A big ship surrounded by a gigantic pretty cloud of many shades of colors. 
Did anyone else find V'Ger creepy inside and out?
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The only way inside V'Ger is through the anus.
The only way inside V'Ger is through the anus.
How so? They approached V'ger from the rear.
V'ger is a simply brilliant sci-fi creation. It's brilliant because it is SO TOTALLY alien. There is almost nothing about any part of V'ger, from energy cloud to plasma energy conduit, that makes any sense in a human sense. The fact that it's also realized in an almost impossible-to-believe scale makes it even more alien. "It could hold a crew of tens of thousands" -"...or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall" Between that and "images of planets, moons, stars, whole GALAXIES..." and all the breathtaking landscapes of its surface and you've got one hell of an imaginative creation there.
I find V'ger more beautiful in it's "alienness" than creepy.
I find V'ger more beautiful in it's "alienness" than creepy.
I really didn't like the reveal of the "whole V'ger" in the Director's Edition. I think it was much more effective in the original, where the viewer could see pieces of it, but not all at once, like it was too big to fully comprehend. The imagination made it more impressive.
The parts that were shown in the original had a great alien design look.
The parts that were shown in the original had a great alien design look.
[QUOTE The parts that were shown in the original had a great alien design look.[/QUOTE]
I would love to see it do you know where I can find any pictures of it?
I would love to see it do you know where I can find any pictures of it?
The only way inside V'Ger is through the anus.
How so? They approached V'ger from the rear.
Apparently not all entities keep their anii in the rear?
It's a maw, you 8 years olds.
Seriously!
And IIRC, in the novel, I think it's Uhura who is freaked out at the sense of being swallowed by V'ger.
I don't, I saw it by watching the movie.
It's a maw, you 8 years olds.
Jokes aside, I always thought that the converging rotating cones was a pretty clever design and made a nice alien-looking effect.
The only way inside V'Ger is through the anus.
How so? They approached V'ger from the rear.
Yeah they seem to have warped at V'ger, gone around and dropped to impulse at the back of the cloud.
V'ger's warp field seems to extend just beyond the perimeter of the mushroom top and bottom of the cloud, so that huge cut out at the middle is a whole region of space she can move around in.
It's just, they do traverse the back of the cloud and approach V'ger's immediate rear, that huge glowing orange dome is the engine, so they're lucky it didn't produce some effect that just melted the Enterprise or hit her with a massive stream of hard radiation.
And the implication of V'ger having an opening and closing maw that could swallow something a lot bigger than the Enterprise, complete with it's organometallic sphincters running along the length of it like a digestive system.
Or both the projection chamber and the brain chamber being empty voids when the holoprojection is turned off or the brain hasn't materialised matter to accomodate guests. Or that it even has floating quasi-matter dust that can built itself into anything it wants.
Oddly, I've somehow considered them to still be at warp speed until they get caught by the tractor beam. They are flying relative to V'ger's speed, which might be why Sulu seemed put out by saying 500 meters away from it. Imagine flying slightly faster that an object doing maybe Warp 7 and then skimming the surface of it at those speeds, while taking a goo look.
Look at the inboard sides of the nacelles. If they're lit, the ship is at warp. The nacelles are lit up to the point they enter the cloud. You can't really see the grilles clearly between then and when the ship is drawn inside V'ger, however, after at which point they are off. (The DE's added shot of the ship where the energy probe arrives is a retrofit so I don't include it.)
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I found V'Ger mysterious and impressive, but not especially creepy. I did like the organic look of its various areas (districts?). Based on that, I can see why people keep wanting to associate V'Ger with the Borg.
I agree.
I agree.
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