| abstract | - Trimble first worked on the film from August through December of 2007. He returned to the production in January 2008 and stayed with it until filming wrapped in April, working on the film for a total of eight months (167 days). He found many of the locations that were seen in the movie, including:
* portions of the Corvette chase scene
* Riverside Shipyard
* various Iowa roads near the bar and the shipyard
* the rocky landscapes of Vulcan shot in Emery County, Utah
* the drilling platform fight scene above Vulcan
* glacial landscapes of Delta Vega shot in Alaska
* some first unit shooting of Delta Vega in Los Angeles
* Montgomery Scott's hangar on Delta Vega
* James T. Kirk's childhood home in Iowa, although this scene was cut from the movie
* pastoral landscapes on Romulus which would have accompanied the holographic image of Nero's wife, but they were cropped out of the final cut
* multiple locations aboard the USS Enterprise
* the engineering bay
* the engineering corridors
* the engineering main station
* the weapons room
* the communications center
* the water turbine room Trimble also scouted locations for every other scene in the film. This included many locations in Los Angeles that had never been shot for a film before. He also scouted the majority of Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Golden Gate bridge, central and southern Utah, central Alaska and its panhandle, and northern British Columbia, Canada. He also conducted research for overseas locations, including Reykjavik, Iceland, though the film was ultimately shot entirely in the United States. Trimble was also the one who initiated the corporate deal between Paramount Pictures and Anheuser-Busch; the Budweiser plant in Van Nuys, California, was used for the scenes shot in Enterprise's engineering bay. For his location work on Star Trek, Trimble was nominated as Assistant Location Manager of the Year for Features by the 14th Annual California on Location Awards (COLAs). The award ultimately went to his fellow Assistant Location Manager Kathy McCurdy for the same film. Trimble himself is a die-hard Trekkie and calls his work on Star Trek "a dream come true;" it had been his childhood dream to one day work on a Star Trek project. As a resident Trekkie, his knowledge of the Star Trek universe helped out during production. In a statement following his COLA nomination for Star Trek, Trimble said: "I am very excited about the many creative contributions that I made in regards to finding and securing the amazing locations that you'll eventually see in this film." The location information above came from conversations with crew members following the release of the movie in May 2009.
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