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Trek Prop Collecting
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. :-|"
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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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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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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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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but doesn't anybody else feel uneasy about the celebration of this sort of thing?
No.
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.
Are you suggesting that I pay hungry kids to let me sit on them? You cynical bastard!
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?. ;-)
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
wouldn't it be cool to perform some sort of sexual act while sitting in Captain Kirk's chair?
oh come one.. any poor sod can sit in front of his monitor playing Personal Whack-A-Mole without plonking down $80K.
... oh, did you mean with someone else?
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People who PRETEND to be concerned about theose hungry children instead of doing something about it are the disgusting ones. Why aren't you out raising funds to feed the children instead of trolling Slashdot?
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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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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.
but wouldn't it be cool to perform some sort of sexual act while sitting in Captain Kirk's chair?
Most slashdot readers would think it would be cool to perform some sort of sexual act Full Stop.
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Won't somebody please think of the children!
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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.
Gods, I know too much about Star Trek, the Original!
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Ever watch those appraisal shows on PBS or BBC? Tens of thousands of dollars for 19th century gradeschool needlepoint, thousands for 1930's tin toys, the list is much longer and far more frivolous. Value is created by a complex matrix of criteria and rarely reflects an object's utility. Is a quartet of stamps with an inverted bi-plane really worth that much? In this regard Trekkers are no worse than any other collectors.
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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Yes, in fact not even a week ago was there a story about a guy that built his own New York cityscape.
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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:
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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I'm digusted that you can justify using time to post on /. that could be used cooking for those hungry children and using money that could go to feeding them to buy net time to post on /. and using electricity that could be used to cook food for them to post on /.
Or does your luxury (time on the computer) somehow not have to follow the same rules as the luxury of some collector?
Herb
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That is all the people who post drivel like this are looking for. A Quick dose of feel-goodism, WITHOUT the effort of actually doing something about those poor kids they pretend to feel soooo much pity for.
Hey you got your freebie good feeling in, how many of those kids got full bellies out of your worthless post?
IF you really care about those damn kids, then get off your lazy ass and do something to raise money to feed them instead of expressing hollow empty messages of "political concern" that are nothing but covers for envy that someone has the money to blow on something as stupid as an old TV prop.
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... oh, did you mean with someone else?
:)
I wonder if the kind of person who would lust after this chair would even be aware that sex can be a multi-participant activity?
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"Everyone assumes that if you are into computers, you are into all things trek. It was a bad, dumb show."
I'm curious what you consider to be a good show, then. I seriously think you're judging ST for the wrong reasons.
The reason that Trek is popular among geeks is that the depicted world of the future is more pleasing to live in if you're a geek.
For example: You can tell the computer "go find me some porn I like!" and boom, you'll get porn you like. Today, we haveta scour the web manually for that. That sucks.
Another example: I want a burger and fries right now. But *gasp* I have to walk for 15 minutes to do that! That sucks! In Star Trek, you'd walk up to your replicator, say "Burger and fries, Burgerville style." And boom, you have a burger and fries, Burgerville style.
Here's yet another example: I have to walk 3/4ths of a mile to work every day. This sucks! Well, in Star Trek, I could just say "Beam me up!".
One more example: Isn't it a pain in the butt to get a phone number of some chick? Face it: Most chicks don't wanna talk about computers, and none of them are impressed if you're running Linux. (Actually, you lose points for that, as a woman I dated pointed out.) Well, fear no more! In the Star Trek universe, you could just say "Wiggam to Portman, c'mon girl, my tricorder says that your hair is not in need of washing!" You couldn't do that today!
As you can see, the world of Star Trek is quite appealing and serves as an acceptable template for the future. Geeks have a lot to be happy about when the world churns out one more Trek-like device.
"Derp de derp."
Most slashdot readers would think it would be cool to perform some sort of sexual act Full Stop."
That probably would have gotten a +1 funny if it hadn't been the same thought on everybody's minds. Heh.
"Derp de derp."
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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Oh the all wise and all seeing 00_NOP has decided that "political change" is needed because some people dare to spend money they have earned on something that he disaproves of!!
If some fool wants to spend a pile of HIS money on a stupid TV prop he has the RIGHT to waste HIS money without asking some would be slave master like 00_NOP
Can the bullshit about starving kids, they are just an excuse to cover your real agenda, control over other people's lives. Seeing a would be slaver hiding behind "morality" is almost as big a joke as your political ideas. Anyone who is willing to sell himself into slavery as long as he can have a few lesser slaves under him isn't worthy of the title "human"
So go stick your slaver fantasies up your ass, you pathetic excuse for a human being.
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What sort of a looney tune are you?
One who isn't an Anonymous Coward.
We have plenty of mechanisms to control other people's lives - the law, the cops, the state pen being just a few.
The Control freaks aren't sastified (nor will they ever be sastified) with the current laws, the want "political reform", the buzz word for extending control, and they need an excuse to do it, hince all the BS about starving kids and the enviroment. They don't give a damn about the kids or the furbish lousewort, the only thing that motivates them is controlling other people.
You pay any bills lately? Surely you didn't sell yourself into the slavery of the electric company?
You are full of it. Unlike the state, I can elect NOT to do buissines with my Electric CO-OP if I wish. Having someone else deal with the hassle of generating power is a convinence I don't mind paying for. I get a benifit out of it, which is more than I can say for statist plans to forcibly sieze my money or to control my life.
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