Today Propstore is launching its Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction running August 15-18 which includes over 300 unique pieces of Star Trek history. This includes select items from the collection of legendary Trek designers Mike and Denise Okuda. There are some fun videos highlighting items up for auction featuring John de Lancie and the Okudas talking about their time with the franchise.
Star Trek history up for auction this week
The Propstore 2024 Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction is divided into four days with new lots showing up each day, with bidding starting Thursday, August 15 at 9:30 AM. There are Star Trek items up for auction on each day of the auction. This video with John de Lancie has him showing off some of the Trek collection while reading from one of the Star Trek: The Next Generation scripts up for auction and talking about the power of Star Trek over the generations.
As part of the auction rollout, Mike and Denise showed off parts of their collection with former Mythbusters star Adam Save on his Tested YouTube channel, where they spoke in front of a set of Enterprise-D holodeck doors and wall created for the Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages” (estimated to sell for $40,000 – $80,000). Together they talked about the origins of Okuda’s signature “Okudagram” and LCARS designs for the TNG era and the importance of graphic design for Star Trek.
Savage also posted a video taking a closer look at a Star Trek: The Original Series tricorder prop used on screen by Leonard Nimoy’s Spock (estimated to sell for $75,000 – $150,000). Savage spoke to Propstore’s Chuck Costas about the prop as well as an original sketch for the prop by TOS designer Wah Chang (estimated to sell for $4,000- $8,000).
Propstore also posted a number of short videos where they sat down with Mike and Denise to talk about their career in Star Trek and a wide range of topics including what food is like on the Enterprise. The 8 videos are collected together in a YouTube playlist below…
Propstore Star Trek auction starts today
Other big-ticket items going up for auction include the original USS Enterprise set build for the Enterprise episode “In A Mirror Darkly” (estimated: $50,000 – $100,000).
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You can even pick up a filming model segment of the distressed USS Enteprise-E saucer segment filming model from Star Trek: Nemesis (estimated: $12,000 – $24,000).
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Other prop and set piece highlights include a Star Trek V Spock tricorder (estimated: $12,000 – $24,000), the Enterprise-E dedication plaque from First Contact (estimated: $10,000 – $20,000), a Picard phaser (estimated: $10,000 – $20,000).
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Other costume highlights include a Star Trek: Generations Picard uniform (estimated: $25,000 – $50,000), Strange New Worlds Pike uniform (estimated: $25,000 0 $50,000), and a TOS McCoy uniform (estimated: $25,000 – $50,000).
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There are a few potential bargains available including a couple of dozen lots with opening bids of $250 and estimated to sell for less than $1,000, including a Star Trek V Klingon D’k Tahg Knife in Sheath, an Enterprise engineering tool, and a collection of TNG concept art and blueprints.
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Propstore’s Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction of 2024 kicks off today, August 15, with live bidding at The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. There are over 300 Star Trek lots among a total of 1,900 rare items. The four-day auction runs from August 15 to 18, 2024, starting at 9:30 AM PDT each day. Online, absentee, and telephone bids will be accepted throughout the event until August 18. You can see the full catalog online. For more details and to register visit propstoreauction.com.
The In a Mirror Darkly set would be incredible to own, they did a fantastic job in that episode of recreating TOS look and feel.
Yeah, but like so many things, this is beyond my reach both financially and in terms of space.
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I don’t understand why they sell this stuff off. Why don’t they have a ST museum like George Lucas is making for SW and Indiana Jones in LA? Why aren’t the movie Enterprise model and the Ent-D in the National Air and Space Museum? It’s really sad, imo.
It also seems that this stuff always ends up in some billionaire’s bunker, never to be seen again.
I read that Bezos has the movie Enterprise (now A) model in his Amazon building.
And I don’t know where the D model is at all.
Why somebody dropped an insane amount (4x or 3x the refit at auction) for -D (which I’d rate Dminus designwise) is beyond me.d
Love your idea of a museum that could house Star Trek stuff. Too bad Paramount doesn’t think about that. They could also include memorabilia from their other shows. Also, I agree that the price tag is just way too steep for most of us. Oh well, maybe it’s a good thing in the long run as it’s best to spend money on things I actually need not just want!
Yeah, if I had that money, I’d feel guilty on spending it on something like that. It’s like buying an exotic car. Where I live (a very rich area code in SoCal) I see them all the time. It’s rich folks flaunting their wealth imo. There’s nothing practical about driving a Ferrari, McClaren, or Lambo.
I’d like to think, if I won the lottery (because there’s no way I’m ever going to have that kind of money with my job), that after putting some money away for my kids college funds and some trips for my retirement, I’d have the fortitude to give most of it to a foundation for children’s hunger and poverty and cancer research. Just some worthwhile charities, because I’d be lucky to win that money and so many folks need help more than me.
Whatever. It’s all spit balling. It’ll never happen anyway.
You know how much it costs to operate a museum? Not an economical investment, at all
So long as you maintain nonprof status, there should be plenty of legit loopholes to take advantage of. Either that or deliberately mismanage it for years so you can take tons of unethical tax tricks like T-Rump did with so many of his failed and failing holdings and investments and properties.
My opinion too and I’m really angry about that. Correct me, if I’m wrong, but as far as I know the Refit Enterprise (1701/1701-A) is located in the atrium of Bezos’ Space Company. The owner of the Enterprise E is Adam Schneider and along with the big studio model of the Enterprise D and the Deep Space Nine Station they are located in the Sci-Fi Museum in Seattle (maybe as permanent loan). Unfortunately I’ve lost track of the Defiant studio model. It’s so sad…
I think you’re right about the Ent-A model. I know Bezos bought it and it is in one of his buildings.
I didn’t know about the others. I’m glad they’re in the sci-fi museum (which I haven’t visited yet).
Well I can understand the Okudas selling parts of their personal collection. It’s their hard work which they’ve kept safe and own, so they have every right to profit from that in their golden years. It’s not like everything from this could be donated to a museum with the promise of being displayed.
I’d certainly love to see a museum which houses more movie props in one place, the sci-fi museum is a good start but I’m sure we’d all do a pilgrimage to a central location in say, LA, and if it housed more items from other big franchises it would have a better shot at being profitable. Expensive business though to do properly, movie and TV studios really don’t tend to preserve so many props or dabble in the permanent exhibition industry.
Keep in mind the captain’s chair and helm console in that was actually something they borrowed or lightly rented from fans. Where the money went on that series (actually all of the Berman series) is something that has long confounded me. I remember seeing that tng s1 was 1.2 mil an ep on average, and yet Rob Legato talked in early interviews about having only seventy-five THOUSAND per ep for VFX, which is like 1/16th of that 1.2 mil.
The salary for the actors was very high. I guess more than 700,000 Dollars (including guest stars) per episode for all actors (Stewart’s was 100,000 Dollars per episode). The rest of staff’s salary was union wages (props, lighting, music, director etc.). And VFX never had a union so they got yet less money (but I think the things will change or are changing at the moment). I’ve read recently, that 15 minutes of shooting “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” cost Paramount approx. 70,000 Dollars, salary of the main cast not included.
Maybe Stewart got that for 7th season, but season1? I’d figure maybe 10grand per episode, I mean a decade back on network shows Farrah and Suzanne Somers were fighting to get that much for a second season.
Another corner they cut on TNG was finishing on tape vs film, which is why we had unwatchable looking DVD for decades (and still do with VOY and DS9.) That’s the most grievous call IMO, but supposedly they could not have made TNG while sticking with the established (and much higher quality) finish-on-film approach.
I’ve seen stuff indicating that as much as 40% of a TOS ep budget actually went to overhead at Desilu, suggesting they were making the eps for barely more than 100grand instead of 186,000. But that overhead also wouldn’t have been an issue since it was all the same party, with Par as studio and distributor and producer (unless they were hiding a huge hunk as being a payout to separate divisions of same company.)
Not sure, but I think, that Stewart got 100,000 USDs not only for Season 7. But maybe it was less in Season 1. Besides we all know the creative accounting of the studios. One of the prominent example is “The Rockford Files”: Universal claimed, the show was not successful. Jim Garner hauled Universal to court and won. Universal had to pay 15 millions to Garner. Maybe Paramount tried to be creative too. And don’t forget inflation.
These items needs to be in a museum. Not sold to sit in someones garage for 50 years…. Also the average person can afford these items.
I’m actually very glad the Aries 1-B was in a garage for decades, that kept it from rotting like the space station from 2001, which was left out in a field.
Everyone please go easy on this stuff…I’d like a shot at some of it and don’t want any competition please and thank ya :D