STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES
Season 1, Episode 1
Season 1, Episode 1
Beyond the Farthest Star
Series: Star Trek: The Animated Series - (1973-1974)
Season: 1
Episode #: 1
Production #: 22004
Original Airdate: 09/08/1973
Writer(s): Samuel A. Peeples
Director(s): Hal Sutherland
Guest Stars
James Doohan as Lt. Kyle
James Doohan as the Ancient Insectoid
James Doohan as the Magnetic Organism
James Doohan as the Sciences Engineer
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.
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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.
