Dodge WC63 The Dodge WC63 was a type of truck manufactured on Earth by the American Dodge Company during the mid - 20th century for that nation ' s US military . They were powered by an internal combustion engine . In an alternate 1944 caused by the Temporal Cold War , the Na ' kuhl leader Vosk used a by the German SS operated Dodge WC63 truck , carrying the license plate " NA 43212 " , to transport the captured Ensign Travis Mayweather and Commander Charles Tucker III of to a meeting with Captain Jonathan Archer in a wooded area outside New York City . Vosk erroneously believed that he could exchange his prisoners in return for help in getting his people home to their own timeline . ( ) Background information . The entire prisoner exchange scene was filmed on Monday in Griffith Park , along with the other forest scenes featured in the previous part , . In total 43 , 000 units were produced of this 1 . 5 ton load carrying , six - wheel drive light truck between 1943 and 1945 , together with its immediate predecessor , the WC62 , which only lacked the winch on the front . Phased out in the 1960s , very few were ever converted for civilian use , but many ended up in museums or private collections , including the rented one featured in the " Star Trek " episode . Germans using American - made trucks is not as far - fetched as it may seem at first glance ; during World War II , the German military made extensive use of captured enemy vehicles of all kinds ( trucks being especially coveted , as they had always been in relatively short supply to the German military ) , having even invented a term for them , " Beutefahrzeuge " , which translated as " booty vehicles " , and fitting them into their ordnance designation system . The in the episode featured truck would have administratively been known to the Germans as a " LLkw 1 , 5t WC63 ( a ) " or " Leichte Lastkraftwagen ( = light truck ) 1 . 5 ton WC63 ( amerikanisch ) " . The truck ' s license plate seen in the episode is nonsensical though , it should have read " WH - 43212 " or " SS - 43212 " , depending on what organization it was assigned to , the Wehrmacht or the SS respectively . A movie - converted WC62 / 63 truck had " likely " made an earlier " Star Trek " appearance already , albeit a very fleeting and ephemeral one ; in the second season episode of , Captain James T . Kirk and Spock were watching a propaganda newsreel on the planet Ekos , in which Ekosian Wehrmacht vehicles were shown . One clipping was not from an actual , historical newsreel , but rather from an as of yet unidentified American ( propaganda ) war movie , of which many were produced in the period 1941 - 1945 . Showcasing a movie - made six - wheel drive truck in the background ( the possibly converted Dodge WC62 / 63 and arguably posing as a the historic German " " ) as well as a fantasy troop transport in the foreground – obviously a converted period truck and conceivably an attempt by the art department of the unidentified production to emulate one of the very distinctive German " - " half - track vehicles – , the exact same two fantasy vehicles were also featured in the contemporary 1943 war movie , . While very likely , as Dodge was in the early war years the only manufacturer of six - wheel drive light trucks for the US military ( they only too happy to lend their support to the Hollywood war effort ) , a firm identification remains unfeasible due to the movie conversion . A lighter sibling of the Dodge WC63 , had been the half - ton load carrying Dodge WC4 munitions carrier , seen in " Storm Front " .