The Natural Area Park Vasquez Rock is located in the north of Los Angeles County, about a 45-minute Hollywood driving accordingly (depending on traffic). They are a popular tourist destination because layered rock formations come out of the ground to strange, wild angles, giving them a foreign look. They got the name after Tiburio Vasquez, a notorious clever Mexican robber hiding between the rocks while avoiding police officers in the 1870s. Since then, walkers have been hiding among the rocks, admiring their beauty in the world.

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Vasquez Rock is a popular recording destination for dozens of big films and TV shows, mainly because they are so short driving from all production offices in Los Angeles. It is easy to insert the Star Trek cast into a van, wear three cascaders like Gornj's character (specifically Bobby Clark, Gary Combs and Bill Blackburn) and go to the rocks towards film actors who pretend each other. Indeed, Vasquez Rock played the role of planet Metron The episode "Old Trek" "Arena" (January 19, 1967). One of the rocks of the park is the nickname "Kirk Rock" by Trekis, as Kirk (William Shatner) climbed it into the episode.

And it wasn't even the first time to record an episode of "Star Trek" there. Earlier in the episode "Shore departure" (December 29, 1966), where it was the place of fight with Shatner, but with an imaginary version of an old school yam named Fingan (Bruce Mars). The park was also seen in the "alternative factor", serving as the planet where Lazar (Robert Brown) had to fight against his evil Dopelger, and played the planet Capella IV in the "Child on Friday" (December 1, 1967).

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The examples above are just times that the original series "Star Trek" recorded in Vasquez Rock. It served as a planet a volcano in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", and appeared in the episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation" "Who watched viewers?" (October 16, 1989). The park was a shooting location for two episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager" (concrete "Initiations" and "Gravity"), and was the Xyrillian HomeWorld of the "Star Trek: Enterprise" episode (October 17, 2001). "Star Trek in the dark". Finally, the image of Rafi (Michel Hard) saw him living in a trailer in Vasquez in two episodes of "Star Trek: Picard". The last example is the only way in the history of "Star Trek" Vasquez Rock played.

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Of course, the Star Trek association led to other films and TV shows to be filmed in Vasquez as a clever referral to the show. The park was used in Peter Hewitt's film in 1991 "Bogus Travel to Bill and Ted" After the film, he specifically showed footage of the episode "Arena". Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Kianu Reeves) were thrown to their deaths (from the wicked robots clones) of the high rock in the park. In Robert Meyer Burnet's film in 1999 "Free Enterprise", adult film trekkies, the characters went to Vasquez Rox to make their own mini scientific film.

In Kevin Smith's film in 2001 "Jayej and Silent Bob Strike", the characters eat at Vasquez Rock dinner, named the Arena dinner. It was also used in the episodes of "Big Bang" and "Monk" as a scientific location. Until the 1990s, everyone was aware of Vasquez's relationship with science.

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And, of course, the rocks were alien home time in the "Neighbor" Star Trek "Galaxy Quest".

Of course, Vasquez Rox has served as a comfortable recording location for a century, adding the immediate value of production of any inexpensive film or a large study project. Todd Browning shoots several scenes with Stageckocho from his 1931 classic "Dracula" in Vasquez Rock, covering the sky with impressive blurry painting. The Tibetan Mountains of Vervolf from London (1934) were also played by Vasquez Rock. Jack, they were even used in the mega-production of Cecil B. Demil of 1956 "The Ten Commandments".

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However, the Chinese soul of the rocks, however, rests in science fiction, both great and small. Vasquez Rock was shown in the Disney bomb "Caron Carter", but also cheap thrillers such as "Metalsphorm: Destruction of Aredar-Sin", "Parasite" (the one with Demi Moore) and the "Forbidden World" in 1982. It was a wasteland "Hell comes to Frogtown" (Beautiful strange sex/frog movie with "gave birth" pepper), and someone else's contact point in "My stepmother is alien." The list continues. The rocks were seen in ambiguity as "Wavelength" in 1986 (which you haven't seen), "The Rocket to the Moon" of 1958 and, naturally, "Powerful Morphine Power Rangers: The Movie".

And it doesn't even count the dozens and dozens of hit topic TV shows that were filmed there. Everything from "Alien Nation" and "Buck Rogers" to "Voyagers!" And West World was also firing there. It was seen in the episodes of the "Dusk Zone" and "External Borders". Chances are, if you've seen alien Alien Rock, you've seen the northern La County. Buffy, Lassie, Hulk, Zoro, Jasm!, A-team and Hunter visited everyone.

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Recently, the rocks were seen in the film "Border Territories" in 2024, presented without irony. The strange wrist rocks are still, to this day, a useful set of world worldwide.