Voyager 2 Interstellar Probe Science Instrument Turned Off To Save Power astrobiology.com/2024/10/voya...#astrobiology#Interstellar#Voyager#VGER#astrophysics @NASAVoyager

Voyager 2 Interstellar Probe Science Instrument Turned Off To Save Power - Astrobiology

The Voyager 2 mission has been working to postpone the shut-off as long as possible.

Once they get to Voyager 6, everything clicks as in the film. It even re-surfaces Ilia—who has studied the Earth space programs—but Vger snatches her back Rather than it going into a “black hole” as in the film, Decker says V6 went into a “time continuum” which is kinda a lateral technobabble move.

Compared with all this drama, Spock’s report and epiphany is pretty much as in the film, as is the standoff over Earth. The increasingly smooth working relationship between Kirk, Spock, and Decker is what allows them to bluff Ilia-probe/Vger, and the trust that Uhura et al have for Kirk pays off too

So we got Decker’s side of the story and it’s actually kind of a heartbreaker So Deltan sex is REALLY so good because of the involuntary telepathic merging of the partners. Decker reasoned that if Ilia-probe was so precise, sex might let HIM contact VGER. Keep in mind it’s hours from nuking Earth.

It kind of would love to kill everyone but realizes it doesn’t understand them yet, so per its directive, IT CAN’T. Yet. Picture the whole time Enterprise is in VGer it rocking on its hands and knees chanting “it’s okay, I can kill them later! It’s okay, I can kill them later!”

A Space Droid Looks Back At Home On Its Way Into Interstellar Space astrobiology.com/2024/09/a-sp...#astrobiology#Interstellar#VGER#Voyager#StarTrek

A Space Droid Looks Back At Home On Its Way Into Interstellar Space - Astrobiology

Voyager 1 took a departure angle picture of our home world and its large moon from a distance of 7 million miles.

Vger is turning Borg! (IYKYK)

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"47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades" #Voyager1

47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades | CNN

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.

we have a radio station here called VGER of something like that and everytime I hear the call signal my brain flashes TROUBLE

I think it was really rude of Vger to not transmit all it's data before ascending to a higher plane of existence

Interstellar Probe Remote Engineering: Voyager 1 Team Swaps Thrusters astrobiology.com/2024/09/inte...#astrobiology#interstellar#Voyager#droid#VGER

Interstellar Probe Remote Engineering: Voyager 1 Team Swaps Thrusters - Astrobiology

The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged.