Miri

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Miri was born on the Earth-like planet, Miri's homeworld, in 1955. Due to a life-prolongation experiment being conducted on the planet around the time of her birth, all the children on the planet had greatly increased life-spans, while all of the adults perished.

When the USS Enterprise arrived in orbit in 2266, Miri was over 300 years old. When the landing party encountered Miri she was very frightened of the grups, but later developed a liking to the humans and an attraction to Captain James T. Kirk. Because of Miri's position of respect for caring for the younger "onlies" on the planet, she was able to convince the children to trust the Enterprise landing party and allow them to develop a cure for the life-prolongation drugs that were killing them. (TOS episode: "Miri").

When the Enterprise left the planet, they left behind a team of experts to educate the "onlies" and help them to assimilate to a new way of life, with Miri's support and guidance. However, the cure for the life-prolongation didn't work on the children as well as on adults, and Miri died a few years later after she reached puberty. Her death led to one of her oldest friends, Jahn, seeking to avenge her death against the Federation. (TOS novel: The Cry of the Onlies).

Because of her young age (and their friendship was out of desperation and necessity-to get her peers to "clicque" with the adults), Miri may not fall under the Kirk's women category. However, as she matured in the episode she felt attracted to James T. Kirk, her mentor. Also, a 1995 TV Guide issue featured actress Kim Darby (who played Miri) as the many female acquaintances known to William Shatner's Star Trek role.

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• Miri article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.