Desilu Culver Stage 16
Desilu Culver Stage 16 was a soundstage located at Desilu's second lot in Culver City, California. The Culver lot served as an additional filming facility to Desilu's main studios at Gower Street, Hollywood. The Culver studios previously belonged to  and then . Stage 16 was the largest of Desilu's soundstages, built by  for his 1927 epic production of The King of Kings.

Stage 16 was used in filming the two pilots of ,  and .

For "The Cage", this stage housed the Talos IV planetside exteriors, the Mojave picnic site, the Orion cavern, and several Enterprise sets (living quarters, briefing room, transporter room). Filming took place between Friday  and Tuesday , Monday  and Thursday  and Friday . For the second pilot, this stage housed the Delta Vega exteriors, filmed between Tuesday  and Thursday .

For the series itself, the Star Trek sets were moved to the main Desilu lot in Hollywood, where they occupied Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10. In 1968, Desilu/Paramount Television sold the Culver City lot to Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation.

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