Spock, this "child" is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now,

               what do you suggest we do? Spank it?

The starship Enterprise is undergoing a major refit, and James T. Kirk has been promoted to Admiral and is now chief of starfleet operations at headquarters on Earth. However an alien force, in the form of a massive energy cloud, has been detected in Klingon space and is believed to be heading towards the earth. In its wake the cloud destroys three Klingon starships and a starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon 9, and so starfleet decides to dispatch the USS Enterprise to intercept the cloud.

Admiral Kirk assumes his former command of the ship, angering Commander Willard Decker, who had been overseeing the refit as its new captain. With many of the former crew members of the ship aboard, the Enterprise embarks on its journey; however, testing of its new systems goes poorly, including a transporter accident that kills the science officer and one other, resulting in further tension between Kirk and Decker. Many problems are resolved by the arrival of a familiar replacement science officer, the Vulcan Commander Spock, who had been on his homeworld of Vulcan, undergoing the kolinahr ritual. His failure to complete kolinahr and purge his emotions has led him to seek his answers on the Enterprise...

Later the Enterprise intercepts the alien cloud and journey's inside, discovering a vast alien vessel. An alien probe appears on the bridge and attacks Spock, and as a result his assistant is kidnapped and replaced with a robotic probe, which reveals that it has been sent to study the carbon units, namely humans. The crew discover that this probe has been sent by an entity by the name of V'ger, and after Spock conducts a spacewalk on the alien vessel he discovers that the vessel id V'gor itself as a living entity.

The ship gradually journeys to the center of V'ger, where V'ger is revealed to be the unmanned scientific probe Voyager 6, which was part of the Vyagr programme launched in the 20th century. The damaged probe was found by an alien race of living machines that interpreted its programming as instructions from God to "learn all that is learnable" and return that information to its creator. These machines made V'ger into something capable of fulfilling that mission, and on its journey back it gathered so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness itself. However Spock realizes that what V'ger lacks is the ability to give itself a purpose other than its original mission. Having learned all that is learnable on its journey home, which took V'ger across the universe, V'ger finds itself empty and without a purpose. Only through the creator can V’ger begin to explore illogical things, such as God, other dimensions, or higher planes of being.

In the climax of the film, V'ger merges with Commander Decker and then vanishes into a higher realm of being.....it would appear that the earth has been saved......this time around.

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