Then Star Trek: Phase II (the immediate predecessor of The Motion Picture) Producer Robert Goodwin reported in a progress memo, dated 21 October 1977, " After your conversation with John Casani at Jet Propulsion Laboratories, JPL has agreed to loan us the mock-up of the Voyager, to be used as part of our set as the interior of the Alien Spaceship. JPL's director John Casani agreed to loan the model to the studio in October 1977, mere months after the actual Voyager probes were launched in August and September that year. The fictional Voyager 6 probe around which V'ger was built, was actually a full-scale mock-up of the real world Voyager 1 and 2 probes of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL). Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8, p. 106, also uses the Star Trek Chronology's 1999 date, noting that " Voyager VI" was officially approved in May of 1972, and that all six of the Voyager series were built identically of 65,000 individual parts, including a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, plasma and cosmic ray detectors, and a data storage capacity of 500 million bits. In the real world, the actual launches of the first (and only) two Voyager probes took place in 1977. This suggests a launch date sometime before or in the early 1970s. According to Decker's line in the movie, however, it was launched " more than 300 years ago". ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture)Īccording to Star Trek Chronology, Voyager 6 was launched in 1999. In the 2270s, the entity was detected by Starfleet en route to Earth, and was intercepted by the USS Enterprise, whose crew was able to discover the fate of the long-lost probe.
On its journey back to Earth, it amassed so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness itself, becoming a living thing. Discovering its simple, 20th century programming, which directed Voyager to collect all data possible and return that information to the creator, the machines interpreted it literally, and constructed a massive vessel around the probe in order to facilitate that directive. The inhabitants found the probe to be one of their own kind, primitive, yet kindred. ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture)ĭuring its mission, Voyager 6 disappeared into what was once called a black hole (see V'ger), emerging on the other side of the galaxy, where it fell into the gravitational field of a planet populated by a race of living machines. It was designed to transmit a signal relaying its readiness to transmit the information gathered, and to do so upon receipt of a code signal instructing the computer to transmit the data.
Voyager 6 was equipped with an antenna and a ground test computer, for use in communicating with Earth.
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