When the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival bestows its Lifetime Achievement Award upon William Shatner on December 9, in a "spectacular" presentation involving Patrick Stewart and Malcolm McDowell (related story), the organizers would like to share the experience at the Shrine Auditorium with as many Star Trek fans as possible. Thus, they are offering two-for-one tickets exclusively to the STARTREK.COM community.

The Jules Verne festival runs December 5-9 at the Shrine in Los Angeles (just north of the USC campus), with an additional date on Dec. 15 at the Los Angeles Theatre downtown. The Paris-based festival is conceived to "inspire and enlighten the human spirit about the mysteries and wonders of the universe," with a special emphasis on environmental themes.

Sunday, December 9, will be mostly devoted to Star Trek. Starting at 1:00 p.m., four Remastered episodes of the Original Series will be shown in HD on the big screen in the Shrine Expo Hall. The first will be "And the Children Shall Lead," and that showing will be followed by a special event where Craig Hundley ("Tommy Starnes") and other child guest stars from that episode — all grown up now, of course — will reunite after nearly 40 years. (The other three episodes to be screened have not been announced yet.)

The award ceremony will follow at 5:00 in the main auditorium at the Shrine, starting with the salute to Shatner by Stewart, McDowell and other "surprise guests." An award will also be presented to NASA, and the rest of the evening will devoted to "Blade Runner," with star Harrison Ford and director Ridley Scott presenting a 25th-anniversary screening of the film's "final director's cut."

A festival pass to the Remastered screenings is $15, but half off with the STARTREK promotion for two guests. Ticket prices to the award ceremony range from $10 to $200, depending on the seats you purchase, but again, you'll get two-for-one. (An online ticketing fee will apply.)

You can also get an all-access pass to the whole festival for $100, or an all-access VIP pass for $500, but at this time those tickets are not subject to the STARTREK offer. (Therefore, if you plan to purchase the most expensive seats at the Shatner ceremony, you may as well get the $100 all-access pass.)

To take advantage of the special offer, here is what you do:

1. On the festival website, JVAFF.org, when you visit the "Tickets & Passes" section, you need to click on the green "ClicknPrint" link. Here, we'll cut to the chase for you: ClicknPrint Tickets.

2. Click on "Promotion Sign In."

3. In the Promotion box, type: STARTREK (or "startrek," it's not case-sensitive). Click "Submit."

4. Now, back in the previous screen, you should see "Welcome, STARTREK (TREK)." Click on the "Purchase" button.

5. You will now see a list of the various events. Click on "Sunday, December 9, Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival." (The offer does extend to certain other dates and events, but not to the all-access passes. To purchase tickets not listed under this offer, go through the procedure again without signing in with the promotional code.)

6. You will see all the various price levels for the "4:00 PM Awards Ceremony." All the ticket costs are already listed at 50 percent. Enter a quantity of "2" for the seats you select. (Under this offer, the system will only allow you to purchase exactly two tickets. To purchase two more of the same seats, you will have to sign in again.) To attend the Remastered screenings, enter "2" for "1-4 PM Star Trek HD, 4 Shows."

7. Click on "Proceed to Next Step" to review your order. An online ticketing fee will be added. Fill in your names under "Ticket Holder Name" for your festival badges. In this screen it is not necessary to enter the promotional code again. Click "Check Out" to proceed, and follow instructions from there.

The festival website is continually updating its schedule with new information, so check back to JVAFF.org regularly (or go directly to this page for the Shrine schedule, or this page for the L.A. Theatre schedule).