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I don't think what we saw in IV was even the actual Council. Too small, and the seats were filled with Starfleet officers. It makes more sense for it to be some Council security committee, which could very well be meeting somewhere in Starfleet headquarters.
Anyway, while it makes a lot of sense to keep your executive and legislature in physical proximity (even, I'd argue, three hundred years in the future with transporters and really sweet broadband), thus leading towards the Council being somewhere in Europe, if not itself in Paris, it also makes sense to keep your military headquarters close at hand too.
Or does it? Certainly the case could be made today that a distributed govenment (physically) is a good idea, to prevent all your leadership from dying from weaponized bird flu on the same day. On the other hand, anyone coming to blow up Starfleet Command has already traveled billions of miles; the Atlantic is not likely to present a problem.
Plus it seems like a good idea for the president to be in walking distance of the top military leaders, in case, say, rogue Starfleet officers attempt a coup and somehow shut off power to the entire planet.
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Ahhh - I always thought that airtram station in TMP was in the Presidio area. So did the BoP in TVH fly under the GGbridge from West to East or East to West - I always thought they pointed to the left with the "look!" and i assumed they were approaching from the west.
Where is the cetacean institue?
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The Monterey Bay Aqu--er, the "Cetacean Institute" is in Monterey, outside the scope of that map.
Simon: I agree with the idea that that was NOT the entire Council shown. In Prime Directive, the idea of the "general council" was mentioned, with representatives at the system-wide level; perhaps something similar was shown.
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They shot the Cetacean Institute at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but it was supposed to be in Sausilito, North Bay.
On the subject of Kirk's apartmentL So my sister lives on the northern edge of Russian Hill (Woo! I'll be watching her house while she's away next week!) Anyway, so I'm inclined to think it is Russian Hill owing to the absence of Alcatraz.
If only there were some program that would let us see different vantages and geography. aside: (OK, I will be this nerdy, but only because it's Wrath of Khan)
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Okay. I did some more detective work and I know where Kirk's apartment is. The cyclorama used is from The Towering Inferno (you can tell because of the horizon line), which means Kirk's place is like 100 or more stories up.
I did some poking around about that film and figured out where the building was supposed to be. It was here:
This puts it roughly on the south side of Market Street at the start of Geary Blvd., between 2nd and 3rd Streets, more or less due south of the Transamerica Pyramid. The view LOOKS like it's somewhere between Russian and Telegraph Hills only because the POV is from so high up.
Hell, let's just say Kirk lives IN the Towering Inferno, then we can just say this is a pic of his home turf (the tallest building)...
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What is that building really - or is it another building that you've just photoshopped? I would assume that the city has more higher buildings in that time too.
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God damn, I guess it's good to be the admiral.
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