Christie's Auction House gets Star Trek Props

circletimessquare writes "A New York Times reporter was granted access to the trove of 40 years of Star Trek props that Christie's, the auction house, is cataloguing for auction in October. 'The stuff of "Star Trek' — uniforms, communicators and other props, including pointy rubber ears — has boldly gone to a place where the intrepid crew never took the Enterprise: the Bronx.' For an opening bid of $1,000 to $1,500, you can own an original tribble. 'It's an Auction, Jim, but Not as We Know It.'"

Comments

Not interested

[linuxgurugamer]

While having been a trekkie for years, I feel that I can spend my money in better ways elsewhere. However, I predict that the auction will bring more than they expect, because there are lots of trekkies who feel differently than I do.

Links to Stories with Required Registration

[BrianWCarver]

Links to stories with required registration should be BANNED on Slashdot.

Can't we make that a policy?

Re:Links to Stories with Required Registration

[BrianWCarver]

The anonymous coward below misses the point. I know how to get around the registration. I just don't want to bothered to have to do so. Slashdot could save us all that effort by 1) having the editors change reg-links with non-reg links or better: 2) simply rejecting reg-linked stories and indicating to people that is the policy. Future submissions would automatically fix this, and some sites who want Slashdot traffic to their ads might even think twice about having us all remember yet another stupid username/password combination.

I also don't see how my comment above should be moderated "Troll". I'm genuinely sick of this on Slashdot and would like to see it changed. So, I said so.

Itemized list?

[morethanapapercert]

The NYT article, NYT slideshow and the Christies official page only show "highlights" and already I see several items I'd lust after but could never afford. Nonetheless, there are one or two items I am particularly interested in that are not mentioned. Specifically, the 6 foot and 4 foot long detailed models of the 1701-D built by I.L.M and Greg Jein respectively. Those are the two used in all the close-up, opening sequence and stock shots from ST:TNG. I would also like to see the 1701-D's warp core, if it still exists.
  Does anyone know of a link to a complete inventory of what is being auctioned off? Sure, I could cough up the 90U$ (per volume!) for the catalog, but that seems awfully pricy just to satisfy my curiosity.

as the guy who wrote those words

[circletimessquare]

all i have to say is calm down, it's just editorial shorthand. you're not helping in the great noble fight against poor communication, you're just revealing yourself to be mentally brittle. read the words again: it's simply a way to introduce the concept of the range of cash you need to buy an original tribble. no one is expecting me to capture the nuances of the financial mechanics of auctions in a brief editorial blurb... or at least no one should be

not that i expect this comment to quell the great grammar nazi jihad, but i have to defend myself

Re:as the guy who wrote those words

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

no one is expecting me to capture the nuances of the financial mechanics

Editorial shorthand. Pronounced L-I-E-S.