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Star
Trek: Generations: The surface of ‘Viridian 3’:
James T Kirk passes into history: Valley of Fire, Nevada
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STAR
TREK: GENERATIONS filming locations
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CREDITS
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“You
know there was a time that I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then
the Borg came and they showed me that if there is one
constant in this universe, it's death. ”
A shot in the arm for the series
as the Enterprise’s original captain hands over
the baton to the Next Generation.
‘Viridian 3’, the planet on which Soran (Malcolm
McDowell) tries to return to the total joy of the
Nexus, and where James T Kirk (William
Shatner) finally drops off the intergalactic perch,
is Silica Dome in
the Valley
of Fire State Park, northwest of Las
Vegas, Nevada.
To reach the Valley,
take I-15 north from Vegas for 33 miles. A signposted
turnoff, Route 169, winds for another 18 miles to the
park entrance, and on to the Visitor Center (8.30am
- 4.30pm). Silica Dome,
a dazzling white rounded peak among the fiery red sandstone
outcrop, is off Fire Creek
Road.
Visit the park late in the day to see the vivid scarlet
outcrops blaze up under the setting afternoon sun. This
is one of my personal favourite locations – its
savage beauty has also been seen in action adventure
The Professionals
and Sam Peckinpah's
elegiac The Ballad of Cable
Hogue.
Captains Kirk and Picard (Patrick
Stewart) meet up near Hart
Flat, Kern County, central California.
The scenes of Captain Kirk riding his uncle’s horse
were filmed on William
Shatner's own farm, and with his own horses.
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'Star
Trek: Generations: Captain Picard's Dickensian
Christmas in the Nexus: 465 South Grand Avenue,
Pasadena
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One odd location for Star Trek:
Generations you can find in Los
Angeles. Jean-Luc Picard’s oddly Dickensian
Christmas fantasy in the Nexus was filmed in the elegant
mansion (recently put up for sale at $4,250,000) at
465 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR STAR TREK: GENERATIONS
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Nevada:
Valley
of Fire State Park, Overton,
northwest of Las Vegas
(admission charge; tel: 702.397.2088). The
park is open daily, from dawn to dusk, and the Visitor
Center from 8.30am to 4.30pm. It's located in the
Mojave Desert of southern Nevada
about 50 miles northeast of Las
Vegas. It abuts Lake Mead National Recreation
Area at the Virgin River confluence, lying in a basin
4 miles wide by 6 miles long, 15 miles southwest of
Overton. Its
elevation varies between 2,000 and 2,600 feet.
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The
Valley of Fire forms the backdrop
for Sam
Peckinpah's elegiac 1970 Western The
Ballad of Cable Hogue, and Richard
Brooks' 1966 adventure The
Professionals, with Burt
Lancaster and Lee
Marvin
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