A poster advertising the Millennium Gate
The Millennium Gate seen from high altitude
The Millennium Gate was a 21st century structure and Earth's first self sustaining civic environment.
The Millennium Gate was built in Portage Creek, Indiana, United States of America in the early part of the 21st century. Its construction was finished around the year 2012.
The Millennium Gate was one kilometer high, had a base width of 3.2 kilometers and could be seen from space. The Gate itself was covered in highly-reflective solar panels and was built as a self-contained biosphere with its own ecosystem. It was designed to be a fully self sustaining biosphere with over six hundred stores. Eventually, the Millennium Gate would serve as a model for the first colony on Mars.
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The building of this immense project was scheduled to start in 2001 after the necessary legalities were finished before midnight on the last day of 2000. The Texas company behind the project appointed Gerald Moss as the Millennium Gate spokesman. The reason for building the Gate in Portage Creek was that its city administrators offered the company free building permits, new roads and deferred local taxes. Local citizens were offered twenty percent above the current market value for their properties. The catch was that all citizens needed to agree to sell; if even one of them refused, the whole project would fall through and terminated and the Millennium Gate built on its alternate location in Canton, Ohio.
In general, the people of Portage Creek welcomed the building of the Millennium Gate. However, there were those who vehemently opposed the stricture, believing that claims about it being a self sustaining civic environment were mere propaganda and nothing but a glorified shopping mall. One such individual was Henry Janeway. He owned a little bookstore, the Alexandria Books, in Portgage Creek and was one of the last hold out, preventing the project from becoming a reality. The deadline for the citizens of Portage Creek to agree to surrender their properties was to pass at midnight, December 31, 2000.
Moss and Shannon O'Donnell, an ancestor of Kathryn Janeway's, managed to convince Henry Janeway to leave his bookstore before midnight and on the first day of January 2001, the building of the Millennium Gate commenced. (VOY: "11:59")
Background
The Millennium Gate was similar in appearance and configuration to Farpoint Station.
The Millennium Gate poster contains, at the bottom, the names of members of the Voyager production team, posing as the architect, project manager, etc. of the Millennium Gate project. (Voyager Season 7 bonus DVD)}}