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Possible Location of J.J Starfleet Academy

Link isn't working for me, but I'd love to see the shot; as a resident of the Bay Area, I could probably get a pretty good fix on where they placed it.
 
The movie confused me. In the earlier scene, the Golden Gate is closer and you can see the Transamerica building. This made me think it was located somewhere along the Marina.

But when they showed the cadets running when the drill is activated, the bridge looks far away, and it looks like the Academy is on Treasure Island or something.
 
Just found another shot, of shuttles leaving Starfleet Academy. Form this, it looks like Starfleet has taken over the Embarcadero, from north of the Bay Bridge stretching around toward Fisherman's Wharf.

That's not to say there couldn't be more facilities on Yerba Buena, however. It would actually make a fine place for dormatories.
 
Peter the Younger said:
Just found another shot, of shuttles leaving Starfleet Academy. Form this, it looks like Starfleet has taken over the Embarcadero, from north of the Bay Bridge stretching around toward Fisherman's Wharf.

That's not to say there couldn't be more facilities on Yerba Buena, however. It would actually make a fine place for dormatories.
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I can't remember where the Admiral said to report to. Did he say it was a Academy shuttlebay, or could it have been a general Starfleet one?
 
No Trek production has ever been consistent over its depiction of where Starfleet locations can be found within the San Francisco area.
 
Peter the Younger said:
Just found another shot, of shuttles leaving Starfleet Academy. Form this, it looks like Starfleet has taken over the Embarcadero, from north of the Bay Bridge stretching around toward Fisherman's Wharf.

That's not to say there couldn't be more facilities on Yerba Buena, however. It would actually make a fine place for dormatories.
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Also, Treasure island is to the north. Both island are connected to each other, by a bridge.
 
I'm guessing that the Academy quadrangle shown in the "gotta study for the Kobayashi Maru test" scene between Kirk and McCoy and in the "WTF, Giant Space Drill is drilling the Bay" scene (both featuring the magically-transplanted Oviatt Library) would have to be in about the same location occupied by the present-day Fort Mason, most likely along the Bay-side area where the street marked "McDowell Road" runs here. It provides approximately the correct perspective seen of the Golden Gate Bridge when the cadets are running out to look at the Giant Space Drill in action; I don't believe the angle would be correct when viewed from either Yerba Buena or Treasure Island.

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yenny said:
I don't understand why the link works for me and not everyone else?
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It's still in your cache from when you looked it up. Everyone else will probably need to copy the URL ( http://lh4.ggpht.com/_y_PK8x8iLoQ/SeJLf_GKvxI/AAAAAAAAEpc/TygZ-LbcS-w/Transamerica.jpg ) and paste it into their browser address bar, as the ggpht site settings apparently do not allow direct links to the image. You'd do better to provide a link to the page on which the image appears.
 
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The requested URL /_y_PK8x8iLoQ/Se...ansamerica.jpg was not found on this server.

And I cut and pasted.
 
They probably just filled in more of the Bay and the Academy is out on the extension. The bridge, though, is still further out in that scene than it was in the earlier Kirk/McCoy scene.
 
It works fine, some of you need browsers smart enough to fill in the ... ellipses in the link.

Try this:
lh4.ggpht.com/_y_PK8x8iLoQ/SeJLf_GKvxI/AAAAAAAAEpc/TygZ-LbcS-w/Transamerica.jpg

That's the whole thing for those whose browsers can't figure it out --- Add http:// before the text above.
 
fresh said:
It works fine, some of you need browsers smart enough to fill in the ... ellipses in the link.

Try this:
lh4.ggpht.com/_y_PK8x8iLoQ/SeJLf_GKvxI/AAAAAAAAEpc/TygZ-LbcS-w/Transamerica.jpg

That's the whole thing for those whose browsers can't figure it out --- Add http:// before the text above.
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Thanks that link worked; but it wasn't the elipses that were the problem, because his link above with elipses with the superbowl in the title did work.
 
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