Over twenty years later, on stardate 6527.5, in the late 2260s, the USS Enterprise detected a USS Rickover shuttlecraft moving towards them about eleven light years from the last reported location of the Rickover. On board was Thomas Clayton, a space traveler who had gone missing in the early 2260s, about five-years later. It was revealed that the shuttlecraft and Mr. Clayton (who had degenerated into a raving madman who claimed he was Jesus Christ) had approached Enterprise from a Dyson sphere named Lyra. The controller of Lyra was an intelligence named Ay-nab that lived in the sphere's sun, and had "collected" many earlier expeditions. The Rickover crew, along with Clayton and Alhamisi Uhura, were all kept in a zombie-like state of near-death and madness by Ay-nab. (TOS novel: The Starle