From the Captain's log - some earlier adventures of the Star-Ship Enterprise on its mission - to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilisations, to go boldly where no man has gone before.

This week: The Deadly Years
The inevitable toll of time, made tolerable only by the passage of years, is abruptly brought to the USS Enterprise within hours in the form of a horrible infection. Captain Kirk was not in the habit of repeating his orders, but that was before his dotage and the disgrace of losing his command.