vulcan green copper-based blood. Miri leads the landing party to an abandoned laboratory where McCoy takes tissue samples from the group in an attempt to isolate the organism responsible for the disease. It turns out that Kirk contracted the same disease that killed the grups. On Kirk's hand, Miri finds a blueish blemish. McCoy realizes that a plague struck this world. They hear children, and are pelted with debris and rocks, but they never actually see anyone the feral children, who call themselves Onlies, know the area too well, and are too canny.Īfter talking to Miri, who only gradually realizes that she is in no danger, Kirk learns that the adults, whom Miri calls grups, became ill and insane, and the Onlies had to hide from them until all the grups died. Meanwhile, Spock, Galloway, and Fields search the ruins outside. Noises draw the landing party to one of the abandoned buildings, where they discover a terrified young girl hiding in a closet named Miri. After yelling "fibber" several times, he suffers a seizure and dies. He complains about his broken tricycle, and accuses the landing party of lying when they tell him they can try to fix it. Then, while McCoy is examining an old tricycle, he is attacked by a horribly disfigured and insanely violent young man. Spock surmises that the distress signal is automated. But there is debris in the streets and evidence that decay has been ongoing for at least several centuries. McCoy, and Janice Rand, along with security officers Galloway and Fields, discover architecture like that of Earth, circa 1960. Even the topography is identical.īeaming down, the landing party of Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. It has the same mass, circumference, density, and atmosphere. Responding to a Earth-like recording over a hundred light years from Earth, the USS Enterprise discovers a planet that is an exact copy of Earth. Enterprise in polar orbit of an Earth-like planet
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