# STAR TREK: Miri **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180 "2005-02-09T13:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180/41 "2015-07-03T12:50:34Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > First off, the actress used is obviously already in or just past puberty. > > And, if those kids weren’t pubescent yet, why did the leader boy have sideburns? As McCoy might say, “Different people develop at different rates.” Obviously, whatever it was that proved fatal to other children hadn’t kicked in on Miri and Jahn yet, regardless of how well “developed” they were otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180/42 "2015-07-03T12:53:18Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I would bet that some of those kids were kids of the producers, writers, or stars. They were. One was Roddenberry’s own daughter (“Dawn,” IIRC). I think she was the one who went berserk over the tricycle. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180/43 "2015-07-03T13:09:42Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They were. One was Roddenberry’s own daughter (“Dawn,” IIRC). I think she was the one who went berserk over the tricycle. I know. (Shatner’s kids were, anyways, according to several of my books.) I was being facetious 10 years ago. 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180/44 "2015-07-03T13:20:50Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I know. (Shatner’s kids were, anyways, according to several of my books.) I was being facetious 10 years ago. 🙂 > . Rereads OP. On yeah, we were to discuss the eps as tho we had no other knowledge of Trek stuff. Those were fun threads. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180/45 "2015-07-03T14:45:57Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > As McCoy might say, “Different people develop at different rates.” Obviously, whatever it was that proved fatal to other children hadn’t kicked in on Miri and Jahn yet, regardless of how well “developed” they were otherwise. Note Miri was starting to develop the lesions. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180/46 "2015-07-03T16:34:51Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Note Miri was starting to develop the lesions. Yes, finally. Just before the cure was discovered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-miri/289180.md?page=2)