American journalist turned television writer who wrote Miri, the first-season original Star Trek episode about a planet of centuries-old children.
Adrian Spies was a former newspaperman who became a busy television dramatist from the 1950s, writing for anthology programmes and for series such as Dr. Kildare and Hawaii Five-O.
His one Star Trek script is Miri. The Enterprise answers a distress call from a duplicate of Earth where a life-prolongation experiment killed every adult three hundred years earlier and left the children ageing a month each century, only to sicken and die at puberty. Kirk's landing party contracts the disease and must win over the wary children, led by Jahn and the adolescent Miri, while McCoy races to find a vaccine.
Kim Darby and Michael J. Pollard played the principal guest roles.