Miranda Jones

Doctor Miranda Jones is a character from Star Trek: TOS episode Is There in Truth No Beauty?, a blind human with telepathic powers. 
See more information about the character on Memory Alpha.
==Fan Reactions==
Miranda is considered a memorable character by some fans. Some appreciate her as a female character that was unusually complex for Star Trek: The Original Series. This is sometimes attributed to being written by a woman and by a fan (Jean Lisette Aroeste, the writer of Is There in Truth No Beauty?, was a librarian whose unsolicited script got noticed by Robert H. Justman and recommended to Roddenberry). The fans that react more negatively to her cite among their reasons her harsh personality and her attempts to harm Spock; they also think that she has some traces of Mary Sue (for example, because all three leads are fascinated with her and because she studied on Vulcan despite being human).
While Miranda is an early example of a disabled character on TV, this aspect of her and the treatment of her disability in the episode are rarely analysed in the fandom.
Diana Muldaur, the actress who played Miranda, also appeared in other roles in Star Trek: as Dr. Ann Mulhall in The Original Series episode Return to Tomorrow, and, most famously, as Dr. Katherine Pulaski in Star Trek: The Next Generation. This may contribute to some of the attention paid to Miranda's character.
==Fanfiction==
Miranda rarely appears in Star Trek fanfiction. When she does, the story is usually focused on the show regulars (for example, Episode Tag stories set during or immediately after Is There in Truth No Beauty?) Nevertheless, some fics feature Miranda as a main character or one of the main characters.
Stories where Miranda is one of the main characters:
* Miranda by S.L. Anderson in Impulse #1 and #4 (Miranda's backstory)
* Miranda Jones by Jean Lorrah in Furaha #5
* Menage a Trois‎ by Matthew Brown in Alnitah #5 (Spock/Miranda)
* The Thorns Of Truth (Miranda and Kollos thoughts) in Saurian Brandy Digest #31
* Miranda by Wendy White in Emanon #14 
* Truth, Beauty... And Thorns by Gamin Davis in Let Me Help
* There and Back Again by Medie (Miranda Jones/Number One)
* The Beauty of Logic by NewbSombrero (Miranda Jones and Michael Burnham; crossover with Star Trek: Discovery)
* Is There In Truth No Beauty?-revisited by Uhura the 9th
Other stories where Miranda makes an appearance:
* What is Honour? by Doreen Dubois/The UK Group (K/S)
* Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Meg Fine in T'hy'la #5 (K/S; Miranda is Kirk's aunt who raised him)
* Blindness by Virginia Sky in T'hy'la #23 (K/S)
* Dark Matters by Cordelia Naismith in Within the Mirror #15. (K/S, Mirror Universe)
* Vulcanian Moon by WhatAGoodIdeaThisIs (K/S)
* How We Are (but not how we're going to be) by alpha_hydra (K/S, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series)
* Is There in Truth No Beauty?: In Your Dreams by Cheree Cargill
* The Beauty of Truth by Legendofstarlord (Spock/Chapel)
* Shadows and Dust in the Pattern by RenS (crossover with Babylon 5)
==Fanart==
Zine Art
File:Impulse1art1.jpg|Illustration for the story by S.L. Anderson in Impulse #1
File:Alnitah5-7.jpg|A page from Menage a Trois‎ with an illustration by Michael Eason
File:Alt14-3.jpg|"Miranda", poem by Margaret Draper on the back cover of Alnitah #14
Online Art
* Dr. Miranda Jones by anotherminerva
* Doctor Jones by Meowen
* Dr. Miranda Jones Erte by Todosnuestrosayeres
* 7 Deadly Treks - Envy by mylochka
==References==
Category: Star Trek TOS Characters