Whom Gods Destroy (Star Trek: The Original Series) during the initial run in 1971 and was not shown until a repeat run in January 1994. In the episode, Captain Kirk faces off with a demented shape-shifting starship captain determined to control the universe. On stardate 5718.3, the Federation starship USS "Enterprise" arrives at the planet Elba II, home to a Federation facility for the criminally insane, carrying a shipment of a new medication. Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock beam down with the shipment and meet the facility director Donald Cory (Keye Luke). He gives them a brief tour, where one of the inmates, an Orion female named
Starship Enterprise D. Moore noted in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual" that real-life naval tradition would insist on calling such a craft the captain's gig, rather than the captain's yacht. Rick Sternbach later designed similar craft for USS "Voyager" and USS "Equinox", known as the aeroshuttle and the waverider, respectively. As on the "Enterprise"-D, however, these vessels were only depicted on technical schematics and never seen in operation or referred to in dialog. "Time" described each iteration of the "Enterprise" as "a character in its own right". Over many decades, the starship has influenced real-life activities of NASA and