Thought some of you might get a kick out of this production map, showing where everyone crashed on Altamid. It's from a one-second glimpse in the Bluray extras.
Altamid maps
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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Interessting but maybe not a final version. The Pioneer/Franklin should be somewhere between the Enterprise crash site and the quarry. After the "saucer flip" Kirk and Chekov are on their way to the quarry and stumble in Jaylahs Trap. According to this map they went in the wrong direction and have surpassed Spock and McCoy at the swarm ship crash site. Exchanging the swarm ship and Enterprise crash sites (& Kelvin Pod landing site) would make a lot more sense.
Is the trap supposed to be near the Franklin, though? Jaylah probably ranges far and wide in her search for spare parts. And the Enterprise crashed right where Jaylah would be expecting people from Krall's quarry to be approaching from...
The distances aren't particularly great in this map, even if the terrain is difficult to traverse. Which incidentally makes one wonder why the saucer crashed at this exact spot. I mean, the rest isn't coincidental: the quarry is probably where the Franklin landed for a reason, and the supposed dozens of other crashed ships aren't in this immediate vicinity from what we gather in the movie or what this map shows. And the assorted Enterprise evacuees might have been steered towards one and the same spot by automatic emergency protocols, so that all evacuees would meet where the saucer landed. But why does the saucer go where it does?
It's not as if the heroes would have spotted anything of great interest in that spot, either - the whole planet sported those "vast subterranean elements". Are we supposed to assume Krall's forces gained such total control of the saucer that they were able to steer it to Krall's lair?
Timo Saloniemi
The distances aren't particularly great in this map, even if the terrain is difficult to traverse. Which incidentally makes one wonder why the saucer crashed at this exact spot. I mean, the rest isn't coincidental: the quarry is probably where the Franklin landed for a reason, and the supposed dozens of other crashed ships aren't in this immediate vicinity from what we gather in the movie or what this map shows. And the assorted Enterprise evacuees might have been steered towards one and the same spot by automatic emergency protocols, so that all evacuees would meet where the saucer landed. But why does the saucer go where it does?
It's not as if the heroes would have spotted anything of great interest in that spot, either - the whole planet sported those "vast subterranean elements". Are we supposed to assume Krall's forces gained such total control of the saucer that they were able to steer it to Krall's lair?
Timo Saloniemi
