Yup, and the role was recast, using the real-life goofball James Cromwell, who’d been in a TNG episode, hmm, can’t remember, undermotivated to look it up. There was ‘super-soldier’ who’d broken out of custody and was in the process of raising (in effect) an army of gladiators to overthrow Cromwell’s gov’t.
http://www.google.com/search?q=James+Cromwell+protests&spell=1&ie=UTF-8
40 Eridani A/Epsilon Eridanii, location of the Planet Vulcan.
Cromwell is a good actor, but it was a terrible casting choice. Add to that in First Contact the notion of some poor refugee camp during a post-apocalyptic (WW3) period launching a light-speed repurposed missile was beyond ludicrous. TOS got it right that Cochrane would’ve been an astronaut/scientist working for a NASA-type agency (hence the uniform he wore).