Vger

It was discovered by sentient mechanical life forms, who found it, "repaired" it, assuming it was an artificial intelligence like themselves, and sent it back to Earth. While on the way back to Earth, VGer destroyed a Federation space station, and a Klingon fleet.

Admiral James T. Kirk, was assigned his old ship Enterprise, to go intercept VGer. When Kirk and crew finally makes contact with VGer, through the assimilation of Lt. Ilia, they find out what VGer really needs: To bond with the "Creator", Humans. Captain Willard Decker accepts the offer, and disappears with VGer to places unknown.

It has been speculated that there may be a connection between V'ger and The Borg, the Federation's biggest foe.

1. V'Ger mentions in a visual presentation of its origin that it was once a smaller machine, one of NASA's Voyager space probes. It was then rescued and augmented by a race of machines... however the name or nature of this machine planet is never elaborated upon, and could well be the Borg.
2. V'Ger mentions (again in its visual presentation of its origin) that it passed through a kind of disturbance, possibly a wormhole, on its trip to the machine world. This could account for the vast distance between Earth and the space occupied by the range of Borg, as well as how a collaboration with a Earth-based space probe would not result in Borg knowledge of the location of Earth.

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