The asteroid home of the Vedala, the oldest spacefaring people known, where Kirk and Spock are summoned to join a secret expedition in The Jihad.
The Vedala asteroid is where the Animated Series episode The Jihad opens. The Vedala are a cat-like people said to be the oldest spacefaring race known, with powers far ahead of the Federation's, and one of them has called a group of specialists to their small home in space.
Those chosen are Kirk and Spock, the Skorr prince Tchar, the big reptilian Sord, the nervous lock-picker Em/3/Green and the human huntress Lara. The Vedala explains that the Soul of the Skorr, a sculpture holding the brain patterns of the teacher Alar, has been stolen, and that the winged Skorr will launch a holy war across the galaxy unless it is quietly returned.
The Vedala sends the party to a wildly unstable planet where the object is hidden, and at the end wipes the affair from all memories but theirs.