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Nov 25, 2009 8:32:06 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Nov 25, 2009 8:32:06 GMT -6
Picking up a planetary distress call, the Enterprise finds a planet which seems to be an exact duplicate of Earth. Beaming down, the away team find themselves in a long deserted city, attacked by a crazed mutant humanoid. It seems that a life prolongation experiment went awry, infecting the entire adult population with a disease which sends their metabolisms into overdrive and drives them insane. Only the children remain, that is until they reach puberty, whereupon they also turn into crazed zombies.
Once again Star Trek is ahead of its time. This is the stuff of apocalyptic horror movies like "Night of the Living Dead" and "28 Days Later" -- only we have arrived after the invasion has passed by and even the zombies are mostly gone. There are relatively few normal survivors, but the virus is still in the air, claiming victims when it can. When you think about it, that's pretty scary.
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Nov 25, 2009 15:08:42 GMT -6
Post by andrewlee on Nov 25, 2009 15:08:42 GMT -6
I thought this was one of the more interesting episodes because of what you mentioned Atoz. I saw a show about William Shatner and he said that one or 2 of his daughters were in the show, but not the Miri character. It would be strange to be a child for hundreds of years and and very quickly after reaching puberty get sick from a virus, turn into a crazed zombie losing your mind in the process!!!
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Dec 9, 2009 12:09:55 GMT -6
Post by Luke on Dec 9, 2009 12:09:55 GMT -6
It also had a kind of Lord of the FLies feel to it. you know, children left on their own and reverting to savages kind of thing.
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Dec 10, 2009 8:59:08 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 10, 2009 8:59:08 GMT -6
I've never read "Lord of the Flies", but I know what you mean. It has that wild child feel to it.
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Dec 10, 2009 13:14:45 GMT -6
Post by andrewlee on Dec 10, 2009 13:14:45 GMT -6
I read "Lord of the flies" and saw a movie based on it a long time ago. The kids in it lost their civilized ways and turned into savages killing at least one of them who was a bit different than the rest. The kids on the planet were a bit like the ones in "Lord of the flies" being wild , but much extreme in their behaviors!
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Dec 14, 2009 8:54:10 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 14, 2009 8:54:10 GMT -6
The children did seem to have a somewhat tribal society, marginally ruled by the oldest. But even Jon didn't seem to have a lot of control over them. Probably by long practice, he could nudge them in the direction he wanted them to go, but that was about it.
When you think about it, it's surprising that any of them survived at all, considering how much they would have had to learn the hard way with no adults to teach them. How to find drinkable water, how to make fire, how to open cans. Even without worrying about the zombies, thousands must have died from dysentery, food poisoning, or hypothermia. Imagine what their teeth must look like, with no adults to make them brush! On the other hand sugary foods tend to be perishable, and they were probably all eaten up within the first year or two.
But learning ability depends upon the brain's ability to form connections. Children learn fast because their brains are still growing and developing. The virus that slowed their aging presumably also slowed their mental development too, otherwise their brains would have grown faster than their skulls.
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Jan 1, 2010 21:48:34 GMT -6
Post by edify on Jan 1, 2010 21:48:34 GMT -6
I once heard Miri compared to Children of the Corn, but I've never read it so I'm not sure what exactly the correlation is.
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Jan 2, 2010 9:31:26 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Jan 2, 2010 9:31:26 GMT -6
I don't see the connection. In "Children of the Corn", the children were in the thrall of a mystical creature (He who walks behind the rows) who instilled in them a kind of "religous" devotion. That caused them to kill their parents and take over the town. It's basically the opposite of "Miri", when you think about it.
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Jan 2, 2010 15:25:26 GMT -6
Post by edify on Jan 2, 2010 15:25:26 GMT -6
Okay, cool. As I said, I'd never read Children of the Corn, so I had no idea what the correlation would have been. But now I know, and knowing is half the battle.
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Aug 27, 2011 8:09:47 GMT -6
Post by Luke on Aug 27, 2011 8:09:47 GMT -6
I was watching it again last night, and they mentioned at the very beginning that the planet was an EXACT duplicate of Earth. And it wasn't mentioned again. What do you think of that?
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Aug 29, 2011 7:16:02 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 29, 2011 7:16:02 GMT -6
It could be just a coincidence that the landforms were superficially similar to Earth's. Now if they were EXACTLY the same down to the tectonic plates, that raises a big question.
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Aug 31, 2011 11:53:06 GMT -6
Post by Luke on Aug 31, 2011 11:53:06 GMT -6
Mybe Trelane up to his tricks you think?
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Sept 2, 2011 8:06:36 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 2, 2011 8:06:36 GMT -6
I would hope not. I would prefer some kind of natural phenomenon.
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Sept 7, 2011 11:07:14 GMT -6
Post by Luke on Sept 7, 2011 11:07:14 GMT -6
Like a tryolitic reflection of the subspace field which caused a ripple effect and duplicated the Earth hundreds of light years away?
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Sept 9, 2011 7:44:48 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 9, 2011 7:44:48 GMT -6
Hmmm, maybe not that drastic! Seriously I lean toward the idea that it was just a fluke. Out of thousands of planets, one is bound to look superficially like Earth.
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