Out of the Blue

Pioneer 10 calls home on birthday is one of many interesting links passed along for today by AndyS. Aren't these probes supposed to start transforming themselves into doomsday devices soon? I remember the plot of at least one Star Trek episode as well as Star Trek: The Motion Picture (veeger) centered around just that. I guess that shouldn't be the most likely scenario, but it seems more plausible than still being able to contact this thing 30 years later.

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Okay, at the risk of being exposed as the closet trekkie that I am...

'Veeger' appeared in the first Star Trek movie: Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The story was that a Voyager probe, lauched from earth in the distant past (distant past to Kirk and his boys), somehow ends up on a planet that is inhabited by a race of super-intelligent machines, which recognize Voyager as one of thier kind (albeit a bit on the primitive side). They give old V-ger a few upgrades (like a bajillion giga-quads of CPU power) and send it back out to fulfil its mission (which is to learn everything it can about the universe and return that info to its creator--us).

It's probably about the best plot in any of the Star-Trek movies to date (my opinion only, back off) and I'd recomend renting the re-released (2002) version with all new special effects (Shatners hairpiece is digitally restored).

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