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V'ger (Vejur in the novelization by Gene Roddenberry) is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. Given life by a race of living machines, V'ger is a sentient being that evolved from Voyager 6, a space probe from the 20th Century that vanished into a black hole. The story of V'ger and its return to earth to seek "the creator" forms the plot for the first feature film in the Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, however V'ger's story is also expanded upon in novelisation, most notably William Shatner's The Return. In this and other works, both non-canon and canon, speculate that V'ger is a creation of, or the creator of the Borg, a race of cybernetic creatures later featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ...
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(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount Pictures, 1979; see also 1979 in film) is the first feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series and is released on Friday, December 7. ...
William Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. ...
The Return is a novel by William Shatner that was co-authored by Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens. ...
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V'ger's journey
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Admiral James T. Kirk is assigned to his old ship, the USS Enterprise, in order to intercept a mysterious cloud approaching the Solar System. The Enterprise finally reaches the core of this cloud, and, through the assimilation of crew member Lt. Ilia by the cloud, Kirk and his crew discover it refers to itself as V'ger and wants to "bond with its Creator". Commander Spock, the Enterprise's Science Officer, then dons a spacesuit, exits the Enterprise and moves into V'ger's holographic memory chambers, where he sees a history of V'ger's journey. Kirk, Spock and the other senior crew do not learn that V'ger is in fact the human space probe Voyager 6 until they walk up to it at the film's climax. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount Pictures, 1979; see also 1979 in film) is the first feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series and is released on Friday, December 7. ...
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James Tiberius Kirk, played by William Shatner, is the main character in the original Star Trek television series and the films based on it. ...
The USS Enterprise, (NCC-1701) is a fictional starship in the television series Star Trek, which chronicles the vessels most famous assignment, its Five-Year mission. ...
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Lieutenant Ilia was a proposed character on the cancelled Star Trek: Phase II series. ...
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They then deduce that, having disappeared during its original mission, Voyager 6 was discovered by sentient mechanical life forms, who, assuming it was an artificial intelligence like themselves, "repaired" it and constructed an enormous ship (the cloud) so that it could complete the mission embedded in its memory banks: Learn all that is learnable. Transmit that information back to the Creator. While on the way back to the Creator's planet (Earth), the knowledge V'ger records leads it to develop consciousness. Garry Kasparov playing against Deep Blue, the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion. ...
As its journey nears its end, V'ger has a crisis of faith, wanting to see the Creator and learn if there is nothing more to its existence than seeking information and bringing it back to the Creator. In this respect, it is an allegory of the search for God by humankind. However, when it first comes into contact with the Enterprise, V'ger refuses to accept humans as "true life forms", to which First Officer Willard Decker replies: "We all create God in our own image." Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi. ...
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In the Star Trek universe, Willard Decker (played by Stephen Collins) was briefly captain of the USS Enterprise after its refit in 2270. ...
Spock recognizes that despite its age and experience, V'ger is immature, like a child. He recommends to Kirk that it be treated as such, despite its awesome power. After V'ger states it will "remove the infestation on the Creator's planet"—in other words, humankind—by destroying its surface, Kirk plays on its instinctive want and need for its Creator with this gambit: he tells it he knows why the Creator does not respond to V'ger's repeated calls. He tells the assimilated Lt. Ilia, however, that he will only disclose this information to V'ger directly.
 An artist's concept of the real life Voyager in flight. According to NASA, all spacecraft of the Voyager program were to be identical. [1] Kirk, Spock, McCoy, the Ilia probe, and Decker are permitted to enter V'ger's central core, where they find the ancient Voyager 6 satellite and realize they can trigger its radio transmitter, thereby proving that humankind is V'ger's 'Creator'. V'ger, however, wants to join with its Creator in order to experience levels of understanding and being beyond its cold, logical mind. Decker volunteers, and the two fuse into one as V'ger enters into a higher plane of existance. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1810x1496, 1906 KB) Artists concept of Voyager in flight source: http://solarsystem. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1810x1496, 1906 KB) Artists concept of Voyager in flight source: http://solarsystem. ...
Dr. Leonard H. McCoy (nicknamed Bones), played by DeForest Kelley, is a character in the original Star Trek series, and the first six Star Trek films. ...
Other references Three novels authored by William Shatner and set after the events of Star Trek: Generations propose that the mechanical race that V'ger encounters are in fact the Borg, a society of cyborgs that feature prominently in Star Trek: The Next Generation and later series and films. These novels, however, have not been acknowledged by Paramount as canon, and according to series canon it is unlikely that the Borg would have been responsible for the creation of V'ger. Star Trek: Generations (Paramount Pictures, 1994, see also 1994 in film) is the seventh feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...
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In contrast to Shatner's novels, the game Star Trek: Legacy states that the origin of the Borg is in fact V'ger, which created them to further its goal of the assimilation of knowledge.
The original Star Trek Encyclopedia does reference that Gene Roddenberry intended the "planet of living machines" that V'ger encountered on its journey to be, in fact, the Borg homeworld. The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future is an encyclopedia of all things related to Star Trek. ...
In the animated television series Futurama, a "Plymouth V'ger" is featured in a commercial for Malfunctioning Eddies' Rocket Car Emporium, punning on the similarly-named automobile, the Plymouth Voyager. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ...
The Plymouth Voyager and Plymouth Grand Voyager were minivans marketed by DaimlerChrysler (they were sold by the Chrysler Corporation until 1998). ...
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