Star Trek: The Motion Picture

In Robert Wise’s 1979 sci-fi epic Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a colossal, cloud-like energy anomaly of unknown origin heads directly toward Earth, destroying three Klingon starships and a Starfleet monitoring station in its path. Desperate to intercept the threat, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) uses the crisis to reassume command of his newly refitted flagship, the USS Enterprise, displacing its newly appointed commander, Willard Decker (Stephen Collins). Accompanied by a returning Spock (Leonard Nimoy)—who abandons a Vulcan ritual to investigate mysterious psychic telepathic transmissions—and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Kirk leads the ship into the center of the massive energy cloud. Deep within the entity, the crew encounters "V'Ger," a vast, sentient alien vessel seeking its creator on Earth. To save humanity from imminent sterilization by V'Ger's defensive probes, Kirk, Decker, and Navigator Ilia (Persis Khambatta) must decipher V'Ger's ancient origin and help the entity evolve to a higher plane of existence.