There's apparently some big auction coming up of piles and piles of Trek stuff from the past 40 years. While I gather it's live (as in one of those old-fashioned talkie auctions that are not merely mythical), Ebay is providing a web listing of all the stuff.
And is there ever shitloads of it. 8 pages worth. Everything from skimpy tinfoil dresses from TOS to phaser props from TNG to unused uniforms from Phase Two to TEH CHARE!!! CAPTIAN KIRK!!!
Anyway, there's hours worth of clicking and reading details and smiling and grumbling about not being a bazillionaire so you could prance around in the Romulan Commander's dress while reading Roddenberry's memos to NBC. Although some people would probably be more interested in a chunk of scorched saucer from BoBW 2.
Justman's memoes are especially cool because an excerpt is provided by the nice and friendly auction people. Some nifty Jeffries sketches, too. And Spike might like to have a look at some of the uniforms.
Oddly enough, some stuff from Men in Black, Mission Impossible and Planet of the Apes is mixed in, too.
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Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
There are some interesting items but the big pictures don't show up.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Yeah...
How I covet those production memos, though.
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
I never realized the narrow-barreled Klingon disruptor was of TMP vintage! The saps at eBay don't realize that the gun prominently featured in ST5 and early TNG, too, but that's quite forgivable. The other guns are pretty cool, too. I wouldn't pay real money for one of 'em pebble-gun contraptions, though.
The "BoBW" saucer isn't all that spectacular. A standard E-D kit part, apparently, so it presumably comes from a Galaxy or a Nebula - but there's no registry there, and no evidence of internal structures or anything else exciting.
What else is interesting tech-wise? Oh, the Okudagrams, probably. The pics are just small enough to keep us from reading the text...
Umm, and lots of reference photos of various uniforms. Anybody wanna grab them before they go?
What the heck is this "Columbus IX" shuttle for? Was Jeffries designing it for "The Galileo Seven" or something? I especially like his drawings of the "tug/shuttle" with the flat main hull and the command cabin that looks like it comes from a classic Coast Guard boat...
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
A lot of overpriced junk ... no offense, but some of that stuff ... it's ridiculous they expect so much moola for the little computer screens from Picard's chair ... or that saucer.
Shiiiit.
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
Only one Okudagram, a Type 7 shuttle. From Voyager, allthough they say it's TNG. Some prices are ridicuolus, indeed. I don't want to pay $1000 for some old buttons or 3 of Jeffries sketches. I mean, take the money, visit Jeffries at home, bring him some beer and chips and ask him if there are some old sketches in boxes in his garage. And I'm sure you can get some for free. Posted by Boris (Member # 713) on :
I suggest going to UCLA and asking to see their special collections of Justman's TOS scripts and Roddenberry papers. I'm not sure what it takes but probably not thousands of dollars. Bjo Trimble's TOS registries might be there likewise.
Boris
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Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
I do find myself thinking "I wouldn't mind owning one of those props, especially Picard's rifle from First Contact."
Then I look at the price. And I think instead "No way am I paying $4,000 PLUS for a fucking piece of movie memorabilia!"
Then I start thinking about the people who can afford to pay such prices. My thought process include such topics as 40-year-old virgins, people who live with their parents and don't have mortgages, the benefits of disposable income when you don't drink or take foreign holidays (unless you really splash out and go to a Con somewhere). . .
Add to that having to decide where to put the bloody thing (I guess I could get a display case made. . . what am I saying?!), and on the whole I'd have to pass. I'll buy myself one of those phase pistol toys when they come out. 8)
Posted by Magna Ultrus (Member # 239) on :
"Then I start thinking about the people who can afford to pay such prices"
People who made something out of themselves, and achieved a high level of success that renders them the object of envy.
But mostly virgins and losers, yes. Absolutely.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
The guy who stole the captain's chair off the E-E bridge set is lucky. Sure, what he did was illegal, but he got it for free. I just hope he never gets caught.
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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Well, I can't help but ask what anyone'd honestly do with a contraband captain's chair anyway. Except, that is, sell it to someone who knows what to do. And most likely get caught in the process.
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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Should these things be in a MUSEUM!?! Like in the Star Trek Exhibit or the Star Trek Experience thingy in Las Vegas!?! I mean things like The Romulan Commander's dress... Captain Kirk's CHAIR!!!! They are part of television history.
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
Didn't Treknation report that this was the fifth or so chair stolen from the bridge? They obviously did it even during TNG. Poor Picard. Do you remember the guy mentioned in DS9 who took all the photos of himself sitting behind the desk of a famous starfleet captain? I wonder if he has something to do with it... Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
willoughby, edgar
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Maybe the person who stole Picard's chair was one of those X-Prize entrants! ;o)
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Lousy good for nothings. In my day, we knew how to deal with chair thieves. Imagine if the Ambassador model had been stolen! We wouldn't be very happy then. And another thing; what's with the kids these days?
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
we all know what really happened to the Ambassador model... THAT WILL TEACH YOU TO INSULT MY CHRONOLOGY, YOU FANBOY PRICKS!!!!!!!!
Posted by darkwing_duck1 (Member # 790) on :
Is it just me or is there something ineffably sad about seeing these collections broken up and auctioned off. Once scattered to the four winds, it will be impossible to get them all back together (if they would be needed for some reason). I've also read reports that people working at paramount used to be able to walk by the dumpsters and find old props and set parts etc. This too makes me sad...these things are GONE...
I guess it means that there really is no going back now... Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I agree with you WHOLEHEARTEDLY Darkwing... maybe there should be some sort of 'Foundation' set up to collect these things... you'd think they'd be collected as part of that Star Trek Experience.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I doubt much of this stuff, if any, was ever available in that sense, Mr. First Duck.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
CaptainMike deserves an award of merit of some kind for that. Perhaps the pleasure of having James Dixon be his bitch for a day.
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I just hope he never gets caught. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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