3rd most-quoted character in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): in 7 of its 27 quotes
Most scenes with: James T. Kirk (5), Leonard McCoy (4), Willard Decker (2)
This simple feeling, is beyond V'Ger's comprehension.
Spock, you haven't changed a bit. You're just as warm and sociable as ever.
Spock 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.
Spock If you are referring to the Kolinahr, Doctor, you are correct.
Spock 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.
It could hold a crew of tens of thousands.
Or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall.
I'll take over now.
Aye, sir.
Evaluation, Mr. Spock.
Spock Facinating. That vessel is generating a force field greater than the radiation of Earth's sun.
[1983 television version only.]
Captain, Voyager 6 disappeared into what they used to call a black hole.
It must have emerged on the far side of the galaxy... and fell into the machine planet's gravitational field.
Spock The machine inhabitants found it to be one of their own kind-- primitive, yet kindred. They discovered its simple 20th-century programming-- collect all data possible.
Learn all that is learnable. Return that information to its creator.
Spock Precisely, Mr. Decker. The machines interpreted it literally. They build this entire vessel... so that Voyager could actually fulfill its programming.
And on its journey back, it amassed so much knowledge... it achieved consciousness itself. It became a living thing.
Spock 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.
Spock 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.
Spock, did we just see the beginning of a new life-form?
Spock 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?
Spock Quite true, Doctor. Unfortunately, It will have to deal with them as well.
