Tango and picnickers outside Mojave
The Mojave settlement is a city in California on the North American continent on Earth, a fertile parkland located in what is otherwise inhospitable desert. In the early 23rd century this was the birthplace of Starfleet officer Christopher Pike, who would become captain of the starship Enterprise. When living in Mojave, Pike would ride horses from his father's ranch into the groves with a picnic lunch. His favorite horse was Tango. (TOS: "The Cage")
- A detailed background painting of a futuristic cityscape in a desert oasis was created for the parkland scene of the unaired pilot, "The Cage." A somewhat prophetic choice for the home of space pioneer Pike, since, in 2004, some 40 years after "The Cage" was written, Mojave became the US's first inland spaceport, and the first to be cleared for horizontal spacecraft takeoff and launch.