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Cal State Northridge transformed into Starfleet Academy [Minor Spoilers] |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Saturday, 22 March 2008
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 If there's anything that says Spring Break, it's Star Trek, right? Okay, that's probably not the first thing to come to mind (probably something more like Cancun or Panama City, Florida), but that's what's happening at Cal State Northridge. Over the school's spring break, the campus was transformed into Starfleet Academy, complete with uniformed cadets and officers, blue screens, and little Trek touches here and there.
The CSUN Oviatt Library, built in 1973 (and seriously damaged by the Northridge earthquake in 1994) and associated Sierra Quad have filled in for Hollywood before, notably in 2005's Sky High. The University's proximity to Hollywood has led it to feature in dozens of shows and movies, including CSI, Six Feet Under, Battlestar Galactica, and the 2008 relaunch of Knight Rider. Additionally, CSUN has several high-profile Hollywood alumni to its name, such as Paula Abdul, Richard Dreyfus, Helen Hunt, and William Hung. And there's a Star Trek connection: Voyager co-creator Jeri Taylor hails from Cal State Northridge.
One on-location report reads:
The CSUN Library is standing in as part of the Academy. There are dozens of extras in red cadet uniforms, along with officer types in more military style dress. I noticed that the cadets were spaced throughout the area in front of the library - no doubt to facilitate multiplying them digitally.
Not much has been done to modify the area. There are bluescreens on the sides of the lawn areas and some of the lighting fixtures have been modified. Also, banners on the streetlights have been replaced with clear green panels with Starfleet “spinnaker” cutouts. A futuristic kiosk sits on the lawn.
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Another says:
There was quite a diversity of uniforms. Most were dressed as in red uniforms with gold delta shield emblems where Next Gen crew members wore their pips. Women (including aliens) wore skirts and the men’s were a cross between a bellboy’s uniform and Picard’s dress uniform. Other people wore grey uniforms that somewhat resembled uniforms for imperial officers in Star Wars. There were others who wore uniforms that appeared to be futuristic versions of today’s military officer uniforms.
For the shot they were mostly just milling about. There was an overhead crane shot of the cadets seeing and reacting to something in the sky off screen. Everyone on the lawn pointed in the same direction and ran towards a blue screen at the edge of the area.
As for today, shootings done! Everything is almost down. I never saw Pine or Abrams or any other main cast.
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AICN has posted several pictures of the shoot. In it you can see the folks in red and gray as described above. The futuristic-looking white car you see is a prototype Aptera Typ-1 hybrid (which gets over 200 mpg)
[via: TrekMovie.com]
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