not answered.
The carbon-unit infestation
is to be removed from the planet.
- Why?
- You infest Enterprise.
You interfere with the Creator
in the same manner.
Carbon units are not an infestation.
They are... a natural function
of the Creator`s planet.
- They are living things.
- They are not true life forms.
Only the Creator and other
similar life forms are true.
Similar life forms.
Jim, V`Ger is saying its Creator
is a machine.
Machine!
Captain.
V`Ger is a child.
l suggest you treat her as such.
- A child?
- Yes, Captain. A child.
Evolving, learning, searching.
- lnstinctively needing.
- Needing what?
Spock! This child is about to wipe
out every living thing on Earth!
What do you suggest we do? Spank it?
lt knows only that it needs,
Commander.
But, like so many of us,
it does not know what.
The carbon units know why
the Creator has not responded.
Disclose the information.
Not until V`Ger withdraws the devices
orbiting the third planet.
Captain!
l`m losing Starfleet!
lnterference from V`Ger.
Kirk unit, disclose the information.
Why has the Creator not responded?
No.
Secure all stations.
Clear the bridge.
Clear the bridge, Captain?
That was the order. Clear the bridge.
Your child is having a tantrum,
Mr Spock.
V`Ger requires the information.
Bridge! Secure all stations.
Move out.
Jim, what the hell
kind of strategy is this?
Ship`s functions going to automatic.
lf V`Ger destroys the Enterprise,
the information will be destroyed.
lt is illogical to withhold
required information.
Kirk unit!
Why do you not disclose information?
V`Ger will destroy the carbon units
on the third planet.
They repressed the Creator.
The information
will not be disclosed!
V`Ger needs the information.
Then V`Ger must withdraw
all the orbiting devices.
V`Ger will comply, if the carbon
units will disclose the information.
lt learns fast, doesn`t it?
Captain, the vessel, V`Ger,
obviously operates
from a central brain complex.
The orbiting devices
are controlled from that point.
Precisely.
The information
cannot be disclosed to V`Ger`s probe.
But only to V`Ger, directly.
- Forward motion, Captain.
- Tractor beam.
Captain, what`s the next move?
The question is, Mr Decker,
is there a next move?
Resume duty stations.
All personnel, resume stations.
Well, Mr Decker,
it seems my bluff has been called.
l`m afraid our hand is weak, Captain.
Mr Chekov, when do those devices
reach final position?
27 minutes. Mark.
- Engineering.
- Scott here.
Mr Scott, be prepared to execute
Starfleet order 2005.
When, sir?
- On my command.
- Aye, sir.
Why has the Captain ordered
self-destruct, sir?
l would say, lass, because he thinks,
he hopes, that when we go up,
we`ll take the intruder with us.
Will we?
When that much matter and antimatter
are brought together, yes, indeed.
1 8 minutes to device activation, sir.
Give me an all-decks read-out.
Starfleet has been apprised
of our situation, Captain.
Crew status is 1 7 2 at duty stations.
2 48 off duty.
1 1 in sickbay, all minor. Over.
Tractor beam remains constant.
We are 1 7 kilometres
inside the vessel.
Engineering, show me your readings.
Deck four, that temperature
should read 1 0 1 3 degrees.
Please confirm.
- Not for us?
- No, Captain, not for us.
For V`Ger.
l weep for V`Ger
as l would for a brother.
As l was when l came aboard,
so is V`Ger now.
Empty, incomplete and searching.
Logic and knowledge are not enough.
Spock, are you saying you found
what you needed, but V`Ger hasn`t?
What would V`Ger need
to fulfil itself?
Each of us, at some time
in our lives, turns to someone.
A father, a brother, a god, and asks,
``Why am l here?``
``What was l meant to be?``
V`Ger hopes to touch its Creator.
To find its answers.
``ls this all that l am?
ls there nothing more?``
Captain?
Forward motion slowing, Captain.
Captain, l believe
that is our destination.
An oxygen gravity envelope
is