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A distress call led the ''Enterprise'' to the crippled USS Constellation, NCC-1017, nearly destroyed by an ancient planet killer deemed a [[Doomsday machine]]. After the unbalanced [[Commodore]] [[Matt Decker|Matthew Decker]] made a suicide run with a stolen [[shuttlecraft]], Kirk piloted the ''Constellation'' inside the machine, detonating the engines and destroying the device.
Kirk, Spock and McCoy discovered [[Zefram Cochrane]], the inventor of the [[warp drive]], missing for 150 years, on a planetoid, kept alive and young by the [[{{MA|Companion]] |Companion}} energy being. At Cochrane's request, Kirk did not log the encounter.
While visiting a Federation science colony on [[Gamma Hydra IV]], the strange [[radiation]] from a rogue comet affected Kirk and members of his party, causing rapid aging. Kirk's accelerated dotage forced the visiting [[Commodore]] [[Stocker]] to relieve Kirk from command of the ''Enterprise'' until a cure was discovered by Dr. McCoy.
