V'ger External View

These video clips are from Star Trek the Motion Picture. These two scenes were added or modified into the directors cut of this movie in 2000 (the original version is from 1979). After watching this movie many times, I never understood what a full view of the V'ger ship looked like until I got the director's cut.

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[Xwingpilot]

So what is shown at :15 that suppose to be the aft side of the vessel?

[KH990j]

@Xwingpilot yes. It also happens to be to first part of the ship you see in the movie once the Enterprise breaches the cloud. By the end of the V'ger flyover sequence the Enterprise is at the front of the ship. When V'ger locks a tractor beam onto the Enterprise, the ship is pulled in through the very front of the vessel about 1/4 of the way in.

[longmind]

In the theatrical release, they did a great job of making V'Ger look awe-inspiring. The enterprise takes a long journey through a complex cloud, then a close flyover of the ship - every inch of which was terrifying and fascinating. I got the impression that the ship was the size of a planet. In this shot of vger, the ship looks tiny compared to the earth. I was glad to see the whole thing, but felt it was kind of a let-down.

[KH990j]

@longmind well V'ger was over 70 miles long. In comparison to the Enterprise, that's huge.

[Toobulations]

Isn't there yet another version of the ending, where a bit more happens between the V'ger explosion and the Enterprise flying slowly towards the camera? I could swear that I saw something like that when this was shown on TV a few years back.

Oh and I am positive it wasn't just the director's cut, I believe it was years before the director's cut was even released.

[KH990j]

@Toobulations hmm, I have an old VHS version but it never shows any depiction of V'ger not even in the final scene so I don't know about any other versions. Just the '79 and '99. I remember something like that happening on Star Trek 2 when they go more in depth about Scotty's nephew who died in the movie.

[zillabeast]

JUGGERNAUT! Biggest, baddest ship in all Star Trek!!

[Avatarblackwolf]

"Who is V'ger?"

"V'ger is that which seeks the Creator"

"Who is the Creator?"

"The Creator is that which created V'ger"

[trekkie117]

@Ambarenya13 that's because V'ger is the Borg

[EmmetEarwax]

And in the end, V'ger evolves into a being of pure disincarnate CONSCIOUSNESS !

[myriad1973]

@IMDRanged 2 AUs is still very very large. That is the diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun.

[jmm1233]

i know everything , boom

[AStarSifter]

@longmind It's some 70-90 km long, larger then mars's largest moon.

[IMDRanged]

@peterp21 True. But still back in the day with my elementary school astronomy, I first heard that in the theater and said "no way!" Despite that, my main complaint of the Director's Cut is that it did cut a few seconds from the Enterprise going through the cloud the and V'ger flyover thus even cutting a bit from Jerry Goldsmith's score. Very very noticeable. This is far worse an insult to Goldsmith than Ridley Scott did by replacing a bit of his Alien score with Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2.

[peterp21]

I watched the Director's Cut prior to the Theatrical Cut (I may have watched the TC when I was 4 in 1981 but obviously don't remember). I will admit that the added effects didn't seem out of place or not part of the original 1979 film. So great job there. Also a good job in re-editing the film to make it move faster. It's not the authentic experience, but since both versions are available, who can complain. Wish they would but the DC on blu-ray though. Still holding onto my DVD of it.

[peterp21]

@IMDRanged I get why they cut it from 82 to 2. Similar to Star Wars' parsec, an AU is an actual scientific measurement. In both cases, the terms are used as impressive sounding technobabble. Problem is that 82 AU is almost the size of our solar system. It's a little ridiculous to have a cloud and/or ship that's the size of the solar system settle over Earth.

[IMDRanged]

I hated the "Director's Cut" They cut the V'ger power field from a very creepy 82 AUs diameter to a 2 AUs. Thus the even added exterior shots V'ger vessel looks small. I'm glad the blu ray release had the far superior theatrical version.