10 Real World Star Trek Locations You Can Visit

10. The Santa Monica Pier

Where to next if you've landed in late 20th century Southern California? How about a sun-soaked stroll by Santa Monica Pier? "And risk dermal dysplasia?" "No, thank you!" Of course, what Voyager's own Debbie Downer really meant was to send a sunburn warning to Seán in the future! (Editor's note: I really could have used this!)

The first shot of the "nice clothes, fast car, lots of money" gang — Janeway, Chakotay, Tom, and Tuvok — on Earth in Future's End (Part I) is, in fact, of them perched over the railings in front of the Looff Hippodrome, a National Historic Landmark that fronts the Santa Monica Pier, home to one carousel then another for over 100 years. In the space right beneath their feet also lies the Heal the Bay Aquarium, formerly UCLA's Ocean Discovery Center which, as only time-travel would have it, opened the year Voyager arrived in 1996.

Janeway and Chakotay branch off down the boardwalk to find Captain Braxton, who has taken a turn for the "who took my pencils" worse after a few decades with the "post-industrial barbarians". They find him next to the Hot Dog on a Stick stand. Opened in 1946 opposite 'Muscle Beach,' just down from the pier, this was the very first location of that now-famous fast food franchise.