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Cast of Characters: Rear Admiral James T. Kirk Captain
Willard Decker Commander Spock Dr. Leonard H. McCoy AKA
“Bones” Commander Montgomery Scott AKA “Scotty” Lieutenant Commander Hikaru Sulu Lieutenant Commander Nyota
Uhura Lieutenant Kyle Lieutenant Radly Marcus Dr. Christine Chapel Lieutenant Pavel Chekov Lieutenant
Ilia Lieutenant Janice Rand Ensign Chavez Lieutenant Cleary Commander Branch Chief Petty Officer DiFalco Chief Petty Officer Ross Lieutenant
Commander Sonak Grand
Master T’Sai Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Nogura Vice Admiral Lori Ciana
Starships and/or Starbases: USS Enterprise NCC-1701, Epsilon
Nine, Space-drydock, IKS Amar, two unnamed Klingon K't'inga-class, Surak
VS-5047-61192259584-5, various unnamed shuttlecraft
Planets: Earth
and Vulcan
My Spoiler filled summary and review: Since this is a
review of the book version to the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture, there is
no need to provide a summary of the story as I already did that in my last
review. So, I am just going to focus on the
differences between the book and the movie.
1)The opening scene with the Klingons was actually
seen by Kirk in his head. This is
because all high-ranking Starfleet officers have computer chips put into their
head for instant communication. It’s not
perfect as they still have to check in for details.
Kirk is seeing this too!
2)In the movie Kirk says to Sonak that his meeting
with Nogura was going to last for a few minutes. This gave the impression that the decision to
swap Kirk in for Decker was already made, decided by higher ups, and Kirk
simply agreed with it. In the book, Kirk
maneuvers his way in taking Decker’s command away from him. This confirms Decker’s statements about Kirk.
Kirk a little more ruthless in the book!
3)The dialogue is slightly different in most
conversations. Sometimes changing the
meaning of the conversation while other times it is simply a character’s line
being swapped with another’s.
4)The other officer killed in the transporter
accident was Vice Admiral Lori Ciana.
She was Kirk’s CO and sometimes girlfriend. She was coming aboard to join the crew with
her own “temporary grade reduction.”
5)We learn some details that we couldn’t know from
the movie. Ilia’s “vow of celibacy” is
explained that Deltan sex is too much for humans who aren’t prepared so they
take celibacy oaths to protect the lives of the crew. We also learn that Kirk was told of the
modification to run the phasers through the engines. He had objected to it when it was made, and
he thought the engineers had listened to him, turns out they didn’t, and he
never checked. It also shows that Scotty
and Decker were working on an override.
Sorry Decker, no action for you!
6)Ilia is not the only person to be taken by the
V’ger energy probe, a security officer is taking as well. Decker’s reaction is different, instead of
getting mad at Kirk he orders communications to send life support information for
Deltans and to let the unknown aliens (they hadn’t heard the V’ger name yet)
that they have taken a lifeform.
7)V’ger is spelled Vejer.
8)Decker has sex with the Fake Ilia which causes
the Ilia personality to come forth in the robot, then V’ger takes back
control. However, the robot still wants
to hang around Decker. Later Decker’s
internal monologue states he would like to have sex with her again.
On second thought
9)There is an entire chapter donated to V’ger’s
point of view.
10)The final confrontation when we learn that V’ger
is Voyager 6 is more drawn out. In this
case they refer to V6 having been lost in the time stream and not some black
hole. The personality of Ilia reemerges
and helps the landing party. There is
more discussion before Decker sacrifices himself.
11)Kirk denies Starfleet’s request for a debriefing
so he can fly the Enterprise around.
I am not going home I am too busy flying!
Additional thoughts: Something I forgot to mention in
my review of the film. It stated that
Kirk’s job at Starfleet Command was Chief of Operations. That must be a very different job in
Starfleet than in the US Navy. In the
Navy, it is the post of the highest admiral.
While in Starfleet it seems to be a minor administrative post.
Now the
book was an interesting take on these events, especially how it allowed us to
get into the heads of some of the characters.
Although I felt it fell short in some parts as well.
The
most famous thing this book is known for is the first acknowledgement of the
“Sprik” rumors. Anyone who has read my
other reviews know I take Spirk with a grain of salt and “live and let live
attitude.” I find the concept to be
ridiculous but harmless especially if a gave a corner of the fandom joy. It appears that Roddenberry decided to try to
kill the rumor with this passage.
"I was never aware of
this lovers rumor, although I have been told that Spock
encountered it several times. Apparently he had always dismissed it with his
characteristic lifting of his right eyebrow which usually connoted some
combination of surprise, disbelief, and/or annoyance. As for myself, although I
have no moral or other objections to physical love in any of its many Earthly,
alien, and mixed forms, I have always found my best gratification in that
creature woman. Also, I would dislike being thought of as so
foolish that I would select a love partner who came into sexual heat only once
every seven years." (pg.22)
However,
this didn’t affect that he wanted. For
the fans who wanted to believe in it the simply say the word “gratification” as
the euphemism for sex. “I have always
found my best sex with women.” As opposed to the euphemism being the three
words “my best gratification.” “I have always found sex with women.” Lesson
being if you want to make point, it is best to be clear.
Spock would probably agree that clarity was best
The
funny thing I find the most important level in the novelization is the fact
that senior Starfleet officers all have these data chips implanted into their
heads so they can have instant access to knowledge. However, it still works imperfectly, and they
still have to check in. That makes me
question things I have seen on screen a lot more than the Spock line.
Decker
pulling Ilia’s personality out of the robot probe by having sex with her was
interesting and certainly not in the movie.
The really funny part was in the chapter from V’ger’s point of
view. V’ger was confused by why the
Decker-unit was “attacking” the probe, and when V’ger went to reassert control,
to its surprise the Decker-unit kept “attacking.”
I
commented on my review of the film that there should have been more made into
the Decker/Kirk relationship, particularly involving the fate of Decker’s
father in “The Doomsday Machine.” Well,
the book flops on this. It acknowledges
that Captain Decker is the son of Commodore Decker, but that is it. It is never important; it is just randomly
stated offhand in one paragraph. You
could remove the line and it doesn’t take way from what is being said at all.
Dad should have had greater influence on son's story.
In the end the book is a fun add-on
but not much else.
Should it be canon: I prefer to think of what we saw
on screen as the canon version of events and the book is just a clever “what
if?”.
Cover Art: The cover is the same as the movie poster.
Cast: William Shatner as Rear Admiral James T. Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Commander Spock DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard H.
McCoy AKA “Bones” Stephen
Collins as Captain Willard Decker James
Doohan as Commander Montgomery Scott AKA
“Scotty” George Takei as Lieutenant
Commander Hikaru Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura Majel Barrett as Dr. Christine
Chapel Walter Koenig as Lieutenant
Pavel Chekov Persis Khambatta as
Lieutenant Ilia Grace Lee Whitney as
Lieutenant Janice Rand Michael
Rougas as Lieutenant Cleary David Gautreaux as Commander Branch Marcy Lafferty as Chief Petty
Officer DiFalco Terrence
O'Connor as Chief Petty Officer Ross Jon Rashad Kamal as Lieutenant Commander Sonak Roger
Aaron Brown as unnamed Epsilon
Technician Gary Faga as unnamed Airlock
Technician Michele Billy Povill as unnamed
Lieutenant Howard Itzkowitz as unnamed
Ensign John Gowans as unnamed
Crewman Jeri McBride as unnamed Crewman Ralph Brannen as unnamed Crewman Ralph Byers as unnamed Crewman Paula Crist as
unnamed Crewman Iva Lane as
unnamed Crewman Franklyn
Seales as unnamed Crewman Momo
Yashima as unnamed Crewman Joshua
Gallegos as unnamed Crewman Junero
Jennings as unnamed Crewman Sayra
Hummel as unnamed Crewman
Leslie C. Howard as unnamed Yeoman Lisa Chess as unnamed Yeoman Mark Lenard as the unnamed
Klingon Captain Jimmie Booth
as unnamed Klingon Crewman
Joel Kramer as unnamed Klingon Crewman Bill McIntosh as unnamed
Klingon Crewman Dave
Moordigian as unnamed Klingon Crewman
Tom Morga as unnamed Klingon Crewman Tony Rocco as unnamed Klingon
Crewman Joel Shultz as unnamed Klingon Crewman Craig Thomas as unnamed Klingon
Crewman Edna Glover as
unnamed Grand Master T’Sai Norman
Stuart as unnamed Vulcan Master Paul
Weber as unnamed Vulcan Master Doug Hale
as the Enterprise Computer (voice)
Ships and Space
Stations: USS Enterprise NCC-1701, Epsilon Nine, Space-drydock, IKS Amar,
two unnamed Klingon K't'inga-class, Surak VS-5047-61192259584-5, various
unnamed shuttlecraft
Planets: Earth and Vulcan
My Spoiler filled
summary and review: After the
opening credits, the movie begins with three Klingon K’t’inga class
cruisers. The view is treated with what
will be the new Klingon musical theme through the soundtrack. The Klingons themselves have moved on from
their proto-human like look from the classic series and animated series to
their true traditional look. It’s a good thing too, otherwise we would be
asking why there is both a Klingon commander and a Romulan commander who look
just like Spock’s dad. The Klingons’
activity is being monitored by a nearby Starfleet station, Episode Nine, who
observe the Klingon ships heading to a giant space cloud. They try to fire weapons at the cloud only to
have the cloud quickly destroy them. So,
despite their new look, they played the old Klingon role of being fodder for
whatever new villain or entity is making an appearance.
The Klingons
On Vulcan, Spock is about to complete the ceremony of Kolinahr, the
purging of all emotion. Spock then backs out at the last minute. This is the
Vulcan equivalent of dumping at the altar.
That has happened to Spock as well, but this is Kolinahr, not pon farr
so there are no hurt feelings. The
masters let Spock know his destiny is elsewhere. On Earth Admiral Kirk makes his first live
action appearance in ten years. We see
him talk briefly to Spock’s successor as science officer of the Enterprise.
Kirk has a mission that means the Enterprise
needs to be ready soon, because despite the fact that they are on Earth,
capital homeworld of the Federation, they only have one ship that had just
completed a years-long retrofit.
Spock fails need the Enterprise
Kirk beams up to the space station and has Scotty bring him in a
short-range shuttle to the space dry dock. Here the Enterprise is finishing up its
retrofit that its new Captain and Scotty had been preforming in order to take
her out on the ship’s next five-year mission.
At this point we begin the episode of Extreme Home Maker Over: Starship
Edition. As Scotty slowly and with pride
takes the Admiral on a ride around the exterior of the ship. He shows Kirk, and the viewer all the
changes. Kirk comes aboard and heads to
the bridge. The bridge has also been done
over. The new bridge comes with the best
command chair ever. Kirk is immediately greeted by his former bridge crew; they
are all excited to have him back. Although some feel a little sad for Decker.
Kirk confronts Decker, he tells him point blank that, he, Kirk, is taking
over the ship with Decker receiving a temporary grade reduction and job as
Executive Officer. When Decker asks why
Kirk notes his experience. When Decker points out the ship’s changes Kirk
simply reminds him that it is why he will continue as the ship’s first officer.
This will cause drama through the rest of the movie, but it will not be truly
explored in the way that it should have been.
I will talk more about that in my additional thoughts section. Immediately, however, there is an alarm from
the transporter room. Lt. Janice Rand,
in her first appearance since “The Conscience of the King,” now the transporter
chief, is having a horrible time. A
transporter accident has put the lives of two officers in flux, one of which is
the science officer. This ends with both
officers dying. Since Kirk can’t get a
new Vulcan to act as science officer, he forces Decker into double duty.
Kirk returning
Kirk hosts a crew meeting where he explains the danger they will be going
into and the threat that it poses to Earth.
The transporter gets fixed, and ship welcomes two more crew members. The
first is Lt. Ilia who is bald, beautiful, and has a prior relationship with
Decker. For some reason, the new navigator
needs to announce to everyone on the bridge that she has taken a “vow of
celibacy.” A bit presumptuous if you ask
me, but Kirk lets it slide. The second person is none other than our
famous Dr. McCoy, “drafted” out of retirement using an old reactivation clause.
McCoy, being himself complains about everything including needing a new head
nurse that Chaple is a doctor, the new sickbay, and Kirk particularly his
relationship to Decker.
These two have some history
With the threat looming Kirk needs to take this old girl with her new
look out for spin. After all the giant space cloud isn’t slowing down. And it is at this moment that we get the most
exciting part of the movie. As the ship
warps out it creates a worm hole that makes everybody’s vision blurry, and their
speech is slowed. If that were all it would be funny, but a giant asteroid has
also got caught in the wormhole and it’s headed right toward the ship. The helm
is offline so they can’t evade. Kirk
orders it to be destroyed with phasers but Decker countermands him and orders
the ship instead to fire photon torpedoes.
The explosion destroying the asteroid also causes the wormhole goes away
and everything returns to normal. Later Kirk demands to know why Decker
countermanded him. Decker calmly explained that in order to increase phaser
power the phasers now run through the engines if the engines are offline the
phaser might not work. Kirk realizes he
was right and lets him go. McCoy then chews
Kirk’s butt for his beef with Decker.
Nevertheless, they are stuck in the middle of space until they solve
their warp engines problem. Fortunately, a long-range shuttle craft comes out
of nowhere. The shuttlecraft contains Mr. Spock who is here to solve all their
problems. He offers his services as chief
science officer and Kirk orders his commission re-instated. Although Spock has done them a great service
fixing the engines. It appears Spock’s
time on Vulcan has dampened his social skills a bit. McCoy even thinks Spock’s mental connection to
the cloud creature might present a security risk.
Back to save the day!
The Enterprise gets to the energy barrier and is scanned. They do nothing
in response. Spock’s reading suggests
that it is very powerful. However, Spock’s mental powers come in use that the
creature wonders why they have not replied. Bolts of lightning fly through the
warp core and into the ship’s systems injuring several including Chekov, who
gives out that classic Chekov scream. Spock patterns a code from the signals
being sent to transmit a message. The
lighting attack stops, Spock suggests they proceed, Decker says he finds that
an unwarranted risk, but won’t explain to Kirk what he means by it.
As they move into the cloud they come across a massive ship. Uhura
explains they can’t send anything out. For
their signals are just reflected back at them.
The ship is suddenly boarded by a beam of energy that Chekov thinks
might be part of their crew. The energy thing moves along the bridge when it
suddenly focuses on Lt. Ilia. It zaps and disappears with her. Which causes Decker to cry out about how he
defines “unwarranted.” It turns out they
don’t have to miss Ilia for very long.
Because a replacement Ilia is suddenly transported aboard. This new Ilia is a probe for what she calls
V'ger. V'ger is that entity in the
center of the cloud. This probe was created so V’ger can understand the Enterprise
and its carbon-based units and see how they can be used to help V’ger with its
mission. The mission is to find the
creator. For some reason V’ger thinks that its creator can be found on
Earth. Given that the probe has all of
Ilia’s memories and experiences they decide that Decker will be the best one to
work with her.
Decker and the Fake Ilia
While Decker is off charming the robot, Spock has decided to take matter
into his own hands. He steals a suit and
jet pack and decides to attempt to enter V’ger’s vessel solo. He has quite a bit of success when he gets in
there, he encounters images that he concludes a V’ger’s memories, including an
image of what he assumes must be V’ger’s homeworld: a planet of all
machines. Spock finds the real Ilia
stuck in the machine. He attempts to
mind meld with her, but he is given intense feedback by V’ger forcing him
back. Back on the Enterprise,
Kirk figured out what Spock was doing and decided to rescue him. He is there just in the nick of time and
Spock is brought back to sick bay. There
Spock confides to Kirk that for all of V’ger’s knowledge it does understand
basic emotions and bonds of brotherhood.
Nevertheless, it still seeks its creator.
Despite all its technology it is noted that V’ger was also trying to
communicate to Earth in old radio waves. Without a reception V’ger concludes
that the carbon-based life forms on the planet had somehow prevented the
creator from reaching out to V’ger. So,
it sends these energy bolts and has them hover above the Earth ready to
eradicate humanity. When they determine
that V’ger doesn’t consider corporal base life true life McCoy becomes the
first to realize that V’ger is under the opinion that its creator is an
artificial intelligence like itself.
This causes Decker to quote that we all create God in our own image.
Spock finds Ilea
Spock suggests a different strategy. V’ger is a child and therefore should be
treated like a child. Kirk announces to
fake Ilea that they know why the creator hasn’t responded and she demands they
disclose the information. Kirk orders to
clear the bridge making V’ger cause the ship to rumble. Kirk points out that if they are destroyed
their knowledge goes with them. Fake
Ilea says V’ger will comply providing they turn over the information. Kirk then
tells her that the message must be given to V’ger directly not to his probe. This
is smart move for Kirk who is buying time to allow him to figure out the best
way to get V’ger to commit suicide.
V’ger’s vessel opens its entrance allowing the Enterprise to
penetrate its interior. Chekov notes
that as they enter an oxygen atmosphere forms inside the vessel that would
allow humans to survive. Kirk organizes
a landing party consisting of himself, Decker, Spock, McCoy, and Fake Ilia.
The team exits the Enterprise manually, not through a transporter,
they take a nice long jog to find V’ger. When they get there, they discover
something very familiar about the main V’ger body. It looks just like the old Voyager space
probe. Kirk goes to the crude covered
name plate that says “V_ _ _ _ GER _” He scrapes away some of the crude and reveals
the name of Voyager 6. NASA had sent
this into space almost three hundred years prior.
At that point Kirk realizes that it has happened again. Humans send a device out into space, it runs
into some alien technology that ends up changing it, and it decides it needs to
find its creator, and is willing entire star systems to get what it wants. Last time Kirk talked the Nomad device into
suicide, if he wanted to do that again, he would have to be more creative. Kirk appeals to V’ger that “we are the
creator.” Fake Ilia disputes this but
Kirk says he can prove it and he contacts Uhura, and she gives him the old
radio code. However, V’ger fries its own
circuits. Because it wants THE creator
to show up so V’ger can bond with the creator and become one. Doing so would give access to imagination and
possibly other plains of existence.
Decker sees this and realizes the possibilities. Understanding that he has only seconds to act
before Kirk, as Bane of All Artificial Intelligence, talks V’ger into
suicide. Decker reroutes V’gers circuits
claiming he can enter the codes manually.
When the other three try to warn him off, Decker says to Kirk that he
wants this as much as Kirk wanted the Enterprise. With that energy surrounds Decker. Fake Ilia joins him (and maybe her connection
to real Ilia makes her less fake). The
two of them embrace and energy starts to envelop everything. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy hightail it back to
the ship and all of what was V’ger, including the cloud, enveloped in energy
and disappears. Leaving only the USS
Enterprise.
The Last One Standing
Back up on the bridge the three officers wonder if they have not just
experienced the birth of a whole new life form.
McCoy jokes that it had been a long time since he had delivered a baby,
but he hopes that they have given this one a good start. When putting together the casualties list
Kirk lists Captain Decker and Lt. Ilia as “missing.”
Time for final thoughts
Scotty reports to Spock that they are all set to drop him off at Vulcan,
but Spock says there is no need as he will be staying. The Enterprise has completed its
refit, the crew has been reunited, and with Captain Decker missing that leaves
the old captain, James T. Kirk, opportunity to continue command. It’s time for the next five-year mission.
Additional thoughts: As a kid I disliked The Motion Picture. Of all the classic Star Trek films it was by
far my least favorite. Although the
refitted Enterprise looked cool, I had a hard time with the slow story
and the ridiculous looking uniforms. I
mean why put the famous starship crew of all time in pajamas and what was that
Walkman-thing they were wearing on their stomachs? Over the years, however, I have come to
appreciate what they were trying to do.
Star Trek after all is more than one thing. Some great Star Trek is an epic space battle between two or more ships, other times it can be exploring a strange new world,
an amazing time travel adventure, or we can meet a new type of life. This movie is about one of the more sci-fi
aspects of Star Trek, complete with stunning visuals. The movie in many ways feels like an extended
episode: a multiact structure with Captain’s Logs giving us updates every step
of the way. It’s important to remember
that those watching in December 1979, this was the first time they were able to
see this crew live action in ten years.
It must have been something special.
The Klingons looking good!
Unfortunately, the plot wasn’t so special. It’s “the Changeling” now bigger, better, and
brighter. This isn’t a unique criticism,
every fan notices this. So, I am not
going to dwell on it too much more or risk being a type of hypocrite. On a
lighter note, I do find it hilarious that they spent so much remaking the
Klingons to look like the true kickass antagonists they were always meant to
be, only to have them be slapped away almost without effort by something that
turned out to be human space garbage.
Thinking of you again!
I realize Kirk had a great time serving with Spock but developing a
strong desire to only have Vulcan science officers some type of new
bigotry. I “must have a Vulcan” seems
weird for a franchise that emerged out of the 1960s, a decade that demanded an
end to racial preferences. Also, why
does Decker have to do double duty?
There is no one else on the ship capable of serving as chief science
officer out of a 430 person crew? Not
even in the science department? Maybe
Kirk is seeing everything through his Spock googles. Although when Spock does
arrive, he so Kolinahred out that it must have been a reminder to Kirk not to
view the past with too much nostalgia as the it might taint the memory.
Everybody happy to see Spock, but Spock
With the exception of Kirk’s Admiral uniform, I don’t know why anyone
thought these new uniforms looked good.
In preparing for one’s big ten-year live action return, one should want
to look a feel their best. Instead, they
look like they all got invited to a pajama party, where they had to bring their
own Walkman. The Enterprise, however, did get to look her best. Already beautiful, she got to produce the
best episode of Extreme Home Makeover ever.
Everything about the ship was perfect.
"I'm sexy, and I know it!"
One big disappointment was the Decker/Kirk relationship. This should have been a great drama, it is
set up to be, but instead we get muted drama.
The rival captains are placed against each other, but this never leads
to anything. To make matters worse is it
is considered canon that Will Decker is the son of Matt Decker from “The Doomsday Machine.” Not only should this be a major part of their story, but it
is not even mentioned. When you think
about the Kirk/Decker situation it makes sense from Starfleet’s side. A planetary-ending level threat of unknown
origin is on its way. The only ship you have has a captain who has never
commanded a ship out of space dock and has spent the last two years remodeling
that vessel. The last captain is nearby and has a record of defeating threats
like this. Why not put the old one back and charge and have the new one be
first officer for a tour since he knows the remodel. However, their
personalities are going to clash. Kirk, which the movie shows, really wants his
old job back. Decker, after getting over the initial shock seems totally cool
with the loss of status. I think this should have been played up more. Imagine
being Decker you spend two years fixing up this ship to take it out. Then you
lose the command because a threat arrives and Starfleet doesn’t trust you to
deal with it, but they will let be second-in-command to the captain we do
trust. Also then add in the family history his father went after a similar
threat years ago. He lost
everything. His life, his ship, and his
crew were all gone. Jim Kirk went against
the same threat and came away the winner, and now Starfleet wants to
preemptively make the Decker/Kirk swap.
“I am taking over center seat, Will” Kirk.
“You’re what?” asked Decker.
“I am replacing you as Captain of the Enterprise. You’ll stay on as Executive Officer,
temporary grade reduction to commander.”
“May I ask why?” Decker
“My experience. There is a very
dangerous threat that can destroy multiple starships and potentially devore
solar systems. Now having gone toe to
toe against Nomad, the gigantic single-cell organism, not to mention the Doomsday Machine…”
“And they don’t trust a Decker to deal with anything resembling a
Doomsday Machine, do they?” Decker walks off in anger.
They could have done a lot with that.
Although it could have used more drama, the Kirk/Decker arrangement is
actually shown to work. Decker’s
knowledge of the ship saves them from the asteroid in that wormhole. Nevertheless,
Kirk’s experience gets them through the mission. Throughout the film Decker displays an
overwhelming amount of caution worthy of General George McClellan from the US
Civil War. Decker isn’t alone, a lot of
the crew feel that way. In fact, Kirk is
almost the only person on the entire crew who understands the magnitude of the
threat that V’ger makes to Earth. The
movie is already slow moving but it is amazing that the crew has such a lack of
urgency considering the threat to the homeworld of most of them. If Decker had been left in command, they
never would have penetrated the cloud and Earth’s population would have been
wiped out. Good job, Captain Kirk.
Unlikely pair
This year I am teaching 8th grade science, and we’re doing
astronomy this last month. So, a lot of
this is fresh to me. The Voyager series
stopped after Two. It’s probably this movie’s fault. NASA probably saw the
movie and was like “Let’s stop building these Voyager series they might come
back and try to kill us.” Also, at their
max speed it would be 80,000 years for one of them to reach the nearest solar
system. So, getting lost in a black hole
to be found by alien robots was probably the most unrealistic part of the
movie. (The finding a black hole part, not the alien robots.)
Voyager 2
It's too bad we never get to see any of the five-year mission that went
on after The Motion Picture. Oh, well
that is why the Pocket Book Series was written.
