Amargosa Desert

that shimmer and dissolve in the heat haze.

The Amargosa Desert.

Summer temperatures routinely exceed 45 degrees Celsius.

Annual rainfall is less than seven centimeters.

I'm just looking at the nitpickers guide and there's complaints about everyone in the holodeck agrees that the alien examination slash torture table was tilted however when the episode finally shows the aliens lair the tables are in fact flat and I just I find myself sometimes reading this and just feeling like Crichton on the smeg ups tapes because

they were inclined okay The Amargosa Diaspora, it was named after a pet finch of Bran and Braga's mother, but also the Amargosa Desert.

And in Star Trek Generations, it's the Amargosa Star.

But there's no indication that those are related things.