Beyond Antares " Beyond Antares " was a 23rd century love song . Lieutenant Uhura was fond of the song , and sang it on a couple of occasions while serving on the . ( ) When she performed the song in the rec room in 2266 , she accompanied herself on a Vulcan lute . ( ) Lyrics . < poem > The skies are green and glowing , Where my heart is , where my heart is , Where the scented lunar flower is blooming : Somewhere , beyond the star s . . . Beyond . I ' ll be back , though it takes forever . Forever is just a day . Forever is just another journey . Tomorrow a stop along the way . Then let the years go fading , Where my heart is , where my heart is , Where my love eternally is waiting Somewhere , beyond the stars . . . Beyond Antares . < / poem > Appendices . Background information . The music for this song was written by Wilbur Hatch with lyrics by Gene L . Coon . ( ) On screen , the song was sung by Uhura actress Nichelle Nichols and featured a backing track that included piano , played by Marl Young , harp , played by Catherine Gotthoffer , and guitar , played by Laurindo Almeida . In the final revised draft script of " The Conscience of the King " , " Beyond Antares " was characterized as " " a strange , soft , delicate love song borne in the depths of space . . . love and loneliness and vast distances , with poignant memories . " " The teleplay also notated the song ' s lyrics . In the episode , the song was scripted to be sung " softly " with " beautiful " music . Originally , this song was to have included an extra verse , between the first verse and the verse which ultimately became the second one . The lyrics of this verse ( from the final revised draft script of " The Conscience of the King " ) were as follows : < poem > There waits my love , a - sleep ing , Where my heart is , where my heart is , Where the great blue crane its watch is keeping , Somewhere , beyond the stars . . . Beyond Antares . < / poem > In the aforementioned script for " The Conscience of the King " , the only other change from the on - screen lyrics was that Uhura described " the scented lunar flower " as " growing , " rather than " blooming . " Nichelle Nichols once described this song as " a very ethereal thing " and went on to say , " " We had a rendition of it that was out of sight , but it was too now , too hip . It had just the tinge of sultriness and it could have gone wrong [ . . . ] I should have recorded it . Anyway , when I took it just a little lower , it had a throaty quality . " " Nichols thoroughly enjoyed the process of recording the song . " " What was marvelous about it was that we had Laurindo Almeida and full accompaniment , " " Nichols enthused . She also described Almeida ' s guitar background as " beautiful beautiful . " ( " The World of Star Trek " , 3rd ed . , p . 114 ) An alternate version of this song , from " The Conscience of the King " , is included as part of the featurette " Swept Up : Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor " , in the Blu - ray Disc release " " . Whereas the version of the song in the final edit of the episode intermittently cuts away from Uhura , the camera stays on her in the alternate version , which also includes the song ' s extra verse . An instrumental rendition of the song additionally appeared on Leonard Nimoy ' s album titled .