Hail, Spock!

hey, Trekkies! heard the news?

Vulcan, AB, – so-named in 1915 after the Roman God of Fire – has been lobbying Paramount Pictures for a year to premiere the next Star Trek movie there

personally, I would’ve thought it was a no-brainer, given the town’s obsession with Vulcan and the fact it’s hosting VulCON16: Spock Days/Galaxyfest 2009

but, apparently a few hundred Canadians with a Spock-fetish in a town named Vulcan aren’t enough to impress or inspire Hollywood’s P.R. “gurus”; I guess that’s why I still work north of the 49th, eh?

or at least they weren’t impressed until Spock himself stepped in to support the town

now Canwest News Service reports Paramount has agreed to set up a special screening of the film for the Vulcans; not a premiere, but better than nothing, I guess, for Canadians
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Live long and prosper!