Sex as Entertainment

“You know, I’ve thought for a while that we’re living in the delusional fantasy of a naive thirteen year old girl. 

That basically sums up our culture.” 

— Peterson

SPOCK: 

I have successfully penetrated the next chamber of the alien's Interior, and I am witnessing some sort of dimensional image which I believe to be a representation of V'Ger's home planet. I am passing through a connecting tunnel. Apparently a kind of plasma-energy conduit. Possibly a field coil for gigantic imaging systems. Curious. I am seeing images of planets, moons, stars, whole galaxies all stored in here, recorded. It could be a record of V'Ger's entire journey. But who, or what, are we dealing with? The Epsilon Nine station, stored here with every detail. 

Captain, I am now quite convinced that all of this is V'Ger. 

That we are inside a living machine. 

Ilia. 

The sensor ...must contain some special meaning. 

I must try to mind-meld with it. 

Aaaaarhh!!!!

[Enterprise sickbay]

CHAPEL: 

Now scanning pons area. 

Spinal nerve fiber connection.

McCOY: 

Indications of some neurological trauma. 

The power pouring through that mind-meld must have been staggering.

SPOCK: 

Jim, ...I should have known.

KIRK: 

Were you right? 

About V'Ger?

SPOCK: 

A lifeform of its own, a conscious, living entity.

CHAPEL (OC): 

A living machine?

KIRK: 

It considers the Enterprise a living machine. 

That's why the probe refers it as an entity.

SPOCK: 

I saw V'Ger's planet, a planet populated by living machines. 

Unbelievable technology. 

V'Ger has knowledge that spans this universe. 

And, yet with all this pure logic, ...V'Ger is barren, cold, no mystery, no beauty. I should have known.

KIRK: 

Known? Known what? 

...Spock, what should you have known?

SPOCK: 

This simple feeling ...is beyond V'Ger's comprehension. 

No meaning, ...no hope, ...and, Jim, no answers. 

It's asking questions. 

‘Is this ...all I am? 

Is there nothing more?'

KIRK: 

Spock. ...Spock?

(as Spock turns Kirk and McCoy see that he is crying)

KIRK: 

Not for us?

SPOCK: 

No, Captain, not for us, ...for V'Ger. ...I weep for V'Ger, as I would for a brother. 

As I was when I came aboard, so is V'Ger now, empty, incomplete, ...searching. 

Logic and knowledge are not enough.

McCOY: 

Spock, are you saying that you've found, what you needed, but V'Ger hasn't?

DECKER: 

What would V'Ger need to fulfil itself?

SPOCK: 

Each of us, at some time in our life, turns to someone, a father, a brother, a god and asks 

‘Why am I here?' 

'What was I meant to be?' 

V'Ger hopes to touch its Creator to find its answers.

KIRK: 

'Is this all that I am?

 Is there nothing more?'