Scenes with Willard Decker
5 scenes
Willard Decker 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.
Willard Decker 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.
Willard Decker Aye, sir.
Mr. Chekov, stand by on phasers!
Willard Decker NO!!! Belay that phaser order! (walks to Chekov) Arm photon torpedoes!
Willard Decker 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.
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.
Willard Decker Learn all that is learnable. Return that information to its creator.
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.
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?
Willard Decker 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.
Willard Decker And joining with its creator might accomplish that.
You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?
Willard Decker Let's find out.
Willard Decker I'm gonna key the final sequence through the ground test computer.
Decker! You don't know what that'll do to you!
Willard Decker Yes, I do, Doctor.
Willard Decker Jim, I want this. As much as you wanted the Enterprise, I want this.
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