Scott Trimble Scott Thomas Suggs Trimble is a Location Scout and Location Manager hailing from San Francisco , California . He was the Key Assistant Location Manager and a Location Scout on ' s . In addition to location work , Trimble also shot a cameo as a Klingon prison guard , but his scene was deleted from the final cut of the film . Between April 2011 and December 2011 he also worked as location scout on the . Working on " Trek " . 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 : 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 . " " Other location work . His first job in the location department came in January 1999 when he scouted locations for an Adidas commercial . He has since scouted or assistant managed locations for numerous film and television productions . Trimble has collaborated with " Star Trek " director and producer J . J . Abrams on several other projects . In August 2006 , Trimble was an Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout on an episode of Abrams ' series " Alias " . He then served as Key Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout on the 2006 film " Mission : Impossible III " , which Abrams directed . Most recently , Trimble helped procure locations for the pilot of the upcoming medical drama " Anatomy of Hope " , also directed by Abrams . Other films on which Trimble has worked include " The Princess Diaries " , " Sweet November " ( starring Robert Joy and Frank Langella ) , " Hulk " ( starring Eric Bana ) , " 50 First Dates " , " Alpha Dog " ( starring Anton Yelchin ) , " Reign Over Me " ( featuring John de Lancie ) , " Rocky Balboa " , " Alvin and the Chipmunks " , " Hancock " ( featuring Elizabeth Dennehy ) , and " Transformers " ( featuring Andy Milder , Glenn Morshower , W . Morgan Sheppard , Michael Shamus Wiles , and the voice of Robert Foxworth ) . He also did location work for such television shows as " Jack & Bobby " , " Presidio Med " , " House , M . D . " ( starring Jennifer Morrison ) , " CSI " , " CSI : Miami " , and " Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles " . In August 2008 , Trimble scouted locations in Los Angeles for four episodes of NBC ' s science fiction adventure series , " Heroes " . Like " Star Trek " , this series stars Zachary Quinto , who plays the villainous Sylar . Trimble more recently worked as Key Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout on the highly - anticipated " Iron Man 2 " , based on the Marvel Comics character and to be distributed by Paramount Pictures . Other industry work . Trimble actually began his film career as an extra , appearing in such films as " Radio Flyer " ( featuring make - up effects by Joel Harlow ) and " Flubber " ( starring Clancy Brown , Christopher McDonald and Wil Wheaton ) . He eventually became an Extras Casting Assistant , working with background performers in films like " Bicentennial Man " and on the television series " Nash Bridges " . In addition to his location work , Trimble has acquired experience as an assistant director , production assistant ( on films such as " Bedazzled " and " The Matrix Reloaded " ) , production coordinator ( on 2005 ' s " The Zodiac " , featuring Brad William Henke ) , assistant production coordinator ( on films such as " High Crimes " , starring Ashley Judd , Bruce Davison , Jude Ciccolella , and John Billingsley , and " The Sweetest Thing " ) , marketing assistant ( for Disney / Pixar ' s " Toy Story 2 " ) , and camera operator . Awards . Prior to his COLA nomination for " Star Trek " , Trimble was awarded the Robin Eickman Memorial Mentorship Award at the 9th Annual California on Location Awards in October 2003 . He has since won two COLAs : one for his work on " Mission : Impossible III " and another as Key Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout for 2007 ' s " Transformers " . Incidentally , both of these films – like 2009 ' s " Star Trek " – were written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci . Trimble also received a COLA nominations in the Location Team of the Year for Features category for " Hancock " in 2008 . The following year , he was nominated as Assistant Location Manager of the Year for his work on " Iron Man 2 " . Personal life . Trimble is the son of Tom Trimble , an emergency room nurse , and Gail Trimble , a grower and exhibitor of roses . Trimble also had some show business in his very distant family . He is the 4th cousin twice removed of , the longtime voice of . He is also the great - grandnephew of Charles Darnton , a silent film screenwriter . Trimble is also a distant relative of United States President Barack Obama on Obama ' s maternal line . Trimble attended Terra Linda High School in San Rafael , California , from 1991 through 1995 . He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in May 1999 , with a major Anthropology ( with an emphasis on Historical Archaeology ) and minors in Dramatic Arts ( Acting ) and Scandinavian ( Folklore / Mythology ) . His education at UC Berkeley coincided with those of two stars of 2009 ' s " Star Trek " : John Cho was a senior during Trimble ' s freshman ( first ) year , while Chris Pine was a freshman during Trimble ' s junior ( third ) year . Several other " Star Trek " veterans are also UC Berkeley alumni , including TOS star George Takei , s Roxann Dawson , TOS director Jud Taylor , and guest star Golden Brooks . In 1993 , Trimble earned the rank of Eagle Scout . Later , in the mid - 1990s , Trimble volunteered at U . C . San Francisco Medical Center , and he worked at U . C . Berkeley ' s University Health Services . He also did dig and laboratory work for various archaeologists in Northern California . In the early 2000s , he was a Disaster Services Volunteer for the American Red Cross . He is still an active participant in the science and skepticism communities . He is a member of the James Randi Educational Foundation and he has lent his film industry skills to such TV shows as " Ripley ' s Believe - It - Or - Not " , " MythBusters " , and " The Skeptologists " . Trimble owns a pet German shepherd named Sedona Louella Trimble , or " Sadie , " who is also involved in show business . Sadie has appeared in several films , including " Undiscovered " ( starring Peter Weller ) , the aforementioned " Alpha Dog " , " Man in the Chair " ( starring Christopher Plummer ) , " Maki " ( starring Clint Howard ) , and the upcoming Paramount Pictures release " Case 39 " .