Starbase 11 Starbase 11 was a Federation starbase administered by Starfleet and located on planet M - 11 . The base had repair and maintenance facilities for starship s and at least some facilities were located on the planetary surface . In 2267 , command of Starbase 11 passed from Commodore to Commodore Mendez . ( ) History . In 2256 , Michael Burnham saw the starbase during a demonstration of the spore drive in the USS " Discovery " " ' s " engineering test bay alpha . ( ) In 2267 , the diverted to Starbase 11 , then under the command of Commodore Stone , in order to undergo repairs due to damage sustained during an encounter with an extremely powerful ion storm . While the " Enterprise " was there , Starbase 11 served as the site of a court martial against the vessel ' s commanding officer , James T . Kirk , the first such proceeding against a starship captain , for Kirk ' s apparent role in the death of Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Finney . It was later discovered , however , that Finney was not , in fact , dead , but had rather faked his own death in an effort to frame Kirk . ( ) Later that year , the " Enterprise " returned to Starbase 11 , which at this point was under the command of Commodore Mendez . Although it had initially appeared as if Captain Kirk had received orders to divert to the starbase , subsequent investigation concluded that the facility had sent no such message , and that the orders were , in fact , forged by the " Enterprise " s first officer , Lieutenant Commander Spock , as part of a plot to gain access to Fleet Captain Christopher Pike , Spock ' s former commanding officer , and illegally transport him to the forbidden planet of Talos IV . ( ) In 2328 , this was the destination for passengers traveling from Sherman ' s Planet Spaceport via commercial transport . , , and Molly Tranya traveled to Starbase 11 on the . ( , " okudagram " ) In 2369 , Geordi La Forge , when investigating the murder of Lieutenant Keith Rocha , requested a display of the lieutenant ' s personal records from the Relay Station 47 computer for stardate s 46455 to 46460 . One of these records mentioned this starbase . In his log entry , Rocha wrote , " " Spent most of the day recalibrating the new antenna array for Starbase 11 . Ran several TB throughput tests , but we still can ' t seem to crack the median performance level . We ' ll try again on Friday . " " ( , " okudagram " ) Resources and facilities . In addition to its starship repair facilities , Starbase 11 also housed a medical section with an intensive care area dedicated to the treatment of seriously wounded individuals . One of its patients was Fleet Captain Christopher Pike , who was left an invalid subsequent to exposure to massive amounts of delta ray s . ( ) The starbase also maintained a computer center , and at least one office ( for the portmaster ) , a courtroom , one set of quarters , an officer ' s lounge ( namely , the M - 11 Starbase Club ) , a computer center , and one shuttlecraft , the " Picasso " . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Starbase 11 was the first named starbase in " Star Trek " . This facility was called " Star Base 811 " in early story outlines for " Court Martial " ( written while the narrative had the working title " Court Martial at Star Base 811 " ) . The episode ' s first draft story outline , which identified it with this name ( and was dated ) , described the facility as " a supply and maintenance base . " A revised story outline for the installment ( dated ) characterized it thus ; " " Star Base 811 is a galactic maintenance station , and also a command post . Here starships put in periodically for repairs , and here , also , is the sector command post , where men are sent pending assignment to ships , where certain training functions are performed . " " In the script of " From the First Day to the Last , Part II " ( a developmental precursor to , written by John D . F . Black , and submitted on ) , the starbase where Christopher Pike , before being taken to Talos IV , resided was called " Trium Supply Base " . While still named " Star Base 811 " , this facility , among other aspects of the episode " Court Martial " , was written about by Gene Roddenberry in a six - page memo of script notes he sent Gene L . Coon ( on ) . Concerning the installment ' s first draft script ( which also had the working title " Court Martial at Star Base 811 " ) , the memo proposed that the starbase ' s exterior could be portrayed using a pre - existing local building , enhanced with a matte painting of the planet surface for the background . Roddenberry also used the document to recommend that most of the base ' s interiors be depicted by " doubling over our starship interiors . " He went on to say , " " Matt Jefferies should give us a quick estimate of this possibility . " " Though the script later called for the exterior establishing shots of the base to be shown using firstly a moving matte shot and secondly a view of an administration building , Roddenberry minimized how the facility would be depicted for budgetary reasons . Among his other notes in the memo , for instance , were suggestions that some of the base ' s interiors could be filmed on Desilu Stage 10 , and that there be only one exterior shot of the facility in the entire episode . " " We could possibly then keep the outside alive with a limited , carefully planned , group of exterior views through windows , " " he commented . Roddenberry also suggested amortizing the majority of the sets by additionally using them in the filming of and , and arranging for that story to be filmed next . In the final draft and the revised final draft of the script for " Court Martial " ( dated 26 and respectively , while Starfleet was instead called " Galactic Command " ) , the matte painting of Starbase 11 was described thus ; " " Seen in forced perspective , it is a huge complex serving the dual role of repair base and Galactic Command outpost . " " By comparison , in the final draft script of " The Menagerie " ( dated ) , the facility was still named " Star Base 811 " and its exterior was characterized as " " The huge gleaming Star Base building , a strange , lonely contrast against " [ the planet landscape ] " and the base was to have a sign identifying it as a " United Space Agency " facility . The matte painting of Starbase 11 was created by Matte Artist Albert Whitlock , who had an affinity for illustrating futuristic landscapes . He painted the image with oils on Masonite . ( " " , p . 089 ) " The Star Trek Compendium " ( 4th ed . , pp . 46 - 48 ) mistakenly referred to this starbase as " Starbase 12 " ( in the case of " Court Martial " ) and " Starbase 6 " ( as regards the " The Menagerie " two - parter ) . Apocrypha . According to the " Star Trek Online " tie - in novel " The Needs of the Many " , Commander Harry Kim became the chief of security of Starbase 11 in 2400 ( the same year he would have become captain of the and left for a four - year deep space mission in an alternate timeline depicted in ) .