Against the moon""s horizon, the visitors from another planet (dressed in Victorian garb) look back and see the Earth slowly rising into space.To Kirk and a few other crew members, it was revealed that V""Ger was formerly the unmanned scientific space probe and data-collecting transmitter namedVoyager 6that was launched by NASA from Earth in the 20th century (with a mounted plaque that readVOYAGER VI) more than 300 years earlier; after disappearing into a black hole, it crash-landed on a planet inhabited by an alien race of living machines, was rebuilt with a new surrounding vessel (the cloud) to house V""Ger, and reprogrammed to continue collecting data and returning that information to its creator NASA on Earth - "on its journey back, it amassed so much knowledge, it achieved consciousness itself.Back inside the cab company""s garage in his stall at he end of his stretch shift (six to six), he pops pills to keep calm.When he met up with her again, he was frustrated and angered by her "I don""t mind" responses, and told her: "Look here, don""t say that any more, will you?" She refused a good-night kiss; and she stood him up for another theatre date - she claimed her Aunt was ill, but her real excuse was that she had accepted a date from loutish, boisterous, womanizing traveling salesman Emile Miller (Alan Hale), another tearoom customer.The no-neck narrator - with a long cigarette holder - spoke about taking the audience on a strange journey: ("I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey").