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#62: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 1 "Beyond the Farthest Star"
Written by Samuel A. Peeples, directed by Hal Sutherland.
Stardates 5221.3 through 5221.9 (late 2268 to early 2269)
"You are protected only for this moment in this room." - unnamed alien
The Enterprise is on a starcharting mission when it gets caught in the gravity well of a dead star. Lieutenant Sulu manages to pull the ship into an orbit around the negative mass of energy. There, a fantastically large and damaged alien ship comes into view. It registers as completely dead, so Captain Kirk and a team beam aboard to survey it. They find that all of the damage to the ship seems to be self-inflicted and make their way to a control room with an automated message waiting to be played back As they are presented with a warning that some malevolent force is hiding on the ship and that the crew intentionally disabled and abandoned their ship here to precent it from escaping, an unknown forces starts to break down the door.
Originally released: 8 September 1973
"Beyond the Farthest Star" on Memory Alpha (mirror)
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One of my favorite sci-fi concepts is finding a big deserted alien ship floating in space. Almost as good as the sci-fi-isekai of getting beamed into a prism to live the average life of an alien before being returned back to your own life without any time passing.