The amazing Vasquez rocks were a major photography site for several classics science fiction

Located in the northern part of the Los Angeles Province, the natural Vasquez Rocks Park is located in the northern part of the Los Angeles Province, about 45 minutes drive from the appropriate Hollywood (depending on traffic). It is a famous tourist destination because the rock formations with layers come out of the ground with strange wild angles, giving them a foreign view. They were named after Tiburcio vásquez, a smart, smart Mexican strip hiding between the rocks while returning to the policemen in the 1970s. The hikers have been hiding among the rocks since then, admired their other beauty.

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Vasquez Rocks was a famous destination for filming dozens of major TV movies and programs, as it is a short drive away from all production offices in Los Angeles. It is easy to assemble the “Star Trek” team in a car, wear three stuntman as the Gorn character (specifically Bobby Clark, Gary Coms, Bill Blackburn), and go to the rocks to photograph actors demonstrating each other. In fact, Vasquiz rocks played the role of Metron in “Star Trek” “Arena” (January 19, 1967). One of the rocks in the “Kirk’s Rock” garden was named by Trekkies, where Kirk (William Shaatner) ran in the episode.

This was not the first time that an episode of “Star Trek” was filmed there. He was previously seen in the “Shore Leave” episode (December 29, 1966), where it was also the Battle of the Battle of Shatner, but with a fake version of Chum an ancient school called Finnegan (Bruce Mars). The park was also seen in “The Alternative Factor”, which was the planet in which Lazaros (Robert Brown) took place to fight an evil Dopplegänger, and the planet Kabila IV played in the “Frdy’s Child” episode (December 1, 1967), the episode made by Bones (Imporest Kelley).

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The above examples are just the times when the original “Star Trek” series was filmed in Vasquez Rocks. It was the Volcan Planet at “The Voyage Home”, and was attended by “Star Trek: The Next Generation” “who watched the observers?” (October 16, 1989). The park was the location of “Star Trek: Voyager” (specifically “start” and “Gravity”), and HomeWorld Xyrillian was on “Star Trek: Enterprise” “” Unexplated “(October 17, 2001). Volcan was once again in the 2009 movie “Star Trek”, and “Star Treke” completion. Finally, the character Raffi (Michelle Hurd) was seen living in a trailer in Vasquez Rocks in two episodes of “Star Trek: Picard”. This last case is the only time in the history of “Star Trek” that Vasquez Rocks played itself.

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Of course, the link to “Star Trek” to other films and TV shows for Vasquez Rocks as a smart reference to the show. The park was used in The 1991 Peter Hiite movie, “Bell & TEDED’s false journey” After the movie, it was specifically shown to the “Arena” episode. Bill (Alex Winter) and Keanu REEVES were thrown until their death (by cloning the evil robot) from a long rock in the garden. In the 1999 “Free Enterprise” movie, a movie about Trekkies for adults, the characters went to Rocks Vasquez to organize their mini -science fiction movie.

In the 2001 movie “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”, the characters eaten at a dinner at Vasquez Rocks as Arena Diner. It was also used in “The Big Bang Theory” and “Monk” episodes as a adjacent scientific site. By the nineties, everyone was aware of Vasquez’s relationship with science fiction.

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Of course, the rocks were from a foreign world in “Galaxy Quest”.

Of course, Vasquez Rocks was a suitable for a century, which adds an immediate production value to any cheap film or main studio project. Todd Browning photographed many Stagecoach scenes from the 1931 “Dracula” movie “Dracula” in Vasquez Rocks, and covers the sky with a wonderful unquestionable painting. Vasquez Rocks also played the Tibetan mountains in “Werewolf of London” (1934). Heck, they have been used even in the production of Cecil B. Demil in 1956 mega “Ten Commandments”.

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However, the rocky cinematic spirit lies with science fiction, both large and small. Vasquez Rocks appeared in the “John Carter” bomb, but also from cheap excitement such as “Metalstorm: The JARED-SYN” and “Parasite” (The One With Demi Moore) and 1982 “WorldDden World”. It was a barren land In “Hell comes to Frogtown” (The amazing strange sex movie with “Rody”), and a foreign contact point in “My husband is foreigner”. The list goes on. The rocks were seen in ambiguity such as “wavelength” of 1986 (which you did not see), “The missile to the moon” of 1958, and of course, “Murphine Power Rangers: The movie”.

This does not count dozens and dozens of fictional TV programs that were filmed there. Everything from “The Strange Nation” and “Back Rogers” to “Voyageers!” And “Westworld” also shot there. It was seen in the episodes of “Al -Shafaq area” and “External Borders”. There are possibilities, if you have seen a strange strange rock, you have seen the northern part of Los Angeles Province. Pavi, Lasi, The Hulk, Zorro, Shazam! , The A-TEAM, and all Hunter.

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Recently, the rocks were seen in “Borderlands” for 2024, without a paradox. The strange rock bumps, to this day, are still a useful foreign world group.