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.
It 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.
I'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?
I 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 72 at duty stations.
248 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 10 1 3 degrees.
Please confirm.
Spock.
Mr Spock.
- Not for us?
- No, Captain, not for us.
For V'Ger.
I weep for V'Ger
as I would for a brother.
As I was when I 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 I here?"
"What was I meant to be?"
V'Ger hopes to touch its Creator.
To find its answers.
"ls this all that I am?
Is there nothing more?"
Captain?
Forward motion slowing, Captain.
Captain, I believe
that is our destination.
An oxygen gravity envelope
is forming outside the Enterprise.
Forward motion stopped, Captain.
V'Ger.
Sir, I've located the source
of V'Ger's radio signal.
It's directly ahead.
That transmitter is a vital link
between V'Ger and its Creator.
The carbon units will now provide
V'Ger with the required information.
Spock. Bones.
Mr Decker. I will contact you
every five minutes.
Captain.
I'd like to go along.
Mr Sulu, you have the conn.
V'Ger.
V-G-E-R.
V'Ger.
V-O-Y-A-G-E-R.
Voyager!
Voyager Vl?
NASA. National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
Jim, this was launched
more than 300 years ago.
Voyager series.
Designed to collect data,
and transmit it back to Earth.
(electronic pulses)
Captain!
Voyager Vl disappeared into what
they used to call a black hole.
It must have emerged
on the far side of the galaxy.
And fell into the machine planet's
gravitational field.
The machine inhabitants found
it to be one of their own kind.
Primitive yet kindred.
They discovered
its simple 20th-century programming.
Collect all data possible.
Learn all that is learnable.
Return that information
to its Creator.
(Spock) Precisely, Mr Decker.
The machines
interpreted it literally.
They built this entire vessel so
Voyager could fulfil its programming.
And on its journey back,
it amassed so much knowledge,
it achieved consciousness itself.
It became a living thing.
(electronic pulses)
Kirk unit.
V'Ger awaits the information.
Enterprise, order up the ship's
computer library of records
on the late 20th-century NASA probe,
Voyager Vl.
We want