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Published May 1, 2024

The Star Trek Stage Announced at Pinewood Toronto Studios

The stage was officially renamed during the production of Star Trek: Discovery's fifth season.

Cast of Star Trek: Discovery in costume stand in front of the newly renamed Star Trek stage in Pinewood Toronto

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Pinewood Toronto Studios, part of the Pinewood Group, have named one of their sound stages The Star Trek Stage to celebrate one of the franchise's long-running filming locations. The announcement coincides with the release of the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery , produced by CBS Studios and currently streaming on Paramount+ in the US and Canada. 

The Star Trek Stage is an 18,000 sq foot stage at Pinewood Toronto Studios and was officially renamed whilst the cast and crew were filming the final scenes of the final season. Star Trek: Discovery has been based at the Studios in downtown Toronto since January 2017. The stage was used to house the Ready Room and International Federation HQ. The production also utilized the 45,900 sq foot Mega Stage and Stage 7, 9 and 12 as well as production facilities and workshops.

Cast and crew of Star Trek: Discovery in costume including Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise stand in front of the newly renamed Star Trek stage in Pinewood Toronto

"Pinewood Toronto Studios has become a second home for our Star Trek family, and we’re grateful that they've named a stage in honor of the franchise," said Alex Kurtzman, Executive Producer at the helm of the Star Trek series. "In addition to the amazing stage space, we’ve benefitted from working with the talented artists in front of the camera and behind the scenes and look forward to our partnership in Toronto on future series."

"We are so delighted to have hosted Star Trek: Discovery over 5 seasons and the recently wrapped Star Trek: Section 31 movie event and to celebrate our longstanding relationship with the franchise with our own Star Trek Stage," said Sarah Farrell, General Manager of Pinewood Toronto Studios. "We look forward to welcoming many more productions to come."

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  • Star Trek has a strong bond with Toronto; Pinewood Studios stage renamed to honor franchise's connection with Canada's largest city.
  • Discovery 's final season filmed in Toronto; Strange New Worlds is currently shooting in the city.
  • Paramount+ executive producer thanked Toronto for hospitality; future Star Trek productions are planned in the city.

Star Trek has called Toronto, Ontario home since the launch of Star Trek: Discovery in 2017, and now one of their studio homes has been renamed to commemorate the long-running science fiction franchise's bond with Canada's largest city. One of Pinewood Studios Toronto's soundstages has been renamed the Star Trek Stage. On Discovery , the 18,000 square-foot stage is used for both the USS Discovery 's ready room and for the United Federation of Planets' space station headquarters; several other stages are used for the ship's other locations, while many outdoor scenes are shot on location in the greater Toronto area.

The stage was officially renamed during the filming of Discovery 's fifth and final season . In a statement, Paramount+'s Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman expressed his gratitude for the city's hospitality to Trek's cast and crew: "Pinewood Toronto Studios has become a second home for our Star Trek family, and we’re grateful that they’ve named a stage in honor of the franchise. In addition to the amazing stage space, we’ve benefited from working with the talented artists in front of the camera and behind the scenes and look forward to our partnership in Toronto on future series."

What Other 'Star Trek' Series Are Shot in Toronto?

Despite the impending end of Discovery 's five-season mission, Star Trek in Toronto isn't going anywhere. Discovery spinoff Strange New Worlds , which was recently renewed for a fourth season , is currently filming its third season in the city. Additionally, the newest series Starfleet Academy is slated to shoot there later this year . The Paramount+-original movie, Star Trek: Section 31 , also filmed in Toronto, and wrapped production earlier this year . While Toronto and its environs are typically called upon to represent alien worlds, the city did get a chance to play itself in the second-season Strange New Worlds episode " Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ", in which La'an Noonien-Singh and James T. Kirk had to foil a Romulan plot in the Ontario capital.

Star Trek: Discovery 's fifth and final season has the crew chasing the ancient secret behind all life across the galaxy, even as they try to outrace a new pair of implacable foes. In her review , Collider's Samantha Coley deemed it "well-paced and well-structured, with each episode offering a satisfying piece of the puzzle."

Star Trek: Discovery 's fifth and final season is now streaming on Paramount+ ; Strange New Worlds ' third season is currently filming in Toronto, and Starfleet Academy will film there later this year. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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Here’s the official announcement:

Pinewood Toronto Studios, part of the Pinewood Group, have named one of their sound stages “The Star Trek Stage” to celebrate one of the franchise’s long-running filming locations. The announcement coincides with the release of the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery, produced by CBS Studios and currently streaming on Paramount+ in the US and Canada.   “The Star Trek Stage” is an 18,000 sq foot stage at Pinewood Toronto Studios and was officially renamed whilst the cast and crew were filming the final scenes of the final season. Star Trek: Discovery has been based at the Studios in downtown Toronto since January 2017. The Stage was used to house the Ready Room and International Federation HQ. The production also utilised the 45,900 sq foot Mega Stage and Stage 7, 9 and 12 as well as production facilities and workshops.   “Pinewood Toronto Studios has become a second home for our Star Trek family, and we’re grateful that they’ve named a stage in honor of the franchise,” said Alex Kurtzman, Executive Producer at the helm of the Star Trek series. “In addition to the amazing stage space, we’ve benefitted from working with the talented artists in front of the camera and behind the scenes and look forward to our partnership in Toronto on future series.”   Sarah Farrell, General Manager of Pinewood Toronto Studios, said, “We are so delighted to have hosted Star Trek: Discovery over 5 seasons and the recently wrapped Star Trek: Section 31 movie event and to celebrate our longstanding relationship with the franchise with our own Star Trek Stage. We look forward to welcoming many more productions to come.”

It’s one of five stages used during Star Trek: Discovery’s five seasons on the Pinewood lot, one of which is considered the studio’s “Mega Stage” — a 45,900 square foot soundstage that will serve as the central hub of the upcoming  Starfleet Academy series set to begin filming later this year.

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Pinewood Toronto does not host the  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  production; that series films at the CBS Stages Canada facility in Mississauga, Ontario.

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Pinewood Toronto Studios

Pinewood Toronto Studios is the main filming location for Star Trek: Discovery , located in Toronto , Ontario, Canada. [1] Set construction was originally scheduled for July 2016 with filming on the first season taking place between September 2016 and March 2017 ; [2] however, this later became late January 2017 to early October 2017 . [3] Filming for the second season took place between April 2018 and December 2018 . The production uses eight of the facility's stages. [4]

The facility was known as Filmport until June 2009, when the studio signed a comprehensive sales and marketing agreement with the British company The Pinewood Studios Group. It consists of twelve sound stages, a jumbo stage, and three back lots. [5]

The facility previously housed the sets for productions such as It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006, with Robert Joy ), the reality tv show Battle of the Blades (2009-2013), The Listener (2009-2014), The Thing (2011), Prometheus (2012), Cosmopolis (2012), Total Recall (2012, with John Cho ), The Best Man Holiday (2013), Mama (2013), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), Carrie (2013), Pacific Rim (2013, with Idris Elba , Ron Perlman , Clifton Collins, Jr. , and Brad William Henke ), Debug (2014), RoboCop (2014), Wolves (2014, with Stephen McHattie and John Pyper-Ferguson ), Pixels (2015), Poltergeist (2015), the television series Beauty and the Beast (2012-2016), and Spotlight (2015).

More recent projects include Suicide Squad (2016), The Strain (2014-2016, with Robin Atkin Downes ), Good Witch (2015-2017), Orphan Black (2013-2017), XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and It (2017). [6]

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The cast and crew of Star Trek: Discovery standing outside "The Star Trek Stage"

In 2024 , Pinewood announced that they were officially naming one of their sound stages "The Star Trek Stage". [7]

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Inside How ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Transformed A Toronto University Library Into The Eternal Archive

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| May 17, 2024 | By: Michael Cassabon 12 comments so far

Last week’s episode of  Star Trek: Discovery,  “Labyrinths,” featured an unusual location: the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Star Trek fan Michael Cassabon, the Director of Advancement for the University of Toronto library system, assisted the production team on site and wrote about his experiences with the show and what makes the Fisher Library so unique.

David Ajala as Book, Elena Juatco as Hy’Rell, and Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery's "Labyrinths"

David Ajala as Book, Elena Juatco as Hy’Rell, and Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery ‘s “Labyrinths” (photo: Paramount+)

When Star Trek came to the Fisher Library…

Melissa Warry-Smith, the location manager for Star Trek: Discovery (and most recently Section 31 ), and her team approached the University of Toronto in summer 2022 with a very big ask: to boldly film where no one has filmed before. As Canada’s largest keeper of ancient manuscripts and antiquarian books, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library holds powerful knowledge within its high, thick walls. It is a globally renowned rare book library, a gorgeous monument to human knowledge, but it is not known for being a filming location. Like, never.

But Warry-Smith’s thoughtful approach to the Fisher as the location for the Eternal Archive made a lot of sense. It wasn’t just that the Fisher’s brutalist architecture and vast interior space looked very sci-fi, but it also made sense because “Labyrinths” underlines the work of librarians and archivists in the preservation and pursuit of knowledge, intrinsic to the core values of Star Trek.

Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto (photo: Paramount+)

The Fisher’s (almost-eternal) collections

If Hy’Rell were here, she would tell you that the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is a marvel. Its collection spans millennia, from a Babylonian cuneiform tablet dated 1789 B.C.E. to original drafts by contemporary Canadian luminaries like Margaret Atwood. The library houses four of Shakespeare’s folios, over 800 bound manuscript volumes pre-dating the 15th century, and 40 Egyptian papyri from the 3rd century B.C.E.

The Shakespeare folios, among other real-life ancient texts, make a cameo appearance behind Burnham and Book in the display cases during the mindscape scenes. Shakespeare and Star Trek, of course, have been connected since the beginning.

You likely know Sir Patrick Stewart spent much of his career as a Shakespearean actor. What’s somewhat less known is that William Shatner also performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario—a two-hour drive from Toronto. At the 1956 festival, Shatner was Christopher Plummer’s understudy in Henry V . When Plummer fell ill, Shatner stepped in, leading to his big break. As fans of the Star Trek movies know, Plummer later played Klingon General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , which itself takes the name of its title from Hamlet (act 3, scene 1).

Michael Burnham in front of Shakespeare's folios

Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham in front of Shakespeare’s folios (photo: P+)

Filming at the Fisher

The Fisher is at the heart of the university’s main campus, which lies at the heart of the city of Toronto, one of the most diverse cities on the planet.

Modern-day Toronto is part of Trek canon ( SNW: “ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”); for those of you keeping track, the library complex is a few blocks away from where the child Khan Noonien-Singh — the notorious ancestor of La’an — lives, and where an alt-universe Captain Kirk was killed trying to restore the timeline.

It is almost unheard of for filming to take place at the Fisher Library, but a rare exception was made for Star Trek: Discovery . Our library’s leadership believed that this collaboration would be a wonderful opportunity to showcase the enduring relevance of libraries in the human quest for meaning. Libraries connect people to the information they seek in their quest for knowledge. The executive producers dedicated the episode with thanks “to librarians everywhere, dedicated to the preservation of artifacts, knowledge, and truth.”

It was also important that the library was not just a pretty face in the background but was playing the role of a key “character” essential to uncover “the greatest power in the known galaxy,” as Dr. Kovich tells Michael way back in the season’s first episode. Kovich, of course, is played by the legendary David Cronenberg, an alum of the University of Toronto—it makes one wonder if he knew where the final clue was all along!

Filming at the Fisher occurred over three nights to avoid disrupting students and researchers. The production crew was remarkably efficient and respectful, especially given the tight schedule due to the impending medieval manuscript exhibition—our first in-person event since COVID-19. Every precaution was made to avoid putting the real-life ancient manuscripts in danger. The production crew was quite impressive in their respect and care. They had experience filming in sensitive locations in Toronto in the past; for example, scenes of Vulcan earlier in the season are filmed at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.

This isn’t the first time Star Trek has filmed at a library at the University of Toronto. U of T has a system of 40 libraries, and the Star Trek: Short Treks episode “Children of Mars”—the mini-prequel to Star Trek: Picard —was filmed at the library at U of T’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

behind the scenes at the Fisher Library

Crew getting set up at the Fisher Library (photo: Michael Cassabon)

Behind the scenes

The mindscape scenes between Book and Michael were filmed on the Fisher’s mezzanine level. For the action-packed sequences, however, sets were constructed at Pinewood Studios to replicate the Fisher, prioritizing safety.

Highlights for me included chatting with David Ajala over burgers at a food truck just outside the set and meeting the legendary Jonathan Frakes, whom I addressed as “Captain Riker.” Frakes is a big fan of librarians’ work and was a producer and director on the TV series The Librarians .

The absolute highlight for me was meeting Sonequa Martin-Green. She is as amazing and magnetic and gracious as everyone says. After watching her interact with the cast and crew, it was clear how they became a family, largely due to her leadership on and off the camera. David Ajala introduced me to Sonequa in the green room, which was our library admin conference room across from my office. The first thing she said to me was “Thank you for lending me your name [Michael].”

Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham behind the scenes of Star Trek: Discovery "Labyrinth"

Sonequa Martin-Green flashes the Vulcan salute (photo: Paramount+)

A sense of destiny

This season of Discovery focuses on the quest for meaning, and filming at the Fisher felt serendipitous. The library’s dedication to preserving and exploring knowledge through the application of new technology mirrors Star Trek’s themes of discovery and understanding. Fittingly, the University of Toronto is situated at the heart of the city’s Discovery District, an area renowned for its concentration of research institutions, hospitals, and tech startups dedicated to innovation and advancement. It is also appropriate that the filming took place in a university library, considering how many researchers, scholars, and leaders have been inspired to pursue their careers in part because of Star Trek.

Michael P. Cassabon is the Director of Advancement for the University of Toronto library system and a lifelong fan of Star Trek. 

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My Favorite Location for a Trek series, EVER!

My faves Trek locations would be the campus used for OPERATION ANNIHILATE and the fort from ARENA.

Least favorite ( by far ): the brewery from 09. It would have cost them almost less than nothing to lay black garbage liner on the floor to cover up the bare cement, a solution we Super-8 filmmakers used going back to before STAR WARS. I asked the 09/ID production designer about that when I interviewed him for TOMORROWLAND and he had nothing to say about that one at all except the usual ‘we had to cut corners somewhere for the budget.’

I will say that this Toronto thing in these stills looks a ton better than the ENTERPRISE show’s library used at the start of season 2, a scene that looked completely like a bad cut scene from a CD-ROM video game and memorable (in a bad or badder way) because its appearance was the final straw that broke the camel’s back for me, as I gave up on the whole series while this scene was playing.

And yet the video posted here is geo blocked for Canadians!

TREKMOVIE how about providing/promoting a link that serves Canadians considering the video is about a location in Canada? I know your an American site but yeah just saying.

The video seems to be available outside of the US on the official Star Trek website. I’m not sure why Paramount+ still enforces the geo-blocking on their own Youtube channel since the streaming service has expanded to countries outside North America.

I’ve always enjoyed reading and in the eighth grade I discovered that I could donate one period a week to work in the library as a student aide. By the time I got to twelth grade I was donating 12 periods a week to the library. I even got a job working in a university library when I went to college at a branch campus of the University of Pittsburgh. I became a software engineer but had things turned out just a little bit different I could very easily have been a librarian. I’ve been in Hillman library at the main campus of Pitt and it is quite an impressive location. But the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library blows away any library I’ve ever been in. I am impressed with its external architecture and it’s internal design. The University of Toronto is to be lauded for building this incredible building and repository of knowledge. I’m so glad that they allowed Discovery to be filmed there.

This was a fascinating read. Thank you.

Really enjoyed this, thanks for this essay. Hope the bluray for this season has a feature on the Fisher.

Gorgeous location, put to outstanding use.

In contrast to may who have posted, the library scenes really took me out of the episode. To me at least, the interior was so obviously a 20th C library of the kind that you might find in a University setting, (digitally tweaked to make it look vast), that I found the location a distraction and the weakest part of an otherwise reasonable episode.

I was half-expecting the Merrill Collection.

Still…

I wonder if in the future if attendance will go up just so people can see “That Library from, Star Trek”. Is there any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise of attendance at a public place going up after it has been involved in a TV or, Film Production?

I’d bet more people travelling crosscountry sidestepped to make a pilgrimmage to Devil’s Tower after CLOSE ENCOUNTERS came out.

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Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 wraps filming in Toronto, Canada

Production has wrapped on the fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery in Toronto, Canada for Paramount+. Showrunner Michelle Paradise confirmed production wrap in a tweet alongside a video of an animated graphic on a large screen that read: “That's a wrap!!!“

She tweeted: “Aaaand that’s a wrap on #StarTrekDiscovery season 5! Every season I’m in awe of what our team is able to accomplish, and I dare say this was our most ambitious yet. Huge thanks to @CenterWillHold @SonequaMG and our entire, truly amazing, cast and crew. #onedepartment #discofamily.“ Callum Keith Rennie, Eve Harlow, and Elias Toufexis are the new cast members. The returning cast for Discovery Season 5 include: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones (Saru), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), Rapp (Paul Stamets), Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), David Ajala (Cleveland “Book” Booker), and Blu del Barrio (Adira). The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Paradise, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Frank Siracusa, Olatunde Osunsanmi, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers. Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise are the co-showrunners of the series.

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Trekkies have had the chance to explore a new side of the ‘ Star Trek ‘ universe thanks to ‘ Star Trek: Discovery ,’ which is set ten years before the adventures of Spock, Kirk, and the Enterprise. The USS Discovery takes viewers and those on board to new worlds, and we see how one Starfleet official learns that they must understand all things alien. Due to the exploratory nature of the series, there is a wide variety of locations we are treated to. The visuals are stunning, and each place tells its story. Obviously, viewers are smart enough to know that real-life spots stand for the alien places in the space saga. So, curious about where has ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ been filmed? Well, we have got you covered.

Star Trek: Discovery Filming Locations

The series has primarily made use of three locations – Toronto and Hamilton in Canada, and Jordan. Of course, most of the show is focused in Canada. Only some parts have been filmed halfway around the world in Jordan. Without further delay, let us tell you about the specifics of the shooting locations!

Since space is the final frontier, ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ has had to head to Toronto’s reliable studio system for certain scenes. A lot of filming takes place at the Pinewood Toronto Studios in Port Lands . It is essentially where the sound stages are converted to the interiors of the impressive ships. So, the scenes involving USS Discovery are technically shot here. You can check out a post about filming taking place here.

So badly want a tour of the Discovery set, Star Trek is being shot in my hometown, but Pinewood Studios doesn't allow tours. 🙁 Best I can do is drive by Pinewood Studios in the Portlands. @PinewoodStudios @StarTrek @jonathansfrakes https://t.co/3U44tmHAnB pic.twitter.com/0LEz967kWJ — Tony Saragosa (@ajsaragosa1979) October 28, 2019

Other Toronto locations that show up in the series include the Hearn Generation Plant and Cherry Beach Park at  Unwin Avenue , Woodbine Beach at Lake Shore Boulevard East , the Integral House at Roxborough Drive , and Knox College. The college is a part of the University of Toronto and is located on St. George Street . Here’s a post about filming taking place in the college.

I've been watching Star Trek: Discovery and identifying locations in Toronto. Pretty sure this is Knox College at U of T. pic.twitter.com/Eb3ibwyPFX — Bruce Bryant-Scott (@bbryantscott) May 15, 2019

Other locations in Canada where ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ has been filmed include Kelso Conservation Area and Hilton Falls in Milton . You can also spot the Lafarge Quarry at Dundas , Ontario’s Vaughan City Hall , the Ball’s Falls & Historic Village at Jordan Station , and Bluffer’s Sand Beach at Scarborough . Fans have been pleased to see the Aga Khan Museum on the series, as the Vulcan Science Academy. It is known for Islamic art and Muslim culture and is located in North York . Here’s a post about filming at this spot!

If you aren't aware, Star Trek Discovery is filmed in Toronto and this is sooooo the Aga Khan Museum. pic.twitter.com/7XQcXxCOC7 — christopher (@heychristofur) October 23, 2017

The Crepusculan Homeworld is filmed at Wadi Rum in Jordan. However, just the pilot episode has been shot in Jordan. The production team completely shifted its base closer to home after shooting the scenes in the desert. You can check out a post about the same below.

Happy #StarTrekDay !! Remembering our shoot in Jordan for Star Trek Discovery @elandassani pic.twitter.com/m8sLCR7LIN — Rajeev Dassani (@dassanir) September 9, 2020

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