# Hey, pal, can you spare $100 Grand? (Star Trek memorabilia auction) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [October 29, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377 "2024-10-29T00:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/1 "2024-10-29T00:41:29Z")
[https://bid.juliensauctions.com/auctions/catalog/id/526](https://bid.juliensauctions.com/auctions/catalog/id/526) For the rich Trekkies in your life. $100,000 for a “William Shatner” phaser. ---
**Author:** ![Everlong88](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/everlong88/32/17800_2.png) [@Everlong88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Everlong88)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/2 "2024-10-29T00:56:59Z")
USS Enterprise Step? Really?!? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/3 "2024-10-29T01:20:27Z")
Gotta figure most of the original props will go way up before close of bidding. Because right now, several items for $2k or less would be kinda cool to have! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/4 "2024-10-29T01:25:19Z")
Best I can do is a 100 Grand bar. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/5 "2024-10-29T01:51:07Z")
The site wouldn’t accept my bid of 400 quatloos, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/6 "2024-10-29T02:38:40Z")
Kivas Fajo is going to outbid everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/7 "2024-10-29T03:09:55Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > The site wouldn’t accept my bid of 400 quatloos Neither would I. The quatloo to gold-pressed latinum exchange rate these days is absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/8 "2024-10-29T16:20:31Z")
My son, who works for an auction company, objects to the phrase “screen matched” to William Shatner. The phaser and communicator are one of several models each, and unless it was a one of a kind prop, without further documentation it’s impossible to match any given hand prop with any given actor. For all anyone knows, Shatner had his own personal phaser. At best, he says, it’s unverifiable. At worst it’s deliberately misleading to call those particular props “screen matched.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/9 "2024-10-29T16:36:49Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Kivas Fajo is going to outbid everyone. He’s going to buy all the chairs, and destroy all but one. I told my wife if she’d authorize two, two and a half million, I could make quite a collection. Alas, no. I’m not sure the phaser looks any better than the replica I already have. Yes, it would be authentic. But the only one I would want to impress is…me. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/10 "2024-10-29T19:45:05Z")
Apparently, there will be an auction featuring various props from the original _Star Trek_ series on November 9, with the two featured items being the “type 2” (pistol-shaped) phaser and communicator used by Captain Kirk, each with what are either current bids or minimums of $100,000, according to [an article at Space.com](https://www.space.com/william-shatner-star-trek-auction-juliens-bid-long-and-prosper). (You can get the link to the auction site from there.) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/11 "2024-10-29T22:46:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The quatloo to gold-pressed latinum exchange rate these days is absurd. So is the [dollar to gold pressed latinum exchange rate](https://bid.juliensauctions.com/lot-details/index/catalog/526/lot/243496/Star-Trek-Deep-Space-Nine-Gold-Pressed-Latinum-Props?url=%2Fauctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F526%3Fpage%3D2). ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-pal-can-you-spare-100-grand-star-trek-memorabilia-auction/1009377/12 "2024-10-29T22:52:03Z")
Rule #82: > **[Ferengi Rules of Acquisition](https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Ferengi_Rules_of_Acquisition#The_Known_Ferengi_Rules_of_Acquisition)** > > For other uses, see Ferengi. The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition are a collection of two hundred and eighty-five sayings that form the basis of Ferengi philosophy. (DS9 episode: "The Nagus") The Rules of Acquisition were written by Gint, the first Grand...