To be fair it's only been called Elizabeth Tower since 2012 when it was renamed for Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond Jubilee.
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Presidents of the Federation Are Based in France—Why?
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To be fair it's only been called Elizabeth Tower since 2012 when it was renamed for Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond Jubilee.
Who were in turn named after the anti-Franco guerilla fighters in Spain starting in 1939, and Jean-Luc Picard's oldest stated anscestor was the Spaniard Javier Maribona-Picard, so just about any connection can be made when you apply random trivia and tin foil hats.
And, honestly, it it seriously proved to be an issue down the road, you just throw in a line to the effect that the President's Office moved to Vancouver on such-and-such a date. Problem solved!
"Great! We can shoot in Vancouver now!"
I'm sure Vancouver's been passed off as Paris from time to time, just as it's been passed off as New York City, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Seattle, Portland, Caprica City, Star City, Central City, National City, Metropolis, Yunnan Province, etc.
And Star Trek's currently being filmed in Toronto anyway...
Oh, no wonder it sounded so unfamiliar. I've forgotten what the tower used to be called, but I have known in the past, and that name didn't ring a bell (pardon the expression).
Aw, man. I thought it was named for Generalissimo Francisco Franco (who, by the way, is still dead).
How long to rebuild Berlin after WWII with 1940s/1950s tech? Decade or so.
Hiroshima, about the same.
Maybe the war hit national capitals mostly, with people in entrenched power positions gone Humanity was able to build a new society.
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And both of those cases had the advantage of taking place in a world that had NOT been utterly destroyed by a global nuclear war.
I still remember a TV-movie that tried to pass off Vancouver as New Orleans! I
I'm sorry. A few iron balconies and Mardi Gras beads do not make Vancouver the French Quarter!
The bulk of the Human species survived the war, were able to rebuild and prosper.
The world doesn't sound as if it were "utterly destroyed." Just as with the second world war, most counties would likely be only moderately or not at all effected by the war directly.
What nothing for Great Britain!!! Say it ain't so!
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A Section 31 lab pretending to be an archives building.
And how many other times was the president's office shown to be in Paris? And is that the President's only office or does he have other offices on Earth and maybe other planets?
DS9 and Disco.
In DIS, there was a Federation building in Paris, but I couldn't read all of the sign out front. Was it said to be the building that held the President's office?
Why not?
Well for one thing there is about 600 years of French history of aggression in Europe from about 1250 to 1860. Then there is the history of French colonial expansion outside of Europe which might make Paris as unpopular in some regions as Moscow was in the USA during the Cold War, for example.
Sarek walks out of the building handing Michael her official pardon, which Sarek says he obtained from the President.
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There was a funny bit on THE 4400 (set in Seattle, filmed in Vancouver) where the heroes had to take a road trip to . . .Vancouver.
Boy, that must have busted the budget.
There was a funny bit on THE 4400 (set in Seattle, filmed in Vancouver) where the heroes had to take a road trip to . . .Vancouver.
Boy, that must have busted the budget.
Yeah, I've seen that done on a few Vancouver-made shows -- most recently Travelers, I think, although the setting was just across the Canadian border rather than in Vancouver proper.
A big sign on a building that says "Official Office of the President of the United Federation of Planets No really this is the Official Building which houses the President of the United Federation of Planets"
I think we can safely say that Paris houses the Presidential Building beyond that we can't really say if the UFP Council convenes in Paris
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