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Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by hota_mazi on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:03PM (#15828036)
That's actually the plot of the first Star Trek movie (without the seduction part).

[Spoiler below, hopefully not a huge deal for an almost forty year old movie)

Voyager returns under the name v-ger.

Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by TallGuyShort on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:54PM (#15828480)
> without the seduction part

I have a vague recollection of the humanoid that V'ger hijacked to serve as a voice being romantically involved with the original captain that Kirk replaced, and that relationship being exploited and becoming a plot element later. So I think there was some going on...

Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by fao_ on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:38PM (#15828365)
I think that was the joke that GP was alluding to :)
Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by jcims on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:43PM (#15828391)
Back in the early 90's I wondered why so many Unix boxes had 'vger' in their name. Not until this year, when I watched the original Star Trek with my youngest, did I realize what it was all about.

Sad thing is I saw the movie in the theater when it was first released...just didn't put the two together.

Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by noir_lord on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:56PM (#15828494)
The first two Linux machines I ever had to admin back in the 90's where called Picard and Kirk (Picard was the primary, Kirk the secondary (no guessing which series I preferred)).

The NT machine was called Locutus.

Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by ajmurmann on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:56PM (#15829858)
The "Locutus" is so perfect!
Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by anigbrowl on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:55PM (#15828895)
The art of educating people is to helpfully answer questions as they arise, not to interrupt the good mood with a display of your knowledge.
Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by rainbowmverse on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:39PM (#15828371)
Pretty sure that's the joke.
Re:After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrus... by aduitsis on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:19PM (#15828659)
whoosh