The Ranch as the Omicron colony in "This Side of Paradise".
The Ranch as the Melona colony in "Silicon Avatar".
The map attached to the call sheet for "Silicon Avatar".
The Golden Oak Ranch, which is also known as the Disney Ranch, is a movie ranch owned by the The Walt Disney Company. The Ranch is located at 19802 Placerita Canyon Road, Santa Clarita Valley, Newhall, California, USA.
The large ranch, which today spans 827 acres (335 hectares), was bought by Walt Disney in 1959. A well-known and often-seen filming location, the Golden Oak Ranch has been seen in television series such as 90210, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Dynasty, Dallas, General Hospital, Little House on the Prairie, Jericho, Bonanza, Murder, She Wrote, Quantum Leap, MacGyver, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Big Valley, Beauty and the Beast, North & South, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Twilight Zone, Falcon Crest, Highway to Heaven, Zorro, Roots: The Next Generation, How the West Was Won, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The X-Files, Boston Legal, Ghost Whisperer, 'My Name Is Earl, Bones, The Adventures of Spin and Marty, The New Adventures of Spin and Marty, Desperate Housewives (2011), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and The Mentalist (2013).
Film productions that have used this location include Old Yeller (1957), The Parent Trap (1961), The Love Bug (1968), the western Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Back to the Future (1985), the television pilot Kung Fu: The Movie (1986), Cry-Baby (1990), Escape to Witch Mountain (1995), Independence Day (1996), Fire Down Below (1997), the thriller Letters from a Killer (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the thriller Red Dragon (2002), The Garden (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).
Star Trek[]
On Thursday 5 January 1967, Friday 6 January 1967, and Monday 9 January 1967, two and a half days were spent at the Golden Oak Ranch, filming the Omicron colony scenes for TOS: "This Side of Paradise". Originally all three days were to be spent on location, but on the third day, due to the illness of guest star Jill Ireland, director Ralph Senensky moved to Desilu Stage 9 to film USS Enterprise interiors. The company was unable to return to the Ranch later, as it was already booked for another production, so the remaining colony scenes had to be shot at Bronson Canyon.
On Wednesday 7 August 1991, the production of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Silicon Avatar" filmed the surface scenes of the Melona colony at the Golden Oak Ranch. Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Susan Diol, and 25 background performers were directed by Cliff Bole with a set call at 7:00 a.m. Sunrise on this day was at 6:08 a.m. and sunset at 7:48 p.m. During the filming, the Directors Guild Educators Workshop visited the production. A map of the location was attached to the call sheet for this day.
In August 1992, two scenes for DS9: "Emissary" were filmed there. The scenes filmed there were Benjamin Sisko and Jake Sisko's holodeck fishing program and Sisko's picnic with Jennifer Sisko. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 17)
In July 2001, the scenes depicting the surface of Archer IV were filmed at the Ranch for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Strange New World". (Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 38)
In the summer of 2021, the Golden Oak Ranch was used to film the night flashback scenes of a young Martin Wells accidentally meeting two Vulcans in the Star Trek: Picard episode "Mercy". [1]