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The Changeling

• Episode aired Sep 29, 1967

A powerful artificially intelligent Earth probe, with a murderously twisted imperative, comes aboard the Enterprise and mistakes Capt. Kirk for its creator. A powerful artificially intelligent Earth probe, with a murderously twisted imperative, comes aboard the Enterprise and mistakes Capt. Kirk for its creator. A powerful artificially intelligent Earth probe, with a murderously twisted imperative, comes aboard the Enterprise and mistakes Capt. Kirk for its creator.

• Marc Daniels
• Gene Roddenberry
• John Meredyth Lucas
• William Shatner
• Leonard Nimoy
• DeForest Kelley
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• Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk

• Mister Spock

• Christine Chapel

• (as Blaisdel Makee)
• Security Guard

• Lieutenant Hadley
• (uncredited)
• Prof. Jackson Roykirk
• Operations Division Lieutenant
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• Trivia The biographical photo of scientist Jackson Roykirk is of the director Marc Daniels wearing Scotty's dress uniform.
• Goofs When Nomad is firing at the Enterprise, Spock states that Nomad is 90,000 kilometers away, and that the energy bolts are moving at warp 15. At that distance, even if they were moving at warp 1, their impact would be virtually instantaneous.

Capt. Kirk : [of Uhura] What d'you do to her?

Nomad : That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me.

Spock : That "unit" is a woman.

Nomad : A mass of conflicting impulses.

• Alternate versions Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
• Connections Featured in Mr. Plinkett's Star Trek 2009 Review (2010)
• Soundtracks Theme Music credited to Alexander Courage . Sung by Loulie Jean Norman

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• Jan 8, 2017
• September 29, 1967 (United States)
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Character Analysis

Despite V'Ger's penchant for wanton destruction, we can't help but like the little weirdo. It might be acting out, but we can certainly relate to the feeling of not knowing what you need, but simply knowing that you need something .

It's kind of like every time we stand in front of a vending machine. We don't know if we need Doritos or Skittles…we just know that we need.

Started From the Bottom

In a way, V'Ger has a classic rags-to-riches tale. Born Voyager VI, a poor unmanned space probe from the planet Earth, it was caught in a black hole before being saved by a society of sentient machines.

And these guys didn't just nurse him back to health—they gave him a major upgrade. From there, V'Ger continued its travels, now armed with this pesky thing called "self-awareness" and an overwhelming desire to reunite with its Creator.

That's about when the movie starts. If we accept Spock's claim that V'Ger is nothing more than a "child," then its destruction seems a lot like a temper tantrum. It's a way to get attention.

Like a tween experiencing the blinding rage of hormones, V'Ger is no longer content with simply doing what it's told. It wants to understand why .

Learning the Ropes

What's more, V'Ger doesn't seem to understand these strange biological creatures it keeps encountering—they're nothing like the form of life it's used to. So you can understand its shock when it discovers that humanity is its Creator. How is V'Ger supposed to comprehend that with all of its "pure logic?"

As it turns out, the answer is "by merging with humanity." This presents a bold leap forward for V'Ger—an entity that's no stranger to bold leaps. From unmanned probe to self-aware machine to robot-human hybrid, V'Ger is making moves and rising up the pecking order in the universe.

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"v'ger protocols engaged": star trek's motion picture villain changed starfleet forever.

V'Ger, the villain of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, has left a lasting mark on Starfleet, as seen when a comparable threat heads for Earth.

Warning: contains spoilers for Star Trek #6! V'Ger, the "villain" of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , has left a long-lasting impression on Starfleet and the Federation. In IDW Publishing’s Star Trek #6 , the God City of T'Kon , awakened from a long slumber, is on a collision course for Earth - where it plans to destroy the planet. As the threat approaches, Starfleet mobilizes the fleet, and readers learn of the existence of the "V'Ger Protocols," created for situations just like this.

The text piece does not reveal the V'Ger Protocols in their entirety, but it does share enough details to see they're extreme. When the V'Ger Protocols are enacted, all ships are recalled and all missions canceled; the briefing singles out peacekeeping and research missions. These two types are extremely common for Starfleet vessels, so to suspend them speaks volumes to the wide-ranging nature of the V'Ger Protocols. The V'Ger Protocols are so dire that it takes no one less than the Federation President to enact them.

Starfleet's V'Ger Protocols Are Extreme

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Star Trek made a triumphant return in 1979 with its first full-length feature film, and the crew of the Enterprise were given a movie-sized villain in V'Ger . The movie begins with V’Ger destroying three Klingon ships, and Starfleet learns it's on a direct course for Earth. Kirk and the Enterprise intercept the alien, and learn the truth of its origin: it was once a Voyager satellite that had fallen into a black hole. It emerged in a distant sector of the universe, near a planet of machine beings.

Seeing a kindred spirit, the machine aliens refitted the Voyager probe, creating a vast vessel to contain it. They then sent it back to Earth, its home. Kirk and company were able to reason with the alien; it merged with two Enterprise crew members to form a new life-form that promptly left our plane of existence. While V'Ger is long since gone, it modeled a threat that Starfleet was not ready for at the time - but now that has changed.

Starfleet Is Prepared for the Next V'Ger

While Sisko and his crew are able to stop the God City of the T'Kon, Starfleet is clearly ready for a V'Ger-level threat, and they'll have to be. The Klingon emperor Kahless is currently killing the franchise's godlike beings, and using their powers to enhance his weapon the God-Killer Array . Hypocritically, Kahless is now flirting with godhood, and it's clear that he sees Sisko and Starfleet as the only true threats to his ambitions.

When V'Ger attacked Earth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture , the Enterprise was the only vessel within intercept range; furthermore, the alien was able to disable Earth’s planetary defense systems. In short, Starfleet were caught with their guard down and V'Ger was able to nearly destroy the planet. Now, it's revealed that Starfleet has enacted a series of protocols in advance, but as Kahless undermines the fabric of creation, even these extreme measures may not be enough to handle Star Trek 's new galactic threat.

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Designing the Living Machine

After the planned pilot of the second Star Trek television series, “ In Thy Image ,” became the basis for Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Richard Taylor as art director assumed responsibility for designing the mysterious entity known as V’Ger (then still written as “Vejeur”). Mike Minor had drawn a few concepts for Phase II . Tony Smith, brought in by Taylor, developed the entity further.

Taylor’s idea was that the whole of V’Ger would never be seen. “It was to be a dark object, not some light-covered mothership from Close Encounters ,” he told Tracy Tobias in 2001 . “It’s always more mysterious to show less and leave it to the imagination.”

There’s a part of V’Ger toward the tail section, where there is a huge sphere that rotates and in the center of that sphere is the old Voyager 6 probe. Our V’Ger design is much more complex and much more mysterious. For one thing, it would have been a lot more interactive with the Enterprise .

Taylor’s philosophy was to make V’Ger a living machine.

It would have “morphed” and on the inside the walls would have been iridescent and changed as the Enterprise moved past them.

Images of the Enterprise would be projected on the walls as V’Ger was analyzing the ship. Parts of walls would break apart like a flock of birds or a swarm of insects.

The swarms would go from one place to another and reassemble. You could think of the particles as digital energy or digital information. I wanted it to be a very metamorphical and very mysterious place. For the exterior of the thing, one of the design concepts I had was to photo-etch thin metal plates so that the outside surface would have multiple levels which would continually move, creating different patterns. We found a material that you could apply like paint that when heated with warm air from a blower would change color. It had an iridescent color quality that I was looking for, like a beetles’ back or butterflies wings. I wanted V’Ger’s skin or surface to change color near the Enterprise as it moved over the surface. I wanted the image of the Enterprise to be left like glowing phosphor images along the walls of V’Ger.

Transformation

At the end of the film, V’Ger would have evolved into a higher being. “What we had storyboarded was that the whole V’Ger craft unfolds and turns into this incredible object in space,” said Taylor.

That effect would have started where Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the Voyager 6 was and would have radiated outward from there through the ship. There would have been this change that goes through V’Ger’s interior and then to the outside, unfolding into a big flower kind of thing with all these radiating colors and such.

The visual effects in 2001 Director’s Edition approximated this vision, but the original 1979 film looked less impressive.

Brick Price, whose company Brick Price Movie Miniatures was brought in by Robert April on The Motion Picture , worked on the V’Ger model, or at least the early stages of it while Taylor was art director.

The model they started on in August 1978 looked like a cigar with a maw that opened up. They disliked the design, feeling it was too reminiscent of “The Doomsday Machine”, and there was already enough trouble with the script being similar to that episode and “The Changeling”.

But we did a lot of tests working with the textures like paint, color and light, things of that sort, and it wound up with a very organic Art Deco look to it. Taylor was an avid deco fan. That one might have been interesting had they gone with it. It would have had a bubble on it and the Voyager craft would have been on an island underneath one of those. The whole skin surface was sort of iridescent. But then Paramount decided to have miles and miles of white and not let people know what it looked like exactly. Ours was really bizarre and all convoluted with things hanging off it. So every time it changed hands it changed completely. Taylor’s original interior concept of V’Ger was extremely complex. You can see all sorts of actual light functions and all sorts of spheres representing the V’Ger concept of life.

Taylor felt the changing of hands compromised the design. “We had built test pieces and had done extensive tests of processes we were going to use when we finally began construction,” he said. But Douglas Trumbull, the movie’s director of “special photographic effects” (as VFX were called back then) was unimpressed. “I was told Trumbull described the exterior as a ‘weird fish’.”

A new approach

Trumbull was brought in by the studio with less than a year to finish the effects. He told The Hollywood Reporter in 2014 that Robert Abel and Associates — the company Taylor worked for — had made some fundamental mistakes by using technology that wasn’t ready for primetime. They also had no motion-picture experience. A desperate Paramount gave Trumbull carte blanche .

He divided the work between two teams: his would work on the interior while John Dykstra was put in charge of V’Ger’s exterior.

The work that the Abel studios had done was abandoned, and the teams set out to develop entirely new concepts. Famed illustrators Robert T. McCall and Syd Mead were hired to design a new version of the giant spacecraft, with Mead’s concepts having the biggest influence.

The model of V’Ger they built was never seen in its entirety, but it was an incredible beast, 60 feet long. Dykstra remembered that constructing it in time posed logistical problems:

We were building the model on one end of the stage and photographing it on the other with a black curtain between the two — that was the unique approach to doing the work. We had three crews working 8-hour shifts in order to get that work done.

The situation was complicated because the camera had to record several passes over the model at slow speeds. Some of the passes took as long as 18 hours, and if the motors failed (which they often did) they had to be recorded again from the beginning.

Trumbull’s team, handling the interior of V’Ger, considered several approaches — possibly using matte paintings or some kind of laser-scanning effect — before settling on a conventional model.

When it was filmed, the model was filled with smoke to give it a sense of scale. The walls were originally illuminated with miniature light bulbs, which were built into the model. However, when it came to filming they were too big to be convincing. Greg Jein, who had built the model, suggested a solution: drill hundreds of holes in the model and run fiberoptic lights behind them.

The major reason Trumbull took on the shots inside V’Ger was that he was also filming a new sequence in which Spock explored the inside of the vast machine . His Spock spacewalk replaced the memory wall sequence that Abel studios had planned, and which had been filmed during first-unit photography. Trumbull did not feel he could make the sequence work. The wire work that had been filmed on the stage was awkward and unwieldy. There were problems with reflections in the spacesuit faceplates.

Trumbull convinced Director Robert Wise to let him shoot a new sequence, which he designed himself. The storyboards were worked up by Tom Cranham, with several artists, including McCall and David Negrón, developing concepts for the things Spock would see. The spacesuits were completely redesigned and built at Apogee.

The final effect — when V’Ger disappears leaving the Enterprise in orbit around Earth — was specially designed so that it only expanded horizontally, insuring that it could not be mistaken for a conventional explosion.

Incredibly, all these shots were completed in time for the movie’s premiere and the world was so impressed with what it saw that the Trumbull/Dykstra team was jointly nominated for an Academy Award.

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I believe that the image shown here is Mike Minor’s concept of V’Ger for the Phase II television pilot. If you look at the enlarged image, you can see Minor’s signature at the lower right. For certain, this image pre-dates the production of The Motion Picture , because Starlog published a photo of Minor in front of this rendering back in 1977 or so.

Hey Pierre. You mean this one? The signature is difficult to read, but I think you may be right.

Hi Nick, Yes, that’s the picture I meant. By the way, I love the website and am astounded at all the images that I’ve never seen before. I really am interested in the production of the Phase II series and wished there was more imagery available of the sets as they stood before the switch-over to The Motion Picture . I’ve found some very nice photos in old issues of Fantastic Films as well as poorly reproduced images from the Enterprise Incidents fanzine and wished that better versions were available! No matter, your website is great and will keep me entertained for a good long time!

I think you may be right. Let me correct that in the article. Thanks for the kind words about the site! It is hard to find quality pictures of the Phase II sets. There is some test footage from 1977 of the engineering set, but of the bridge I’ve only seen a couple of photographs and no photos of the sickbay set, as far as I know.

Hey Nick, Yes, that illustration of V’Ger is definitely the Star Trek: Phase II version as designed by Mike Minor. His signature is on it in fact. Hope you are doing well, my friend!!

Do any elevation-type drawings exist anywhere of V’Ger’s “core” the ‘amphitheater” where the original Earth-based space probe was anchored? It doesn’t have to be fancy, just some kind of cross-section outline showing the relative width of the base to the sloping sides (and their angles) as well as the relative height of the “pillars” surrounding the complex. “Fan” illustrations would serve well enough.

You would need a drawing or schematic of the set, I guess. I checked my archive, but I don’t appear to have such a drawing myself, sorry. Maybe somebody reading this can help.

I’ve always been intrigued by Abel’s concept of V’Ger. It would be amazing to see an “alternate” version of the movie made with CG renderings of the Abel version of the “living machine” replacing the Trumbull version.

Completely agree with you. I would love to see that version of V’Ger. It sounds so amazingly creative, and totally different to the one of the film. Much more organic, like a true living organism. Thank you so much for this website, photos, interviews, etc. I never came across all this information before and it is outstanding!

An amazing site, thank you so much for the background and detail to one of my favorite films.

Thank you for the kind words!

I’m in love with all this amazing never seen before content! Thank you so much for sharing it. How I would LOVE to see this version of V’Ger done nowadays… and as close as possible to these wonderful concepts and ideas. I love the iridescent texture idea as well the micro components and the “island” where the Voyager is. Such a pity it was not done…

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May 5, 2022

Star Trek The Motion Picture-A Complete History of V'Ger Origins

 At over 97,000 meters in length, the entity known as V'Ger is not something any race can ignore. When it entered Federation space, it eliminated everything that scanned or approached it. Though, its origins would not be discovered until the climax of the movie.

Although did you know that further media would reveal more about this lifeform's strange creation? We have collated the information available about all the V'Ger origins and how they unfold into its story. Below, you can learn everything there is to know, so when you see it on-screen, you can do so with a full understanding of the events that led to its arrival.

V'Ger's Canon Origins

In the real world, the entity called V'Ger first appeared in the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture. A Director's Edition 4k streaming version of which is currently available on Paramount Plus.

By the end of this movie, you discover V'Ger's fictional origins. In the universe of Star Trek, the Voyager spacecraft missions did not end with Voyager 2. Instead, the probes continued for at least six iterations, with the last launching in 1999.

Voyager 6, the last of the probes, traveled as the others did through the solar system before Earth lost all contact. The Earth governments of the time did not realize that it was not destroyed. It had in fact, fallen through a black hole and re-emerged in another area of the universe.

Star Trek canon is unsure of where this area is. Speculation suggests that it could be anywhere from the other side of the galaxy to a different, extragalactic space.

First Contact

After emerging from the other side of the black hole, V'Ger encountered a planet of what it described as "living machines." These beings saw that Voyager was damaged and, seeing only the letters V, G, E, and R on its side, called it "V'Ger." The other letters were not visible due to damage to the spacecraft.

The living machines saw V'Ger as a primitive machine, but a member of their own kin. They also read Voyager's programming and understood that its creators had programmed it to learn everything that it could. These living machines took these instructions literally.

They rebuilt V'Ger, giving a sense of sentience as they understood it. They also reformed V'Ger's metal "body." This gave it highly advanced sensory equipment and data storage devices.

To protect it, these living machines also augmented V'Ger with the capability to defend itself. This would allow it to travel in relative safety.

As V'Ger began its long journey, it began to think for itself. As a machine, it could not think in terms of emotion, but only logic, and began to question its existence. It decided that it must find its creators to answer this question, and so started its journey back to Sector 001 , the Terran system, and Earth.

As V'Ger encountered the beings of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, it caused immense damage in its attempts to learn more. It considered carbon-based life to be an infestation. As such, it would remove it from its path as it continued inexorably towards the capital of the Federation.

Because of this, and not knowing what the entity was, Starfleet ordered the USS Enterprise to intercept and stop it. The Enterprise's V'Ger mission is cataloged in the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The Borg Theory

Several places in Star Trek lore suggest that V'Ger and the Borg share a connection. You should note that these sources are not the same as the canon of Star Trek movies or TV. As such, they may be contradicted elsewhere.

In the 90s and 00s, William Shatner penned a series of Star Trek novels alongside a team of other writers. These "Shatnerverse" stories depict events after Star Trek: Generations. Despite his death in that movie, they deal with the ongoing legacy of Captain James T. Kirk .

Within them, we learn that V'Ger landed on the Borg homeworld of the Delta Quadrant. Here, an early iteration of the Borg are the ones who create V'Ger and sent it back towards the Alpha Quadrant.

Star Trek: Legacy

While not an origin of V'Ger per se, this depiction does contradict other depictions of the Borg and V'Ger. In the video game "Star Trek: Legacy" - V'Ger created the Borg.

After Captain William Decker merged with V'Ger, it moved out into the galaxy. Here, it used this merging as a pattern for the creation of more cybernetic creatures.

As V'Ger's Borg expanded, they needed a single unifying voice to calm their collective consciousness. Out of that need, a Borg Queen was born who soon overruled V'Ger's demands.

Star Trek: Nero

Shortly before the movie "Star Trek" was released in 2009, several prequel comics emerged that talked about the character Nero. Nero, a Romulan, along with the help of the Tal Shiar, had retrofitted his mining vessel Narada with Borg nanoprobes.

While not specifically confirmed in the TV show, Star Trek: Picard did reveal that the Romulans had access to Borg technology. This was in the form of a disabled Borg cube that they performed research on.

After the Narada is upgraded, it takes Nero to V'Ger in this alternate timeline. V'Ger recognizes the Narada as kin , suggesting that the Borg connection is more than only due to being electronic in nature.

Many fans have taken this to mean that these apocryphal sources are accurate. Thus, they believe the Borg are the "living machines" that V'Ger encounters.

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Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad V´ger?

• Thread starter Wes R
• Start date May 19, 2012

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• May 19, 2012

The episode with Nomad is on tonight and I never realized until now that Nomad and Veeg'r have a lot in common. Are they actually related or did Gene just reuse the ideas for the motion picture?  

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Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? No relation. Just imagined by fans.  

Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? I have heard that the script for ST:TMP was supposed to be a continuation of the Nomad thing -- or something to that effect -- but was then modified later. That could just be urban legend, though. I don't claim to be an authority on the subject.  

Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? It just struck me as to how the storylines were a like but I think Mic could be right and it's a thing where fans just put the two together when they're not.  

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Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? You are in error. Must examine imperfection. Must sterilize. Must carry out prime directive.  

Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? I just figured that the story was recycled since it had so much potential.  

SSgt Burton said: Non sequitur. Kevin Click to expand...

Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? Well, the guy who wrote the story for "The Changling" (Nomad episode) did sue and got money because TMP was the basically the same story. No, it's not your imagination.  

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Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? Since Star Trek: the Motion Picture was from a story by Alan Dean Foster, it figures. This is just my opinion, but I don't think the man could come up with his own idea for anything.  

Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? I would have liked to have seen the Ray Bradbury story.  

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Re: Star Trek: TOS question: Is Nomad Veeg'r? Some speculated wildly afterwards, if V'ger met the Borg…  

YenChih Lin said: Some speculated wildly afterwards, if V'ger met the Borg… Click to expand...

• May 20, 2012

BAK55 said: Since Star Trek: the Motion Picture was from a story by Alan Dean Foster, it figures. This is just my opinion, but I don't think the man could come up with his own idea for anything. Click to expand...

That is still amazing looking all these years later.  

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Jeyl said: Nomad is goofy, V'Ger is..... ......scary.... :ninja Click to expand...

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Will Decker , as one of the "Creators", merges with V'ger

Creator was the designation given by both Nomad and V'ger to the entities that had created each.

Nomad believed James T. Kirk to be its creator to its damaged memory banks, based on the similarity of his name to the probe's real creator, Jackson Roykirk . ( TOS : " The Changeling ")

V'ger , however, did not know what the Creator was, but believed that it was an artificial lifeform , like itself. The goal of V'ger 's journey was to find the Creator, to join with it and become one with the Creator. After Spock had mind melded with V'ger , he commented: " It only knows that it needs… But like so many of us, it does not know what. "

In the 2270s , when V'ger arrived to "the Creator's planet", Earth , the Creator did not respond to it. V'ger initially thought that the Human "infestation" of Earth was somehow interfering with the Creator. It was then discovered that V'ger was in fact the ancient Earth probe Voyager 6 , and that 20th century Humans were its creators. V'ger 's ultimate goal, to find the Creator and merge with it was achieved when Will Decker chose to sacrifice himself to save Earth and merged with V'ger . ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture )

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Introducing Shuttle Pod – The TrekMovie Podcast: V’Ger v. Nomad

| September 17, 2015 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 0 comments so far

A few months ago, TrekMovie writer Jared Whitley made a casual comment that the TOS episode “The Changeling” was better than Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Fellow TM writer Brian Drew picked up the gauntlet Jared threw down, and the two decided to debate the respective merits of the two tales, which are similar in plot if not in tone, theme, or scope.

To carry out the debate, we have inaugurated Shuttle Pod: The TrekMovie Podcast . Let us know in the comment section what you think about the debate and the idea of TM podcast in general.

Shuttle Pod: Episode 1 – V’Ger v. Nomad

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And even if this Shuttle Pod is a horrible disaster that goes down in flames, there will be another shiny new one in a couple weeks – just like on the show.

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