Ford Model 51 The Ford Model 51 was a type of truck manufactured on Earth by the American Ford Motor Company during the mid - 20th century for both civilian use as well as for Germany ' s military . They were powered by an internal combustion engine . In an alternate timeline , a German military Ford Model 51 truck , carrying the license plate " NA 22475 " , transported Captain Jonathan Archer of in 1944 from a field hospital for questioning . The truck was escorted by Volkswagen Kübelwagen belonging to the Wehrmacht ( as indicated by its license plate " WH - 52552 " , but driven by an SS soldier nevertheless ) , as well as a BMW R75 motorcycle . All vehicles were damaged when American Resistance fighters ambushed the small convoy , and killed their German occupants . A short time thereafter , a second Ford Model 51 truck ( with a license plate that partially read " NA 1257 " ) was seen parked in a Brooklyn , New York City street , just outside Alicia Travers ' apartment where the escaped Archer was hiding , being loaded with civilians , the SS were indiscriminately rounding up , in response to the ambush . ( ) Background information . The entire ambush scene was filmed on Thursday on the Sable Ranch grounds in Canyon Country , north of Los Angeles . The New York City street scene , obviously utilizing the same Ford truck ( this time tarped up and endowed with a slightly differing back license plate ) , was shot later that day on the Paramount Pictures " New York Street " backlot standing set . That an American 2 . 5 ton carrying , four - wheel drive truck ( produced in the period 1935 - 1936 as the truck version of the Model 48 civilian car ) was being driven by German soldiers , could easily be explained as them operating a captured vehicle . Yet , in what can be considered as one of history ' s little ironies , the truck was also produced in substantial numbers in Nazi Germany during the period 1937 - 1939 by Ford ' s subsidiary , Ford Motor Company AG , Köln - Niehl as the " Ford Modell V8 / 51 " . Virtually all of them ended up in the service of the Wehrmacht as the " MLkw 3t Ford V8 / 51 " ( " Mittler Lastkraftwagen – medium truck – 3 . 0 ton Ford V8 / 51 " ) , so the truck featured in the episode , could as easily have been German - made , as indicated by its mushroom - shaped blackout light on the left front mudguard . The white emblem on the side of the truck , is an anomaly though ; The entirely white emblem was only used during the September 1939 Polish campaign ( the actual start of World War II ) , and abandoned afterward as it was discovered that Polish gunners used the highly visible emblem as a bullseye , as the resistance fighters in the " Star Trek " episode undoubtedly also did . Several Ford Model 51 trucks , both American – not used in its military – and German - made have survived , ending up in museums or private collections , including the rented one featured in the " Star Trek " episode , as indicated by its nonsensical " NA " license plates . A correct period plate should have read " WH - 22475 " in the first case , as indication that it belonged to the Wehrmacht . Incidentally , the two German Ford factories , making extensive use of slave labor , continued to produce heavier truck types for the German armed forces right up - till the end of the war , continuing to rake in profits for its American parent company . Both the Ford Motor Company and its antisemitic founder Henry Ford – notorious for his Nazi sympathies – had some explaining to do after the war . Actually , one of the heavier Ford truck types has possibly made an appearance in another " Star Trek " production . In the opening scenes of the season four episode , a Hirogen hunter and Ensign Harry Kim are watching overhead bridge monitor station viewscreen s , witnessing a World War II holographic simulation gone wrong aboard the in 2374 , after the Hirogen had gained control over the ship and utilized its holodeck for the creation of their hunting simulations . Ostentatiously a scene in the French World War II - era village of German occupied Sainte Claire was shown . However , the scene was obviously not filmed on the " Little Europe " standing backlot set of Universal Studios , where the rest of the Sainte Claire simulation took place , but rather on the " New York Street " backlot set of either Universal or Paramount . Yet , it is highly unlikely that the scene was actually shot for the episode , as the costs of renting lot and vehicles for what was essentially a throw - away shot , would constitute a flippant use of the strictly regulated television budget . Considering that the comments of the watching Hirogen and Kim did not correspond with what was actually seen on the screens either , indicated that this clipping stemmed from an as of yet unidentified other movie , or television production . Shown in the clipping are German military vehicles in a city street , and whereas the Kübelwagen is , the three trucks are less so , even if a fairly good look is afforded on the one in the foreground . That one is possibly the 3 . 0 ton carrying " Ford V3000S ( G188TS ) " . Unfortunately , the frame of the viewscreen just cuts off the front of the engine bonnet , making a definitive positive identification unfeasible , as the Ford truck shared a remarkably similar side profile with its far more ubiquitous 3 . 0 ton carrying rival , the " " . Most ironically , the side profile was not the only thing the Ford truck shared with its rival ; like the Ford trucks , Opel trucks were essentially also produced by Americans as the Adam Opel AG company had been a fully owned subsidiary of the American General Motor Company ( GM ) since 1931 , and like the Ford Motor Company , GM had some explaining to do after the war for exactly the same reasons . An additional irony was that GM was also the manufacturer of the American military counterpart of the Ford V3000S / Opel Blitz , the GMC CCKW , famed as the original " Deuce - and - a - half " with several of these featured in the season four episode .