In the latest issue of ST:The Magazine, there is an article about the new-improved TMP FX, including new exterior shots of V'Ger. There is also an incredible photo of the V'Ger studio model, one of the best ever seen (the model was 60 feet long!). Unfortunately, I cannot post the photos here as there is no more Flare upload page, but the pics are terrific.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Taunt us, then. No, it's okay.
Posted by Jack_Crusher (Member # 696) on :
Who thinks its possible that the black hole that Voyager 6 fell into deposited near the Borg home world? I mean, Spock did say that V'GER was altered by a race of machines, and the Borg are at least part machine.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
They are? The Borg are part machine? Are you serious?
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
Sorry, no. I've never been of the opinion that V'Ger was built by the Borg, or that the machine planet was the Borg homeworld. I just don't see the Borg taking the actions that these sentient machines did. The only reason why people assume this is because GR make a joke about it.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
True enough, but then where, exactly, are these living machines? The ones from Voyager's "Prototype", perhaps? With tech like they had, they've got to be a major power somewhere...
Except, of course, for the fact that Spock said that V'Ger had seen entire galaxies in her 300 year existence. That would definitely imply some sort of transwarp drive. Unless, of course, that information was pre-programmed by the machine world...
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Or the black hole linked our galaxy with another one . . . it's a possibility . . .
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
I'd say that's a likey possibility. If these machines inhabited our galaxy, I think we would have at least heard something of them since TMP, even if we didn't actually meet them on Voyager.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Oh, good GODDESS....just ADMIT it, yo.
The damn probe found Cybertron. End of story.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Wow. I never thought of that, for some reason. I like it! *L*
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Thank god Voyager wasn't lauched a few hundred years later. It would have come across the Reformated Cybertron and ended up looking uglier than Omega's bottom.
Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :
But Cybertron orbits Alpha Centuri. Wouldn't they have noticed that planet in Enterprise already? Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, that was only in the comics. And, in the cartoon, Cybertron got transported to Earth, and then tossed back out into space (really really fast, too). So, it could really be just about anywhere.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And Cybertron orbited Alpha Centuri more than 3 million years ago. And it was knocked out of orbit around that time anyway. Voyager 6 was launched in the early 2000s, wasn't it? That means that Cybertron was slowly but surely heading towards Orson Welles.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Orson Nimoy. Or Leonard Welles.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Bah -- ! Humbuger.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"Orson Nimoy. Or Leonard Welles."
If Tim is in fact picking up on semi-obscure TF facts here, then first of all, he's really impressed me, and second of all, he's wrong! Yes!
For the benefit of no-one here, I shall tell all:
For years, there was a rumour than Orson Welles didn't finish his lines as Unicron, due to the slight inconvenience of his death. The fumour then stated than Leonard Nimoy (playing the role that surely he is most famous for, that of the non-yet-insane Galvatron) finished the lines.
HOWEVER (da da), it has been recently confirmed that Welles did indeed finish all his lines. It was confirmed by, er, someone, who worked on TF:TM. Possibly Susan Blu. Or Judd Nelson (who we love).
So, yes. Then. Indeed.
Posted by Jack_Crusher (Member # 696) on :
Who the hell s Cybertron?
*looks around anxiously and then runs screaming towards the airlock*
