Paramount Stage 32

Real world article
(written from a Production point of view)

Paramount logo found at the intro of many Star Trek films

Desilu logo

Paramount Stage 32 is located on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, California and was considered Desilu Studios Stage 10 until 1967, when it merged with Paramount.

Stage 32 was used in the production of the original Star Trek between 1966 and 1969, housing the planet exterior set and additional "non-Enterprise" locations, serving as a "swing set", redressed to fit the actual episode's needs. The set included a large curtain that could be lit in a variety of colors to represent different atmospheres.

More than thirty years later, in 2002, the tenth Star Trek feature, Star Trek Nemesis, also filmed on Stage 32. Scenes shot on that stage included the "Wedding Pavilion" and the Romulan Senate.

Non-Trek films which were filmed here include The Gay Divorce (1934), Swing Time (1936), Citizen Kane (1941), Chinatown (1974), King Kong (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), and First Monday in October (1981). Television series include The Boys Are Back (1994) and Community (2009-2015). [1]

A fan event was held on the soundstage to debut a trailer for Star Trek Beyond in 2016. [2]

Star Trek productions

• TOS:
  • "Mudd's Women" (Season 1)
  • "The Enemy Within"
  • "The Man Trap"
  • "The Naked Time"
  • "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
  • "Dagger of the Mind"
  • "Miri"
  • "The Conscience of the King"
  • "The Galileo Seven"
  • "Court Martial"
  • "The Menagerie, Part I"
  • "The Squire of Gothos"
  • "The Alternative Factor"
  • "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
  • "The Return of the Archons"
  • "Space Seed"
  • "A Taste of Armageddon"
  • "This Side of Paradise"
  • "The Devil in the Dark"
  • "Errand of Mercy"
  • "The City on the Edge of Forever"
  • "Catspaw" (Season 2)
  • "Metamorphosis"
  • "Friday's Child"
  • "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
  • "Amok Time"
  • "Wolf in the Fold"
  • "The Apple"
  • "Mirror, Mirror"
  • "The Deadly Years"
  • "I, Mudd"
  • "The Trouble with Tribbles"
  • "Bread and Circuses"
  • "Journey to Babel"
  • "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
  • "Obsession"
  • "A Piece of the Action"
  • "By Any Other Name"
  • "Return to Tomorrow"
  • "Patterns of Force"
  • "The Omega Glory"
  • "Assignment: Earth"
  • "Spectre of the Gun" (Season 3)
  • "And the Children Shall Lead"
  • "Spock's Brain"
  • "The Empath"
  • "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
  • "Day of the Dove"
  • "Plato's Stepchildren"
  • "Wink of an Eye"
  • "That Which Survives"
  • "Whom Gods Destroy"
  • "The Mark of Gideon"
  • "The Lights of Zetar"
  • "The Cloud Minders"
  • "The Way to Eden"
  • "Requiem for Methuselah"
  • "The Savage Curtain"
  • "All Our Yesterdays"
  • "Turnabout Intruder"
• Star Trek Nemesis

Sources

• Michael & Denise Okuda, Star Trek Nemesis (Special Edition) text commentary
• Larry Nemecek, Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion

External links

• Paramount Pictures - official site
• StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website