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* PlanetSpaceship: V'ger is so unfathomably large that even small parts of it fill up the entire screen when compared to the Enterprise. In the original release, the ship itself is never seen in its entirety, which adds to the sense of enormity. The remastered version shows the ship in all its glory, being the size of a small moon roughly in the shape of a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/4/4d/V%27Ger.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20061117134816 cylinder with spikes ringing its center section]].
* PowerfulAndHelpless: V'ger has knowledge that spans the universe and is in many ways, one of the most powerful beings ever seen in the Trek franchise. And none of it matters to V'ger because it has reached its limits and needs to find a way to evolve into something greater. It even throws an impotent tantrum when Kirk refuses to acquiesce to its demands.
* StrawVulcan: While not an actual Vulcan, V'Ger fits this trope pretty well, as its probe speaks in a MachineMonotone and dismisses all emotions as "illogical". [[spoiler:It quickly becomes apparent that V'Ger itself isn't all that unemotional, though]].
* PowerfulAndHelpless: V'ger has knowledge that spans the universe and is in many ways, one of the most powerful beings ever seen in the Trek franchise. And none of it matters to V'ger because it has reached its limits and needs to find a way to evolve into something greater. It even throws an impotent tantrum when Kirk refuses to acquiesce to its demands.
* StrawVulcan: While not an actual Vulcan, V'Ger fits this trope pretty well, as its probe speaks in a MachineMonotone and dismisses all emotions as "illogical". [[spoiler:It quickly becomes apparent that V'Ger itself isn't all that unemotional, though]].
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* PlanetSpaceship: V'ger V'Ger is so unfathomably large that even small parts of it fill up the entire screen when compared to the Enterprise. In the original release, the ship itself is never seen in its entirety, which adds to the sense of enormity. The remastered version shows the ship in all its glory, being the size of a small moon roughly in the shape of a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/4/4d/V%27Ger.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20061117134816 cylinder with spikes ringing its center section]].
* PowerfulAndHelpless:V'ger V'Ger has knowledge that spans the universe and is in many ways, one of the most powerful beings ever seen in the Trek ''Trek'' franchise. And none of it matters to V'ger V'Ger because it has reached its limits and needs to find a way to evolve into something greater. It even throws an impotent tantrum when Kirk refuses to acquiesce to its demands.
* StrawVulcan: While not an actual Vulcan, V'Ger fits this trope pretty well, as its probe speaks in a MachineMonotone and dismisses all emotions as "illogical". [[spoiler:It quickly becomes apparent that V'Ger itself isn't all that unemotional,though]].though.]]
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* StrawVulcan: While not an actual Vulcan, V'Ger fits this trope pretty well, as its probe speaks in a MachineMonotone and dismisses all emotions as "illogical". [[spoiler:It quickly becomes apparent that V'Ger itself isn't all that unemotional,
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* NeverFoundTheBody: ''Technically speaking''. [[spoiler:Fusing with a giant spaceship and disappearing to a higher plane of being will do that. Kirk decides not to list him as dead, but rather "missing in action".]]
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* FusionDance: [[spoiler:On finding its creator, V'Ger then wants to become one with them, and refuses to take no for an answer.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: It destroyed entire ''galaxies'' on its way home, judging by Spock's comments, but is allowed to ascend and go on its merry way to... wherever. In fairness, with something that powerful, there's not much that can be done to stop it. The novels do ameliorate this somewhat by revealing V'Ger could, as with Ilia, recreate the lifeforms it destroyed, and plans on doing so.
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* StrawVulcan: While not an actual Vulcan, V'Ger fits this trope pretty well, as its probe speaks in a MachineMonotone and dismisses all emotions as "illogical". [[spoiler:It quickly becomes apparent that V'Ger itself isn't all that unemotional, though]].
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* {{Pheromones}}: Ilia emits sexual pheromones that can create reactions in other species. Unfortunately you'd have to [[AllThereInTheManual read the novelization]] to realize why men are acting strangely around her, as this is never mentioned in dialogue.dialogue — and it really only comes up at all in the Director's Cut, which has the added scene of Sulu acting goofy around her (the original cut does have her unexplained line about an oath of celibacy, but that's all).
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** One of those obviously goofified men is Sulu; although gay actor George Takei always played Sulu as straight, this leads into questions about Ilia's pheromone effect on gay men or on Lesbians, something that obviously couldn't be dealt with at the time.
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* TheMasochismTango: Neither she or Kirk were good for each other, Lori being emotionally abusive and manipulative, and Kirk substituting her for his mother, Spock ''and'' the Enterprise.
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* CanonWelding: It's been implied in [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/V%27ger#Apocrypha various EU sources]] that V'Ger is somehow connected to the Borg Collective; ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' has massive [[https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Unimatrix_0047_Command_Ship Borg command ships]] you can battle that bear a suspicious resemblance to V'Ger.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Along with [[spoiler: Ilia Probe and V'Ger]].
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*''TNG''.
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* BigDumbObject: Which is odd, considering V'Ger is probably the biggest repository of information in the galaxy.
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* EarthAllAlong: In a way that is very similar to [[spoiler: [=NOMAD=] from the second season [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]] episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling The Changeling]]"]].
* EldritchStarship: A massive, mysterious, insanely powerful, techno-organic vessel hiding inside a gigantic energy cloud is as close as Trek has ever gotten to this trope.
* EldritchStarship: A massive, mysterious, insanely powerful, techno-organic vessel hiding inside a gigantic energy cloud is as close as Trek has ever gotten to this trope.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Recommended by Kirk pretty much solely for being a Vulcan. Then he dies and the Goldfish eventually replaces the replacement Goldfish.
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* FantasticRacism: Despite having absorbed all manner of life and knoweldge in its journey across the universe, it never realizes carbon-based lifeforms are actually ''alive'' until it gets to Earth.
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* LiteralMinded: V'Ger's original programming parameters were "learn all that is learnable" and return that information to NASA. And that's what it's damn well gonna do, even after it becomes sentient.
* {{Manchild}}: One of the oddest ones on record. V'Ger has a knowledge that spans the universe, but as Spock notes, its understanding of that knowledge is like a child. A child which can annihilate entire planets if it doesn't get what it wants, even as everyone's trying to explain why that's impossible.
-->'''Dr. [=McCoy=]:''' Your "child" is throwing a tantrum, Mr. Spock. What do you suggest we do, ''spank'' it?
* MechanicalEvolution: It ''wants'' to do this, and can't. So it gets tetchy.
* {{Manchild}}: One of the oddest ones on record. V'Ger has a knowledge that spans the universe, but as Spock notes, its understanding of that knowledge is like a child. A child which can annihilate entire planets if it doesn't get what it wants, even as everyone's trying to explain why that's impossible.
-->'''Dr. [=McCoy=]:''' Your "child" is throwing a tantrum, Mr. Spock. What do you suggest we do, ''spank'' it?
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[[folder:Ilia Probe]]
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A probe made in the shape of Ilia by V'Ger to try and understand the "carbon units".
* FantasticRacism: Being programmed by V'Ger, the probe initially just sees the organic occupants as an infestation of ''Enterprise''.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Referred to as an "it" initially, and a "thing" by a pissed-off Decker. As the probe starts becoming more like Ilia, the crew start using "her" pronouns instead.
* MachineMonotone: More than the original Ilia, with an added mechanical reverb.
* MouthOfSauron: Serves as V'Ger's mouthpiece, mainly because V'Ger ''can't'' speak.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: A nigh-exact replica of flesh-and-blood Ilia, right down to body parts and functions, as Dr. Chapel notes. And even Ilia's memories and personality in the mix.
* SuperStrength: Strong enough to punch through the ''Enterprise's'' walls, as the crew find out when she finally gets bored.
* VerbalTic: Only ever refers to Kirk as "Kirk unit".
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A probe made in the shape of Ilia by V'Ger to try and understand the "carbon units".
* FantasticRacism: Being programmed by V'Ger, the probe initially just sees the organic occupants as an infestation of ''Enterprise''.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Referred to as an "it" initially, and a "thing" by a pissed-off Decker. As the probe starts becoming more like Ilia, the crew start using "her" pronouns instead.
* MachineMonotone: More than the original Ilia, with an added mechanical reverb.
* MouthOfSauron: Serves as V'Ger's mouthpiece, mainly because V'Ger ''can't'' speak.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: A nigh-exact replica of flesh-and-blood Ilia, right down to body parts and functions, as Dr. Chapel notes. And even Ilia's memories and personality in the mix.
* SuperStrength: Strong enough to punch through the ''Enterprise's'' walls, as the crew find out when she finally gets bored.
* VerbalTic: Only ever refers to Kirk as "Kirk unit".
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This was the backstory of Xon who was cut from Star Trek Phase II. Sonak was never intended to replace Spock, but Xon was removed from the film once Leonard Nimoy came aboard.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: V'Ger almost extinguishes all life on Earth, completely unaware that it is about to kill sentient beings. V'Ger actually does kill a lot of people, including some Klingons, the crew of Epsilon Nine, and Ilia, before realizing that they're lifeforms.
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* {{Pheromones}}: Ilia emits sexual pheromones that can create reactions in other species. Unfortunately you'd have to [[AllThereInTheManual read the novelization]] to realize why men are acting strangely around her, as this is never mentioned in dialogue.
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* InformedAttractiveness: We're not saying that Persis Khambatta isn't attractive, but Ilia is one of a select group of Trek characters with less hair than [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]], and yet several male crew members get all goofy around her. The novelization explains this as her race releasing pheromones whenever they're around unfamiliar males--so it's not really because of her attractiveness sometimes; they just can't help their reactions.
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* InformedAttractiveness: We're not saying that Persis Khambatta isn't attractive, but Ilia is one of a select group of Trek characters with less hair than [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]], and yet several male crew members get all goofy around her. [[note]]Considering that the ancient Egyptians of Earth routinely shaved their heads, maybe hair isn't always necessary to beauty. She ''is'' otherwise a quintessential Roddenberry female; huge eyes and huge boobs.[[/note]] The novelization explains this as her race releasing pheromones whenever they're around unfamiliar males--so males[[note]]Silk moths actually do this, although Roddenberry probably didn't know that[[/note]] -- so sometimes it's not really just because of her attractiveness sometimes; attractiveness; they just can't help their reactions.reactions.
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** One of those obviously goofified men is Sulu; although gay actor George Takei always played Sulu as straight, this leads into questions about Ilia's pheromone effect on gay men or on Lesbians, something that obviously couldn't be dealt with at the time.
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* PlanetSpaceship: V'ger is so unfathomably large that even small parts of it fill up the entire screen when compared to the Enterprise. In the original release, the ship itself is never seen in its entirety, which adds to the sense of enormity. The remastered version shows the ship in all its glory, being the size of a small moon roughly in the shape of a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/4/4d/V%27Ger.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20061117134816 cylinder with spikes ringing its center section]].
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: The machine race that fixed it up probably didn't intend any harm. They just saw it as helping a fellow sentient get home and fulfil its mission.
* KarmaHoudini: It destroyed entire ''galaxies'' on its way home, judging by Spock's comments, but is allowed to ascend and go on its merry way to... wherever. In fairness, with something that powerful, there's not much that can be done to stop it.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The machine race that fixed it up probably didn't intend any harm. They just saw it as helping a fellow sentient get home and fulfil its mission.
* KarmaHoudini: It destroyed entire ''galaxies'' on its way home, judging by Spock's comments, but is allowed to ascend and go on its merry way to... wherever. In fairness, with something that powerful, there's not much that can be done to stop it.
