Starfleet Medical Center

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Starfleet Medical Center

The Starfleet Medical Center

The Starfleet Medical Center was the administrative headquarters of Starfleet Medical located in San Francisco on Earth. The facility was within sight of the grounds of Starfleet Academy and within walking distance of Starfleet Headquarters. (TNG: "The First Duty"; VOY: "In the Flesh")

By 2150, it was a hub for the Interspecies Medical Exchange. The facility acted as a hospital for the major Starfleet agencies in the San Francisco area, although some facilities, such as Starfleet Academy, maintained their own independent medical clinics. (ENT: "Broken Bow"; TNG: "The First Duty")

In an alternate timeline where the USS Voyager returned to Earth in 2394, Lieutenant Commander Tuvok resided at the Starfleet Medical Center due to a degenerative neurological condition. In 2404, Admiral Janeway and The Doctor visited him there before launching a mission to change the timeline. (VOY: "Endgame")

Background information

The Starfleet Medical Center building featured in "Endgame" was represented by one of the buildings on the real world "Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center" complex, located at 1011 Baldwin Park Blvd. Baldwin Park, California 91706. For its one and only visual Star Trek appearance (other in-universe references being oral and/or in writing only), a globe statue with the "Star Fleet Medical Facility" complex specification was added digitally in post-production to the pond in front of the building, as was the Starfleet Medical signage on the building. Commissioned by the non-profit health consortium Kaiser Permanente, the futuristic looking real world complex was designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson [1], and opened in 1988, thirteen years before the Voyager episode aired. [2](X)

Its "Endgame" appearance seems to have been overlooked by the otherwise meticulous author couple Mike and Denise Okuda; neither building nor Starfleet Medical itself for that matter has received an entry in the 2016 fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, a bit surprisingly perhaps in the latter case.

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