The Empire State Building was an historic landmark, a building in New York City.
When it opened in 1931, it was Earth's tallest structure. (TOS - Crucible novel: Provenance of Shadows)
History and specifics
In 1930 of a timeline he altered when time traveling through the Guardian of Forever and saving the life of Edith Keeler, the USS Enterprise's Doctor Leonard McCoy awaited rescue by James T. Kirk and Spock in New York City. As he waited, he took various odd jobs, including construction labor work on the Empire State Building. (TOS - Crucible novel: Provenance of Shadows)
In 1945, an airplane accidentally crashed into the Empire State Building, killing 14 people. (SNW short story: "Assignment: One")
The building was visible from the sixth-floor editorial offices of Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder magazine in the Arthur Trill building. (DS9 episode & novelization: Far Beyond the Stars)
The Empire State Building was visible from Gary Seven's apartment. (ST - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
In an alternate timeline, Adolf Hitler visited the top of the building in 1944 and viewed the city skyline. This event was chronicled in a newsreel. (ENT episode: "Storm Front, Part II")
A 1999 science fiction paperback novel claimed that the building had been razed prior to the year 2000. It compared the building's mass to that of the novel's futuristic Paradise Dome. (VOY - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "The City of the Future")
By 2272, Starfleet leased office space and maintained a transporter facility within the building. In 2272, Rear Admiral James T. Kirk transported onto the mezzanine level en route to visiting nearby Stuyvesant Preserve. (TOS novel: A Flag Full of Stars)
Appendices
Appearances
References
- ENT episode: "Storm Front, Part II"
- TOS - Crucible novel: Provenance of Shadows
- ST - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1
- SNW short story: "Assignment: One"
- VOY - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "The City of the Future"
Connections
| Landmarks of planet Earth | ||
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| Alcatraz • Alcatraz Children's Park • Beijing Zoo • China Beach • Colosseum • Eiffel Tower • Empire State Building • Fort Knox • Golden Gate • Golden Gate Bridge • Golden Gate Park • Great Pyramid • Great Sphinx • Jackson Mall • Kill Devil Hill • Leaning Tower of Pisa • Lighthouse of Alexandria • London Intergalactic • Mount Rushmore National Memorial • Nashville Avenue • National Park of Kyoto • Palace of Fine Arts • Palisades Park • Pearl Harbor • Point Bonita Lighthouse • Punta Mulas • R Street • Rock of Gibraltar • St. Charles Avenue • St. George's University • Starship's Wharf • Statue of Liberty • Sutro Selestial Baths • Taj Mahal • Troy Museum |  
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External link
- Empire State Building article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Empire State Building article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.