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Star Trek Filming Locations - Vasquez Rocks

A look at the various Star Trek productions over the years that have filmed at Vasquez Rocks which are located at Aqua Dulce, California.

A Respite From Winter

After a quick lunch at the cafeteria (we ate outside on a shady patio), we went to the museum with displays of full-scale and half-scale models of the many famous spacecraft designed and built at JPL. Among my engineering peers in Seattle, moving to "LA" (pronounced with a sneer) was considered to be the last of the last resorts. Mariner, Voya ger (seen at left), Galileo, Cassini, Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: these were the tools we used for, in Isn't the traffic impossible to deal with. Sure the weather is nice, but aren't the people shallow and self-absorbed....

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Referred to as “wandering stars,” they were seen to loop around the sun and Earth from our perspective, and it took many centuries to untangle just what they were seeing - what went around what. Just when you thought they all were heading one way across the sky, west to east as seen night to night - each outer planet (beginning with Mars) periodically will make a U-turn and head back for a while only to reverse again and resume its... Here is a group of what look like bright stars - minus any obvious twinkle - which unlike the rest of the starry dome, they keep changing position. Debates about a flat Earth were coupled with the heretical notion that the Earth may be one of those “wandering stars. This loop effect is an illusion, caused by changing perspective as the Earth in its faster orbit, overtakes the outer planet. The parade of planets has intrigued star-watchers for thousands of years.

Miles Ahead

  In a world where their bitter enemies are now "friends," both Maxwell and O'Brien are forced to confront their own personal ghosts and feelings toward the Cardassians.   A Starfleet ship, the Phoenix, has seemingly gone rogue and is attacking Cardassian outpots, threatening a just-signed peace treaty that ended a long-running war between the Federation and Cardassia.   The Phoenix is commanded by a man named Ben Maxwell, under whom O'Brien served during the recent conflict. The Wounded - No sooner does O'Brien get hitched than he gets his own episode, and it's a doozy.   The Enterprise is sent to investigate and they end up taking on a Cardassian liaison in an effort to maintain the fragile peace....