Vulcans beaming to Calgary for sneak peek of film

CALGARY - Some 300 lucky Vulcans were ready to beam to Calgary on Wednesday for a sneak peak at the new Star Trek movie. 

They won a lottery in the southern Alberta town that shares a name with the home world of popular Star Trek character Mr. Spock.

The town has built a tourism industry on that fact and had wanted to hold the movie's premiere.

Film company Paramount turned down the request but agreed to the private showing after actor Leonard Nimoy -- the original Spock -- went to bat for the town.


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Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood, who has a role in the movie as a starship captain, was expected as a special guest at the advance screening.

The movie doesn't officially hit theatre screens until Thursday.

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  Clydine Grenier, a resident of Vulcan, Alta., arrives at a sneak preview of the new Star Trek movie in Calgary, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (Jeff McIntosh / THE CANADIAN PRESS)