Neverland

Neverland is the fictional island and dream world featured in the play Peter Pan by Scottish writer J. M. Barrie and subsequent novel Peter and Wendy. While sojourning in Neverland, people may cease to age; therefore, Neverland is often seen as a metaphor for eternal childhood and immortality. In the earliest drafts of Barrie's play, the island was called Peter's Never Never Never Land, a name possibly influenced by the contemporary term for outback Australia. When the play was performed, the island was referred to as the Never Never Land. In the published play, it was shortened to the Never Land. In the novel, it was spelled as one word: the Neverland.

Peter led Wendy Darling and her brothers to Neverland by flying "second to the right, and straight on till morning," though it is stated in the novel that Peter made up these directions on the spot for a voyage that he made intuitively. In the 1953 Disney film, Peter Pan, the word "star" is added to the directions Peter speaks, "second star to the right, and straight on till morning." This reference is made time and again in Star Trek. (DS9 short story: "Second star to the right...")