Dodge Half - Ton Pickup Truck The Dodge Half - Ton Pickup Truck was a type of truck , powered by an internal combustion engine , made on Earth by the American automobile Dodge company during the mid - 20th century for use by both civilians as well as the American military . " In an alternate timeline , caused by the Temporal Cold War and in which the Eastern seaboard of the United States of America was under German occupation , a military version of the Half - Ton truck was in 1944 seen abandoned in a Brooklyn , New York City street in front of Alicia Travers ' apartment building , where Captain Jonathan Archer of was hiding out after his escape from the SS . " ( ) " A short time thereafter , the American Resistance utilized a civilian version of the truck , " borrowed " from the local Corders Company ( as indicated on its doors ) to transport its fighters for the assault on the facility where the Na ' kuhl were constructing a temporal conduit . " ( ) In October 1957 , a crashed in the vicinity of Carbon Creek , Pennsylvania , USA and its two survivors , Mestral and T ' Mir , realized they were stuck on the planet for awhile . In order to survive they decided to blend in with the local population , and dressed in local attire they wandered into the small town of Carbon Creek . At that time still unbeknownst to the two wayward Vulcan s , one of the very first Earth vehicles they encountered , was an early civilian model Dodge Half - Ton Pickup Truck . ( ) Background information . For the " Storm Front " two - part episode , the scenes with the Dodge military trucks were filmed on Thursday on the Paramount Pictures " New York Street " backlot standing set . The scenes with the by the Resistance used civilian truck were filmed on Wednesday 28 July ( daytime scenes ) and on Tuesday ( nighttime scenes ) in the alley behind Paramount Stage 9 . A very successful model , the four - wheel drive Dodge Half - Ton " C - Series " Pickup Truck was introduced in 1939 and continued production through 1947 . With the outbreak of World War II the model was converted to a military version in a variety of roles , and these were in production from 1941 until 1945 . The civilian versions in particular with its distinctive front , have struck a cord with car collectors , becoming sought after collector items , and numerous units ended up in private collections , including the rented ones in the " Star Trek " productions . Its history did not end with cessation of production in 1947 , as its basic design served as the basis for all the pickup models Dodge produced afterwards . One of its descendants became the Dodge Ram , which also has made appearances in " Star Trek " productions . In the 1930s and 1940s Dodge used a code to designate their truck types ; a capital letter to indicate the year of introduction of a model , followed by a capital letter to indicate the load capacity , and optionally , for the military in particular , an one , or two digit numerical to indicate a particular version of a model . " WC4 " for example ( the one featured in " Storm Front " ) , stood for a winch - equipped model introduced in 1941 , with a half - ton load capacity for use as a gun towing munitions carrier . A bit confusingly perhaps , the " W ' was continued from 1941 onward , whereas the " C " was also retained to indicate the ¾ , as well as the 1 . 5 ton ( such as the Dodge WC63 truck , which had also made an appearance in " Storm Front , Part II " ) load carrying models . The in the " Star Trek " episodes featured trucks can be identified as follows ,