Posted on 06/22/2010 3:20:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Leonard Nimoy spoke to citizens of Vulcan, Canada at an event for the world's most famous Vulcan. "I figured it was time to come home," Leonard Nimoy said.
This Canadian small town has been obsessed about all things "Star Trek" for as long as anyone here can remember, but denizens always felt something -- or someone -- was missing. Until recently.
Leonard Nimoy, who will forever be Mr. Spock from the 1960s TV series, finally fulfilled the dreams of the farming community that shares the name of the character's home planet by paying a visit.
His remarks to Vulcanites, many decked out in their homemade "Star Trek" uniforms, were, well, logical.
"I have been a Vulcan for 44 years -- I figured it was time I came home," the 79-year-old actor said to wild cheers at an April ceremony at the center of the town.
Vulcan, a community of 2,000 people about 62 miles southeast of Calgary, has for years identified with the legendary sci-fi TV show. It has become a tourist draw, especially for hard-core Trekkies.
There is a model of the USS Enterprise space ship at the turnoff from the highway. Pictures of Spock as well as space scenes adorn buildings downtown. Town officials look for any opportunity to put on their uniforms and pointy ears.
The annual summer fair is known as Spock Days.
The town council had tried for years to attract Nimoy, who played the half-Vulcan, half-human first officer known for his logical solutions to crises facing Capt. James Kirk, played by William Shatner, and his crew.
Nimoy didn't stay long, but for Vulcan, the visit topped all. Locals called it "the Holy Grail moment."
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Good examples, all. Star Trek was only loosely science fiction.
When one watched it, yeah, for sure we saw the science and futurism - I can only smile when I wonder who exactly was their cell phone providers - but the stories were all people and ethical based stories.
You could write the exact same stories and stage it on a desert island with a few folks with boats and harpoons.
In that respect, I’ve always thought they were somewhat Philip K. Dick type endeavors, because any readings of his stories soon take you into the intro-retrospection kind of area.
I suppose in true classical mythology, it is always the same. The struggles, the barriers, the failings, the triumphs, the heartbreaks...
That, by itself, I will always think is Roddenberrys greatest achievement. The pure timelessness of it.
You got all that out of Star Trek? Whew, and to think I only watched it for the hot chicks in mini-skirts......
The miniskirts were tame compared to some of those alien girl fashions.
Compared to the drab, androgynous fashions of The Next Generation, they were spectacular. Everything from furry bikinis to gossamer one pieces that were almost see through, with elaborate and expensive hairstyles.
Yet at the time, everybody noticed the men’s triangular sideburns. Half the teenage boys in the US wanted sideburns like that.
Speaking of which, how long's it gonna take for that fashion trend to come around? I'm living in the future!
The more I watch the original series, the more I appreciate the musical score. All the follow-ons were pretty limp in that regard.
Star Trek was the last production that used original sound effects before they were all copyrighted. Today, it costs a fortune to have new sound effects made, so the few public domain ones, like the “Wilhelm scream”, are used over and over.
I knew a guy who provided just one sound effect for the movie Starship Troopers. He had to buy the rights to an entire episode of the Iron Giant cartoon, which had the basic sound effect, then modify the effect so that it was unique enough to by copyrighted. He made about $75k from it.
Compare that to the 30 or so unique sound effects used on Star Trek.
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