Was rewatching Star Trek Prodigy and when they’re on the murder planet there’s a rock formation that reminded me of Vasquez Rocks in Los Angeles.

Anyone familiar with Star Trek would recognize these rocks because they were used in multiple Star Trek episodes.

However upon closer inspection they don’t appear to be a perfect match. The closest I could find was this small section off the main rocky protrusion, and even then if it was used it appears to have been cut off sharply on the right.

I do not know if there was any attempt to have this be a small Easter egg or not, but I just thought I’d point it out just in case.

Farmer watches Vasquez Rocks on LaserDisc

Frankie Rayder with Snake. Vasquez Rocks, Los Angeles County, California 2000

Photo: Herb Ritts

Light leaks at Vasquez rocks

Kind of the same, but except for some stripes and a big rock, not really at all.

Natalie Wood, 1979

Way of a Gaucho Jacques Tourneur. 1952

Rocks Vasquez Rocks, Santa Clarita, CA 91390, Estados Unidos See in map

See in imdb

Bonus: also in this location

Trekkers recreate the Kirk/Gorn battle from TOS episode, "Arena" at original shooting location, Vasquez Rocks with Mego action figures. 😄🖖❤️

Lara Moser's photo of Vasquez Rocks . . . a rare quiet day. The green speaks to the winter and spring rains!

The PCT winds through Vasquez Rocks shortly (for those headed north) after passing underneath Highway 14. The 932-acre park includes a Visitor’s Center that is well worth a stop. In 1873 and 1874, Tiburcio Vásquez, for whom the rocks are named and one of California’s most notorious bandits, used these rocks to elude capture by law enforcement. In more recent times, its claim to fame is as a setting for many movies, television episodes, music videos, and countless commercials. The filmography of Vasquez Rocks includes “Austiin Powers: International Man of Mystery” (1997), “Blazing Saddles” (1974), “Hail, Ceasar!” (2016), “Holes” (2003), “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006), “Planet of the Apes” (2001), and more than 40 other movies.

And Soledad Canyon too . . .

Vasquez Rockys stylized.

Douglas Sirk's Sign of the Pagan (1954) starring Vasquez Rocks.

intersect,

Vasquez Rocks State Park, California

These rock formations are pretty dang cool.

set location: vasquez rocks (North of L.A.)

The opening scene in "Tibet" was filmed at Vasquez Rocks, well known to Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) fans as the rock outcropping from where Captain Kirk rolled a boulder down trying to kill the Gorn in Star Trek: The Original Series: Arena (1967).

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