As if my occasional D&D posts haven't already labelled me as a hopeless nerd, I feel obliged to correct this. The correct name is "V'ger". The "oya" on the probe's plaque had gotten corroded, and these were the only letters visible, so the alien intelligence thought that the probe was named "V'ger"
I always wondered how a machine based society/intelligence that lived so far from earth could read enough english and annunciate the letters correctly to come up with "Vger" with the letters painted on the side of the spacecraft. I mean, how did they know that the scribbling was even a language, and not some form of competition stripes??
It was amazing that the visible letters were pronounced correctly in the first place. :-)