Power Rangers HQ Appears in Star Trek TNG...

[Leenix]

I was watching Season 7 Episode 1 Timestamp: 30:15 in the episode when i noticed something amazingly curious...

The Power Rangers HQ from the First Series that came out appeared in front of me.
Data and Lor were standing next to each other with the HQ behind them.


Here is the Picture from Star Trek TNG.



This is the only picture i could find online of the Power Rangers HQ...

From what it seems they must of made the Building a bit taller when the Power Rangers Series started and made some doors for it as well, besides that i'm convinced it's the same building.

 

[Finn]

Dude...or Dudette.. Three things

1. Manage your pictures so they are at a good size so we won't have to scroll left and right.

2. Say the episode's name, not in numbers and timestamps

3. There are better pictures of that building in Descent part one, like when Troi first sees it, instead of a screenshot upclose.

With that out of the way, welcome to the board! Wish you the luck here

Just checked Trekcore. The building is similiar, mostly superfical but it's not the same building.

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x26/descentpartone552.jpg

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ It is the same, the upper part was added through CGI for the Trek episode.

 

[Trekker4747]

Also, isn't it the other way around? Didn't the TNG episode come BEFORE the Power Rangers?

 

[Chris3123]

That building seen in both Power Rangers and TNG's "Descent" (as well as STVI: TUC) is a building called "House of the Book", located on the campus of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute.

Also, isn't it the other way around? Didn't the TNG episode come BEFORE the Power Rangers?

Only by two months, but yeah.

 

[SilentP]

Didn't it also appear in ST:TUC as the building on Khitomer? Or is that just my mind playing tricks on me?

 

[Trekker4747]

It sure DID. With a lot of CG/matte painting foolery and one of the craziest spillways I've ever seen!

 

[ALF]

Probably some rich asshole's house in Santa Monica!

 

[BlueWolf]

Oh God, Power Rangers...

I have to admit, though, I've never noticed that resemblance before.

 

[trevanian]

It sure DID. With a lot of CG/matte painting foolery and one of the craziest spillways I've ever seen!

The water area is actually from somewhere near Marin, I think. Matte World did that painting, along with the klingon courtroom matte shot and the establishing view on Rure Penthe.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I always knew that Zordon was in league with the Borg.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

This building was also in the '80's TZ episode "Dead Run". It was the headquarters for the executive (played by John DeLancie ) in charge of deciding which souls are sent to hell.

 

[Christopher]

Probably some rich asshole's house in Santa Monica!

Didn't you read post 5? It's a religious retreat!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis-Bardin_Institute

Now the Brandeis-Bardin Campus of American Jewish University, this Jewish retreat in Simi Valley was formerly the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. It is known for its nondenominational summer programs for children, teens and young adults.

The House of the Book has been a filming location in many Hollywood productions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis-Bardin_Institute#Filming_locations


The Command Center in Power Rangers was actually a combination of two often-used filming locations, for the establishing shots of the Command Center were the House of the Book superimposed on top of Vasquez Rocks, the famous Star Trek location. The climactic action in Power Rangers Turbo's finale, where the villains raided the Command Center/Power Chamber, was shot at both locations (as well as the series' standing sets) and edited together to make it look like a continuous sequence. Power Rangers also frequently used Vasquez Rocks as a generic desert setting as well as various alien planets and dimensions.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Power Rangers also frequently used Vasquez Rocks as a generic desert setting as well as various alien planets and dimensions.

The first "Power Rangers" movie filmed here in Sydney, Australia. I've often meant to check it out. We had a large building, left half-built for over a decade (but now finished as World Square), in our CBD, and the Power Rangers filmed in it when it was little more than foundations, a maze of exposed elevator shafts and an underground car park.

 

[barnaclelapse]

It's probably a conspiracy of some kind.

 

[Christopher]

The first "Power Rangers" movie filmed here in Sydney, Australia.

They also shot several episodes of the show there in order to fit the actors' shooting schedule. These included a story which sent the Rangers back in time 200 years to when Angel Grove was a colonial American town (which makes it a geographic anomaly, since it was also established as an Old West town in another episode and generally seemed to be in California), and they used an Australian sheep farm as a location. Another was a 3-parter in which the Rangers (and Bulk and Skull) took a class trip to Australia, though most of the 3-parter focused on the villains and on the Rangers in costume so that it could mostly be shot while the main cast was doing the movie. For the same reason, they also did a 2-parter where the Rangers were turned into children. (Not to be confused with the later Alien Rangers sequence where they were turned into children yet again and for a much longer period.)

 

[RoJoHen]

Wait, this is a real building?! I always noticed the similarity between the Power Rangers building and the one is Star Trek, but I always assumed they were just models or something. I never realized this building actually existed!

Now I need to visit it. In a Power Rangers costume.

 

[childofdarkness]

Yup. I've seen that building in a book devoted to architecture (particularly to large-scale concrete buildings, if I recall correctly, which I likely don't).

 

[imranbecks]

Interesting!!! I had no idea the command center exterior for Power Rangers was actually a real building!!!! Now I know!!! Sheesh, all these time, I had no idea.... And I had no idea it was also used in Descent..... I must say, the building looks really unique...

 

[Cryogenic]

I'd forgotten about this. I always noticed the similarity, but never did any fact-checking on the matter. Nice work, guys. All I can say is: wow, Zordon's an ass. Get your time-warped, time-capsuled self out of that place. Everyone else uses that building, so take your non-corporeal floaty head and never come back. Awesome.