10 Amazing Behind The Scenes Secrets Of Star Trek: Voyager
8. Hubble
If there's one takeaway from the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine installments of this article, it should be that there is no end to the ingenuity of science-fiction set designers. From the rolling black curtain starfields, to the jars of "alien medicines" that were just M&Ms, sometimes the fantastical elements of the show's backdrop are a lot simpler than they might appear.
Sometimes though, while they're relatively straightforward they're still pretty mindblowing. Take, for example, Voyager's Astrometrics lab which, following its introduction to the set in season 4, required all number of stellar bodies to populate its screens. While the FX department no doubt had several on file, for that added sense of realism they reached out to NASA for an assist here.
They were all too happy to help and furnished the show with several stunning photographs taken by the actual Hubble telescope. The Cat's Eye Nebula and the now legendary Eagle Nebula "Pillars of Creation" image became near-permanent fixtures on its walls, despite Voyager not flying anywhere near them... probably.