A fantasy storybook by Benny Russell that Joseph M'Benga reads to his ailing daughter Rukiya, and which a nebula entity brings to life aboard the Enterprise in The Elysian Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Elysian is the favourite book of Rukiya M'Benga, who is kept in a transporter buffer to hold back a terminal illness and let out only briefly for a bedtime story. The cover names its author as Benny Russell. Rukiya dislikes the ending and wishes she could change it.
In The Elysian Kingdom, a first-season episode of Strange New Worlds set in 2259, a consciousness living in the Jonisian Nebula senses the lonely child and remakes the ship as the book. M'Benga becomes King Ridley, and the crew, unaware of who they are, play the other parts: Pike a cowardly chamberlain, Ortegas the knight Sir Adya, Una the huntress Z'ymira, Uhura the villainous Queen Neve.
Only M'Benga and Hemmer keep their memories. The story ends with Rukiya choosing to join the entity, free of her illness.