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Happy Memories At Doohan's Farewell

By Dave Mason
Posted at September 7, 2004 - 8:30 PM GMT

HOLLYWOOD -- James "Jimmy" Doohan kept smiling on a weekend that brought him tributes from fans, Star Trek actors and the first man on the moon.

At a banquet Aug. 28 to raise funds for the Fisher's Center for Alzheimer's Research, Neal Armstrong said he wanted his next command to be a starship.

"I commanded three different types of spacecraft flying as fast as 25,000 miles an hour. None of them had warp drive," said Armstrong, who, like Scotty, is an engineer.

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"The Enterprise was 100,000 times faster than anything I ever flew. Our craft did not have the ability to leave the solar system. It did not have a transporter to descend onto a planet. It would have been far more effective and less traumatic if we could have beamed down (to the moon, rather than use the Lunar Excursion Module).

"When I get that command (of a starship), I want a chief engineering officer like Montgomery Sco Wende Doohan - Biography - IMDb HUNE