SFI WELCOMES THE LIVINGSTON/PLANTHOLD TEAM! STARFLEET congratulates Mandi Livingston and her team for winning the 2004 Election for Commander, STARFLEET, and gives a warm welcome to our new Executive Committee and 126 staff members! DEC 2004/ Left: Sunnie Planthold, our new Vice JAN 2005 Commander, and our new Chief of Operations, Commodore Jack “Towaway” Eaton, at Vulkon in Orlando, Florida - where they receive the good news via cell phone! (In this photo, she knows, but he doesn’t - yet!) Photo submitted by Ralph Planthold Additional Vulkon photos on p. 28 TWO SETS OF NEWLYWEDS: JOAN & RICARDO BRUCKMAN... Last issue, we had one beautiful STARFLEET wedding... and this time, we have TWO to celebrate! Right: The happy couple, Joan and Ricardo Bruckman of the USS Hathor , pause for a group photo with too many STARFLEET members to name here (including members of the CQ team)! Photo submitted by Wade Olsen ...AND WENDY & JON LANE! 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Photo submitted by Jon Lane James “Jimmy” Doohan kept smiling on playing Scotty on “Star Trek.” a weekend that brought him tributes from fans, “Star Trek” actors and the fi rst man on JIMMY DOOHAN’S LAST CONVENTION While bittersweet as the last planned the moon. convention for Doohan, the event had its by CMDR Dave Mason•USS Angeles, R4 moments of good humor. At the banquet At a banquet Aug. 28 to raise funds that night, Wende kidded her husband for the Fisher’s Center for Alzheimer’s from William Shatner, who was among the “I love Jimmy Doohan,” Koenig said about being unable through the years to Research, Neil Armstrong said he wanted stars who came to salute Doohan. earlier in the weekend. He praised Doohan correct picture problems on the family’s his next command to be a starship. for his integrity and loyalty and noted TV set. Doohan, 84, has been diagnosed with Doohan insisted on not having a bigger “I commanded three different types of Parkinson’s disease, and he’s confi ned share than the other “Star Trek” actors in “Scotty can’t fi x anything!” she said. spacecraft fl ying as fast as 25,000 miles an to a wheelchair. As the fl ashes of the any royalties related to the show. hour. None of them had warp drive,” said photographers’ cameras continued, At the news conference Sunday, Wende Armstrong, who, like Scotty, is an engineer. his right hand shook, and Wende repeated Although Shatner and Nimoy, forever shared another memory. She recently “The Enterprise was 100,000 times faster questions to him because of his hearing. known as Capt. Kirk and Spock, didn’t played “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” one than anything I ever fl ew. Our craft did not When he spoke, he said just a few words appear on stage with him, they talked about of her favorite “Star Trek” movies, on their have the ability to leave the solar system. and spoke a little softer than the Doohan Doohan earlier on Sunday. Appearing on home VCR, and she and Doohan’s 4-year- It did not have a transporter to descend of previous conventions, but his voice stage with Shatner, Nimoy said he would old daughter, Sarah, became excited at onto a planet. It would have been far more remained steady and enthusiastic. He still never forget seeing Scotty standing in seeing her famous father on TV. effective and less traumatic if we could sounded like the “Trek” star fans have come the turbolift on “Star Trek II: The Wrath have beamed down (to the moon, rather to love. of Khan,” holding his nephew’s bloodied “She hadn’t seen much of him on TV. She than use the Lunar Excursion Module). body after an attack on the Enterprise. said, ‘That’s Daddy,’ and grabbed Jimmy,” The gleam never left his eyes. He Other memories played out on giant video Wende said. “When I get that command (of a obviously was enjoying the attention of the screens, as clips were shown of Scotty from starship), I want a chief engineering offi cer fans and the media. the original series and the movies. Fans in Cruz, one of Doohan’s daughters from like Montgomery Scott,” Armstrong said in the audience knew the lines well enough to his fi rst marriage, said he likes to watch his brief remarks. This summer he was diagnosed with say, “Captain, there be whales here!” from movies such as ‘The Pirates of Carribean.” Alzheimer’s, but in an earlier interview, his “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” and other Wende said they go to matinees during At a press conference Aug. 29 during son Chris said the disease, which is in its dialogue as they watched the clips. the week. James and Wende Doohan live the “Beam Me Up Scotty ... One Last Time” early stages, has so far only affected his in Redmond, Wash., just outside Seattle, convention, Doohan said he wants fans to short-term memory. Nimoy emphasized the convention’s point on property surrounded by trees and