...the question about what exactly the hell are those gigantic buildings scattered about the Iowa countryside as Kirk rides his motorcycle?
Does the ST XI novelization answer...
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There's no mention of them. It seems a reasonable surmise, though, that they have some connection to the Starfleet shipyard. Or perhaps they're just big buildings that have cropped up in the intervening 250 years between now and then, no more needing special explanation than all the new skyscrapers in the San Francisco skyline.
it's a quarry.
As captcalhoun says, it's a quarry, which should be easy enough to determine from the unnaturally flat walls and the fact that there's a fence around it. And yes, the state of Iowa contains many rock quarries in real life. Here's a list.
I believe it's the future site of the shipyard where the Enterprise will one day be built. The sides of the canyon are clearly artificial, after all...
And once they built the quarry, they bulldozed all of Iowa's cornfields into it.
What are you talking about? Obviously the entire state of Iowa is not covered in cornfields; it has a more complicated geography than that. And we do see cornfields, or some kind of fields, when Kirk is riding his motorcycle after the bar scene.
Maybe those were quadrotriticale fields.
I work with someone who grew up in Iowa. he said the ground color, and terran do not look Iowan, not to mention the quarry.
Post WW3, it changed a lot - I bet your workmate has never seen a mutant or a cannibal either - and that one time Colonel Green came to town...
Well, yeah, and Korea doesn't look like the Los Angeles hills (as it did in M*A*S*H) and Kansas doesn't look like Vancouver (as it does in Smallville). Nor does San Francisco look anything like the Paramount New York Street backlot that was routinely used to double it in various Trek shows; for that matter, New York doesn't look like the New York Street backlot either. If every film were required to shoot on the actual locations it's simulating, few people could ever afford to tell a story that didn't take place entirely within 50 miles of LA or Vancouver.
I get nostalgic chills every time I walk through the streets of Metropolis ("Superman Returns"), I mean Martin Place, Sydney.
FWIW, all three Law & Order shows manage just fine with shooting on location in New York City.
(One of the reasons I like L&O so much.)
Well, yes, of course, since New York also has an established film industry. However, if an episode of Law & Order needs to have its characters travel to Ohio, they'll just find some location near NYC that can pass as part of Ohio, at least to the satisfaction of viewers who don't know or care what Ohio terrain really looks like. The principle is the same.
Without wanting to be a tease, but I asked ILM's Roger Guyett about this when I did the interview with him for STM at the weekend - once the article's gone through approvals, I'll reveal his answer... and so far, no-one's hit the logic that the film makers used (although Roger qualified his answer as being what he worked out)...
Paul
Tell me about location. I watched a movie that was supposedly set in my home town in Michigan -- the architecture, the grass, and the trees were so obviously Californian, it threw me right out of the movie. This was on the Hallmark Channel...
Try living in the UK and watching most things set in Britain...! as memorably sent up in the 2nd Austin Powers movie, too much looks VERY like Southern California.
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