Star Trek Auction Dec 13-14 2007

The Profiles In History Hollywood Memorabilia Auction is not all Star Trek, but it does have 33 items listed on it’s eBay live auction page. These are the usual odds and ends that find their way to the block, including Nichelle Nichols “Lt. Uhura” duty uniform from Star Trek: The Original Series, Worfs hero metal batleth from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and The Holographic Doctors mobile emitter from Star Trek: Voyager.

There are several items here that have estimates of a couple of hundred dollars, such as the script to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a Cardassian doorbell. The really cool items are expected to bring in thousands of dollars. Uhura dress is estimated to bring $8,000-$15,000. An Angosian ship filming miniature from Star Trek: The Next Generation is expected to bring in $5,000-$7,000.

The Big Ticket item for Trekkies is Jean Luc Picard’s “Enterprise E” command chair from the Star Trek films. $45,000-$60,000. For some reason the chair doesn’t come up with a search for Star Trek.

Sixteen of the props are weapons of one sort or another, and I must admit that when I was a kid a Phaser was the one prop that I really wanted. But they don’t have of the Original Phasers, just more recent stuff like the Modified Starfleet phaser rifle with illuminating scope from Star Trek: First Contact. Still pretty cool, but not as cool as the Phaser Rifle Captain Krik used in the Original Series.

Among the non-Star Trek, but still way cool stuff here, is Robin Williams animatronic facial appliance from Bicentennial Man, tons of posters and scripts, and Keanu Reeves “Neo” coat from Matrix Reloaded. If you have a spare $100,000 laying around you can pick up an original screen-used full-scale model T-800 endoskeleton from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Hey, it’s just fun to click through all the stuff and shake your head. In the good old days of Hollywood they would have just tossed all this stuff in a dumpster and forgot about it. Lots of Sci Fi stuff, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Stargate, and all kinds of one-sheets for old sci fi movies I never heard of before.

There are a couple of odd items here as well, like three Marilyn Monroe prescription medication bottles. Sorry, but that’s a little creepy. There’s also a Gold engraved “broken fork” presented to Marlene Dietrich. Janet Gaynors custom dress form from Adrians salon in Beverly Hills looks kind of odd. There are four checks in the auction, two real and two props-I have never understood autographs in general and collection checks in particular, but there they are. This kind of auction just proves the old adage, it takes all kinds.