Star Trek: Into Darkness tidbit

[dragonimp]

I posted about this way back when but now I know which scenes to look for: the scenes in engineering on the Enterprise, the ones with the warp core, were filmed at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - about 10 minutes from my house. My mom even did some technical editing/writing for the folks at NIF back when it was being developed.

So keep in mind when you see the warp core that that's not a prop; that's an actual functioning piece of (very expensive, very complicated) scientific equipment.

Comments

[eve_n_furter]

Thanks for the tip, that is so cool! I checked out their website and found a pic with the caption "Technicians adjust the target positioner inside the NIF Target Chamber." I was SO expecting to see them do it with both legs. XDDD

[dragonimp]

That target chamber always makes me think of the little Star Wars laser sparring droid, too.