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Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by snerbles on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:48PM (#15827879)
Spoilers below:

You just described the plot of the first Star Trek film. Even better, it was a Voyager probe (a fictional Voyager 6) that was augmented by alien machine intelligence and returned to Earth.

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Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by dabockster on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:52PM (#15828877)
More spoilers below:

> alien machine intelligence

The Borg.

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Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by throwanem on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:29PM (#15829117)
That's fanon. Yeah, I sort of like the idea too, and yeah, Goldsmith to some extent may have styled the First Contact Borg leitmotif after V'ger's from TMP, and yeah, maybe he did that deliberately, and yeah, somebody's friend of a friend said that Gene Roddenberry once coughed in a way that could be interpreted as suggesting he'd had in mind the Borg creating V'ger all along - but it's fanon all the same.

(Me, I like Ron Jones's theme from The Best of Both Worlds a lot better, anyway...)

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Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:33PM (#15829507)
The connection to the Borg isn't cannonical. Though Star Trek's cannon has gotten extremely messy in recent years.
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