Most scenes together: James T. Kirk & Leonard McCoy (7), James T. Kirk & Spock (5), James T. Kirk & Willard Decker (5)
Commander Branch Enterprise, the cloud is definitely a power field of some kind. Measures-- My God-- over [82/two] AUs in diameter. Must be something incredible inside there generating it. We're transmitting linguacode friendship messages on all frequencies. No response.
["82 AUs" in 1979 theatrical version and 1983 television version, "two AUs" in 2001 Director's Edition.]
Decker.
I'm gonna key the final sequence through the ground test computer.
Decker! You don't know what that'll do to you!
Yes, I do, Doctor.
Decker, don't.
Jim, I want this. As much as you wanted the Enterprise, I want this.
Mr. Sulu, ahead warp one.
Warp one, sir.
Chief DiFalco Heading, sir?
Out there. Thataway.
[last lines]
Spock, did we just see the beginning of a new life-form?
Yes, Captain. We witnessed a birth. Possibly a next step in our evolution.
I wonder.
Well, it's been a long time since I delivered a baby. And I hope we got this one off to a good start.
I hope so too. I think we gave it the ability to create its own sense of purpose... out of our own human weaknesses... and the drive that compels us to overcome them.
And a lot of foolish human emotions. Right, Mr. Spock?
Quite true, Doctor. Unfortunately, It will have to deal with them as well.
Time to impact?
Ilia Twenty seconds.
Mr. Chekov, stand by on phasers!
NO!!! Belay that phaser order! (walks to Chekov) Arm photon torpedoes!
Well, Bones, do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?
They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center.
Yeoman?
Yes, sir?
What was the problem down there?
He insisted we go first, sir. Said something about first seeing how it scrambled our molecules.
Has a familiar ring, doesn't it? Starfleet, this is Captain Kirk. Beam that officer up now.
Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to Starfleet--
Just a moment, Captain, sir. I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldon-used reserve activation clause. In simpler language, Captain, they drafted me!
They didn't.
This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn't it?
Bones, there's a thing out there.
Why is any object we don't understand always called a thing?
Headed this way. I need you. Damn it, Bones, I need you. Badly!
Spock, you haven't changed a bit. You're just as warm and sociable as ever.
Nor have you, doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.
Gentlemen. At last report, you were on Vulcan... apparently to stay.
Yes, you were undergoing the "Kolanear" discipline.
Sit down.
If you are referring to the Kolinahr, Doctor, you are correct.
Well, Jim, I hear Chapel's an M.D. now. Well I'm going to need a top nurse... not a doctor who will argue every little diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sick bay too! I know engineers. They love to change things.
On Vulcan I began sensing a consciousness... from a source more powerful than I have ever encountered. Thought patterns of exactingly perfect order. I believe they emanate from the intruder. I believe it may hold my answers.
V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe, and it must evolve. What it requires of its god, Doctor, is the answer to its question -- Is there nothing more?
What more is there than the universe, Spock?
Other dimensions. Higher levels of being.
The existence of which cannot be proven logically. Therefore, V'Ger is incapable of believing in them.
What V'Ger needs in order to evolve... is a human quality-- our capacity to leap beyond logic.
And joining with its creator might accomplish that.
You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?
Let's find out.
A faint signal from Starfleet, sir. Intruder cloud has been located on their outer moniters for the past 27 minutes. Cloud dissipating rapidly as it approaches.
Starfleet reports forward velocity has slowed to sub-warp speed. We are three minutes from Earth orbit.
Captain, Starfleet reports our last six crew members are ready to beam up, but one of them is refusing to step into the transporter.
Oh? I'll see to it that he beams up. Transporter room.
It could hold a crew of tens of thousands.
Or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall.
Pavel Chekov I'll take over now.
Aye, sir.
Evaluation, Mr. Spock.
Facinating. That vessel is generating a force field greater than the radiation of Earth's sun.
[1983 television version only.]
Admiral, this is an almost totally new Enterprise. You don't know her a tenth as well as I do.
That's why you're staying aboard. I'm sorry, Will.
No, Admiral, I don't think you're sorry. Not one damn bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way.
Report to the bridge, Commander, immediately.
Aye, sir.
