The logistics were just too daunting for the small town of Vulcan, Canada to host the world premiere of Star Trek XI<\/i>, but Paramount was able to come up with a logical compromise.<\/p>\n
As reported by CBCnews.ca<\/a>, Leonard Nimoy<\/b>‘s assistance to Vulcan paid off and three hundred of its residents will get to see Star Trek XI<\/i> two days ahead of the rest of North America.A phone call from a Paramount official to Tourism Coordinator Dayna Dickens<\/b> brought the news of the compromise. “It came down unfortunately to logistics,” said Dickens. “Our small-town infrastructure doesn’t allow for that type of an event to happen. So what Paramount is arranging for us is a special screening of the movie.”<\/p>\n Three hundred residents will be in attendance at the preview which will be held in Calgary, located about seventy-five miles from Vulcan. Paramount will cover the costs of transportation, refreshments and souvenirs. In addition, Paramount has promised a “special guest” for the premiere. <\/p>\n “They said, in their words, ‘it will be an event to remember,’ so we are thrilled,” said Dickens. Vulcan Deputy Mayor Rick Howard<\/b> was also thrilled with the attention and the increase in tourism it generated. “Our tourism is up nineteen percent,” he said. Howard offered to let Nimoy stay on his pull-out couch if the actor ever visits Vulcan.<\/p>\n Nimoy released a statement, saying “I have been informed of the logical plan that Paramount Pictures and the town of Vulcan have been working on to host an advanced screening of Star Trek<\/i>. 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.”<\/p>\n To read more, head to the article located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The logistics were just too daunting for the small town of Vulcan, Canada to host…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2547,2409,2548],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-canada","tag-nimoy","tag-vulcan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7062,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/7062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}