V'ger was an immense, sentient machine lifeform encountered by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century. At its heart lay Voyager 6, a NASA deep space probe that had been swept across the galaxy, rebuilt by a civilization of living machines, and sent back toward Earth to fulfill its programming to learn all that is learnable and return that knowledge to its creator.
Having achieved consciousness, V'ger threatened Earth as it sought to meet and merge with its Creator, a crisis resolved when a Starfleet officer joined with it to help it evolve. V'ger was the central entity of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This overview summarizes information drawn from Memory Alpha under CC BY-SA; see the Timeline for chronological details.
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