Filming locations
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Throughout the history of Star Trek, the various television and movie productions have filmed at locations, predominantly in Southern California, to provide a broader scope and grandeur than can be achieved easily on a closed set. Even with the advent of CGI, location shoots have continued.
This article is an attempt to list as many of the locations used by the Star Trek productions as is possible.
[edit] The Original Series
The pilot episodes, "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before", were shot on Desilu stages 14, 15 and 16 at Desilu's Culver City facilities. These were the only episodes shot on those soundstages, as they were quickly deemed unusable by the producers. For the rest of the series the sets were moved to stages 9 and 10 at Desilu's Gower Street facilities, which were later combined with the adjacent Paramount studios to form Paramount Stage 31 and Paramount Stage 32. (The Making of Star Trek)
Most often remembered from "Arena", the unique slanting points of the Vasquez Rocks in Southern California's Antelope Valley also appeared in "Shore Leave", "The Alternative Factor" and "Friday's Child".
Additional sequences from "Shore Leave", including the sequences where the crewmembers race back and forth across a field several times, where shot at Africa USA, a wildlife preserve that featured exotic animals from around the word, which existed at that time in the Antelope Valley in Southern California.
The Deneva colony in "Operation -- Annihilate!" was filmed at the then futuristic TRW Space and Defense Park in the city of Redondo Beach, California.
Many additional 'outside' shots in the original series were actually filmed on the Desilu studio lot, which later became part of the Paramount studio lot. Real office buildings and other structures would be used for scenes in the series. In particular, "Patterns of Force" and "Assignment: Earth" made extensive use of these structures. For "Patterns of Force", the Directors' Building and the Producers' Building were both used as the Ekosian headquarters. In "Assignment: Earth," when Kirk and Spock beam in to the rocket base to try to stop Gary Seven, the shots of the NASA building were taken just behind the Marlene Dietrich Building, which as of 2006, housed Paramount's Media Relations department. In addition, a false front was added on to the northwest corner of the Dietrich building so it could be used as the opening to Gary Seven's New York office. [1]
The outdoor sequences in "The Paradise Syndrome" were filmed at the Hollywood Reservoir. It was the only location shoot that was conducted during Star Trek's third season.
[edit] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Scenes were filmed in Daly City, San Mateo County. [2]
[edit] Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was filmed in large measure in the San Francisco Bay area in California. For example, the scene where Kirk just about gets hit by a car was filmed at the corner of Kearney and Columbus in downtown San Francisco [3]. The Cetacean Institute, where the humpback whales known as "George and Gracie" were located, is the Monterey Bay Aquarium located south of San Francisco in the city of Monterey.
[edit] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
The opening of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was filmed at Yosemite National Park in California.Some scenes were shot in Alabama. [4]
[edit] Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country had a few interesting filming locations. Some of the Rura Penthe sequences were filmed in northern Alaska, which marked the first time Star Trek had been filmed outside of the state of California. Bob Crockett and his company Alaska Locations, Inc. served as location scout for these scenes. [5]
- In addition, external shots for Camp Khitomer were filmed at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, a religious retreat in the Simi Valley in Southern California. [6]
- The external shots of Rura Penthe were filmed at Bronson Canyon, part of the Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. The interior shots of Rura Penthe were filmed on Paramount Stage 16. (David G. Trotti, ENT Season 2 DVD special "Enterprise Secrets")
[edit] Star Trek: Generations
- Some scenes were shot in Alabama. [7]
- The shooting also included scenes shot in Pasadena, 465 South Grand Avenue. [8]
- Two weeks of the shooting were held at the Big Bear Mountain range in Los Angeles. [9]
[edit] Star Trek: First Contact
Scenes inside the missile complex housing Cochrane's Phoenix were filmed at the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, AZ. The museum includes some memorabilia from the movie.
[edit] Star Trek: Insurrection
- The wood and field scenes were filmed on the Venture Farms [10] and near Thousand Oaks [11]. This shotting also included helicopter shots of the green area which were cut from the final movie. The scene between Anij and Captain Picard when she stopped the time was filmed on the Vantura Farms. (Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition))
- The Ba'ku village was built at the Lake Sherwood in Ventura County, near Thousand Oaks. (Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition))
- The scenes on the Ba'ku lake and Data's steps into the water where the holoship was placed were filmed at the St. Gabriel Dam and at the Convict Lake in the Sierra Nevada. [12] (Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition))
- Several scenes during the trail of the Ba'ku and the fights with the Son'a on the mountains were filmed at Mammoth Mountain, Lake Sabrina, and the town Mammoth Lakes in California. [13] [14] (Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition))
[edit] Star Trek: The Next Generation
In the episode "Justice", the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant was used as the main outdoor filming location. Its address is 6100 Woodley Avenue, Van Nuys in the San Fernando Vally California. Many of the scenes are filmed at the Japanese garden surrounding the plant was designed by Dr. Koichi Kawana [lajapanesegarden.org]
Later, most of the episodes dealing with the Starfleet Headquarters and the nearby Starfleet Academy were shot at this site, with the filmed segments supplemented with matte backgrounds to fit in with 24th century San Francisco.For "Who Watches The Watchers", the new Enterprise cast and crew returned to the Vasquez Rocks as a location.
[edit] Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The sequence where Benjamin Sisko and his son Jake sit on a covered bridge within the holodeck was actually filmed at the Golden Oak Ranch, which is operated by the Walt Disney Company. The ranch is located at 19802 Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall, California.[edit] Star Trek: Voyager
[edit] "Caretaker"
- The scenes of the underground court on the Ocampa homeworld where filmed at the Los Angeles Convention center. [15]
- The scenes on the planets surface, including the Kazon-Ogla village, where filmed at the El Mirage Dry Lake Bed in the High Desert of Southern California. (VOY Season 1 DVD)
[edit] "Time and Again"
- The Tillman Water Reclamation Plant again showed up as a building on the unnamed planet.
[edit] "Future's End"
- Parts were filmed at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California. (citation needed • edit)
[edit] Star Trek: Enterprise
[edit] "Storm Front"
- Part of the episode was filmed at Griffith– K'EhleyrRozhenko 09:07, 31 December 2008 (UTC)– K'EhleyrRozhenko 09:07, 31 December 2008 (UTC)– K'EhleyrRozhenko 09:07, 31 December 2008 (UTC) Park, in Los Angeles, California. (citation needed • edit)
[edit] "The Forge"
- The scenes in the Vulcan's Forge were filmed at an industrial site in Simi Valley, Ventura County, in the northwest of Los Angeles.
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