“Star Trek” memorabilia sold at warp speed over the weekend, raking in $3.6 million as buyers blasted past anticipated prices to bid where no man had gone before.
Julien’s Auctions “Bid Long and Prosper” set records for numerous prop sales, with the “long-lost phaser” of William Shatner’s “Captain James T. Kirk” fetching a record $910,000, nine times more than expected, making it the highest-selling “Star Trek” prop ever, the auction house said Sunday.
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An original screen-matched, hero, Phaser prop used by William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in the television series Star Trek: The Original Series. (Julien’s Auctions)
The second-highest price went to Kirk’s communicator, which took in $780,000, or about eight times the projected price of $100,000, Julien’s Auctions said.
Kirk’s bridge chair went for $44,450.
The tunic worn by James Doohan as “Montgomery Scott,” the USS Enterprise engineer affectionately known as “Scotty,” went for $50,800 along with a DVD, the auction house said. It had been projected to sell for $25,000 to $30,000.
A generic female engineering duty uniform, expected to sell for $3,000 to $5,000, sold for $114,300.
The Enterprise’s original helm and navigation console went for $260,000, five times more than the $50,000 to $70,000 it was supposed to bring in.
Other treasures included posters, signed cast photos, sketches of the sets and components, and the miniature of the Galileo shuttle used for filming.
The original series wasn’t the only draw. Pieces from “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Star Trek: Voyager” and other franchise series offered up props. Captain Kathryn Janeway’s command chair from “Voyager” sold for $41,257, nearly seven times its estimate, the auction house said.
“Star Trek” ran for just three seasons initially, from 1966 to 1969, but took on a life of its own with several movies, spinoff series and reboots.
