Micron
15-04-2006, 04:48 AM
I have no idea why this came to mind the other day, but it did. I was thinking about the original Star Trek movie. Part of the plot is as follows (from Wikipedia):
Admiral James T. Kirk is assigned his old ship Enterprise in order to intercept a mysterious cloud approaching the Solar System. The Enterprise finally reaches the core of this cloud and, through the assimilation of crew member Lt. Ilia by the cloud, Kirk and his crew discover it refers to itself as V'ger and wants to "bond with its Creator". Commander Spock, the Enterprise's Science Officer, then dons a spacesuit, exits the Enterprise and moves into V'ger's holographic memory chambers, where he sees a history of V'ger's journey. Kirk, Spock and the other senior crew do not learn that V'ger is in fact the human space probe Voyager 6 until they walk up to it at the film's climax.
What struck me as odd is this, if the advance sentient mechanical life forms that found Voyager were indeed that advance, how the hell could they not tell it was just corrosion on the Voyager plaque? I mean. Any idiot can see that. It is not V'ger, it is Voyager.
http://www.experiencewindows.co.uk/images/vger.jpg
Admiral James T. Kirk is assigned his old ship Enterprise in order to intercept a mysterious cloud approaching the Solar System. The Enterprise finally reaches the core of this cloud and, through the assimilation of crew member Lt. Ilia by the cloud, Kirk and his crew discover it refers to itself as V'ger and wants to "bond with its Creator". Commander Spock, the Enterprise's Science Officer, then dons a spacesuit, exits the Enterprise and moves into V'ger's holographic memory chambers, where he sees a history of V'ger's journey. Kirk, Spock and the other senior crew do not learn that V'ger is in fact the human space probe Voyager 6 until they walk up to it at the film's climax.
What struck me as odd is this, if the advance sentient mechanical life forms that found Voyager were indeed that advance, how the hell could they not tell it was just corrosion on the Voyager plaque? I mean. Any idiot can see that. It is not V'ger, it is Voyager.
http://www.experiencewindows.co.uk/images/vger.jpg