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Star Trek: The Animated Series :: Beyond the Farthest Star (01x01)

Episode Information

Title:

Beyond the Farthest Star

Episode #:

01x01

Production Number:

22004

Original Airdate:

Saturday September 08th, 1973

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Episode Crew
Director:	Hal Sutherland
Writer:	Samuel A. Peeples

Episode Summary

Stardate: 5221.3
The Enterprise discovers an ancient derelict alien ship orbiting a dead star. Upon investigation they discover that the crew destroyed themselves, rather than letting a malignant alien escape the dead star.

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English Recap Available: View Here

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•James Doohan	voiced	Transporter Chief Kyle, Pod Ship Commander, Engineer, Malignant Alien	Recurring (first appearance)

Main Cast

•William Shatner	voiced	Captain James Tiberius Kirk
•Leonard Nimoy	voiced	Commander Spock
•DeForest Kelley	voiced	Dr. Leonard Horatio "Bones" McCoy
•James Doohan	voiced	Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Lt. Arex
•Nichelle Nichols	voiced	Lt. Uhura
•George Takei	voiced	Lt. Hikaru Sulu

Episode Notes

This episode aired exactly seven years after the first episode of the original series aired.

The huge alien ship and the bridge defense system were too cost prohibitive to include in the live action series.

Episode Quotes

Uhura: It's beautiful. What kind of people could have built it? To touch even a starship with grace and beauty?
Kirk: A civilization that advanced 300 million years ago before life even emerged on Earth.
McCoy: Barely an instant in eternity, Jim.

McCoy: Gives me the creeps. I feel like something's watching us.
Scotty: I feel it too, Captain.
Spock: A physiological symptom of latent primal superstition, the fear of primitive people confronting something unknown to them.
Kirk: Compared to the beings that built this ship, we are primitive people, even you, Mr. Spock.

Scotty: But nothing, no form of life could survive 300 million years.
Spock: Quite right, Mr. Scott. No known form of life.

Other Episode Crew

• Creator	Gene Roddenberry
• Producer	Lou Scheimer \| Norm Prescott
• Associate Producer	D. C. Fontana
• Story Editor	D. C. Fontana
• Art Director	Don Christensen
• Supervising Director	Hal Sutherland
• Production Manager	Rock Benedetto
• Executive Consultant	Gene Roddenberry
• Special Effects	Reuben Timmins

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