A gentle ballad of love and the stars sung by Nyota Uhura aboard the Enterprise, heard in two episodes of the original series.
Beyond Antares is a song associated with Uhura. Its words speak of skies and a love waiting beyond the star Antares, and it is the best known of the pieces she performs during the original series.
She sings it in The Conscience of the King, over the intercom, to keep Lieutenant Kevin Riley company while he stands a lonely watch in engineering. During the song an unseen hand poisons his drink. She is humming it again on the bridge in The Changeling when the probe Nomad, curious about what it calls an inefficient form of communication, investigates and wipes her memory.
The song was written for the series, with lyrics by the producer Gene L. Coon. It is one of several musical moments given to Nichelle Nichols, along with her songs in Charlie X.