Comments on: Does Gravett Island actually exist?

Question: Does Gravett Island actually exist?

Effigy2000 — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:38:32 -0800

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.

By: cerebus19

cerebus19 — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:46:51 -0800

According to this page:

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

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:47:27 -0800

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.

By: Espy Gillespie

Espy Gillespie — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:29:48 -0800

IMDB page for Jacques Gravett

By: johngoren

johngoren — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:50:33 -0800

It no more exists than does Macross Island.

By: staggernation

staggernation — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:00:18 -0800

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.

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:30:59 -0800

The Uninhibited County

What does the O.C. have to do with it?

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:22:14 -0800

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

Fixed.

By: azuma

azuma — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:56:57 -0800

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)