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Designing Starfleet Headquarters

The Original Series had occasionally referred to Starfleet Command and Starfleet Headquarters, but it wasn’t until Star Trek: The Motion Picture that fans got a glimpse of it.

Gene Roddenberry chose San Francisco as its location. Partly because the United Nations had been founded there in 1945, and partly because he considered the city an appropriate showcase for his secular humanist philosophy.

Roddenberry, who had shipped out from California to pilot Flying Fortresses in World War II, knew the Bay Area well.

The Motion Picture

Production Designer Harold Michelson told Fantastic Films in 1980 ( My Star Trek Scrapbook has the full interview ) that the original idea was to put the complex underground:

There wasn’t any more smog, the beaches were clean, and everything is absolutely marvelous.

This seems to have come from a suggestion by Jon Povill, who was meant to serve as story editor for the aborted second Star Trek television series Phase II . He wrote a memo for that show, titled “23rd Century Earth: Context for Enterprise Crew,” in which he suggested that commerce, industry and transportation on Earth had all been moved underground.

The problem with that approach was that the audience wouldn’t recognize the city.

So what we used was the Golden Gate Bridge. It was a relic and was no longer in use. Everybody uses spaceships.

Director Robert Wise adapted the scene to include a couple of what he described to Cinefantastique in late 1979, just before the movie’s release, as “marvelous shots of the futuristic San Francisco.”

I felt it was extremely important, particularly since our story is supposed to start on Earth, be about the saving of Earth, before we go up to the heavens and never come back […] to emphasize the scene in San Francisco.

Michelson prepared storyboards showing the Enterprise — later replaced by Kirk’s shuttle — crossing San Francisco Bay parallel to the bridge and entering a massive opening on the side of the hill. That’s where it would undergo its refit.

The drydock was later — and more logically — put in orbit. The San Francisco facility became an air tram station where Kirk arrives in the beginning of the movie.

A large live-action set was built on Paramount’s Stages 12 and 14. Model elements of the air tram and lighting effects were added, and the rest was filled in by Matthew Yuricich’s matte painting.

Douglas Trumbull, head of visual effects, remembered the shot as a “nightmare,” telling Star Trek Monthly in 1999, “It took us weeks to perfect it.”

For the 2001 Director’s Edition , Visual Effects Supervisor Daren Dochterman lowered the wall on the right side of the frame and added more shuttles.

He also brought the Golden Gate Bridge closer to match a new exterior shot of the air tram station. In the original (and 2009 and 2021 Blu-ray) theatrical cut, the station could only be spotted in the far distance. In the 2001 Director’s Edition , it appears next to the bridge.

The scene was updated again for the 2022 4K restoration of The Director’s Edition . The air tram station is much sharper and the buildings opposite Golden Gate Bridge have been changed to match those revealed in Star Trek IV .

The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II featured a brief scene in what was then still called Starfleet Headquarters, but what in retrospect would have been Starfleet Academy: when Kirk exits the simulator, he is handed a birthday present by Spock.

The simple set was even smaller than it appeared on screen. Production Designer Joseph Jennings told Star Trek: The Magazine in 2002 that it was Art Director Mike Minor who came up with the idea:

He went out to several hardware stores and came back with a birdbath, a planter and a bunch of junk. He went off and fiddled with it for about two days and he came up with a miniature. We put that in the foreground as what is called a “cutting piece” and the real set was in the background. They tied together visually and created a perspective trick that made the set look much bigger.

The Voyage Home

Ralph McQuarrie, of Star Wars fame — and who had earlier redesigned the Enterprise for the aborted motion picture Planet of the Titans — provided various concepts for Star Trek IV , including for a Starfleet facility on the northern shore of the Golden Gate, west of the bridge, which clearly inspired the look of the Federation Council in the movie.

Almost the entire shot was a matte painting. Actors in Starfleet uniforms were filmed walking on a runway at Oakland Airport. Chris Evans of ILM filled in the rest.

To make the sure the actors would be in the right place, the team put tape marks on the ground and even painted hard-edges shadows.

“This was the most planning we’ve done on a matte shot,” Evans told Cinefantastique in 1987.

The actual Starfleet Headquarters was only seen from the inside, in scenes where Fleet Admiral Cartwright (Brock Peters) confers with the Federation president (Robert Ellenstein).

The Next Generation

Footage from The Voyage Home was reused in the episode “Conspiracy” of The Next Generation , where the building is meant to house Starfleet Command rather than the Federation Council.

Starfleet Academy first appeared in “The First Duty”. The scenes were filmed at the Japanese Gardens of the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, California. The same gardens had been used to depict the planet Rubicun III in “Justice” and would be used many more times to depict Starfleet facilities.

The Golden Gate Bridge in the background puts Starfleet Academy in Horseshoe Bay, north of the Golden Gate and across the water from the building designed by McQuarrie.

The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek VI revealed the outside of the building we had presumably seen on the inside in Star Trek IV (judging by the view from the window behind Admiral Cartwright). This exterior shot were reused in the Voyager episodes “In the Flesh” and “Non Sequitur”.

The briefing room scene was filmed inside the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood on Carlos Avenue, Los Angeles.

Deep Space Nine

Graphic Artist Anthony Fredrickson was tasked with creating a whole new Starfleet Headquarters for Deep Space Nine ’s “Homefront”. He was given only a few days and almost no budget.

Doug Drexler suggested taking the General Motors Pavilion of the 1964-65 World’s Fair as inspiration, which he had visited as a child.

Fredrickson told Star Trek: The Magazine four years after the episode was produced:

I had the construction guys cut and shape me an appropriate piece of “wiggle wood”, a bendable kind of plywood. To me, the building’s facade looked like a curving venetian blind. It was a simple matter to walk across the lot and liberate a dusty set of blinds from an empty office. The front of the model was lined with the thin metal slate, and the overall effect was like a tall, narrow, drive-in movie screen, hung with the Federation of Planets logo. At the front of the building, we modeled a park crisscrossed with walkways, and used Micro Machine starships to represent sculptures, like the way a military base will mount an old jet outside the entrance.

A CD storage rack was used to represent a high-speed magnetic tram tunnel.

The perfect tram car was discovered in a plastic and aluminum hanging bird feeder. Its streamlined shape fit nicely in the tunnel, and after a little paint and pinstriping it provided the illusion of expansive windows and sliding doors.

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An air tram flies over San Francisco .

An air tram was a type of small vessel which was used to transport people between different cities on Earth . The trams were restricted to a capacity of around 20 people.

In 2273 , Admiral James T. Kirk boarded an air tram traveling between Los Angeles and San Francisco so that he could meet with Admiral Heihachiro Nogura at Starfleet Headquarters . ( TOS novelization : The Motion Picture )

A century later, in 2373 , Ensign Harry Kim took an air tram into the bay area of that city. ( VOY episode : " Non Sequitur ")

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• Air tram article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .

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I too thought this was a cool shot for the movie. Suprised no one has made a card model of this one yet, maybe I just missed it. Yours looks great, will stay tuned for more. Thanks MTK.

Thank you Rick. I'm actually making a card model of this, but I want to build the styrene version up first. Sorry, but I do like to have something of my own once in awhile. Never fear though, there will be a couple of different scaled versions of this available to the card modeling community.

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The Air Tram is an atmospheric transport vehicle used on Earth during the mid to late 23rd Century. One example transported Admiral Kirk to Starfleet Command Headquarters in San Fransisco during the V'Ger crisis. [3]

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The Air Tram concept is a simple development of the public transportation systems which have been in use within Human society for millennia. This particular model was designed to operate purely within planetary atmospheres, carrying small groups of passengers on trips of a few miles - generally within the boundaries of a single city, where transporter systems were still too energy expensive for wide scale use by the public. The tram was built in large numbers and was a common sight on Earth in the 2260's. Eventually, however, improvements in the efficiency of transporters began to seriously affect the air trams competitiveness. By the early 2270's air tram numbers had fallen rapidly, and by 2280 this type of craft was no longer in civilian service. [2]

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In 2259 Starfleet procured a number of air trams for use in and around sensitive ground facilities which operated continually under transporter inhibitors. These continued in service well beyond the point at which civilian models had become impractical - some were to be seen still operating as late as 2285. In the late 2280's Starfleet switched to inhibitors which blocked only non-Starfleet transports, and the air tram was finally phased out of service for good. [2] [N 2]

Side view of Air Tram 3, used by Admiral kirk. [5]

Total unit run reached 22,120. 38 have been lost in all. 22,082 have been retired from service.

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• ↑ Estimated by scaling against a person approximately six feet in height.
• ↑ Despite this, an air tram type vehicle appears to be operating in San Fransisco in an alternate 2372 [4]

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• ↑ DITL Air Tram images
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 DITL Air Tram Specs
• ↑ Memory Alpha page for Star Trek The Motion Picture
• ↑ Memory Alpha page for Star Trek Voyager Episode Non Sequitur
• ↑ DITL Air Tram Size Match
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Phase II Engineering Set Blueprints

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aridas sofia

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• Apr 11, 2018

i feel daft for needing to ask this. I thought someone had posted the construction blueprints for the Phase II engineering set, but I can’t find them anywhere. Do any of you good souls know if I am pursuing a wild goose or if, in fact, these plans have been found and disseminated? I am doing a little art project that would be helped if I could get a... gander at them.  

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Maybe try the folks at Forgotten Trek? http://www.forgottentrek.com/  

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• changed the intermix gizmo
• opened the back wall to put in the forced perspective part (along with the horizontal intermix shaft)
• removed the triangular patterned tiles from the underside of the main deck ceiling (which got repurposed as tiles on Vulcan)

The Star Trek Blueprints thread has collected some things that should be able to assist, sadly they are of how it appeared in TMP, but should give you a good starting point, as that set went on to eventually be the TNG set too so should be plenty of reference material for you to extrapolate a design from Phase II concept art: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/sets/72157644337724639 TMP Blueprints: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/albums/72157644182510017  

That’s great. Thank you. Great work that Red General did interpreting those corridor details in a cleaner, more coherent form. It is useful that the elaborate TMP sets carried through in part through to the Voyager production.  

StarCruiser said: Maybe try the folks at Forgotten Trek? Click to expand...

• Apr 13, 2018

Ottens said: *waves* I think the question's already been answered. Let me just add that Pat Suwalski's Star Trek Stages History is another resource that may prove useful to you. Click to expand...

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Pictograms from the Star Trek: The Motion Picture Peel-Off Graphics Book

by Jörg Hillebrand , Bernd Schneider and Brad Wilder

History of the Pictograms Canon Appearances Conclusion

For "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", a number of logos or pictograms were designed for 23rd century Earth and the Starship Enterprise. Rick Sternbach and Lee Cole were tasked with the design of this futuristic iconography. Many of the pictograms appeared as stickers in the Star Trek: The Motion Picture Peel-Off Graphics Book . This article identifies the logos depicted in the book in the TOS movies and later appearances on Star Trek.

History of the Pictograms

Rick Sternbach tells us how he got the job as senior illustrator on "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", his first of many jobs on Star Trek:

"In October 1977 I visited a number of studios during a trip out from Connecticut. One of those studios was Paramount, where the Phase II production had been moving along, though slowly, and Production Designer Joe Jennings was a straight shooter with me in saying that he didn't have anything for me at the time. I did get to meet with Mike Minor (illustrator) and John Cartwright (lead set designer), and left my info and SF and space art samples. Long story short, Joe invited me to come in when TMP was announced, I attended the press conference on stage, and was on the production that afternoon. My title was a senior illustrator under Mike Minor (and ultimately Joe), so I was there to draw whatever was needed to show how sets and props and such could look prior to building. I did marker sketches of the corridors and transporter room and airbrush art of Main Engineering. Lee Cole had established the look of the controls during Phase II, so when I started helping out with the backlit panels, I followed her stylistic lead. Harold Michelson replaced Joe Jennings, who went to work on Shogun, so I reported to Harold with sketches and suggestions for the remainder of the time there. Along with the techy controls, we did indeed do piles of inked logos and informational placards for the different sets, to visually tie everything together."

Rick Sternbach says about his inspiration for the pictograms:

"I can't say there was any one inspiration. Various logos and graphic styles mixed about in my head from the 70s. The general idea was to present a simple, quickly identifiable shape for each department. Of course, not every logo made instant sense within the film, but we knew what they were and where they would be placed."

When asked if any of the logos had drastically changed from the initial idea to their final appearance, Rick said:

"I don't recall any logos where we had a real progression from one concept to the next to a final. Some logo ideas were drawn up a few at a time and a lucky one got picked. A lot of these got drawn up and turned into final silkscreened adhesive stickers and metallic plates and attached to set walls and such without a lot of changes, at least while I was there on TMP. I suspect we were trusted to know what we were doing, something that carried over into TNG not that many years later."

Many of the designs ultimately didn't make it into "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in the end or were not recognizable on screen. Shortly after the release of the film, a book the Star Trek: The Motion Picture Peel-Off Graphics Book was published, however. This book contains many of the pictograms designed for the film as stickers.

Even though many of the original designs did not show up in the first Star Trek feature film, they were seen in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" and, to a lesser degree, in still later Star Trek films. Some of the designs even made it into the Star Trek TV shows, from TNG all the way to Enterprise. The logo that was seen most often is the Starfleet Medical logo. We have dedicated a separate article to this design, so it will only be dealt with in a rudimentary fashion here.

Of the original TMP pictograms, we have been able to identify 27 in the Star Trek films and TV shows so far. We will provide a scan from the above mentioned book for each logo that actually appeared on screen and will then add screenshots showing the various appearances of said logo. We focus on the logos in the same order they appear in the book so it starts with the logo that appeared most often in the first four Star Trek films, the United Federation of Planets Starfleet Headquarters logo.

Canon Appearances

01 united federation of planets starfleet headquarters.

After the UFP pennant was seen in TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead", this is the second United Federation of Planets emblem ever seen on Star Trek. It appears only once as a floor emblem in the first Star Trek film and not exactly as it does in the book. The font used for the text is different and the dots, representing stars, are also spread out differently.

A few seconds later, a very similar variety of the emblem can be seen on the hull of the air tram. This time, the dots in the grid are aligned like in the book. The laurel leaves also are similar but all of the text is missing and the 5 stars are now located where usually the text "Starfleet Headquarters" is found. The words "Star Fleet Command" are now written underneath the seal.

In the film, the logo is next seen twice printed in gold on a glass plate. It appears like that inside the travel pod used by Kirk, McCoy, Sulu and Uhura to travel to the USS Enterprise. When they board the ship, the same glass plate is also visible next to the docking hatch. A white plate with the seal additionally appears in Spock's quarters in this film and in Star Trek III. Finally, several yellow cargo crates in the man-made caves on the Regula planetoid also feature the logo.

In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", the emblem first appears as a translight graphic on the bridge of the USS Grissom. The laurel leaves of this version are hollow and no longer solid. After that, the logo is shown for the first time without the words "Starfleet Headquarters" on a monitor in Captain Kirk's apartment. The same version later appears on the bridge of the USS Enterprise, also on a monitor.

In the Officers' Lounge at Starfleet Headquarters a slightly different version of the logo appears as a large wall plaque and on the door to the lounge. The words "United Federation of Planets" are replaced by fifteen additional stars on this seal.

Characteristic glasses with the logo appear for the first time in the Officers' Lounge. In the scene set in the lounge, the logo is really hard to see. A little later in the film, Captain Styles is seen in his quarters aboard the USS Excelsior. One of the glasses is standing next to his bead. Here, the logo is clearly visible. The top and bottom of those glasses appear frosted. It is possible that a white cup with the logo, used by Captain Picard in "Encounter at Farpoint" was also originally created for the Officers' Lounge. One of the frosted glasses is later seen aboard the USS Tsiolkovsky in "The Naked Now".

The seal appears one more time in the third film on the ID of the civilian Federation Security agent.

In "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", the emblem is only seen at the Federation Council chambers. It appears on the floor, on the wall above the Federation president and on his lectern. In each of these appearances, the word "Starfleet Headquarters" is missing. In front of the Federation delegates, several red tray with two glasses and a bottle-like glass with a removable lid each, similar to the ones from Star Trek III, are standing. These glasses do not feature any of the frosting like the glasses in the previous film so they might have been newly created. Only the middle glass with the lid features the logo. This lid is similar in appearance to the top of the Romulan Ale bottle from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan".

Some of the all-clear glasses (with and without lids) appear in later TNG episodes, usually in Picard's ready room. In some early TNG episodes, the glasses also show up in other locations aboard the USS Enterprise-D. A red tray with three glasses, one of them with a lid, is seen in Riker's quarters in "Haven". In "Conspiracy", Picard pours a glass of water from one of the glasses with a lid into one if the regular glasses (without the logo) in his quarters. A glass with a lid and a separate lid next to it are seen in Data's quarters in "The Measure of a Man". Two glasses with the logo and a lid appear on a silver tray in Admiral Jarok's guest quarters in "The Defector".

In the first 3½ seasons of TNG, a red tray with two glasses and one glass with lid and logo in the middle (exactly as they appeared in "Star Trek IV") were usually standing in front of Picard's Shakespeare book in his ready room. When the room was redecorated to serves as Will Riker's future ready room in "Future Imperfect", the table with the glasses and the book were removed and replaced by a plant. It seems that when everything was returned to the way it looked before, the lid somehow got lost because ever since then, only three glasses (the middle one with the logo but without a lid) were seen in his ready room.

After these appearances, the TMP-style seal is never seen again in any of the later Star Trek films, as by the time of "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" the 24th century Federation emblem, introduced in the first season of TNG, is used. Interestingly, in "The Mind's Eye", Geordi is drinking from a glass very similar to the ones from "Star Trek III" and "Star Trek IV", but this glass is fully frosted and features the 24th United Federation of Planets emblem.

See The Evolution of the Federation Emblem for further variations, and particularly the ones since TNG.

02 Klingon battle craft

See also The Evolution of the Klingon Emblem .

03 San Francisco Sky Tram Port

As previously mentioned, in the second and third Star Trek films, the logo appears prominently as a shoulder patch on the away mission jacket.

In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", the logo additionally appears as a shoulder patch on the waiters' uniforms in the Officers' Lounge. The Starfleet Security officers guarding Dr. McCoy also wear a metallic version of the logo on their hats.

The logo also shows up on the uniform of NASA astronaut Col. Richey in TNG: "The Royale". Though this appearance is anachronistic, it seems fitting for the mission of the Charybdis to traverse the Sol system.

It should be noted that in all cases, the color, appearance and arrangements of the sun and the planets as in the book do not match the actual patches and badges seen in the films. In all appearances of the shoulder patch that are actually visible on screen, the third planet (Earth) is blue, while all the other planets are gray.

Very similar costume patches with only eight planets, the fourth planet being blue, were sold by It's a Wrap. The listings state that security officers in the Federation Council scenes (in "Star Trek IV") wore these patches. It is really hard to make out but it is possible that one of these patches actually appears here.

04 Transporter systems

In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", the logo appears as it does in the book. It is black, with a white outline and arrow and a yellow person at the center. It is seen in the Old City Station transporter room.

A simplified pictogram with just the humanoid figure can be seen in the transporter room of the USS Titan-A in the third season of Picard.

This pictogram was designed by Rick Sternbach. When asked why this logo is one of a few bicolored ones in the book, he says:

"No idea. I really dealt with black and white ink art, and I only recall single colors of silkscreen printing or the ScotchCal metallic plates."

05 Epsilon Nine Starfleet Monitoring Base

The logo, similar to as it appears in the book, was later seen twice on Star Trek series. It first appeared in DS9: "Destiny" as the logo for the Wormhole Comm Relay Project. It was later used again in VOY: "Author, Author" as the Pathfinder Project logo.

06 Damage/repair

This logo was designed by Rick Sternbach. When asked what it depicts, he says:

"Don't recall. Maybe it was just a solid-looking tool shape."

07 Engineering

As Kirk races to Engineering at the end of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" he runs past a door with the logo. The pictogram appears without the shield surrounding it and is colored white on orange. In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", it is one of several logos on the walls of the Officers' Lounge. Here it appears as it does in the book, only in blue instead of black.

This logo was designed by Rick Sternbach. When asked whether the engineering logo depicts a stylized warp core, Rick responded:

"Not specifically; it was meant to show high energy being confined and utilized."

08 Security

The logo on a shield is briefly seen on the door opposite the transporter room as Kirk leaves after the death of Commander Sonak. In contrast to its depiction in the book, here it appears in black on a white background.

After it does not appear in the second Star Trek film, it is seen twice in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock". Here it is visible on the yellow no entry tape preventing access to Spock's quarters. The logo also appears on a blue shield in the Officers' Lounge.

Many years later, the logo was used as the basis for the Security Division Sol Sector shoulder patch in "Affliction".

Still two decades later, the slightly modified original pictogram shows up on a display in PIC: "Surrender", after Jack has telepathically contacted Lt. Mura on the bridge to enter the security override codex.

This logo was originally designed by Rick Sternbach. We think that it looks like interlocking chains or handcuffs. Rick says:

"Sorry, don't recall specifics. Most of these were meant to convey a simple visual point, and that might have been exactly the point we were going for. :)"

It shows up only once more, in the third Star Trek film in the Officers' Lounge. Here, it is seen on a blue shield, along with other logos of the same style.

10 Communication

The pictogram is also seen on a blue shield, way out of focus, in the Officers' Lounge in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock".

We can also repeatedly see the logo in the third season of Star Trek Picard, now without the stylized "CRT screen" and with differently arranged sine waveforms.

11 Environmental systems

The logo was designed by Rick Sternbach. He tells us:

"I think the Environmental logo was based on chemical bond diagrams."

12 Weapons/defense

Decades later, a slight variation of the emblem can be seen on a bridge display of the USS Stargazer in PIC: "The Star Gazer".

It is only seen as a uniform patch worn by Dr. McCoy and Dr. Chapel in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". In "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", the logo can be briefly spotted on a door Kirk, Spock and Saavik run past. Like the Transporter and Engineering logos, also seen on doors, it appears on its own here and not on a shield as in the book. In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" it is one of several logos on a blue shield in the Officers' Lounge.

The logo does not appear in "Star Trek IV" or "Star Trek V" but on Dr. McCoy's medical pouch he takes to the Klingon battlecruiser to treat the dying Chancellor Gorkon in "Star Trek VI". It is also seen on the sickbay doors of the USS Enterprise-A. In "Star Trek: Generations" we can also see it on sickbay doors and wall monitors.

See The Evolution of the Starfleet Medical Emblem for all appearances of the logo in the 24th century series and in the latest Trek shows.

In conclusion, it can be said that all nine departmental logos depicted in the book are actually seen on screen in some way or another.

14 Chief Navigator Ilia

Only the insignia for Ilia's quarters is shown in the movie, it appears for a few frames when she enters her quarters after having talked to Commander Decker in an Enterprise corridor.

15 Circuitry cartridge

All the cargo labels and each of their components were designed by Rick Sternbach.

16 Cargo hold locator

The logo appears much more visibly in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", where it appears on several cargo crates in the artificially created corridors leading to the Genesis caves.

17 Test point

18 Perishable cultures cryogenic storage

The boxes got much more screen time on TNG where they usually appeared under a shelf in sickbay. Dr. Crusher carries one of the boxes in "Encounter at Farpoint" where the label gets the most exposure. At some point in TNG season 6 between "Aquiel" and "Starship Mine", the boxes were relabeled and no longer feature the original warning label from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" but a more generic blue label featuring the Starfleet Medical logo. One of the boxes is also seen on DS9 in "The Way of the Warrior", here still with the original logo.

Many years later, the pictogram shows up on containers on La Sirena in PIC: "The Star Gazer". It is hard to make out, but it looks like the complete "Perishable cultures" sticker with the central pictogram and the surrounding blue text field (as on Beverly's box in early TNG) later appears in the sickbay of the USS Titan-A in Picard's third season.

The label was designed by Rick Sternbach.

19 Light cube tables

The logo was designed by Rick Sternbach.

20 Directional pointer

Directional pointers with a logo inside show up on the rec deck in "Star Trek: the Motion Picture", as can be seen in the entry about the light cube tables.

A pointer with a number inside is visible next to the airlocks logo when Spock arrives aboard the ship early in the first film. Beginning in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", the pointers are also seen with numbers (aboard the USS Enterprise) and letters (the Regula I station) inside and as simple pointers without anything inside (in corridors and sickbay aboard the USS Enterprise). These pointers make a reappearance in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" were they are seen on several labels. A similar label but without a number inside the pointer, is also seen in the crew quarters aboard the USS Excelsior in "Flashback".

21 Turbolift

In "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" the logo is seen with the letter A on the bridge turbolift doors of the USS Enterprise and USS Reliant and on the turbolift door of the bridge simulator at the beginning of the film. It also appears on turbolift doors (with the letters B and D) in corridors aboard the USS Enterprise. In addition to that, it also appears with the number 2 outside the bridge simulator at Starfleet Headquarters.

In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" it appears on the bridge turbolift doors with the letter A and in corridors with the letter B.

It next appears on several doors, including the bridge turbolift doors, in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country". In "Star Trek: Generations", it also appears on the bridge turbolift doors of the USS Enterprise-B. In VOY: "Flashback", it is seen on the bridge doors of the USS Excelsior and, in a very compressed version, on the turbolift display of the ship. We can also spot the logo in "Star Trek: Insurrection".

22 Airlocks

More than 40 years later, the airlock pictogram can be seen aboard Crusher's ship Eleos in PIC: "The Next Generation".

The logo was designed by Rick Sternbach. The photo showing Rick Sternbach at work designing the logos shows a different, five-sided version of an airlock logo. He says:

"I think the five-sided airlock might have been a holdover from Phase II. The final airlock logo was drawn up based on the final lock the set designers created."

23 Radiation hazard

24 Thermowave hazard

The logo saw much more screen time on TNG, where it was printed on several cargo containers, often next to the label "hazardous material". A cargo container with the logo was also seen on DS9 in "The Siege".

It was also printed on labels next to the doors to the nacelle control room aboard the USS Enterprise-D, featuring the words "Danger: subspace field hazard" in "Eye of the Beholder". In "Thine Own Self" it is printed on the case with radioactive metal that Data carries into the Barkonian village. The warning "radioactive" is clearly legible on the case. It thus seems that on TNG, the logo has gained a more general "danger" connotation, not limited to thermowave hazards.

25 Table tennis

The pictogram for table tennis appears as part of a directional marker in in the rec deck scene. It can be spotted behind Decker as he talks to the Ilia probe. In contrast to how it is shown on the cover, in the actual film the handle of the racquet is seen pointing to the top. The logo was designed by Rick Sternbach.

26 Volleyball

27 Unidentified rec deck logo

A so far unidentified rec deck logo is partially visible behind Decker in the scene where he talks to the Ilia probe. It could possibly be a chess logo but it doesn't match the two chess logos seen inside the book and on its cover.

28 Bowling alley

The fan extras on TMP have reported seeing the bowling alley signage (from the book's front cover) on the rec deck the day they were filming on it.

29 Life support systems

30 Components

Rick Sternbach sifted through old sketches and found out the meaning of the pictogram:

"The simple triangle logo is COMPONENTS, and the more complicated one you already have as DAMAGE/REPAIR."

Of all the pictograms created for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", the one with the most screen time is the Starfleet Medical logo. The Federation seal was often seen in the first four feature films but it was replaced by the 24th century Federation emblem beginning in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier". Other logos that are very noticeable are the turbolift logo and the directional pointer. If it weren't for the Officers' Lounge scene in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", some other logos would never have appeared or been seen clearly on Star Trek.

The people in the Art Department are known for paying amazing attention to detail and to the history of Star Trek. This is how some of the old logos did not only make the transition to TNG but were even unearthed after not appearing in ages. The Security logo was shown on Star Trek Enterprise some 25 years after its appearance in TMP.

Not all of the logos appear on screen exactly as they do in the ST:TMP Peel-Off Graphics Book , but the book is an unexpectedly reliable reference, and indispensable in our effort to identify and reconstruct the iconography of the 23rd century.

Thanks a lot to Rick Sternbach for taking time to answer our questions! Thanks to William Overton for the hint about the turbolift logo in "Insurrection" and to Ian McLean for the observation about the bowling alley pictogram.

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Last updated on July 14th, 2024 at 07:50 am

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We know the treetopia park ‘s monteverde tree tram cableway (aerial tram; formerly known as the sky tram) well because we’ve ridden it more than once.

As we mentioned in our related blog post  Treetopia Park (Formerly Sky Adventures Monteverde): Zip-lining, Hanging Bridges, And Tram Rides In The Cloud Forest ,  we’ve visited the park several times over many, many years.  In that article, we detail the Treetopia Park ‘s entire Monteverde operation, including their Monteverde  Sky Trek Canopy Zip-lining Tour , their Monteverde Vertigo Drop (free-fall activity), their Monteverde  Sky Walk Hanging Bridges , their Monteverde  Arboreal Obstacle Course , and their on-site facilities, including free lockers, free parking, dining opportunities, and more. If you’re interested in learning about the various tours, activities, and services that are available at the  Treetopia Park , please see the article linked above.  If you’re specifically interested in learning about the  Treetopia Park ‘s  Monteverde Tree Tram Cableway (Aerial Tram) , please continue reading below.

The Treetopia Park ‘s Monteverde Tree Tram Cableway (Aerial Tram)

The Treetopia Park ‘s Monteverde Tree Tram Cableway (Aerial Tram) experience

Tree Tram rides are a great way to view Costa Rica’s lush landscape from above, and the Monteverde area promises beautiful scenes that are bursting with vibrant, varied shades of green. More specifically, the view you’ll get while riding the Tree Tram at the Treetopia Park in Monteverde is one of endless cloud forest canopy.

At the Treetopia Park , you can ride the Tree Tram on its own or in combination with the Sky Trek Canopy Zip-lining Tour . On its own, you’ll ride the tram up to the top of the cloud forest and down again, ending where you departed at the Treetopia Park ‘s operations center. As part of the Sky Trek Canopy Zip-lining Tour , after riding the tram up to the top of the cloud forest, you’ll zip across a series of cables on your return to the Treetopia Park ‘s operations center.

The Treetopia Park ‘s Monteverde Tree Tram Cableway (Aerial Tram) logistics

A one-way Tree Tram ride at the Treetopia Park lasts approximately 10 minutes , when counting from the moment the tram departs from the Treetopia Park ‘s operations center until it arrives at a platform at the top of the cloud forest.

If you reserve the Tree Tram ride only (i.e., if you do not plan to participate in the Sky Trek Canopy Zip-lining Tour ), you’ll ride the tram both ways (to the top of the cloud forest and back down again). Once you reach the top of the cloud forest, you’ll be given roughly 30 minutes to explore the platform and a short nature trail there. During that time, you can take in beautiful views of the cloud forest, snap photos, scan the forest canopy for birds and wildlife, and/or enjoy a treat or refreshment at the on-site cafe. If you choose to explore the trail, it will introduce you to flora and fauna native to the area, including a variety of plants, flowers, insects, amphibians, and reptiles, most notably ferns, orchids, torch flowers, spiders, and lizards. You may also hear the bellowing cries of territorial howler monkeys that reside around Monteverde. Once you return to the Tree Tram, you’ll spend approximately 10 minutes riding it back to the operations center. This second ride completes the approximate one-hour Tree Tram Aerial Tram experience.

If you experience the Tree Tram as part of the Sky Trek Canopy Zip-lining Tour , note that you’ll only ride the tram once (to the top of the cloud forest), not back down again. Once you disembark at the platform at the top of the cloud forest, you’ll immediately begin the zip-lining portion of the tour (you won’t hike the nature trail and/or visit the cafe), and you won’t return to (or ride) the tram again.

Age requirements and weight limits for the Treetopia Park ‘s Monteverde Tree Tram Cableway (Aerial Tram)

There is currently no minimum age limit or maximum weight limit imposed on individuals who are interested in riding the Tree Tram.

Tree Tram rides are family-friendly. What’s more, children (ages 0-5 years) are welcome to ride the Tree Tram in Monteverde for free with a paying adult.

The Tree Tram Aerial Tram compartments at the Treetopia Park are spacious and accessible to people with a variety of disabilities, including individuals who use walkers and/or wheelchairs. The platform at the top of the cloud forest, which boasts an incredible view of the cloud forest, is also wheelchair-accessible.

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Class F shuttlecraft

The Class F shuttlecraft was the standard issue Starfleet shuttlecraft during the mid- 23rd century .

• 2 Technical data
• 3 Shuttles of the class
• 4.1 Appearances
• 4.2.1 Studio models
• 4.3 Spaceflight Chronology
• 4.4 External links

History [ ]

During the mid- 2260s , Class F shuttles were based at starbases and aboard Constitution -class starships , which were standard equipped with four shuttles of this class, along with other shuttle classes. ( TOS : " The Galileo Seven ", " The Doomsday Machine ", " The Omega Glory "; TAS : " Mudd's Passion ", " The Ambergris Element ")

The Class F shuttlecraft remained in service until the 2270s , when they were still being deployed to and from the San Francisco air tram station . ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture Directors Edition )

Among the decorations in a lounge aboard the USS Enterprise -D in 2364 was the model of an Enterprise shuttle. ( TNG : " Lonely Among Us ")

By the early 2380s , one Class F was on display in a museum on Vulcan when crew members from the USS Cerritos stole a Romulan Bird-of-Prey . ( LD : " Veritas ")

Technical data [ ]

Interior of a Class F

Constructed with a duranium metal shell, the Class F was propelled by an ion engine whose power was generated by a matter/antimatter reaction; it was capable of matching the speed of a Constitution -class starship at warp . ( TOS : " The Menagerie, Part I ", " Metamorphosis ") The exterior could also be reinforced with a protective shield . ( TOS : " The Immunity Syndrome ")

According to the USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual [ page number? • edit ] , these shuttles did not carry any kind of armament.

Upon viewing his first Class F shuttle, Zephram Cochrane , observed, " Hey, that's a nice ship. Simple and clean; " he further added that " your ship is sure a beauty. " ( TOS : " Metamorphosis ")

Aft access engineering panel (undergoing extreme systems failure)

The twenty-four foot long Class F shuttle was divided into two sections: the forward section, which contained seating arrangements for at least seven passengers, and a smaller aft section, which contained access to the engineering components of the shuttle. Access was made to the shuttle via an entrance on the port side, which consisted of two sliding doors and a hinged gangway, which, when lowered, stretched from the main body of the shuttle to the port nacelle. ( TOS : " The Galileo Seven ")

In normal flight through the void of deep space, Class F shuttles operated on instruments only. The blast shutters on the three forward windows would be lowered when sensors detected something visually significant (e.g. a nebula). ( TOS : " Metamorphosis ")

Shuttles of the class [ ]

• Columbus ( NCC -1701/2)
• Da Vinci (SB4-0314/2)
• Einstein (NCC-1701/6)
• Galileo (NCC-1701/7)
• Galileo II (NCC-1701/7)
• Picasso (SB11-1201/1)
• Setar (NCC-1631/4)

Appendices [ ]

Appearances [ ].

• " The Galileo Seven "
• " The Menagerie, Part I "
• " Metamorphosis "
• " The Doomsday Machine "
• " Journey to Babel "
• " The Immunity Syndrome "
• " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield "
• " The Way to Eden "
• TAS : " Mudd's Passion "
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( Director's Edition )
• TNG : " Lonely Among Us " ( model )
• DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations "
• LD : " Veritas "
• " Starstruck " (digital image)
• " All the World's a Stage "

Background information [ ]

The Class F shuttle made its first appearance on television in " The Menagerie, Part I ", despite being sequentially filmed after " The Galileo Seven " (the otherwise accepted first appearance of a shuttlecraft).

The shuttlecraft interior set was built on Stage 10 at Desilu 's main Gower Street studio lot. It debuted in "The Galileo Seven". For its last on-screen appearance in " The Immunity Syndrome ", the interior set was heavy redressed. In the last two appearances of the shuttlecraft (in " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield " and " The Way to Eden "), only the studio model and the exterior mockup can be seen.

In the story outline for "The Galileo Seven", this type of shuttlecraft was described thus; " It is a small and extremely maneuverable craft, handy for [...] investigations [of anomalies, etc. in space]. "

In ultimately unused dialogue from the script of "The Galileo Seven", the Class F shuttlecraft's hull was said to consist of titanite plates.

The aft access engineering panel at the rear of the shuttlecraft exterior – which Scott works on in "The Galileo Seven", and Spock works on in "Metamorphosis" – is referred to, in the fan community, as the "busy-box". [1]

Studio models [ ]

Spaceflight chronology [ ].

The full specification for the Class F was not heard in "The Menagerie" as the computer was stopped. It is likely that the craft had a limited warp capacity as attempting to follow the Enterprise , a faster than light vessel, would be absurdly futile with a slower than light ship. It also had limited range, as Kirk exceeded his point of safe return in "The Menagerie, Part I." Jefferies established the length of the shuttlecraft at 21 feet (22 feet with landing gear extended).

The following specifications were given by the Spaceflight Chronology :

• Length: 6.8 m
• Weight: 17,000 kg
• Ship's Complement: 7
• Propulsion: Impulse Power
• Range: Interplanetary
• Landing/Takeoff Velocity: 300 knots
• Atmosphere Cruising Velocity : Mach 12 (14,200 km/hr)
• Interplanetary Cruising Velocity: 350 million km/hr
• Engines: Advanced Impulse Power

External links [ ]

• Class F shuttlecraft at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Starfleet Type F Shuttlecraft - 3D model with interior; overview video
• 1 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)
• 3 Daniels (Crewman)