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In Thy Image (Story Treatment) by Alan Dean Foster	In Thy Image Rough First Draft by Harold Livingston	Star Trek: The Motion Picture as filmed Screenplay by Harold Livingston Story by Alan Dean Foster (uncredited revisions by Gene Roddenberry) (uncredited scene by Douglas Trumbull)
	Klingon cruisers destroyed by a giant object.	Klingon cruisers destroyed by a giant cloud.
Starbase 14 sends information to the Enterprise that a large metallic object, possibly a meteor, is headed to Earth.  The meteor causes computers to go crazy as it passes.	Commander Branch of Starbase 9 learns it's headed to Earth.	Commander Branch of Epsilon 9 learns it's headed to Earth.
		Spock fails Kohlinahr on Vulcan
	Kirk meets with McCoy in San Francisco to convince him to re-enlist on the newly refitted Enterprise.  Though friendly, he refuses.	Kirk finds Sonak at Starfleet Headqaurters and orders him up to the Enterprise to report to him in one hour.
	Kirk and Scott meet with Admiral Nogura and reassemble the old crew, sans Spock (in his place is Commander Ronak).  Scott complains that twenty four hours is not enough to finish the refit of the Enterprise, but will try.  Captain Wah Chang is unavailable, and Kirk agrees to command the ship.	Kirk meets with Admiral Nogura (mentioned, but not seen).
	Kirk and Scott fly to the ship from a nearby office complex.	Kirk and Scott fly to the ship from a nearby office complex.  Scott complains that twelve hours is not enough to finish the refit of the Enterprise, but will try.  Kirk has been given command of the ship.
	Kirk heads to the bridge but is stopped when Doctor Christine Chapel overrides the turbolift with a medical priority to deliver perishable items to sickbay. She seems uneasy at taking over McCoy's post, but he reassures her as he is taking over Captain Wah Chang's post much the same way.	Kirk heads to the bridge.
	Kirk offically takes command on the bridge, leading to an improptu celebration from the bridge crew.	Kirk on the bridge asks for Captain Decker, gives an order to Uhura to keep a channel open to Epsilon 9, and heads to Engineering to find Decker.
	Later, Lieutenant Ilia enters, and her Deltan pheromones cause Mr Sulu to want to stroke her arm.  She allows it, only to allow him to get the distraction out of his mind.  Kirk is called off the bridge, leading to...	At Engineering, Kirk finds Decker and informs him he is taking command.  Decker angrily accepts, leading to...
	...the transporter accident that kill Commander Ronak.	...the transporter accident that kill Commander Sonak.
	Kirk tells Decker he has pulled him from his own command on the Boston to serve as Science Officer as well as Executive Officer.  Decker angrily accepts.	Kirk tells Decker he will need to serve as Science Officer as well.
		Kirk has a briefing with the entire ship's compliment, informing them of what's to come.  At the briefing, Epsilon 9 is destroyed by the object.
	McCoy and Ronak's replacement, Xon, beam aboard.  McCoy's been drafted.  Kirk immediately questions Xon's ability to serve due to his age, however, Xon, being a full blooded Vulcan, does not react.	Lieutenant Ilia enters, and she immediately recognizes Decker as a previous lover.  McCoy and beams aboard.  McCoy's been drafted.
	The Enterprise launches, going to warp. Xon takes his position at the science station, erasing all of Decker's pre-warp science station programming. Almost immediately, a collision alert sounds. Phasers and navigational deflectors are offline.  Helm no longer responds.  Chekov fires photon torpedoes destroying the asteroid. Xon's erasure of Decker's pre-warp programming put those systems offline.  He acknowledges what he did was an error on his part, and that he will get better as time goes on.	The Enterprise launches, going to warp. Almost immediately, the ship enters a wormhole with an asteroid. Phasers and navigational deflectors are offline.  Helm no longer responds.  Kirk orders phasers to fire, but Decker belays that order, ordering Chekov to fire photon torpedoes destroying the asteroid. .
	Decker, Kirk, McCoy and Chapel have an emergency meeting where Decker demands Kirk hear him out.  A manual course correction Decker had offered would have put them out of harm's way. Kirk responds that is proper procedure for a smaller ship the type Decker is used to serving on.  The delay on switching to manual could have been fatal and phasers were a better idea.  Decker counters with the phasers being out as well, and says "If automatic helm was down, you'd assume phasers were, too."  Kirk acknowledges that assumption was an error on his part, and asks Decker to help him command this new ship.	Decker, Kirk and McCoy have an emergency meeting where Kirk demands Decker explain himself.  Kirk's insistence on going to warp untested put those systems offline.  Kirk acknowledges what he did was an error on his part, and asks Decker to help him command this new ship.  McCoy confronts Kirk on command fitness and obsession.
		Spock finally arrives on the ship, and helps repair the warp drive, finally putting the ship into warp.  Kirk and McCoy have a meeting with him where her informs them that he's been in one-way telepathic contact with the cloud, and is getting feelings and impressions from it.  Kirk orders him to report any feelings he may have.
	The Enterprise contacts the USS Aswan, who is intercepting the object hours before the Enterprise is. The encounter does not last long, and the Aswan is almost immediately destroyed.
The Enterprise intercepts the object.  The ship flies up alongside the object, which "Lt. Vulcan" determines to be a ship.  A voice announces that it is "We the Wan" and a servant of the great god N'sa, on its way to clear N'sa's world of the organic disease festering there.  The Enterprise attacks, but the ship is so powerful nothing affects it.  Kirk orders a retreat, but the ship holds the Enterprise in a tractor beam.  Kirk orders self destruct, but the ship itself refuses to comply: "It would not be to the greater glory of the N'sa."	The Enterprise intercepts the object.  It communications are not answered.  A sensor sweep is reflected back with such intensity it blows out some of the ship's relays.  The ship flies around the object, eventually doing a 180 that has it fly up alongside the object.  The Enterprise launches a probe that is immediately destroyed.  The object turns its attention to the Enterprise and fires on it.  The Enterprise fends it off, and so the object holds the ship in a tractor beam, and continues to fire on it.  Just as the ship is about to succumb, Xon realizes the object is responding at one million megahertz.  Xon responds on the same frequency and the attack ends.	The Enterprise intercepts the object.  It communications are not answered.  The cloud attacks the ship, which the Enterprise fends off.  The cloud fires again.  Just as the ship is about to succumb, Spock realizes the object is responding at one million megahertz.  Spock responds on the same frequency and the attack ends.  The ship flies around the cloud eventually doing a 180 that has it come up from behind, revealing a ship in the center.  It pulls up along side the ship
	A full day passes with no further attacks, but no further progress in figuring who and what the object is.  Xon realizes the computer has been feeding information to the object for all this time, and has it stop communicating.  No crew information was transferred.  Decker suggests threatening self destruct which would destroy the object.  Kirk offers to consider, then pulls him aside privately, telling him "Never make a threat you don't intend to carry out.  If I had the power that object had, I wouldn't give you a chance to even start a self destruct."
Multiple probes beam into the ship, which attack the crew, causing a firefight on the bridge.  The probes are destroyed and the few survivors dematerialize.  Lt. Vulcan realizes the computer has been feeding information to the object and attempts to stop it, but is unable to.  Uhura attempts to manually shut down communications and is injured trying to do so.  Kirk has Scott put life support on manual control to keep the ship from shutting it down	Unable to do anything other than repair the ship while held in a tractor beam, the crew goes into regular rotation.  Ilia continues to flirt with Sulu in the recreation room when multiple probes beam into the ship.  All the probes, except one, ignore the humans and focus solely on the ship.  One notices humans, and is clearly frightened of them.  Chekov attempts to capture it, but instead captures another, sending it off to Xon to have it examined.  Kirk orders them to be left alone as long as they're not damaging the ship.  As the probe is dissected, other probes begin to access memory banks to begin retransmitting information to the object.  Kirk sends a message to have the probes sent back or they will be destroyed.  No probes are beamed back.  Another probe attempts to access the library computer.  Chekov fires, and it disappears - it wasn't destroyed, it dematerialized.  All the probes dematerialize except the one being dissected.  The one that noticed the humans shows up in sickbay, obviously angry and chirping loudly.  Chekov names it Tasha as it's turquoise eye looks like his aunt Tasha's pearl ring.  Slowing down the transmission, the probe demands to speak to the Enterprise directly.  Xon realizes that if the object thinks the Enterprise is a sentient machine, the probe, as well as the object must also be a sentient machine.  Kirk says he is in command and the probe may talk to him.  At first "Tasha" doesn't believe him, but begins to curiously examine him with sensor probes.  Kirk has the computer relay messages from him as coming from the ship.  The object attacked since other machines had recently attacked it that "Were obviously malfunctioning."  The tractor beam is to determine if the ship is malfunctioning.  Kirk has the ship tell the object it is not malfunctioning, to which the object offers to exterminate the 430 "parasitical units."  Kirk responds that the units are necessary for functioning then, before it can respond, why is the object heading to Earth?  The probe responds: "It is the Holy Home of the Creator."  Kirk replies that it is not, but the probe realizes it is Kirk giving the answers instead of the ship.  Suddenly, the ship begins sending information directly to the object, again.  The object has taken control of the ship and the humans can't disengage.  Xon balls up his fists and smashes the science computer to break the console, reaches into the system and pulls out the electrical wiring with his bare hands, severely burning them.  As Ilia rushes up to help Xon, the Tasha probe comes up along side her and dematerializes, taking her with it.	The ship sends a probe to the ship's bridge, where it looks for information from various consoles, until it finds the science station.  After it begins directly accessing the information from it, Spock balls up his fists and smashes the science computer to break the console.  The probe turns on him, hitting him with lightning bolts burning him.  The probe turns to Ilia and begins examining her, then dematerializes, taking her with it.
		The Enterprise is pulled inside the ship and locked in a chamber of the object.
The ship begins materializing mechanical versions of deadly animals to the ship, trying to destroy humans.  They're all mechanical and incredibly deadly.  A swarm of bees was loaded with cobra venom.  Lt Vulcan reacts to the duplicate animals and leaves quickly.  Kirk demands the Wan show itself, but the voice becomes confused, it is showing itself: "I AM the ship."
	Xon is in sickbay having his hands tended to while compiling information on what the Enterprise sent to the object.  The Enterprise sent information on Earth history, agriculture and anatomy of species on Earth.  While no defensive information was sent, Xon concludes that the object may now feel Earth is infested just as the Enterprise is, and will attempt to rid the planet of the plague.  McCoy demands Kirk get some sleep and sends him to his quarters.
The Wan explains that they are living machines, and have always lived as such on Wan as long as they can remember.  The planet has an incredibly dense cloud cover which they could not penetrate.  N'sa came down from the clouds, explaining the universe beyond them.  The Wan built the vessel to return N'sa home and destroy the humans infesting the planet.
Kirk comes across Scott, working on the main computer.  Kirk tells him to stop the work and proceeds to the bridge.  On the bridge, Scott shows up telling him the work is poceeding as normal.  Kirk is confused, but Scott pulls a phaser on him, as do other engineering techs.  They're all duplicates made by the Wan.  More and more duplicates are being made and sent over, taking over sections of the ship.  The Enteprise itself announces it cannot wait for its impending freedom.	Kirk is awakened to someone using his sonic shower.  The door opens revealing Ilia, but she quickly volunteers that she is not Ilia.  She is the Tasha probe made into a duplicate of Ilia to help facilitate communication.  She is very proud of her new form, and very friendly and pleasant.	An intruder alert sounds in Kirk's quarters.  Someone using his sonic shower.  The door opens revealing Ilia, but she quickly volunteers that she is not Ilia.  She is a probe made into a duplicate of Ilia to help facilitate communication.  The Ilia probe tells us the ship's name is "V'ger." She is straight forward and no-nonsense, wanting to start her observations.  Kirk convinces her to be examined.
	Chapel and Xon come to quarters to perform a medical examination, which confirms that she is the most perfect android ever seen.  The object has assigned her to Captain Kirk, to do with as he pleases.  The interrogation continues, where Tasha tells us happily that Ilia has been "disassembled" and that the object is called "Vejur."  Xon decides that it may be best that Kirk befriends Tasha, and attempt to gain information from her.	Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Chapel perform a medical examination, which confirms that she is the most perfect android ever seen.  Decker enters and evokes an emotional response from the probe. Spock and Kirk decide to assign the probe to Decker to see if they can access Ilia's memories from the probe itself and attempt to gain information from it.  The probe crashes through the door deciding it's had enough examination and is ready to begin her observations.
	Kirk sends a brief message to Starfleet apprising them of the situation just as Tasha appears on the bridge.  Tasha continues to flirt with Sulu.  Ilia notices the signal being sent and determines that the "servo units" have taken control of the Enterprise.  If the signal is going to Earth, then they may have taken over Earth as well.  Vejur releases the ship from a tractor beam, which Ilia says is proof of it's good intentions.  It asks for evidence of the USS Enterprises good faith  by having it accept Earth as the "Holy Home of the Creator."  Kirk glibly says yes, but Ilia doesn't believe him.  She will show him proof by taking an away team inside Vejur itself.  Decker argues against Kirk going, but Kirk insists as Ilia is specifically working with him.
		Decker takes the Ilia probe through the rec deck and has her play a game which she almost always won.  She wins, which seems to awaken them for a moment, but the probe returns to its unemotional self.  The Ilia probe tells Decker that eventually the servo units will converted to data to be stored in V'Ger.  He lets her in on the plan to awaken the original Ilia's memories, which she agrees to try.  In Ilia's quarters, she tries on a headband given to her by Decker to awaken memories of Decker's romance with her on Delta 4.  Again it comes close to awakening memories, but fails to take hold.
Lt Vulcan announces no one ever lived on Earth, or left it, enraging the Wan.  He beams him, Kirk, "Commander" and McCoy over to the ship to show proof to the unbelievers.  They materialize inside a gigantic technological cavern, with cube-shaped machinery as  far as the eye can see.  An electronic fanfare plays and a duplicate of Sulu carts in the god N'sa itself.  Commander supplicates himself to it, shouting "N'sa!"  N'sa announces that even vermin know the face of N'sa.  Commander examines the god reverentially, then reports back to Kirk: it's Pioneer 10, launched by NASA.  It must have landed on the Wan planet and the Wan misunderstood the information on the plaque - the male and female figures on it have been destroyed.  The Wan refuse to believe, however, that humans created it, as machine life is stronger and more logical than humans.  Lt Vulcan agrees, but says humanoid life is better as it is more flexible in its thinking.	Xon, Ilia and Kirk materialize inside a gigantic technological cavern, with machinery bigger than skyscrapers, tubing carrying plasma arond the ship and loud hums of machinery.  They come across the reassembled body of Ilia, floating inside a gelatinous mass.  Xon scans her: she's dead.  Kirk asks if they can bring her back, to which Tasha replies that the body is being preserved for further study.  They ask again, but Tasha declines - they have her, and she is better and will never wear out.  She leads them to the Creator itself, which turns out to be the wreckage of an Earth Probe.  It's nameplate is damaged, reading only V---G-R 18 NASA. Kirk tries to convince Vejur that the humans of Earth created the Voyager probes, which Vejur denies, striking Kirk in the chest with lightning.  Convinced that the humans will not accept Vejur as the Creator, she releases the Enterprise.  They are to head back to Earth to announce Vejur's return to the "higher life forms" there, there machines that obviously are waiting for him.  As they beam over, he signals Earth to find any proof, any information at all, about NASA and Voyager 18.	Scripted version (Harold Livingston/Gene Roddenberry): Spock enters V'Ger against orders, and Kirk goes after him.  Kirk gets swarmed by memory crystals that threaten to crush him.  Spock saves him and the two enter V'Ger together.  The two learn the crystals contain memory and that the memory "wall" they come up to has V'Ger's entire voyage.  Spock realizes V'Ger is a living machine.  Spockattempts to mind meld with a gigantic memory sphere, overloading his mind with imagery.	Filmed Version (Douglas Trumbull): Spock enters V'Ger against orders.  Spock witnesses a condensced version of V'Ger's entire voyage.  Spock realizes V'Ger is a living machine.  Spock attempts to mind meld with a gigantic reproduction of Ilia, overloading his mind with imagery.  Kirk attempts to go after Spock, but instead catches him as V'Ger sends him back to the Enterprise.
	On their way home, Tasha remains with the crew, where she talks with Xon about where Vejur came from.  The planet it originated from had been inhabited by living machines for eons, but had recently come into "The Time of Troubles," a series of disasters for the planet.  Voyager 18 crash landed onto the planet at this time.  It rallies the machines into  new sense of purpose which causes them to overcome the Time of Troubles.  Three hundred years later, they build a ship to send Vejur back to Earth and discover it's origins.  However, Earth is infested, and obviously must be cleansed of the "servo units."	Spock recovers from the Mind Meld, where he reports what he has learned on his outing.  V'Ger is a living machine looking for purpose.
	The Enterprise enters Earth orbit.  The only other ship to greet it is the Delphi, a small light cruiser.  No match for V'Ger, but then again, the Enterprise wasn't much of a match either.  Tasha mentions that she saw other humans in love and that she's like to try that herself.  Kirk turns her down - she's an android, and wouldn't enjoy it.  Tasha responds that she would.  She can "feel" it.  She then becomes puzzled over being able to "feel" anything.  Kirk decides not to fight V'Ger - he has Tasha and himself down to Starfleet Command's archives, but not before telling Xon to rig self-destruct, to be executed on Decker's signal.  Kirk beams down, but decides not to go directly to the archive building, instead, he takes Tasha to Union Square Park in San Francisco.  He shows Tasha the children playing int he park and explains that they grow into the adults, and that the park is a place for humans to relax.  She takes in all the culture around her, fascinated by the park and the beach and the water.  She asks if humans created the beach.  Kirk replies that nature made it, naturally.  It wasn't manufactured.  Tasha says it's not perfect if it's not natural.  Kirk replies that nothing on Earth is perfect.  However, after seeing a boat carrying humans, she again begins to believe that humans have taken over machines.  Kirk tells her the humans created that boat, which Tasha refuses to believe.  She actually breaks down crying.  Kirk beams them to the archive building.
	Vejur enters Earth orbit and fires off multiple fireballs, all designed to destroy humanity in one fell swoop in thirty minutes.  The Enteprise goes to intercept, but realizes that the bombs also have a proximity fuse.  They evade the bomb, but the Vejur ship grabs them in a tractor beam pulling them closer.	Vejur enters Earth orbit and fires off multiple fireballs, all designed to destroy humanity in one fell swoop in thirty minutes.  Kirk bluffs the Ilia probe that they have information about the creator, but will only give it out of V'Ger removes the fireballs.  The Ilia probe agrees, but Kirk must give the information first.  Kirk continues his bluff and says that they can only give it to V'Ger himself.  The Enterprise is pulled further into the ship.  Kirk prepares Self Destruct, to destroy V'Ger before the fireballs detonate.
	In the archive buildings, Kirk and Nogura show Tasha the records they have on Voyager 18, however she refuses to eblieve they're real: They're all simulations, not the actual footage and could have been made up.  Kirk responds that all the records and footage have long since crumbled to dust - the recreations are all they have.  Decker sends cherry picked information to Vejur about human history, and why they are worth saving.  Vejur recieves theinformation and rejects it: "It is not complete."  Decker begins to send the entire history, including the worst of humanity when Xon stops him: Sending the whole history will reveal the other worlds in the Federation.  Vejur may decide to cleanse those, too.  Decker, fearing the self destruct may not work and the ship captured, instead has the Enterprise's library computer erased.  He activates self destruct, which begins an overload of the ship's engines.	Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Decker and the Ilia probe exit the ship.  Ilia leads them to the Creator itself, which turns out to be an Earth Probe.  It's nameplate is damaged, reading only V---GER 6. Kirk tries to convince V'Ger that the humans of Earth created the Voyager probes, and attempts to prove it by sending the code which will allow Voyager 6 to release it's information.  Instead, V'Ger burns out it's own circuitry to prevent reception.  The creator must come to V'Ger and do it manually.
	With five minutes left, a film reel and pojector are located with Voyager 18s launch on it.  Tasha helps assemble it herself (and is charmed by it) at lightning speed as time is running out.  The film runs, but immediately breaks.  They attempt to play it again, but it breaks again.  The film has deteriorated beyond the ability to play it.  Even Tasha feels badly that it will not play. Knowing that there's no way to stop Vejur, Nogura orders all UFP data banks to be erased immediately so they don't get captured by Vejur.
Lt Vulcan revelas that he himself is a duplicate.  The real Lt Vulcan realized once the Wan was sending over more complex animals, eventually it would send over duplicates.  It had the Enteprise computers convince the Wan it was on their side, while creating a duplicate of Lt Vulcan.  Only this duplicate has a photon bomnb installed.  Attempt to destroy the duplicate, or beam it away, and the bomb will go off.  Only when the Enterprise is a good distance away will it deactivate.	The Tasha probe begins to regret the destruction started by Vejur because it will destroy Kirk.  Kirk counters that it will destroy everyone.  "The others aren't important."  Kirk tells her that Vejur is wrong to kill everyone, and that she knows that.  A quick back and forth argument ensues - humans enslave the machines, humans made the machines.  Tasha walks away from Kirk, conflicted.	Decker determines that V'Ger wants to merge with the Creator.
The Wan admits defeat, but not because f the bomb itself.  It admits defeat because it believes humans are far more complex and creative than it had thought - it made the Enterprise computers lie to the Wan, something it could not force any of it's own systems to do.  It beams the crew back, dematerialized the duplicates, and turns and leaves.	The timer reaches zero, nothing happens.  Tasha tells Kirk she's told Vejur she saw unquestionable proof that human's created it and Vejur accepted it.  She lied to Vejur, and is not sure why.  Decker cancels self destruct and extends an invitation to Vejur to learn from each other. Vejur refuses - it cannot learn from lower life forms.  The ship turns and leaves Earth space.	With the timer nearing zero, Decker merges with V'Ger, allowing it to transcend its existence and enter another dimension.
As the ship leaves, Commander asks the Enterprise computer which is superior: man or machine?  The Enterprise computer responds: "Man."  McCoy interjects: "How do we know it's not lying?"	There's a flash of light, and Ilia, the actual Ilia, reappears on the bridge, alive and well.  Tasha and Kirk beam up to the Enterprise after she caresses his cheek - she's obviosuly fallen in love with him.  When he materializes on the Enterprise, it's the machanical Tasha probe that appears instead of the replicated Ilia body.  Tasha is dead and inert.  The Enterprise is ordered into immediate duty, ready to begin it's new five year mission.	The Enterprise emerges from the transcendence unscathed, ready to begin an overdue shakedown cruise.