VULCAN TREK STATION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO HOST WORLD PREMIERE OF NEXT STAR TREK MOVIE
March 4, 2008 Vulcan, Alberta – The friendly, Star Trek obsessed town of Vulcan, Alberta is aiming for the stars with its latest promotion… Hollywood stars to be exact.
The Vulcan Tourism office recently announced its campaign to bring the world premiere of Star Trek XI to Vulcan for its May 2009 release. The Alberta Film Commission brought the small town’s proposal down to Los Angeles with them in November 2008.
To gain support for the campaign, Vulcan Tourism Coordinator Dayna Dickens has created a group on Facebook called: Star Trek XI – Help bring Spock home to Vulcan, Alberta. “We have almost 900 members in the group, from all over the world. The story of Vulcan’s film premiere campaign has also been picked up by several online and international media outlets, so momentum is growing!” reports Dickens
Already on the international radar for its famous name and for its homage to Star Trek and Science Fiction, the entire town believes that Vulcan is the “logical” place to host the film’s opening event. According to Dickens: “The new movie’s storyline is a prequel, written around a young Spock and Kirk; that being the case, we look forward to rolling out the red carpet and welcoming our favourite fictitious Vulcan son home.”
The campaign to bring the Star Trek XI movie premiere to Vulcan follows in the wake of the spring 2007 launch of the $250,000.00 state-of-the-art “Vulcan Space Adventure” virtual reality game. Vulcan has a long Trekkie history, including opening the Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station - a spacey tourist information centre, in 1998; the unveiling of the 5-tonne Vulcan Starship FX6-1995-A in 1995; and the town’s first Star Trek Convention held back in 1993. Tributes to science fiction are everywhere from space murals and alien signage that grace the walls and street corners of this little town on the prairies to a Star Trek grave stone in the local cemetery. Could hosting a Spock homecoming be next?
Following in the success of Springfield, Vermont’s world premiere of The Simpson’s Movie earlier this summer, Dickens is optimistic that, Hollywood might just take Vulcan’s proposal seriously.
