CBS Paramount Television Studios is cleaning out its vaults when Christie’s holds the first official studio auction of memorabilia from all five “Star Trek” television series and 10 movie spin-offs, , comprising more than 1,000 lots totaling some 4,000 items, to be held from October 5 to 7 in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the original “Star Trek” series, Christie’s announced on Thursday.
Fans and collectors will have a chance to acquire “Star Trek” artifacts ranging from models of the “Starship” USS Enterprise to Capt. James Kirk’s uniform or Capt. Jean-Luc Picard’s jumpsuit in an auction where Christie’s expects to raise more than $3 million.
Among the highlights are a miniature of the Starship Enterprise used in visual effects for the film “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country,” expected to sell for $15,000 to $25,000, and a replica of Kirk’s chair from the original TV series that was recreated for the 1996 “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” episode “Trials and Tribble-ations,” which is estimated at $10,000 to $15,000.
“To several generations of people, ‘Star Trek’ was a cultural icon that represented our dreams, our hopes and our aspirations — what we can become as a species, what we aspire to,” said Mike Okuda, a graphic designer on four of the TV series and seven of the motion pictures as well as co-author of “The Star Trek Encyclopedia.” “And to have a tangible piece of that is to have a tangible piece of a dream.”
Conceived by author Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s, the original “Star Trek” series debuted in 1966.
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