Photography Photography is the art of producing images on surfaces that are photosensitive , known as photographs . Several photographs , including the portrait of an unknown woman were displayed on the wall of Edith Keeler ' s room at the Twenty - First Street Mission in 1930 . ( ) The United States Army took several photographs of " Quark ' s Treasure " after it crash - landed in Roswell , New Mexico in 1947 . ( ) Spock considered the images taken of the from Captain John Christopher ' s F - 104 Starfighter , in 1969 , to be " " poor photography . " " During the same time , several photographs of airplanes were displayed on walls at the Omaha air force base . ( ) In 1996 , Henry Starling kept a photograph of himself and President Richard Nixon in his office . ( ) In 2152 , several photographs were taken by Commander Charles Tucker III while visiting , with Ensign Hoshi Sato , chambers of some alien ruins on an unnamed planet which was devoid of life . In an hallucination Sato thereafter experienced , an illusory T ' Pol mentioned to her that Captain Archer had decided to destroy the photographs , in exchange for aliens who apparently lived on the planet returning Tucker and Ensign Travis Mayweather , both of whom had supposedly been taken hostage by the aliens . ( ) Captain Jonathan Archer kept a photograph of three Human men on the wall of his ready room . ( ) In 2161 , Shran gave T ' Pol a photograph of a Tenebian amethyst . T ' Pol noted to Shran , " " The photograph you gave us had poor resolution , but I ' m confident our replication will look authentic . " " ( ) Three playing cards were turned into photographs of Yeoman Janice Rand by Charles Evans in 2266 . ( ) Several photographs were displayed on the walls of the medical laboratory on Earth Two in the same year . ( ) On Sigma Iotia II in 2268 , a photograph of Bela Okmyx was used as a poster on the streets of his territory . Rival boss Jojo Krako had one of these in his office , used as target practicing with darts . ( ) On Ekos the same year , a large photograph of John Gill , the Führer was present in a news broadcast studio . ( ) James Kirk had a photograph of his late son , David Marcus in his quarters aboard the in 2293 . ( ) Jean - Luc Picard kept an album of family photographs . ( ) A photograph of the original command crew ca . 2293 was displayed on the wall of James Kirk ' s kitchen in the Nexus . ( ) In 2370 , Deanna Troi mentioned to William T . Riker that she remembered seeing a scope like the one on the bridge of in a photograph . ( ) The Dominion had a photograph of Benjamin Sisko in their database . When Kilana met Sisko in 2373 , she remarked that " your photograph doesn ' t do you justice . You ' re quite striking in person " . ( ) In 2375 , Hector Ilario , Greta Vanderweg and Zim Brott were targeted by Chu ' lak because there were photographs of people laughing in their quarters . ( ) In an alternate timeline where Tuvok had been struck with a degenerative neurological disease , before leaving on a dangerous mission , Admiral Janeway left a photograph of ' s command crew ( including the two of them ) to remember her by , in case she didn ' t return . ( ) Photographs were also used in numerous newspaper s and magazine s in various cultures . On Earth in 1930 , a portrait of Edith Keeler was used in a news headline , announcing her death . " The Gallian " , a magazine on planet 892 - IV also featured several photographs in 2268 . ( )