Does Gravett Island actually exist?

April 1, 2006 6:38 PM

In Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard initiates the Enterprise auto-destruct sequence, he orders his crew to meet on Gravett Island, which is apparently an uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. My question is; does this island actually exist?

My Google-fu finds nothing but mentions of it on Star Trek websites and there's no article on a Gravett Island at all on Wikipedia, so I'm tempted to think it dosen't actually exist.

But if it does exist, a link to an article which shows pictures of it would be greatly appreciated. And if possible, I'd really, really like a link to a Google Maps image as well.

posted by Effigy2000 to grab bag (8 comments total)

According to this page:

Don't bother looking up Gravett Island -- it's named for Jacques Gravett, [screenwriter Ron] Moore's assistant.

posted by cerebus19 at 6:46 PM on April 1, 2006

No, it doesn't exist. On the Google for the name (and I also tried variants like Gravet, Gravit, Gravitt) there's a discussion where someone says it doesn't exist. I also tried the Google search with -star -trek -startrek -"First Contact", etc, and it leaves nothing. I'm pretty confident every island on the planet would be mentioned somewhere at least once, so.. 99.99% certain it doesn't exist.

Supposedly it also hasn't ever been mentioned in the Star Trek universe before or after either.
posted by wackybrit at 6:47 PM on April 1, 2006

IMDB page for Jacques Gravett
posted by Espy Gillespie at 7:29 PM on April 1, 2006

It no more exists than does Macross Island.
posted by johngoren at 7:50 PM on April 1, 2006

It did exist, until the Enterprise crew from Star Trek 11: The Uninhibited County went back in time and destroyed it. But I've said too much.
posted by staggernation at 9:00 PM on April 1, 2006

The Uninhibited County

What does the O.C. have to do with it?
posted by dash_slot- at 7:30 AM on April 2, 2006

there's no article on a Gravett Island at all on Wikipedia

Fixed.
posted by ikkyu2 at 2:22 PM on April 2, 2006

He should have told everyone to meet up in either LA or San Fransisco. That's where all the other Star Trek crews go during time travel. (excepting DS9: the "Roswell" episode.....but then that was a group of Ferengis)
posted by azuma at 11:56 PM on April 2, 2006