Even though this was the second episode aired of season two, Trek was the first one filmed with Peter Graves, after he replaced Steven Hill as team leader. That was really Graves hanging from the helicopter ladder hundreds of feet in the air ... at his own insistence. He said he loved it!

@lima-2 :😎 That's what I thought as well. I loved the fact that almost the entire episode was filmed on location. Do you happen to know exactly where that location was?

@PhelpsFan said:

@lima-2 :😎 That's what I thought as well. I loved the fact that almost the entire episode was filmed on location. Do you happen to know exactly where that location was?

Our old friend Patrick J. White, whom I quoted above, said it was Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park in Agua Dulce, California. Being from Cali, are you familiar with it? Looks like a great locale!

@lima-2 :😁 I thought that it might have been Vasquez Rocks! They filmed all sorts of TV shows and movies there, including, I believe, the worst movie ever made, Robot Monster.

@lima-2 I was wrong about Robot Monster. It was filmed in Bronson Canyon, and not Vasquez Rocks. But I still think it's the worst movie ever made. It's even worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space, which is a so bad it's good movie that has a certain charm to it. Robot Monster is just horrible, but a guilty pleasure to watch.

@Savage918 said:

@lima-2 I was wrong about Robot Monster. It was filmed in Bronson Canyon, and not Vasquez Rocks. But I still think it's the worst movie ever made. It's even worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space, which is a so bad it's good movie that has a certain charm to it. Robot Monster is just horrible, but a guilty pleasure to watch.

Yes, I know this is way OT, but ... I believe Plan 9's charm results from the presence of Bela Lugosi, in his last role. I have seen interviews with him from around this time, and he speaks letter-perfect English. It's as if he knew his accent was part of his on-screen charisma, and his appeal as an actor. And Robot Monster, if you've ever watched Svengoolie on Saturday nights, in the opening credits, there is a clip of the gorilla with the robot head, lol. Yes indeed a guilty pleasure in watching both.

@lima-2 : I totally agree.

Remember when Martin Landau won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Bella Lugosi in the film Ed Wood? My family was so happy to see him win. As a matter of fact, Ed Wood was Martin's third Best Supporting Actor nomination (the first one was for the movie Tucker: The Man And His Dream and the second one was for the Woody Allen (who I think is a big creep) movie Crimes And Misdemeanors.

Fun Fact: Ed Wood got partial funding for Plan 9 From Outer Space from a church group.

@lima-2: Another Fun Fact: The man who replaced Bela Lugosi on Plan 9, who unfortunately died during filming, was Ed Wood's Chiropractor, who was considerably taller than Lugosi.

Trek (and not the one you're thinking of)

@PhelpsFan said:

Yesterday I watched the second season episode Trek again. It's a cool story that has the team trying to convince a thief to lead them to some Inca treasure he stole and hid before he goes blind. Of course the country this is set in is obviously not Peru but it's a decent plot device.

I thought that the Romulans were after the Inca artefacts. They had agents everywhere, in the IMF and in the Santales military. A THRUSH agent got his hands on it at the end and arrested one of the Romulans, but I expect him to escape with the help of another agent.

@wonder2wonder: Romuluans in Peru? How did they hide the pointy ears?

@SecretaryIMF said:

@wonder2wonder: Romuluans in Peru? How did they hide the pointy ears?

Cosmetic or genetic surgery. Didn't you recognize some of the Romulans there?

@wonder2wonder: Come to think about it, Mark Lenard's bad guy colonel did bear a resemblance to a certain TOS Romulan Commander.

@SecretaryIMF said:

@wonder2wonder: Come to think about it, Mark Lenard's bad guy colonel did bear a resemblance to a certain TOS Romulan Commander.

There is also the puppeteer.