Voyager 1 isn’t headed directly towards any star, and it doesn’t have enough fuel to change its course to visit any of the stars it will pass closest to. It barely has enough fuel to keep its radio antenna pointed towards Earth. It may pass close to cometary objects in the Oort cloud, but they are too far away and too small for us to know where any of them are, so we cannot direct Voyager towards them.
Wikipedia says this about Voyager 1’s future:
Voyager 1 is expected to reach the theorized Oort cloud in about 300 years and take about 30,000 years to pass through it. Though it is not heading towards any particular star, in about 40,000 years, it will pass within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445, which is at present in the constellation Camelopardalis. That star is generally moving towards the Solar System at about 119 km/s (430,000 km/h; 270,000 mph). NASA says that “The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way.” In 300,000 years it will pass within less than 1 light year of the M3V star TYC 3135-52-1.
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