"Beyond the Farthest Star" is the pilot episode and series premiere of the animated American science fiction television series Star Trek. This series premiere episode first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup at 10:30 a.m. on September 8, 1973, seven years to the day after the series premiere of the live action series which started the franchise. It was written by American author and script writer Samuel A. Peeples who had also written the Original Series second pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before".