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No, Captain, not for us... for V'ger.
Has not, Doctor and now, because of what we are planning... will not...
There is no alternative.
Captain, the orbital device will not be triggered for twentytwo minutes...
The point...
The point is, Captain, <U>twentytwo</U>
V'ger plans to literally <U>meld</U> to reduce both itself and the Creator to patterns...
... and then to reassemble itself <U>combined</U> with the Creator. The most certain way of obtaining all the Creator's answers.
There's no way to know. V'ger expected it to be a machine some single entity. All of us here may be reduced into patterns...
That seems to be what it has planned to have the Creator physically present here.
Spock, we <U>were</U> its answer!
Yes, Captain. It needed our mortality, the fear of it, our struggle against it, our fears, our dreams...
... and the 'foolish' emotions which drive us?
I prefer your poet Dante's phrase 'the divine restlessness of the human spirit.'
Admiral, I've been hoping to see you. Maybe you can get through to those thick heads in Starfleet that...
Why aren't the Enterprise transporters in operation, Mister Scott?
We're hoping it's only a temporary problem, Admiral...
See that it is. Take me over, please.
Admiral, the Enterprise has just finished eighteen months redesign ing and refitting. She needs testing, a shakedown...
Mr. Scott, there's an alien object with unbelievable destructive power less than three days away from this planet...
The crew hasn't had near enough transition time with all the new equipment. And the engines, Admiral: they've yet to be even tested at warp power. Add to that, an untried Captain...
Two and a half years as Chief of Starfleet Operations may have made me a little stale, Mr. Scott but I wouldn't exactly consider myself 'untried.'
We're losing the pattern...!
Starfleet, boost your matter gain; we need more signal!
I appreciate the welcome; I wish the circumstances were less critical. Epsilon Nine is monitoring the intruder; keep a channel open to them. Where is Captain Decker?
He's in Engineering, sir... He doesn't know.
Maneuvering thrusters, Mister Sulu.
Maneuvering thrusters, sir.
Hold station.
Thrusters at stationkeeping, sir.
Ahead Warp One, Mr Sulu.
Accelerating to Warp One, sir.
Mr. Sulu, steady as she goes.
Aye, sir.
Reduce magnification. Factor 4, Mr. Sulu.
We're already two settings below that, sir.
Adjust parallel course, Navigator. Bring us in to one hundred kilometers distance.
One hundred kilometers...
Hold relative position here...
Viewer ahead.
Viewer ahead, sir.
Maneuvering thrusters, Mr. Sulu; ahead one third. Full sensor scan, Mr. Spock; they can't expect us <U>not</U> to look them over now!
Thrusters ahead, one third.
Hold station...!
Thrusters at station keeping...
Clear the bridge, Captain...?
That was the order, Mr. Sulu: Clear the bridge.
Lieutenant Ilia reporting for duty, sir.
Welcome aboard, Lieutenant.
'Commander' Decker?
Our Exec and Science Officer...
And in you, too, Lieutenant.
My oath of celibacy is on record Captain. May I assume my duties?
Time to impact...?
Twelve seconds...!
Mr. Chekov, stand by on the phasers...!
Five minutes to Cloud boundary!
I stand corrected Mr. Decker. Navigator, lay in a conic section flight path into the cloud center; bring us parallel to whatever we find in there...
Mr. Spock?
Impact in fifteen seconds...
Transmit, Mr. Spock! Now!
Ten seconds....
Thirty seconds to Cloud boundary...
Opinion, Mister. Spock?
Fifteen seconds to Cloud Boundary.
Viewer, standard ahead.
Hello, Ilia.
Decker....!
I now the Captain meant no person al insult.
I would never take advantage of a sexually immature species. You can assure him that's true, can't you?
Negative control from inertial lag will continue 22 point five seconds before forward velocity slows to sublight speed.
Unidentified small object has been pulled into the wormhole with us, Captain! Directly ahead...!
Navigational deflectors inoperative...! Directional control also inoperative, Captain...!
Wormhole distortion has over loaded main power systems...!
Was he difficult?
No more than I expected Not as difficult as this. I'm sorry...
That you left? or that you didn't say 'goodbye'?
If I'd seen you again, would you have been able to say it?
No.
They may have attacked only as a warning to us, Captain. To keep away.
That would presuppose a feeling, Commander... compassion. I sensed <U>no</U> emotion, only... ... pure logic.
We could have cut it off at the main computer...
This served the purpose.
Captain... this probe may be a key a key to the Aliens.
It's a programmed <U>mechanism</U>, Mr. Spock...
We have just seen that its body duplicates our navigator in <U>precise</U> detail. Suppose that beneath its programming, the real Ilia's memory patterns are duplicated with equal precision.
Exactly. And you did have a 'relationship' with Lieutenant Ilia, Commander.
That probe in there in a different form now is the same thing that <U>killed</U> Ilia!
Then V'ger believes the Creator to be a <U>machine</U> too.
It seems we <U>all</U> imagine God in our own image.
Forward motion, Captain...!
A tractor beam...
Mr. Spock, what would V'ger need to fulfill itself?
V'ger has begun to understand the true limits of our universe, thereby realizing the existence of other dimensions. To fulfill itself it must evolve to a higher dimension; V'ger believes this can be achieved only by joining with the Creator.
That transmitter is a vital link between V'ger and the Creator.
We have twentyone minutes. Captain, we can still save V'ger... and ourselves.
Jim... he <U>wants</U> it.
You got the Enterprise, it's what <U>you</U> wanted. This is what I want. But, Jim... ... <U>I'm</U> the right choice for this mission.
I'm taking over the Center seat. I'm sorry, Will.
You are what...?