Live Long and Prosper in Vulcan, Alberta

Posted by John Farrier in Movies & SciFi, Travel & Places, Video Clips on July 14, 2009 at 6:47 pm



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The small town of Vulcan in Alberta, Canada, has exploited its Star Trek name since the 60s. It’s a pilgrimage site for nerds where the local menus offer foods from Star Trek without explaining what they are for you unenlightened souls who don’t watch the shows.

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9 comments to "Live Long and Prosper in Vulcan, Alberta"

  1. Kate D
    July 14th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    Vulcan is only a quick drive from my hometown of Calgary. It really is a neat sight to see the Enterprise rising out the prairies!

  2. What
    July 14th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Wow, here I am born and raised in Calgary. I've heard about Vulcan but never knew those idiots tied in their town name with Star Trek crap. Of course, I loathe Alberta and almost everyone in it.

  3. Chelsea
    July 14th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    Really What? Thats too bad because I'm from calgary as well and love most of the people, way to throw out a blanket statement.

    Anyways, I just went to vulcan for the trekkie days last month, it was neat I even put an entry in my blog about it :]

  4. Johnny Cat
    July 14th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    "Similar to the outfit I'm wearing now." Skeptically speaking, I'm sure the outfit I get to wear is completely lame. Oh...wait.

  5. Joe
    July 15th, 2009 at 1:15 am

    I'm born and raised in Lethbridge, and Vulcan is the only place I've ever seen a llama-drawn cart go through a Burger Baron drive-through. I so desperately wish I took a picture of it. That town is...odd.

  6. Foreigner1
    July 15th, 2009 at 1:46 am

    Vulcan...
    Some years ago somewhere in the early '90's I went to my one and once only visit to a Trekkie-convention in Oss. That's a place in the south of the Netherlands.
    That town went mad for one weekend, with all those fruitcakes -mostly of the male kind- walking around there, toating plastic bat'leths and phasers and oh-so-fake foreheads and ears. Some made obscure gestures and said things that made the local Bikers nearly go berserk. And then shouting for Fresh Qagh and such... When presented with live edible maggots by some vendors, I saw some of them Bravest Warriors puke....

    If Vulcan is only a double mooned shadow of Oss back then, it must be pretty weird.

  7. Brandi
    July 15th, 2009 at 9:36 am

    I also live in Calgary and love Vulcan. Alberta is cool because you have one small town where people have paper mache dinosaurs all over their lawns and another town dedicated to Star Trek.

  8. lisanocap
    July 15th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    what's the black cat-bear looking thing?

  9. Alex
    July 15th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    Live Long and Prosper, eh?


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