jamie@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Jamie Blustein) (02/16/91)
Here's an article from Reuter I copied from The Globe and Mail (Toronto's National Newspaper). (Feb. 14, 1991, page C4). A galaxy of plans, but no Spock Reuter News Agency VULCAN, Alta. - Star Trek's Mr. Spock won't be celebrating his 60th birthday in Vulcan -- that is, in the farming community of Vulcan, Alta. Residents of the town of 1,400 had hoped actor/director Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the Star Trek television series and subsequent movies, would spend his March 26 birthday in the town. The event was to have been the highlight of a bid to become an interstellar tourist attraction. But Greg Dietz, president of the Vulcan Association of Science and Trek, the group trying to develop the town's connection with the popular science-fiction series, said plans to model Vulcan after Spock's fictional home planet of the same name haven't taken off. Despite high hopes of hosting Nimoy's 60th birthday, Dietz said the actor was never officially invited to the town. "...It was just one of a bunch of ideas that were tossed around, and a lot of it was just plans," Deitz said. Other plans made last summer included placing a replica of the Starship Enterprise close to the town's grain elevators, and erecting a 30-foot statue of Spock at the entrance to Vulcan. Although those plans have yet to be realized, Deitz said tourists have been satisfied with one attraction. "I know they have been selling a lot of those rubber pointed ears a the local gas (station)." he said. -- J. Blustein <jamie@uwo.ca> The University of Western Ontario -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith - the official scapegoat for r.a.s.i. Email submissions to trek-info@dweeb.fx.com, and questions to trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com