London
London was the capital city of England and later the United Kingdom on Earth.

History
In a Q-created illusion set in 12th century Nottingham, a servant told Maid Marian, if she married Guy of Gisbourne she would get the opportunity to live in London, since Gisbourne had a promising future. ()

In the 19th century, the Royal Navy sailing ship of Captain Cray arrived badly damaged in the harbor of London eight months after the ship been hit by a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean, with its crew safely aboard. ()

By the 1890s, [Greater] London was hundreds of square kilometers in size. The Sherlock Holmes novels and stories were largely based in this city. ()

From 1888 to 1891, seventeen women were killed in London by the Redjac entity incarnated as "Jack the Ripper". ()

When an away team from the  had traveled back to San Francisco in 1893, Captain Picard claimed to lead a group of actors which had played in full houses in London, Paris, and Milan. ()

In 1924, a major publishing house with branches in this city and New York City published the story The Listening Man by John A. Moroso. ()

In 1941, this same publishing house published the story The Long Dark Tunnel, a Dixon Hill detective novel, by . ()

In 1953, a United Nations meeting took place in London. ()

In 2005, Marina S. Despina, the future wife of Jonathan F. Raymond, was born in this city. (, okudagram)

A holographic representation of 19th century London was created by Lieutenant Commander Data for his Sherlock Holmes Program 3A in 2365. ()

In 2374, in a holoprogram set in France in 1944, British radio reported the sky over London was grey with a chance for rain in the afternoon. The entire broadcast, however, included an encrypted message to the French Resistance cell in Sainte Claire. ()

Alternate reality 

In 2259 of the alternate reality, London was the location of the Kelvin Memorial Archive, which was secretly a Section 31 facility. Commander John Harrison approached one of the personnel, Thomas Harewood, who was visiting his terminally ill daughter at the Royal Children's Hospital. Harrison offered a blood transfusion for Harewood's daughter, if he would plant a bomb at the Archive. After the transfusion proved successful, Harewood walked into work and detonated the bomb, destroying the facility and claiming 42 lives. From the debris, Harrison recovered a portable transwarp beaming device, which he used to escape from his subsequent attack on Starfleet Headquarters. 

Notable London landmarks in this reality included St Paul's Cathedral, the London Eye, the Kelvin Memorial Archive, and Nelson's Column. ()

Literature 
In The Big Good-Bye, the master criminal Silent Forrester, when introducing himself to the desk clerk at the Plaza, identified himself as, "I'm Mr. Forrester, London". ()

London locations 
St Paul's Cathedral
London Eye
Kelvin Memorial Archive
Nelson's Column
Tottenham Court Road
Baker Street
221B Baker Street (fictional)
River Thames

Background information 
During the 21st century, London might have been the home of a professional baseball team, the London Kings, who were established in  and . However, since the team was a member of Major League Baseball (they played in the World Series, which was an MLB trademark), whose teams have traditionally been based in North America, it was equally likely the team could have been based out of London, Ontario, Canada. The current home baseball team of London, UK, was known as the London Warriors.

An unseen portion of the Picard family album created for  had a letter by "KT" who expected Jean-Luc Picard to visit London in the future. It also mentioned the Barbicon Theatre.

The visual effects team that worked on  based much of the film's depiction of London on how it currently was, while also imagining how the city might have changed by the time of the movie's setting. "If you look historically at the way somewhere like London has changed in the last 100 years," stated Visual Effects Supervisor Roger Guyett, "there are many buildings that would potentially still exist [....] At the same time, you want a few landmarks in those shots to get the sense of what city you are in. In that case, there's St. Paul's Cathedral and the River Thames." () Director J.J. Abrams reflected, "We retained historical buildings along the River Thames, and then hypothesized what they might look like in 300 years." Guyett, from London himself, impressed upon the visual effects artists at Industrial Light & Magic the importance of retaining some of the city's original architecture. "The challenge," explained ILM Environments Supervisor Barry Williams, "was how to differentiate London buildings from San Francisco [....] We introduced the iconic St. Paul's Cathedral, the London Eye, the 'Gherkin' building, as well as some styles of architecture not present in San Francisco, to create a London vibe." (Cinefex, No. 134, pp. 72 & 74)

While preparing to show London in Star Trek Into Darkness, Roger Guyett accompanied an environment survey team on a visit to the city. The group captured views from high-rise structures as well as visual effects plates and reference images of the city and its environs. (Cinefex, No. 134, p. 72) "We [...] took a lot of pictures from different angles," stated Guyet, "to try to maintain the real geography of it." ()

For Star Trek Into Darkness, parts of London required a digital construction of areas in the city.  This model of London involved twenty-five high-resolution buildings clustered around the Thames. (Cinefex, No. 134, p. 74)

The writers of Star Trek Into Darkness additionally intended for , in the alternate reality, to have grown up in London. 

On , to promote Star Trek Into Darkness, s were flown into the sky following the end of  and formed the Starfleet insignia.

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Earth settlements
The Dixon Hill Series
Deleted and unused material in background
Locations (alternate reality)