Date: 2270s

First detected when passing through Klingon territory, V'ger launched a series of powerful, spherically-shaped "bolts" of plasma energy, vaporizing a fleet of three Klingon K't'inga-class battle cruisers. It then passed into Federation space near the Epsilon IX station, which it also destroyed. With the entity being over 54.3 hours from Earth, Starfleet rushed the refit of the USS Enterprise, so that it could be launched in time to intercept V'Ger. After penetrating the huge entity and traveling to the center, Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew encountered V'Ger, who proceeded to send a probe that "absorbed" Enterprise navigator Ilia; with all of her memories and personality. The probe returned in the form of Ilia. Soon after, the Enterprise crew discovered that V'Ger was actually the NASA probe, Voyager 6, which had been launched from Earth in 1999, entered a black hole which transported the probe across time and space to another part of the universe, where it was encountered by an advanced civilization of living machines. These sentient machines turned it into a like member of their race, giving V'Ger sentience and sending it off to complete the mission which the once Voyager 6 was originally assigned to accumulate all knowledge and return give it to its creator. Over the hundreds of years it took to return home, V'Ger took its mission to heart and learn everything it could to extremes, as it absorbed everything it was exposed to, and having learned everything, wanted to return to Earth to impart its knowledge and join with its Creator. Realizing that the fate of Earth was in their hands, Commander Willard Decker joined with the entity and programmed the information it needed to transmit its data. Once the two were joined, the entity evolved onto another plane of existence and headed for the Andromeda Galaxy.