Federation Starbase / Base Database - Spacedock Earth

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	History:
	Massive station orbiting planet Earth, providing service facilities for Starfleet vessels. The U.S.S. Enterprise returned to Spacedock in 2285 following the battle with Kahn in the Mutara Nebula. At the time, the ship was scheduled to be scrapped, but Kirk atole the Enterprise from Spacedock in his effort to rescue Spock. Also stationed at Spacedock at the time was the U.S.S. Excelsior, undergoing tests of its experimental transwarp drive. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock The Spacedock model was designed by David Carson and Nilo Rodis. It was built at ILM. The model was re-used more than once in Star Trek: The Next Generation, notably for Starbase 74 in TNG "11001001". (In an alternate reality created by a timestream, the Runabout U.S.S. Yellowstone was stolen from Spacedock in 2372 by Ensign Harray Kim, and Tom Paris stole the Yellowstone from Spacedock. VOY "Non Sequitur" The only shot of the Spacedock in "Non Sequitur" was of the doors, which were first seen as the Dyson Shere doors from TNG "Relics". Star Trek Encyclopedia II