Commander Willard Decker Quotes in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Captain James T. Kirk: Let's take a look. Full sensor scan, Mr. Spock. They can't expect us not to look them over now.

Commander Willard Decker: Now that we're looking down their throat.

Captain James T. Kirk: Right, now that we've got them just where they want us.

Commander Willard Decker: We all create God in our own image.

Commander Willard Decker: V'ger... expects an answer.

Captain James T. Kirk: An answer? I don't know the question.

Commander Spock: V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve. What it requires of its god, doctor, is the answer to its question, "Is there nothing more"?

Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: What more is there than the universe, Spock?

Commander Willard Decker: Other dimensions. Higher levels of being.

Commander Spock: The existence of which cannot be proven logically. Therefore, V'Ger is incapable of believing in them.

Captain James T. Kirk: What it needs in order to evolve... is a human quality. Our capacity to leap beyond logic.

Commander Willard Decker: And joining with its creator might accomplish that.

Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?

Commander Willard Decker: Let's find out.

Commander Willard Decker: [shouting] Don't interfere with it!

Lt. Pavel Chekov: Absolutely I will not interfere.

[Kirk apologizes for assuming command over Captain Decker]

Captain James T. Kirk: I'm sorry, Will.

Commander Willard Decker: No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damned bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way.

[Decker announces his intention to merge with V'ger]

Commander Willard Decker: Jim, I want this. As much as you wanted the Enterprise, I want this.