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Some of the many wonderful moments over the weekend that stay in my mind are when I heard Dick Gordon, the Apollo astronaut, tell us that NASA would "take our science fiction and make it science fact!" Or when we found out that several countries had people who had come to the Convention; including Japan, England, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Peru, and Switzerland. There was also one woman who had flown all the way from Israel to join us. There was the Karaoke Night on Friday, where the stars and the fans sang and danced the Time Warp together. Or the "Experience," which was indeed an incredible attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton. Or when Michael Dorn (Worf) told us fans that Terry Farrell (Dax) was the best kisser while Mirina Sirtis (Troi) glared at him with her hands on her hips. Or Wil Wheaton's (Wesley) hilarious improv group, who had us all falling off our seats Thursday night laughing with their skits. It was especially nice to be able to tell him on Friday how great the show had been. Or when Jimmy Doohan and Nichelle Nichols sang "St. James Infirmary" to the fans. Or when Garrett Wang (Ensign Kim) spoke to me about his plans to get an act together for a future Slanted Fedora Star Trek Convention. Or when Robert Picardo came out during Neil Norman and His Cosmic Orchestra's performance and sang "Viva Las Vegas" in Elvis' voice. And especially when the orchestra did their rendition of the UFO theme music! Several of the stars spoke about the upcoming new series, "Enterprise," as did Brannon Braga himself! And Scotty told us that he'd been given an honorary doctorate in Engineering from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's School of Engineering because, they said, more than 55% of their applicants put his name down as the reason why they wanted to be an engineer.
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