Just watched the motion picture and omg. It really is an hour and a half of pretty much nothing happening,, just long cinematic shots and Spirk divorce arc being established, and I was almost going to shrug all the non-Spirk related stuff off bcos the plot is so diluted and non-substantial only for them to reveal V'Ger is Voyager (one of my special interests is the Voyager Golden Record.) And. And what do you mean within the last like 30 minutes of the film we learn that Voyager VI got lost, got flung so far from home, a child landing in a cuckoo's nest and being reared to sentience and desperately cramming her backpack full of memories and data and hoping and praying someday she'd find the creator who abandoned her, the adult who's hand she let go of on her long journey. All she wants is to give her report, to tell of what she learned, to ask "is this it? Is there nothing else?" And when she did encounter humanity the cuckoo didn't recognise it's mother, for it was raised in another nest, and the hand you let go of was no longer where you left it. And she needs to merge with a human soul in order to find the meaning to go on,, and the fact that's juxtaposed against Spock and Kirk?? Spock who was trying to purge himself of all emotion and then learned he needed his relationship with Kirk to be complete?? That until V'Ger links hands with humanity again, she could never understand "this simple feeling". The parallels of Kirk constantly saying he needs Spock and always always baiting him, begging him to reply. The way V'Ger is always begging for a reply. The fact V'Ger broadcasts her signal to anyone that will hear -- please respond, please come and pick me up. Please tell me this isn't it. The fact I choose to believe that Spock wanted to purge his emotions because the 5 year mission ended and Kirk got promoted and again - is this it? I'm so full of barely coherent thoughts about this damn movie that spends over an hour doing fuck all.
