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"similar life-forms."
Jim, v'ger is saying its creator is a machine.
A machine.
Captain.
V'ger is a child.
I suggest you treat it as such.
A child ? Yes, captain.
A child,
Evolving, learning, searching,
Instinctively needing.
Needing what ? Spock.
This child is about to wipe out every living thing on earth.
Now, what do you suggest we do ? Spank it ?
It knows only that it needs, commander.
But, like so many of us,
It does not know what.
The carbon units know why the creator has not responded.
Disclose the information.
Not until v'ger withdraws the devices orbiting the third planet.
Captain.
I'm losing starfleet.
Interference from v'ger.
Kirk unit, disclose the information.