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I am not looking forward to the day when it somehow returns, starts blowing up star ships, ultimately taking over one of them, and tries to seduce the crew
by lvspiff 9y ago
I am not looking forward to the day when it somehow returns, starts blowing up star ships, ultimately taking over one of them, and tries to seduce the crew
- Cshelton 9y agoThat's actually a great movie plot, not sure if it has been done before. Not with Voyager, but for example: The year is 2243; a spacecraft that humans sent out of the solar system on a one way trip launched in 2045, has once again come into contact unexpectedly and is re-entering our solar system. The system seems to have been updated and is sending information that would have not existed when it was launched and is potentially foreign tech in 2243. This ship was never supposed to come back... Edit: Ok, I have admittedly not seen the first Star Trek movie.. I probably should =p
- throwanem 9y agoUpvoted purely because I love the fact that there's someone here who hasn't seen ST:TMP. (And you needn't bother, honestly. It's the franchise's answer to 2001, put together by people who didn't really get what made 2001 great. If, like me, you can't get enough absurdly prolonged sequences of old-school practical model effects in effectively static poses, then you'll love it to pieces, but otherwise...)
- abe_duarte 9y agoGreat!
- snerbles 9y agoSpoilers below: You just described the plot of the first Star Trek film. Even better, it was a Voyager probe (a fictional Voyager 6) that was augmented by alien machine intelligence and returned to Earth.
- dabockster 9y agoMore spoilers below: > alien machine intelligence The Borg.
- throwanem 9y agoThat's fanon. Yeah, I sort of like the idea too, and yeah, Goldsmith to some extent may have styled the First Contact Borg leitmotif after V'ger's from TMP, and yeah, maybe he did that deliberately, and yeah, somebody's friend of a friend said that Gene Roddenberry once coughed in a way that could be interpreted as suggesting he'd had in mind the Borg creating V'ger all along - but it's fanon all the same. (Me, I like Ron Jones's theme from The Best of Both Worlds a lot better, anyway...)
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoThe connection to the Borg isn't cannonical. Though Star Trek's cannon has gotten extremely messy in recent years.
- ephimetheus 9y agoThat is basically the exact plot of the very first Star Trek movie
- jacquesm 9y agoHere's another one for you: Rather belatedly the human race realizes - after decoding some interstellar video - that the Voyager's trajectory will bring it sooner or later into contact with a race whose sole mission is to eradicate all other intelligent life. The Voyager's creators helpfully adding a map indicating its origins prompt the recall of the century: launch a mission to overtake both Voyagers and to capture them and bring them back before they are discovered. Working title: Recall
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- hota_mazi 9y agoThat's actually the plot of the first Star Trek movie (without the seduction part). [Spoiler below, hopefully not a huge deal for an almost forty year old movie) Voyager returns under the name v-ger.
- fao_ 9y agoI think that was the joke that GP was alluding to :)
- rainbowmverse 9y agoPretty sure that's the joke.
- jcims 9y agoBack in the early 90's I wondered why so many Unix boxes had 'vger' in their name. Not until this year, when I watched the original Star Trek with my youngest, did I realize what it was all about. Sad thing is I saw the movie in the theater when it was first released...just didn't put the two together.
- TallGuyShort 9y ago> without the seduction part I have a vague recollection of the humanoid that V'ger hijacked to serve as a voice being romantically involved with the original captain that Kirk replaced, and that relationship being exploited and becoming a plot element later. So I think there was some going on...
- tragomaskhalos 9y agoLucky then that the second Voyager gets blown up by a wildly overacting humanoid alien with mad hair
- opdahl 9y agoOr start cheering for nationspanning American football games with other santient probes.
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- zurp 9y agoThis is cool. Thanks.
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoWhat....what is this? New plan for the evening...
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- amyjess 9y agoI discovered this thanks to you. I'm still reading it, but I just wanted to thank you. This is brilliant stuff.
- peterjlee 9y agoI can see a Gravity Gate happening when Andromeda Patriots tweak the Earth gravity simulator of their home stadium to gain an advantage.
- QAPereo 9y agoMore like Singer flings a Dual-Vector Foil at us...