Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of The Kelvin Enterprise You Need To Know

While the bridge of the Enterprise in Star Trek (2009) was a set which was constructed at Paramount Studios and included a network of corridors, sickbay, and a transporter room, the lower decks of the Kelvin Timeline's Enterprise were filmed on location... well, not on location in space, on location in beautiful Southern and Northern California.

Due to budgetary constraints, the elaborate and "functional" sets for the Enterprise's engine room that were envisioned by JJ Abrams were scrapped in favor of filming in real life industrial locations.

Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser brewery in Van Nuys, California stood in for numerous sections of the Enterprise in Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness, providing the production with clean, complex, and large locations to film in.

Additional location photography for the Enterprise's engineering section in Star Trek Into Darkness took place at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, which stood in for the ship's exterior warp core and shuttlecraft staging areas.

Unlike previous incarnations of the ship, the sets for the Kelvin Timeline Enterprise actually changed locations with every film. While the bridge and corridor complex was initially filmed at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California for Star Trek (2009), the sets were relocated to Sony Studios in Culver City, California for 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, and then moved to Pinewood Studios in Vancouver, Canada for 2016's Star Trek Beyond – in that film, engineering was photographed using a small catwalk area constructed on stage and extended using visual effects by Double Negative.