Scott Trimble

Scott Thomas Suggs Trimble is a Los Angeles-based producer, production manager, location manager, and location scout hailing from San Francisco, California. He was the key assistant location manager (and primary location scout) on (). He also shot a cameo as a Klingon guard, but his scenes were deleted from the final cut. He later worked as the key assistant location manager (and, again, the primary location scout) on (). He was also the unit production manager of the fan film Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar (2014). In 2016, he received a special thanks credit for the Star Trek parody version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio for his assistance with the opera performances. He was also supervising location manager on the first season of .
== Working on Star Trek (2009) ==
Trimble worked on 2009's Star Trek from August 2007 until filming wrapped in April 2008. He found many of the locations that were seen in the movie, including:
*portions of the Corvette chase scene
*the Riverside Shipyard where the was built
*various Iowa roads near the bar and shipyard
*the rocky landscapes of shot in Emery County, Utah
*the drilling platform fight scene above Vulcan
*glacial landscapes of shot in Alaska
*'s hangar on Delta Vega
*'s childhood home in Iowa, although this scene was edited out
*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 , including engineering, engineering corridors, weapons room, communications center and water turbine room
Trimble scouted in Southern California, San Francisco Bay Area (including the Golden Gate Bridge), Utah, Alaska, and British Columbia, Canada. Trimble was also the one who initiated the corporate deal between Paramount Pictures and Anheuser-Busch after he scouted the Budweiser plant in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, for the Enterprise engineering areas.
Trimble calls his work on Star Trek "a dream come true." 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." 
== Working on Star Trek into Darkness (2013) ==
Trimble worked on the twelfth movie in the series from April 2011 through December 2011. With the exception of some of the San Francisco chase scene locations, he found just about every location seen in the final film. His biggest coups, though, were the J. Paul Getty Museum (which was part of Starfleet Headquarters) and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (which appeared as part of the USS Enterprise warp core). Overall, he location scouted in Southern California, San Francisco Bay Area, and NASA facilities in Florida.
== Working on Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar (2014) ==
Because of his contributions to the two J.J. Abrams-directed movies, Alec Peters asked Trimble to help with his prequel short film based on the Garth of Izar character. Trimble agreed and worked as the unit production manager on stage in Hollywood and Castaic Junction. Trimble intended to work on the feature-length Star Trek: Axanar next, but, after some warning signs during very early development, he backed out. The project was ultimately canceled before it started filming.
== Working on Star Trek: Abduction from the Seraglio (2016) ==
Pacific Opera Project produced two runs of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio that were altered to fit the Star Trek universe, first at the El Portal Theatre in 2015 and then at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in 2016. Trimble was credited in the latter's playbills with a "special thanks" for his contributions. His wife, soprano Melinda Ehrlich, performed in the opera as one of the aliens.
== Working on Star Trek: Picard (2019-) ==
Trimble is one of the two location managers of this upcoming new TV series that is currently filming in California.
== Other film industry work ==
Trimble began his film career as a background extra in such films as (1992, (featuring make-up effects by Joel Harlow), (1997, starring Robin Williams, Clancy Brown, Christopher McDonald and Wil Wheaton) and (1999, starring Robin Williams) and (1996-2001). His first location department was an Adidas ad in January 1999. This was soon followed by larger projects, including Sweet November (2000, (featuring Robert Joy and Frank Langella), (2001), High Crimes (2002, starring Ashley Judd, Bruce Davison, Jude Ciccolella, and John Billingsley), and (2003, starring Eric Bana). He was also a set production assistant on The Matrix Reloaded (2003, featuring Anthony Zerbe).
Trimble has collaborated with Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams on several other projects: (2001-06) and (2016), medical drama pilot Anatomy of Hope, and (2006, featuring Simon Pegg and Greg Grunberg), (2011, featuring Bruce Greenwood, Michael Giacchino, Tim Griffin, Jason Brooks, Jonathan Dixon and Greg Grunberg), (2011, again featuring Simon Pegg), (2015, also with Pegg), and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018).
Other recent genre projects on which Trimble has worked location managed or scouted include the films Bad Times at the El Royale (2018, starring Chris Hemsworth), (2017, starring Sofia Boutella), (2017), (2017, featuring Glenn Morshower), The Circle (2017, starring Tom Hanks), (2015), (2014, featuring Alan Dale), Maps to the Stars (2014), (2013, featuring William Sadler and Miguel Ferrer), and (2015, co-written and produced by Damon Lindelof); the TV series Counterpart (2017-19, featuring James Cromwell), Too Old to Die Young (2019-, featuring Joanna Cassidy), Fear the Walking Dead (2015-), and MythBusters (2003-18); and (opened 2011). 
He also scouted locations for four episodes of NBC's (starring Zachary Quinto) and was a key assistant location manager on films and TV series such as (2006), (2011, featuring Neal McDonough), (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba), (2010), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-09), (2008, featuring Elizabeth Dennehy), (2007, featuring Andy Milder, Glenn Morshower, W. Morgan Sheppard, Michael Shamus Wiles, and the voice of Robert Foxworth), Reign Over Me (2007, featuring John de Lancie), and Alpha Dog (2006, starring Anton Yelchin).
In addition to his location work, Trimble was the production manager on Transformers: The Ride 3D at Universal Studios Hollywood (opened 2012), production supervisor on the video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014), executive producer of (2015), production supervisor of the Northern California unit on (2015, scored by Michael Giacchino), co-producer of the Universal Studios Hollywood ride Fast & Furious: Supercharged (opened 2015), and co-producer of the upcoming feature She's In Portland. He was also a marketing assistant for Disney and Pixar Animation Studios's Toy Story 2 and even worked as a camera operator.
== Awards and conventions ==
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.
Prior to his COLA nomination for Star Trek, Trimble was awarded the Robin Eickman Memorial Mentorship Award in 2003. He has since won COLAs for his work on Mission: Impossible III, Transformers, Star Trek Into Darkness and The Circle. (Incidentally, the first three of these films – like 2009's Star Trek – were written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.) He was an awards finalist for Hancock, Iron Man 2, Super 8, Maps to the Stars, the TV series Luck (2011-12), (2016, featuring Tom Wright), and (2016).
Since 2013, Trimble has been a panel moderator at Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Every year, they feature prominent sci-fi location managers from around the world.
== Personal life ==
Trimble is the son of Tom Trimble, a retired emergency room nurse, and Gail Trimble, a grower and champion exhibitor of roses. He is the 4th cousin twice removed of , the longtime voice of . He is the great-grandnephew of Charles Darnton, a silent film screenwriter. He is also a distant cousin of President Barack Obama. Although they’ve occasionally corresponded, it is unknown if Scott Trimble is related to John and Bjo Trimble.
In 1993, Trimble earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He attended Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, California, from 1991-1995. 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 star George Takei, s Roxann Dawson, TOS director Jud Taylor, and guest star Golden Brooks.
Trimble owned a German Shepherd named Sedona Louella Trimble, or "Sadie" (2001-2016) who appeared in several films, including Undiscovered (2005, starring Peter Weller), Alpha Dog, Man in the Chair (2007, starring Christopher Plummer), and the Paramount Pictures release Case 39. (2009) His current German Shepherd named Alaska Beulah Trimble or "Allie" (2012-) was a stand-in on an Alejandro Iñárritu virtual reality project.
Trimble is married to opera soprano Melinda Ehrlich, with whom he lives in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. They have twin sons: James Tiberius Simpson Trimble VI and Theodore Rex Sinclair Trimble. Their oldest son's name of James Tiberius follows a family tradition; Scott Trimble himself was named after Montgomery Scott.
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