Title: Beyond the Farthest Star

Season: TAS1

Production Number: ST:ANI 22004

Original Airdate: 9/8/1973

Stardate: 5521.3

Synopsis:

Responding to radio emissions near the edge of the known universe, the U.S.S. Enterprise is dragged off course by Questar M-17, an imploded negative star mass. The Enterprise manages to establish itself in orbit around Questar M-17 and encounters a strange starship inhabited by an evil shapeless alien. Further investigation reveals that the ship's engineers had failed to remove the creature before attempting to destroy their own vessel. Eventually, the creature takes control of the Enterprise. Kirk and Spock devise a plan to steer the U.S.S. Enterprise toward Questar M-17, tricking the creature into believing that the Enterprise will be destroyed. The creature flees for its life while the Enterprise frees itself from Questar's gravity pull by employing the slingshot effect, leaving the creature to orbit forever around the star.

Credits:

Cast: William Shatner as James T. Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock DeForest Kelley as Leonard H. McCoy James Doohan as Montgomery Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Hikaru Sulu Guest Cast: James Doohan as Alien pod ship Commander James Doohan as Malignant alien James Doohan as Engineer James Doohan as Lt. Kyle Creative staff: Written By: Samuel A. Peeples Director: Hal Sutherland