" Bilbo declined to attend and wished to slip away unnoticed from the Mountain: "Will you tell he others I said goodbye?" As he began to walk away, Bilbo realized hat nine of the other Dwarves had assembled to give him a proper goodbye and farewell.After the destruction of several skyscrapers, structures, and even a space satellite, they fought to a stand-still...V""Ger and the creator will become one...The creator is that which created V""Ger...V""Ger is that which seeks the creator"; Spock surmised that Ilia""s memories had also been replicated, meaning "her feelings of loyalty, obedience, friendship might all be there" - therefore, the probe might be "the key to the aliens" - if those memories could be revived through its remembered romantic association with Commander Decker in a former relationship - this could help the crew make direct contact with V""Ger, but concern arose when the android said: "all carbon units will be reduced to data patterns"." As they locked their hands together, and expressed confusion about the go-on-three rule (a running gag), they survived the explosion, with Riggs asking: "Get off me, man.