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* Oh, dear god, [[TeleporterAccident that transporter room scene]]. When the crewmen start re-materializing there's an odd, electronic buzz that slowly resolves (almost before you realize what you're hearing) into the sound of the victims screaming in agony. While you're realizing what that sound is, you start to notice that the two humanoids forming on the pad don't look ''quite'' [[BodyHorror humanoid]]. Rand's horrified, [[OhCrap "Oh no, they're forming!"]] and [[ICantLookGesture her turn away]] just adds to the horror. Watch the whole thing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro_QpDJX-Sk here]].
-->'''Starfleet Transporter Tech:''' ''Enterprise'', [[ItIsDehumanizing what]] we got back ... didn't live long ... [[TakeOurWordForIt fortunately]].
** The reading of that line[[note]]A verbal dose of HeroicBSOD, where the shock is so deep you can't even react properly to what you just witnessed[[/note]] ''really'' didn't help. Also, note the use of words: The tech didn't say "who"... he said "''what''".
** The {{Novelization}} is actually '''worse'''. The crew members actually materialized inside out and were alive to feel it. But not for very long. Fortunately.
** The scene gets ''even worse'' when you consider one of the people screaming in fear and agony is a ''[[NotSoStoic Vulcan]]''.
** It doesn’t help that the transporter room is now dark and foreboding and that the operator station is farther away and protected by glass.
* And then we find out what V'Ger does to the "information" it collects. Poor Ilia!
* And if that's not bad, try being kidnapped by V'Ger: surrounded by an incredibly strong electromagnetic/lightning type force that shocks you and anyone who tries to help you. And there's no time to cry out or to say goodbye to anyone you might care about...
* "[[ThatManIsDead That unit no longer functions.]]" ''Brrr.''
* V'Ger's energy weapon, which rather than blowing its targets up or vaporizing them instantly, instead seems to methodically take it apart. We see three Klingon cruisers get slowly disintegrated this way, followed later by a Starfleet space station which just happened to be in V'Ger's path, with one person in a space suit trying to [[OutrunTheFireball get away]].
** And we never learn what happened to that guy. Was he digitized and killed by V'Ger? Was he eventually crushed against V'Ger's hull, or did he spend the next several hours drifting through deep space and wondering which would come first: asphyxiation or hypothermia?
** Also, V'Ger doesn't so much 'destroy' a target so much as reduce it to a memory and store it within itself.
* In this movie more than any other Trek production, every aspect of space travel in the 23rd Century '''[[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou is trying to kill you]]!'''
** The transporter disintegrates the ship's science officer.
** Crewmembers make extensive use of space suits for EVA. At one point Kirk has to go out to rescue Spock who has been stricken unconscious and is drifting helplessly outside the ship.
** Going to warp with the wrong kind of fault in the drive accidentally throws you inside an unstable wormhole.
** And remember those 300-year old space probes? One of them is coming back, and it's dragging a giant machine within a cloud ''millions'' of miles long that is more than capable of rendering the planet Earth completely lifeless. What's more, it's been sent by a race of machines that don't even perceive carbon-based organisms as living beings. V'ger is looking for God, and if it doesn't find it, it will nuke your planet.
* A tamer one than some of the above examples, but as the ''Enterprise'' is cruising along the surface of V'ger's vessel heading for a way inside, the viewing angle combined with the sometimes dim and indistinct visuals of the outer hull can cause the energy-filled apertures to distinctly resemble [[https://falconmovies.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/startrek13.jpg a glowing, grinning face]]. ''What has been seen cannot be unseen.''
* Spock has rejoined the crew, but he is still acting as if he were an outsider, emotionally distant and fixated on the possibilities presented by V'Ger. Doctor [=McCoy=] points out to Kirk that they can't be sure Spock's priorities align with the crew's, given Spock's obsession with cleansing himself of emotion. Spock comes around after mind-melding with V'Ger and discovering that the lack of emotional understanding is V'Ger's biggest flaw and the cause of many of their problems.

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