Some fun news for a change - Mr. Spock helps Canadian town of Vulcan sneak peak at new Star Trek!

Spock's help gets residents of Vulcan, Alta., sneak peak at new 'Star Trek'



March 20, 2009 - 17:22
THE CANADIAN PRESS

VULCAN, Alta. - When Mr. Spock lays out his logic, it's hard to argue.

Leonard Nimoy, the veteran actor who played the beloved character, was critical this week of a decision by Paramount Pictures not to award the new "Star Trek" movie to the tiny town of Vulcan, Alta. Canada.

Nimoy said the community that shares a name with Spock's birth planet deserved to take part in the festivities.

Now Vulcan is being awarded a sneak peak of the new film on May 6 - two days before the film is released to world audiences.

Dayna Dickens, the town's tourism co-ordinator, says a lottery will be held to determine which 300 residents will be given transportation, refreshments and souvenirs at the preview to be held in a Calgary theater.

Dickens says Paramount has also promised a "special guest" but there's no word on whether that will be Mr. Spock.

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Another article about this reported the following:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Travel/Vulcans+trek+premiere/1412876/story.html

Actor Leonard Nimoy caused a stir Thursday after contacting both the Calgary Herald and Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station to voice his support for the town holding the premiere of film, which is scheduled for a May 8 Canadian release. The 77-year-old actor read about the town's plight in a Herald story online. He said the studio's denial of the premiere was an "insult to the Vulcan people."

But on Friday, he issued a joint statement with Paramount Pictures, saying the studio's new plan for Vulcan residents was "logical."

"The people of Vulcan have been heard and, although it is atypical for Vulcans, they are, in fact, excited. To all, live long and prosper," Nimoy said in the news release.

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Enterprise, WA wouldn't mind a sneak preview, also.

http://washington.hometownlocator.com/wa/okanogan/enterprise.cfm
Tikki

What a great actor! What a shame that he got so typecast.

He was also instrumental in giving us The Bangles. He was a friend of Tamar Hoffs, Susanne's mother, and helped bring them to the attention of the music biz.

Did any one see his performance in the early 1990s remake of Brave New World -- ? He played the part of Mustapha Mond, which had been expanded to simplify several plot points in Huxley's original. The movie was pretty good, but he upstaged everyone.

--d!

What a great Shakespearean actor he would be! I will try and get the remake of Brave New World and take a look.

Thanks!

Nice to hear good stories from time to time :)

Those actors, and Leonard Nimoy, are why the first Star Trek-TV and the Next Generation Star Trek-TV, and the first generation's movies were all so great. This new film without Shatner, Stewart or Spiner is very risky, to say the least. I hope that Nimoy's participation helps to prevent the project from being destroyed by those who destroyed Roddenberry's dream at the end of the Next Generation TV series.

The Next Generation's movies failed because of the writing, not because of Stewart, Shatner (who made a guest appearance) or Spiner. You could see the writing begin to fail in the 6th and 7th seasons of Next Generation, after Gene Roddenberry died, and that carried over into the Next Generation movies, in which Roddenberry's producer minions, who weren't writers--or weren't very good or consistent or primary writers--gave themselves the job of writing the movies scripts, and failed utterly at that task, even with uniquely talented actors--Stewart, Spiner and in one film, Shatner. Those writers were particularly brutal to the Data character, and never grasped the subtlety of that character in the TV series and massacred it in the final seasons and in the movies. What a bloody waste and shame. They also somehow blew the Steward/Shatner confrontation.

The subsequent Star Trek shows were merely watchable (Deep Space 9), or largely mediocre and/or unwatchable. I attribute this to Roddenberry's death in 1991, after which Star Trek became a money franchise, nothing more--the dream and its high ideals were dribbled away for cash. Nimoy is apparently is one of the key people responsible for the success of the first generation movies. That's why I am hopeful about this one. He directed two of the first generation movies, including the one I like best: "Star IV: The Voyage Home" (about saving the whales). The last of the first generation movies premiered two months after Roddenberry's death (during season 5 of Next Generation--its best season), and that was that, as far as Star Trek goes. It's interesting that Roddenberry wasn't all that functional in his final years--and oversaw the one early ST stinker--"Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and was subsequently removed from artistic direction of the movies. Yet his spirit and his utopian ideals, and sense of dramatic adventure, informed the first and second generation TV shows and the first generation movies, in some mystical way that simply evaporated when he died. We will see if Nimoy can revive it in this new film. If anybody can, he can.

I thought about taking a chance on the new "Kings" but haven't taken the leap yet.

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