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bluethundr continues: "And while we're at it. I admit it. I am an Okudagram collector. I go nuts and drain my bank account every time I see one of the control panels from the Enterprise (which I believe to be authentic and usually TNG's D, as that's all my bankroll will allow) on eBay and my home server room looks like a federation outpost. If you weren't aware, the Okudagrams from the show come in the form of black-tinted plexi that has a patterned film applied to it with photographic gels to add color and vellum affixed to said plexi with black masking tape. The idea is to backlight them for the effect they achieved on the sets of lighted control panels. Collecting these things, you get a feeling for what's authentic hollywood material and what's a cheap fanboy knockoff. I can't help but wonder if I am the only /.er to engage in this eccentric hobby... By the way, several control panels from the 1701 (including Spock's Science Station computer!) as well as an array of other authentic stuff from the 60s is also to be had for a (very) tidy sum on "the world's online marketplace"....By the way, I am trying to curb this habit of mine, hence this submission. :-|"
worth a shot. sadly, the amount of trek props in your house is inversely proportional (proportionate?) to the times laid while residing in said house.
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...your first thoughts upon seeing the chair is how nice it would be to fap to Uhura while sitting in it. :D
You'd've loved the 60s Hammond combo organ we had when I was growing up, mash enough keys at once=instant (TOS) transporter/phaser sounds. And as far as "No longer considered geeky", well, Trek still has a place in the Geek Code, right?
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Something smells like NERD around here.... *checks armpits for odor* Oh crap, it's just me! *droooool* But seriously, after all the pounds that Shatner put on during the series, I'd be worried that the chair has already developed its own ass groove that, while priceless in trek history, just would not work well with my own ass.
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I conducted a survey on the street, and it's official -- a resounding 94% considered Star Trek, even after the increasing popularity of William Shatner, to be a show for nerds. Thank you.
.. is a very old studio trick. You can identify them immediately in movie scenes if you've ever seen them in person.
Authentic Hollywood material / cheap knock off? What's the difference? Only a fool would expect to acquire a real control panel from the flight or engineering deck.
What an ass.
This is pretty cool, although I can think of a number of other things I would prefer to use the minimum $80,000 bid on.
:^D
I wonder about that stain on the base. Looks like coffee. It would be interesting if that was the result of an accident (on set, or after the chair was given to the collector), or was caused by Captain Kirk holding a drink which was dropped due to an incoming photon torpedo.
Do the switches on the armrests remind anyone of an electric organ?
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is that a coffee stain on the right back corner of the chairs podium carpet. Or did Kirk have a a puppy on the set :)
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Who stained the pedestal, and how?
I thought $80,000 starting bid was bad, but look, Ebay getting an 18% premium of the selling price is even more outrageous.
That's insane!
That makes the min price for the chair $94,400.
I thought seller paid the fees.... geech.
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I hate to say it, but your statement that Star Trek is no longer geeky is actually somewhat true. There is a growing trend amoung 15 to 25 year old hicks who are into country music to watch ST:TNG episodes, and said market has been eagerly captured by TNN, who have rebranded themselves as the "New" TNN. It seems now that whenever there isn't anything good on, I come crawling back to the old episodes that got me through so many lonely nights in junior high... when all the normal, "popular" people were off wasting there money at the movies and at the mall. Fortunately, having not wasted my money on such silly things, I have enough money to buy such an item... oh wait... I forgot... I didn't save it, I bought RAM instead. :(
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As time went on I went to University and lost interest around the time of Deep Space Nine, when Berman took over and made it into a 'franchise'. I think I've seen a total of 10 episodes of Voyager, but it didn't really 'inspire' me. Sure, the films give me a bit of a 'buzz' - I've bought them on DVD - but that was about it.
Now, some 10 years later, I'm moving house and find all my old stuff - the uniforms I made, the books, etc. So I decide to eBay the books (a collection of around 100 Trek books, including original 1960's editions) and it goes for £50. That's about $75 in your money. Pathetic, isn't it? I see the huge amount of Trek crap on eBay, and there's lots of people selling it but nobody really buying it.
Now I'm not even bothering with the rest of the stuff like the comics, etc. because the hassle of me shipping them to a buyer outweighs the benefit of the money in my bank account - may as well just stuff them in the attic and wait until someone comes along who might want them.
I can't seem to find any decent conventions or clubs in the UK either - all the clubs which sprang up (anyone remember Ten Forward, or the National Starfleet Alliance?) have long since disappeared.
Perhaps we've all just grown up. Or the constant milking of the 'franchise' left us all with sour tastes in the mouth. Me, I'm married with a kid now and enjoy watching Enterprise with my wife, and still I can't bring myself to throw out the old uniforms. They'll do for a fancy dress party I suppose ;)
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I have to say I feel that looking an auction for a studio prop that starts at $80,000 in a world while around one quarter of children go to bed hungry.
I know, I know, even by typing this I am compromising with the system, but doesn't anybody else feel uneasy about the celebration of this sort of thing?
Worse than goatse? I think not.
Maybe if you don't know the difference between fact and fiction.
so i can photon torpedo off topic hit whores...
The chair really belongs in a museum. It would really be a shame if some private collector snatched it up somewhere and put it in his rec room to never see the light of day again.
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fuck Shatner, for $80000 it should come with yeoman what's her name.
strait up pimp chair.
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I would have gone to bed hungry too...if not for that Pop-Tart.
I like Pop-Tarts.
Bob Justman's original handwritten notes creating the "Wesley Crusher" character for TNG.
Anyone want to organise a fund so that we can buy them for Wil?. ;-)
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I've always found Star Trek and other associated sci fi stuff funny. Its funny because they always seem to end up with plots based around normal human dramas and tragedies (such as any soap tv).
The only thing is that they are dressed up as aliens nad fly through space (always the right way up).
And these aliens races are so sterotypicial.
Off-topic but for general sci-fi IMO a better organ would be a Yamaha cs-80, a 200+ pound analog synth used as the main axe in Blade Runner and Doctor Who. Another personal favorite would be a Synthi 100 (scroll down) used in the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who. For simple devices, just get a theremin. Of all of them my next purchase will be an EMS Synthi A - weird sounds emanating from a briefcase, what could be better?
80,000 for goddamn chair?? Anyone who would spend that kind of money on a piece of s*&t needs to seriously reconsider their priorities. Now, i might pay 80,000 for the stuffed cockatoo from Beretta........
put on a seat belt at one time or another? During a Klingon attack or something? Or am I imagining it?
no, star trek isn't geeky anymore. Words in the theme song, sarcastic vulcans and crappy story lines. There will never be another ST:TNG and we're all worse off for it. Voyager sucked, DS9 wasn't NEthing but a Baylon Five based in the Star Trek universe and Enterprise isn't NE better. It's time for a new show in a new world with new characters and story lines.
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Before anyone sells their house for this low-budget TV show prop, give that Hoagy guy a call... if he can build his own cityscape he can probably set you up with a real nice Kirkholder for much less!
Props to Hoagy. He should be working for Hollywood.
Of course you would know it was fake and you could even tell your friends it was fake but they would all think it was really genuine (unless you let them see you build it) and you were really telling lies to avoid the house being targetted by burglars.
Main reason not to do so of course is the seat looks uncomfy as heck.
I have a bunch of 'Jackson Pollocks' , a 'Rothko' and a Mondrian on my walls. If they were genuine they would be worth several million, all they cost me were a few hundred dollars for the canvas, paint and a couple of art books.
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There seems to be a change going on in the younger generations, where being good with sciences and computers is no longer geeky, at least where I live (Sudbury, Canada). When I was in high school (4 years ago), if you liked working with computers you occupied a spot on the social ladder a couple steps off the bottom.
My sister just graduated from high school, and in her grade are a group of guys who are called the "Cisco boys", who are just a step bellow skilled athletes on the social ladder. I mean crap, if I had been born 4 years later, maybe I would have gotten some before I passed my prime.
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As a white man, you should go to Zimbabwe and teach the natives our methods of farming. I'm sure you would be welcomed.
Starving nations should copy the US. When Jesse Jackson last held a rally for the starving children in the US on the Capitol steps, not one of those kids had a belt size under 45 inches.
Ok. How is it going to get there? Have the dude donate it to them? Yeah, let's ask the guy to just to donate it to the Smithsoniam. I'm sure they are more then willing to listen, since they only want $150k for it.
Well, that's not going to work. Hmmmm, how about this, get a group of your buds, and write to the Smithsoniam to grab it up. They'll tell you that if YOU want it there YOU will have to come up with $150k for the freaking chair. Don't like this reality? Well it's a hell of a lot better then government coming to YOUR house and taking your stuff to put in THEIR museum.
Mark Baard had an exclusive break on this story with WIRED back on May 22:0 . tml
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,52700,0
He subsequently posted comments from William Shatner to his personal website:
http://www.baard.com/
So yes, you somehow missed it.
I hate to be one of those "remember when Slashdot [fill in blank]" people, but remember when Slashdot would have run a story on a guy that made his own and posted the pics on how to do it?
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The reviewer need not worry as Trek retains a vast amount of geekiness to it. Exploring strange new worlds and feeling up alien green women isn't for the faint of heart.
Actually, as a fair weather fan of the series, it's getting so i can't stand it. It's too clean and everything fits into a nice, one hour box. No sharp edges and the characters remain rather static in their personalities compared to other series of the type.
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Yes, it is amazing that this prop would sell for $80k or more, but go in the Smithsonian, as someone suggested? OMFG please! Just let it go. Take a step back, and look at your damn self. Stop. Just stop.
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I actually went to the special effects shop that did all the Star Trek costume and makeup effects for ST: First Contact, ST:TNG, and most of the voyager episodes. I think the best thing I saw there was this plastic bag containing what they said was Patrick Stewart's Original Borg suit from TNG!
They also constructed all the borg statues for the star trek experience in Las Vegas--and get this-- those borg statues were made from a body cast from an actor named D.B. Sweeney..
And for those of you who watch HBO, they also happen to do the special effects for Six Feet Under.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents of info for the day.
as long as we're on the topic of collecting props, fox is auctioning off a lot of their old x-files props.
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/fox_auction/
bluethundr,
/. : I want to see pics of your collection. The items may be haphazardly strewn but DAMN I want to see what whiz-bang trek gadgets (expecially SCREENS or CONSOLES) you have so far. Amateur fotos will also be appreciated :-) /. mention itself, just like the guy that put a cityscape outside his window! Yours is a server room for chrissakes!
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IOW, show me the Federation Outpost that you have! That should be worthy of a
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6 bucks an hour in 1964 would be one a hell of a wage for a studio carpenter. And I bet he is probably crapping in his drawers!
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It is not inconcievable that there were more than one "Captain's Chair". Considering the number of practical jokes that were played on various cast members, like Shatner...it seems that he had an ongoing weight-gain problem as the average season went on...and they would purposely take camera angles to emphesize this...it wouldn't suprise me that they once made a captain's chair that was slightly smaller as a practical joke.
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Wouldn't it be possible for me to get some DNA off that chair and clone the various Trek characters and make them entertainment slaves? Granted they wouldn't have the "exact" same personalities, but given enough of them watching episodes, brainwashed day after day as children literally seeing themselves become physically indistinuishable from their Paramount counter-parts -- I mean, hey, their resitance would be futile.
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P.S. Anybody got an extra 79.999K sitting around to help me jointly bid?
Please note the stain on the carpet by where the Cap.s right foot would be. Think maybe he got too scared in a Klingon battle?
"Mounted into the base of the chair is a power cord wired to the sockets and, when powered, would illuminate the colored epoxy resin buttons and switches (one of the epoxy resin "lights" is missing). "
Hmmm... uh... one of the lights is missing here... and Naugahide... not real crazy about that material... I'm going to have to ask for $3000 off your asking price, what with all the repairs I'm going to have to make....
I remember about two years ago(Because I entered) . They were giveing away the captins chair from the Defiant(One I would love to have ;)) The Captins Chair from Voyager and the Cpatins Chair from the Enterprise D. Anybody know who got any of these?
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Too bad all the dot-coms are gone. One of them would have paid a bundle for it as part of their "branding strategy", and then some lucky employee would have gotten to take it home when they folded.
I've got some karma to burn so here goes. I am required to use Politically Correct terminology for various disabled, diseased, and ethnic conditions. Now I suppose an extreme Trekkie could be said to have a disability of perspective but that is taking a ridiculous thing (PC) too far.
There is no such thing as a `Trekker'. It is a pathetic attempt to regain the last shard of self respect they lost when Shatner told them to move out of their parents' basement and get lives. There's the trekkie who girlfriend is going to dump him if he doesn't give up being the head of his college Vulcan council, he gave up the pussy for the pointed ears. Another trekkie showed up for OJ trial jury duty in her Starfleet uniform.
In case the point isn't clear, Trekker is a pathetic attempt of people who take a tv show waaaay too seriously to wrap the mantle of Political Correctness around themselves. So Trekkies, move out of your parents' basement! Get a girlfriend! Get a job! Show up for jury duty in sensible clothes! Get a life!
Wonder how long before THAT one shows up on Ebay ...
But only for a second.
See, there's no cup holders.
Wouldn't fit with my lifestyle.
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Actually, it was in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for a while in a Star Trek Exhibit. I'm even pretty sure it was the authentic one from the set (I've got a couple pictures of me sitting in it around here somewhere). I think this would have been about eight years ago.
Get the people building their own aircraft cockpits (on slashdot recently) together with the people with the Star Trek bridge parts, and make a working simulator.
The one which caught my eye says:
Anyone remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer finds the old set to the Merv Griffin show in a dumpster? He sets it up in his apartment and plays the role of Merv. Great episode.
With Merv, it is a one man show. But with Trek, I could see major fights breaking out over who gets to be Spock...
Uhura not included..
Star Trek is not geeky it's Nerdy.
The old one is cheesy. They *all* have bad acting (with a few exceptions like Patrick Stewart). They all have bad writing.
In Star Trek if somebody has a bump on his nose, or slightly different ears, but otherwise looks human, he's an alien. What's that about?
I saw one episode of DS9 (the first), where Cisco had to teach an entity that lived outside of our time stream. If the thing is simultaneously at all points on our timeline, how can it learn? It should know now, what it knew 100000000 years ago, and will know 1000000000 year from now, because to it all three points are the same.
(Not a troll, I just *really* don't like Star Trek, or people assuming I do, cuz I like Star Wars, anime, etc.).
The list of items on the block is here. It includes such things as:
- Star Trek - "Mirror Mirror" crewman sash - $400.00
- Star Trek - Amok Time - Vulcan wristbands - $400.00
- Prop tribble from Star Trek - $475.00
- "Star Trek" playback disc of the song "Hey Out There" from the episode "The Way to Eden". - $400.00
- Star Trek - Frank Gorshin pants ("Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". ) - $400.00
I think I might bid on this one: Gorn head mask - Star Trek - Arena - $1000.00Yeah!
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The right hand side should have lights on it as well, it only has push buttons. Haven't any of you watched the show?
You can sort of see it in the still from the show. But there several close ups of the right control panel, and that is NOT the real chair.
That might be the one they build for "Relics" (STTNG), but that is not the original chair.
I hear you.No one's forcing YOU to collect them. So step off, yo. Lots of people like football. I am not one of those people. I don't, however, think they are *wrong* for liking it. And, while wer're at it...it *MUST* be an old trick. What they did on TNG to achieve this effect is pretty much a slight variant on what they used to do on the 60's trek. Duh! That being said, one can never be absolutely certain that what you buy is authentic. But there are several things to consider which I believe will help point you in the right direction. Again, its not fool-proof, but often I'll 1) Consider the seller. If you've been watching this category on eBay you get an idea of who can MAKE these things. Once you know who makes them, (and a few of them are out there) you get a sense of who is good at it and who is not. There is one guy (flagboy20@aol.com) whom I believe to make truly first rate stuff that would look good in any collection. However, I believe him to be disingenuous in his claims of authenticity. I have personally witnessed him selling the "Ops" and "Tactical" and "Transporter" stations from the Enterprise D. (for but a couple of examples) many times over. I believe he tries to create the impression that these were parts of the Hollywood set through what I believe to be intentionally nebulous and misleading language in his eBay ads. He sells parts of the Enterprise as if he were a one man Okuda Factory! Some of the other people on eBay who make these things are just lousy at it. And there is a range in-beween. You get a sense of who is who. The person whom I'll genuinely believe to be honest will have only one or at the most 3 to sell. They tend not to put a lot of effort into the ad. I will speak to them (if possible) and e-mail them to get a sense of whom I'm dealing with. And you get a feel for the process. Some of them have bought them at auctions (the non-internet, for charity kind at which mostly non-trek stuff was sold) and others that I've dealt with have webpages about themselves with pictures of themselves behind a camera and actually *on* the trek sets, as well as t.v. commercial and sit-com sets. This could be faked of course, but why bother? To sell one or two panels with an ad on eBay that they didn't even put any effort into making? 2) BWARE of ANYONE who is selling these panels in "PERFECT" condition. Perfect is actually BAD, because the only way these actually come into a private person's posession is through the "Striking" of a set. At that point, cast members and crew get first dibs on the panels they want. But, one thing you'll notice when you watch an ep of TNG is how damn plentiful they are! So obviously even after cast and crew claim their booty there is PLENTY left over. So they all get tossed in the trash. As I understand it, there are many folk on the Paramount lot who love Trek, but don't work on the show. These people then go "dumpster diving" to find the ones they like. These are the type that most frequently turn up on eBay. Also, just in the day to day use on the show, these panels get damaged. When they are removed through the strike process, especially no stage hand is ever going to give it the TLC a Trek geekoid would. So you actually WANT panels to be a little scratched and scuffed and little chunks missing out of them. 3) Look for the number 4027x on the panels. 4027 was Paramount's production number for the show. So, 40273 would indicate a 3rd season episode, 40274 would be a 4th, 40725 is 5th, yadda yadda, I'm sure you already got it with the first example. Even if you are just watching the show you will notice this numbering scheme over and over again. Most knock-off artists aren't perspicacious enough to know this and you will see some pretty weird number cominations that come CLOSE (like I'm pretty sure I saw something like 42071 on one of flagboy's panels. I let him know this was wrong and "coincidentally" all of his panels had the right number from then on...) but NO cigar. Also the number "47" turns up rather frequently. This has something to do with (I think) Pomona University in Califrnia which many of the Trek writers attended. Its some kind of school in-joke,apparently. 4) JOKES. This is a point that the counterfitters often screw up on. People who make the panels themselves rarely throw "in-jokes" into their work. The buttons on the panels are often the names of cast and crew. One panel I got (which I belive to be "real" and was from a person who was a camera person) has buttons that read PA STE (Patrick Stewart, no doubt) LE BUR (LeVar Burton) GE ROD (Gene Roddenberry), etc. You almost NEVER see this on a knockoff! One guy had a BIG graphic of the Enterprise D. In it the depiction had hidden amongst the decks Smiley Faces, Mickey Mouse heads and a VW Beatle.One of my panels has a sticker on it that reads "500,000 km per second. It's not just a good idea. It's the law!" Again, these are just general guidlines. And generally, you can never be TOTALLY sure. But I admit I get a little charge out of something that I strongly suspect is a piece of hollywood in my home. And even if they are not authentic, they still look nice. Even if it weren't sci-fi hollywood prop related I would pay what I've paid (between $150 up to $600 for some really quite large pieces) to have a piece of authentic art that I wouldn't be skilled enough or have enough time on my hands to produce. In my prowlings on eBay (I've been doing this for about 2 years now) I will go to the main page and type in "trek panel -shorts" (to weed out the "Trek Cycling Shorts" that inevitably turn up in these searches. Totally different thing!) 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The chair is a fake or so utterly changed to make it worthless? or at least worth less? Let's go over some things... the left side arm rest comes with slot(s) for the wooden "data cards" Kirk used and a reader (on a larger panel). The right side is also different (left and right when sitting). The original also was not a one piece molded chair, nor did it look like it. You could see the side seams, the bottom platform the sides were mounted to and more. Also, it wasnt carpetted. This does indeed look more like the one used in Relics or as a prop for something else. Besides folks, The National Air and Space Museum was the last people I knew of who had the chair, and according to the eBay ad, this guy is claiming he's had it since 1969 till now. How odd...
"Another trekkie showed up for OJ trial jury duty in her Starfleet uniform." Actually it was the Whitewater trial, Jackass! "waaaay too seriously to wrap the mantle of Political Correctness around themselves." ...Then again. The origin of the term "Politically Correct" is Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward.
Face it "political correctness" is no sort of mantel that any intellectually competent person who respects the free interchange of ideas and information would ever have an ounce of respect for. How on Earth can you derride enthusiam for a myth system as brainwashing while at the same endorsing that purile form of mind control you malodorous offal!
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I wish I got the new enterprise episodes (UPN?) in my area :( Until then, its just good old reruns of voyager and TNG
All those memos, like this one, start at $150US a pop. Given these are originals, can the purchaser not publish their contents electronically? I for one would find it interesting, but certainly don't have the budget.
Any geeks out there with dot-com-bubble cash (Mark Cuban?) wanna snap these up an publish for the rest of us?
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Anyone else notice this? A couple pics of the chair, some detailed closeups, and then a pic of the chair on the bridge with everyone lying around dead?
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I OWNED the ST captains chair for a year! Really. It was an expensive 100% exact copy of the original with pedastal base, and all "working" fictures.
It was created over many many months, with meticulous study of the original before constructing it.
There was one problem... you have no idea how big this thing was.
The prop is very large and being built to be exactly like the prop, not one enhancement, not one deviation, not one difference anyone would ever be able to see, it was not that fun to actually sit in or use.
I wish I had video footage of every inch of it to prove the truth of all I am saying. I think I have a picture of one girl sitiing in it though. (It never excited that many girls, by the way).
now the sad sad story behind the chair.....
It was constructed by an obsessive guy and his dad, The guys name was Jeff Jones, from Romeo Michigan area. He changed his names when he went into acting and left for hollywood for a couple years. The thing was a massive "white elephant" of sorts. The thing dominated any place, any room, you placed it. He said I could actually not just watch over the museum grade piece, but use it, and eventually dispose of it as i wished.
I basically forfeited my living space for it, and eerily, like Jeff (whom changed his name when he went to hollywood by the way), I bacame disenchanted with it.
The reason I cared about it less is because I knew deep in my heart another person should have it. A person that would feel good every day owning it, forever, instead of just the first month or so.
I thought I found a third owner and I gave it to him, the worlds most proficient Apple II cracker (The Nova) whom was better than Mr KrackMan or Apple Bandit in actual number of first cracks.
I think this chair may actually be what is being auctioned possibly.
You have no idea how detailed the replica was. i used to spend hours trying to spot a defect, and because i did not build it or participate in its creation I had a very critical fair eye. The thing was indeed The Actual Captain Kirk chair from the first episodes.
I never thought the chair would be used fraudulently, I hope no one is tricked by it, and a reasonalble person would conclude it would be the actual chair. IE: Why would anyone make a detailed prop so obviosuly a movie prop with not one enhancement? A person would conclude its the real thing. All the paint and parts were even 60's materials. It was a truly strange project with no intention of fraud. It is also in perfect condition and sitting it never changed its cushion appearances after getting up. It swivelled well too.
I miss the chair, but it tormented me. It is cursed to never bring the joy you think it might bring.
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>You have no idea how detailed the replica was. >i used to spend hours trying to spot a defect, If you do, indeed suspect that the chair up for bid is on eBay is the one you used to own in Michigan. AND if you studied it as closely as you claim. AND if you did not notice a single thing diferent about the chair... HOW DID YOU MISS THE RIGHT ARM??? Silly rabbit! The original chair (which I believe the eBay chair to be) was on public display and had the right arm damaged. Before it was repaired the arm had lights and switches. That was how it appeared on TV. But when they fixed the arm, they didn't bother duplicating its appearance before the damage. NOw it simply has push buttons, no switched and no lights. So if the chair that your friend made was exact in every detail...then it should've had lights on the arm.
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I meant not different from the film footage.
my chair does NOT look like this thing in many ways....
You are correct. I am sorry not to have been clearer.
My chair resembled first season exactly. This chair does not, plus it has wrong color base and has stains and other shoddyness.
Maybe it is the real prop.
But mine ALSO has light bulb socket in one side and had a long thin lamp browm power cord and tinfoil lining up inside that part from what I recall. I do not have memories of ever plugging it in though. It does have that ac cord.
Some switch rockers rocked, others did not. it had a slot and three colored wooden recoding square thingies to drop into the slot but did not have a good feel to it in doing so. they just kind of inserted into it most of the way.
Again, the chair had naugahyde and lots of things that would make a person think it was the exact studio prop.
It was truly a perfect mock-up.
The only reason a casual observer would have that it was not the real prop is that it was in 100% pristine condition with only a few paint nicks on an exposed edge.
After seeing all the abuse this chair photo on ebay has I doubt it is the chair I had... no body would have abused it so much in a couple decades. I hope its safe somewhere.... And I hope its not a participant in this auction.
Mine had ALL the features of the actual prop used in the first episodes, and was meant to be 100% identical and accurate.
just before christmas, I did a search on ebay for star trek props, and lo and behold, an original model of the Enterprise from the original series was for sale! It was fully functioning. That is, the electronics still worked and all the little lights came on. The story was that there were three identical ones made. The smithsonian has one, and another was destroyed when a producers kid threw it in the pool (was mostly made of balsa wood so it immediately fell apart) and the third was for sale. The opening bid was $10,000 and all bids were kept private.
-Cowering Anonym
BRILLIANT, OLD BOY! One thing to consider. Slashdot does not censor your posts. Nor do I think they should. But you've seriously got a cog loose. To this I say...GET THEE TO A NUNNERY!!!