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Trek returns to Vasquez Rocks

peacemaker said:
Sigh...one more for the checklist of hopeless self-referentialness.

Maybe they are setting a scene in the same Vulcan dwelling as the "How do you feel?" memory test in ST IV, in which case it should look like Vasquez Rocks. Not so hopeless.
 
Who says it's a self-reference anyway? Even someone who's never seen a Star Trek episode can concede it's a good shooting location. That it has a kind of cultic status just accentuates that point. Overused, sure, but is there any filming location in the general vicinity of Southern California that hasn't been beaten to death?
 
^Yeah. Southern California? What are you talking about? Those rocks are outside of Roswell, New Mexico, and I happen to know there are alien pods underneath them! (There used to be a Granolith too but I think that's gone now.) :D
 
The Borgified Corpse said:
^Yeah. Southern California? What are you talking about? Those rocks are outside of Roswell, New Mexico, and I happen to know there are alien pods underneath them! (There used to be a Granolith too but I think that's gone now.) :D
Actually Vasquez Rocks use on Roswell was the REAL reason I went there! I am a huge fan. Its use in multiple Trek episodes was a mere bonus incentive. ;)
 
Kegek said:
Who says it's a self-reference anyway? Even someone who's never seen a Star Trek episode can concede it's a good shooting location. That it has a kind of cultic status just accentuates that point. Overused, sure, but is there any filming location in the general vicinity of Southern California that hasn't been beaten to death?

Nope. I know it was driving me apeshit that S2 Heros was using the M*A*S*H location for all their feudal Japan shots. You can't disguise those mountains with a couple of CGI insets... You can at least shoot the site with a new angle or two.
 
Dale Hoppert said:
BalthierTheGreat said:
Well, I'm going to spy on 'em with google earth. I'm sure I'll find something...
You do understand that those aren't live snapshots, right? They're only updated periodically (long periods), and desert and other largely uninhabited regions only very rarely.

Most shots are over a year old, but if you work for Google, or have a friend who does, you have access to 6 foot per pixel DigitalGlobe satellite shots from as close as yesterday in some locations.
 
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