I met Ms. Nichols years ago at a convention. She was autographing pictures and such, and when it was my turn while she was signing a picture of the bridge crew I told her I've always had the biggest crush on her. She then grabbed me by the shirt collar and said "Oh thats sweet." then gave me a kiss on the cheek. As I was walking away I took the picture and transfered the lipstick from my cheek to the picture. I still to this day have that picture in a frame on my living room wall.
Great documentation about the "Star Trek" people in the background. Sad the sale, but folks, we`ve internalized this unique "Star Trek Universe" and nobody can take that away from us.- Live long and in peace ! - Thanks for the upload. -
An awesome show, in every respect, rip Leonard Nimoy, Jimmy Doohan, De Forest Kelly & most recently Rene Auberjoins as Constable Odo, we fans salute you
Sad that these things were sold as collections, it should be in a museum where everyone that was effected by Star Trek could enjoy it. Instead of being hidden or damaged in private collections.
+GreenJelloHell No shit, if they cant have it no one can have it. A) Many wealthy people who do this will also lend items to a museums. B) Many times private collectors do a much better job than some bureaucrats.
LibertarianUSA1982 gawd damn Google+ and drop down menu replies. One little misstep and it all goes bye bye. Anyways I said something about kindred spirits without trying to sound gay, 'not that there's anything wrong with that'. I think of myself as a Radical Centrist. Miffed that Rand Paul is not doing better, at least Rubio is starting to get some traction.
+Daniel Ho Yeah , only the rich can enjoy those delights . I hate to see them auctioned off like the original Enterprise with the saucer half blown off . Oh well as I say they are material things and rather have a rich life instead .
And mr Roddenberry was and still is to me a genues to put together a show that has lasted 40 years and counting. And with an iconic cast of countless superstars that are an honer and to me being a veteran of the u.s.army makes me proud to watch and enjoy god bless all of you allways and forever
'The fuck does being a hired murdering goon have to do with star trek? God bless you to bud but your comment makes no sense and you SHOULD be ASHAMED of your participation in tyranny, theft and murder.
They say instead of throwing it away, "GIVE" it to fans....give my ass. Did you see the handsome prices they were asking, for their so-called junk? No matter where the money ended up, some surely lined their pockets with gold in the process.
You guys must've watched a completely different documentary... Lucy asked Herb Solow about "that south seas show with the USO visiting the troops" and he didn't have a clue what she was talking about, and kept racking his brain till she finally remembered the name "Star Trek" which she assumed from the title was some sort of show about movie stars trekking to the theaters of war to entertain the troops in WW2 or something, which is why her description didn't ring any bells with Herb Solow... It also shows Lucy didn't have ANY idea what the show was really even about!! So you guys dream on about how visionary Lucy was and essential to Star Trek ever existing, but it don't jibe with reality... In reality she owned the studio, didn't really understand what the premise of the show even was as evidenced by her conversation with Solow, and basically all she did was greenlight production of the show on her managing producer's (Solow's) recommendation... Maybe being generous she greenlighted Star Trek's production over her business studio executive's reservations or opposition, at most, but she CERTAINLY didn't have some visionary revelation to make Star Trek happen out of the blue or anything remotely like that. Suggest you watch the documentary again and pay attention this time... Later! OL J R
Quiet frankly, they should have put it all in a museum. Safe, but visible. The money alone that would probably make.... Plus they should have given every cast-member some things they had a connection to. A uniform of each variety, something related to the characters (Picard's flute, Siskos baseball etc). I was shocked when I heard that they not only didn't get some small for of memento, but also were not even able to buy them. Greedy, greedy Paramount.
and today, right at this moment in time , it is the 8th of September 2016 and 50 years have passed since this journey began. much has changed, much more will change ,and yet this journey continues . these stories are still as realivent today as they were then, as they will be tomorrow . it is not the destination that is important, but the journey that is important, as the hero's journey always is. yet this is not one hero's journey, but an entire peoples journey, as portrayed by this cast of players, standing for us. showing that no matter our sins, our faults, our fears, our future can and will be a better one than what we have now. and so, the journey continues...
Call it a dream on how we all would like the future to become where we all work together for peace for a better world for mankind to survive together as one planet.
I can understand the 110.000 on DS9. To think bidding started at 4000... I would lay that money down right now. I would love to have that thing on a pedestal in my house. It's not just a spaceship, it's a sculpture.
Armin shimermam was slightly wrong because Doctor Who has been on television longer, it may not have as many episodes but is the longest running sci-fi Series
You should re-title this "Star Trek: The Christie's Auction Experience" the people talking about the show were great, but the Christie's staff only talked about how great of an opportunity this was for them.
500 k for a model and 20 k for a flute - most of those "buyers" were not real loyal fans, those were rich depraved unmoral rich a-holes with no sense of what Gene originally meant the series to be or what he wanted to tell. I bet quite a lot of the sold objects were found later on ebay and re-sold for insane prices just to make a quick profit out of it. Disgusting.
1:40 rest in peace mr.nimoy 20:54 rest in peace mr.roddenberry 24:00 i must agree 26:40 alwayed liked that romulan ship 28:00 my second favorite enterprise
The article didn't say! The action house takes between 5-20% of the end price, depending on what type of article it is. I guess the rest all went to Paramount as it owned all the costumes.
It is truly a shame what these people did with these terrific one-of-a-kind pieces of star trek history or television and movie history, just sold for cheap money, you could have made it into such a brilliant Star Trek Museum, especially because these ship models nowadays are no longer being produced at all, I just can't believe what a shame and these people who sold it all who approved that everything was sold should be ashamed of themselves
I was in the 90s at at convention in germany, not the official big one in cologne/bonn, it was in a small city with like 200k population. But George Takei was there, James Doohan AND Lt. Barclay ;) I was 10 or 11...tickets were cheap and every star was nice and signed everything for free...i heard that that changed todays
Yeah I went to a convention in Houston back in about 90 or 91... met Jimmy Doohan really super nice guy, had a Q & A session with him and autographs afterwards, very nice. I think tickets were like $20 took a girl I knew at the time with me... I don't remember if there was a charge for the session with Jimmy Doohan but even if it was it wasn't a lot. I've been wanting to take my daughter to a Trek Convention but nowdays they're all licensed and run by "Creation Conventions" and they've turned it into a cash cow... tickets are upwards of $70 just to get in the door, any cast appearances are usually around an extra $70 or more per person, for about an hour chat if your lucky and then stand in line for another hour or two to get an autograph, and be hustled on after maybe 5-10 seconds at most of seeing whomever the star attraction is... It'd be kinda fun to do at least once but hard to justify that kind of money for what it is... BUT, that's EVERYTHING nowdays... my daughter is a high school freshman and plays trombone in the band... I went to one of her "contests" run by "Bands of America", which didn't exist back when I was in high school in the 80's and my siblings were in band in the early 90's... I was shocked and amazed when I got to the PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM and found them charging $21 for the preliminaries, or $31 for the prelims and finals... if you ONLY bought the prelim ticket, and your band made it to the finals and you wanted to see them, they cleared the stadium prior to the finals and then you had to pay ANOTHER $21 to see the finals, unless you had your "combined ticket" for $31 dollars bought ahead of time! RIDICULOUS! Then to find out that they CHARGE A BIG ENTRY FEE to the bands to participate in it, and they don't give out any "cash awards" to the winners or first/second runners up... Just turned it into a huge cash cow where SOMEONE is making out like a bandit screwing over the parents who want to see their kids perform, and then screwing over the kids too who are performing FOR FREE, and screwing over the schools by making them pay a big entry fee to participate... so some greedy jackwagons can make a killing selling high-priced tickets just because they organized the contest and coordinated the venue and entries... Don't get me wrong; I'm not opposed to the organizers making *SOME* money for their efforts, BUT there's a huge difference between the contests we went to when my siblings were in school where you paid $10 a person for the WHOLE DAY and where the entry fees per school were maybe $100 bucks or so for the contest (just to pay the judges for the day), versus $30-40 bucks a ticket now and probably $600-1000 bucks for the entry fee per school... It's just GREEDY... BUT, nowadays, if people can't make a FORTUNE doing something they don't want to do it at all... Later! OL J R :)
Nonsens, they are really fans. Sure they are fortuned to have the money to buy themself a bit of Star Trek. Don't you see how happy these people were when they won a lot? Du bist ja nur neidisch. If you want, you can have your own tricorder get at ebay.
For me I hope kids still under the age of 5 that Gene Roddenberry dream won't be fiction. Somewhere out there there is a real Jonathan Archer and we have colonies on Mars and the Moon. When he or she is old like us the first extra solar mission will have been launched.
@@kobraracer1887 Lowest unemployment in fifty years...lower taxes...peace talks all around the globe...most pedophiles brought to justice EVER in US history.........................................but I'm sure you'd prefer the mass murderer AND PEDOPHILE Killery?!?!?! You are truly a fucking idiot.
Like Star Trek, Dr Who from the BBC which actually started in 1993 till1989, and had a reboot in 2005. Like Star Trek, it has had spin offs in the form of Torchwood and the Adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, and it has addressed many philosophical and moral issues along the way. I think both shows attract a wide audience because, these issues are universal, as they are part of being human. This is why here in America, those with faith, and those without faith, have found inspiration from Star Trek. The fact Star Trek takes place in a future, where technology has solved much of today's problems, and has created a society that travels the universe, and that uses that technology to make a difference, is part of what has inspired many to become the engineers, astronauts, scientists, etc, that this documentary speaks of.
I can never get into the series. Each time I tried, I'd watch it for a few minutes then change the channel. Unlike Star Trek, the characters of Dr. Who never touched my bone marrow. The stories were just too, maybe serious. IDK.
Happy First Contact Day, everyone!!!! On this date April 5, 2063, we made first contact with the Vulcans, after, we made our successful warp drive. Live long and prosper.
They can't fool people with Hollywood fantasies anymore, the deadly Van Allen Belt is real, man will never travel in space, he hasn't gone even to the moon ~
Oooh Paramount... you greedy bastards... selling all these stuff for "the richest fans". Why not put them in a Star Trek museum to be seen for generations. That would have been trekkie. Shame.
1/ If not for 'trekkers' it would never have happened 2/ They made the original and all that followed for us, the post WWII baby boomers, because of us, yet, back in the original days, they never thought to ask us if we liked it or not. They asked our parents and our grandparents who didn't like it, and it got cancelled based on the wrong people to ask. If they had asked us back then the original would have 'gone on' for at least 10 years, if not still 'original going' today. How could they have been so brilliant and so stupid at the same time back in those original days. Those that followed were equally good, true to the story, till the latest - 'Discovery' which I can only say about it - not 'what if' as a poignant lesson, rather WTF ? - but, still, tragic the original was cut off after only 3 seasons.
Plot Twist: The Giles fellow that bought the Picard robinhood outfit and the Viceroy outfit is a porn actor that played Picard in the XXX Parody of Star Trek: TNG.
This was a wonderful show, but I couldn't help feeling that they should have made a Star Trek Museum or something, where everyone could then go and enjoy seeing these things..Oh well, at least it didn't all get thrown out hahaha...
A lot of UK weekly shows have been on for more than 40 years. "Coronation Street" started in 1960 and so far (to this week) there have been 8,933 episodes...
Any other fans out there find it annoying when they say "About far off galaxies"? They are in the same galaxy, just maybe different quadrants. There are a couple of episodes that might take place in a different galaxy, but, they don't have the tech to travel that far.
Lol ... Imagine if they had offered Jeri Ryan's corset and/or catsuit for auction? Probably would have caused an inadvertent DDOS on the Christie's website when that lot number came up. And it probably would go for a six digit price :)
Yeah And Sadly Probably to Some 300lb Sweaty balding German Guy that rents his parents garage so that he can prance around in front of the mirror wearing it when It could Go to Me where I would cherish it and Make it look good at conventions and Cosplay
There are stories to be told perhaps watched from Mars or beyong? We as a people go Boldly no matter the risk...because it's what we do. Live Long and Prosper.
How many of those winning bids; where heartless investor buyers, that is people that deliberately buy things at inflated values in order to profit later having inflated the worth of that item ? I think too many but that's the world today. A far cry from Roddenberry's dream.
why did paramount even give all this unique star trek stuff to auctions? man? cant they put it in a warehouse or make a star trek museum out of it? i dont get it
Are you kidding?? They didn't "give" it to the auctions, they had it auctioned off... Paramount made a HUGE amount of money off this auction, as did the auction company who keeps a percentage of the sale price... If you had a warehouse full of stuff that had been sitting in storage for 50 years (some of it) and could turn it into cold hard cash, wouldn't you do it?? Agree that they COULD have hired a company to create a museum out of it and operated it for them (which is what NASA did-- all the NASA museums and "visitor centers" at the NASA facilities like Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center in Houston, etc are all operated by companies working under contract for NASA... NASA retains ownership of all the artifacts on display, and gets a share of the ticket sales, but isn't bothered with the day to day operations of a museum or dealing with the public... Paramount COULD have done the same thing with these Star Trek items, but for whatever reason they chose not to and simply decided to sell it off... Later! OL J R :)
Captain's Log-Stardate 5713.36 The Romulans, the Gorn, the Klingons, the Tholians are not happy that we were back on the air. They sat on the edge of their galactic backside burners salivating at our defeat at Wolf 359; pulling out the old Tupperware to have a go at what they thought was the end of the Federation. But we sent a message blazing across federation space and even violating the Neutral Zone to say to Ms. Haversham, and all the other Havershams, that Pip was back! With even more pips on his collar. And if it's a blemish on our com badges to watch an old witch burn, well. as the Klingons say, she shouldn't have fought in a burning house.
having a show that was on occasionally over 40 yr does not count as 40 being on 40 yrs, rather it was on over 40 year, but the guy is arrogant in his assumption. There are programs that have been on even before the first episode and are still going daily in other countries.
@@themajor743 The fact that they have that kind of money to spend on movie props speaks volumes... They didn't come by that amount of money to throw around by emulating Mother Teresa... OL J R :)
STAR TREK.. The Original Series.. The Picad Enterprise Series.. The Voyager Series.. Deep Space 9 Series.. and The Star Trek Movies with the Original Cast.. After all this the Star trek Magic was gone.. Anything done to recreate the series and new movies just does not capture the spirit of Star Trek..
Kieran Murphy Then I do agree. I did love DS9 up until the end of the dominion war. Went downhill from there. And of course the childhood nostalgia of Next Gen. But for me Voyager always held on to " To boldly go "
I'm with you on that one. I followed TNG when I was in middle school but Voyager was the first star trek i followed avidly. And RDSHOCK is right.. throwing a ship right into the delta quadrant with a ship's crew meeting species for the first time does encompass the "Boldly go" idea
Totally agreed! Love TNG I really do, but Voyager was something else for the reasons u guys say and more. I was very upset for the way they ended it . Voyager could gave us more interesting stories coming back from the Delta... Voyager was on its prime. Shame we did not see a Voy motion picture with that great cast and interesting storyline. Love u Picard but adore u Janeway ,
you know people say way over the top things about star trek all the time so im going to say one but i think its actually quite true i think, by in large, peoples ideas about what our future world SHOULD BE, what we are working to get too are shaped totally by star trek we, all deep down inside, want to make the future like star trek Roddenberry just wanted to make a hit show but he ended up painting a picture of the future that the world has fallen in love with thats a hell of a thing for a mediocre mid sixties TV show to do ain't it?
I love the part where Uhura says in our Century we've learned not to fear words! LOL. I wish someone would tell that wish someone would tell that to the feminists and SJWs who want to ban all kinds of words
That would be great but Museum are usually run by City, County, State or Federal Government agencies unless they are Private nonprofit with lots of money they fail. But yes, I too would like to have a Star Trek Museum.
I agree and I’d agree that here in the UK 🇬🇧 should have a Star Trek Experience in every city here in the UK 🇬🇧 so that every UK 🇬🇧 fan can experience the universe of Star Trek
I agree there should be a Star Trek museum. But remember this would have to be supported by the public. how many people would pay to see these props? and how much? $20? $50? $100? if this museum fails, guess what? all these props will probably be auctioned off. so Paramount Had already guessed, why take the chance? just auction off the props already.
I think Armin Shimerman in the Quark Costume had have been the Auctioneer at Christi’s. The whole thing reminds me on some Ferengi profit-making. I thing that they don’t understand the idea of Star Trek. Otherwise they had given whole things to Fans for less Money. So real Fans who do not have 500 - 700 Dollar for a Tricorder could affort it. But maybe Money is the only thing that makes the World go round.
Star Trek *ended* in the 20th century. Voyager was the last of the franchise. Anything that came out during this century is just trash that has stolen the _Star Trek_ name.
Even though this was published quite a while ago, I enjoyed all the 'versions' of Star Trek, I enjoyed all the music even more that went with the different 'Treks'.
For every one concerned that these pieces ended up in collections. A large amount are in museums already. These were either large pieces no longer suited for storage or items that could be tied to the cast and would sell well. To trekkers this is gold but to Paramount it's surplus crap they got to pay to kept stored and catalogued decades after their shows ended.
What makes Star Trek so popular? Part of it is how the people interact with each other, the Science of the next great adventure of man, going into Space beyond the limits of our Soler System, but most of all, the hope of a Future that doesn't end in the Destruction of ourselves and the Planet Earth. We all need the hope this brings us. Idealistic perhaps, but in a good way, it has changed us and continues to in ways no other TV show ever has.
I’m surprised by how much the amount of time spent on the auction saddens me. It sends the message that Roddenberry’s vision can be reduced to a commodity and the exorbitant prices somehow validate the love the fans have and the culture they’ve built. How can we ever hope to form the Federation when we’re already the Ferengi Alliance?
Would have been a nice gesture if Paramount gave the money raised to charity.
20:29 "In our century, we've learned not to fear words"
Nichelle Nichols is a treasure.
R.I.P. to all those who have boldly gone before us.
I met Ms. Nichols years ago at a convention. She was autographing pictures and such, and when it was my turn while she was signing a picture of the bridge crew I told her I've always had the biggest crush on her. She then grabbed me by the shirt collar and said "Oh thats sweet." then gave me a kiss on the cheek. As I was walking away I took the picture and transfered the lipstick from my cheek to the picture. I still to this day have that picture in a frame on my living room wall.
Beautiful!
That's a great memento to have, an item that is priceless to you and intriguing to others. Way to go Doc. 👍
I broke into tears when Leonard walked into the scene.. LLAP
"It's not a real flute" lmao. Those Voyager and D models are absolutely beautiful. Lucky bastard :)
Great documentation about the "Star Trek" people in the background. Sad the sale, but folks, we`ve internalized this unique "Star Trek Universe" and nobody can take that away from us.- Live long and in peace ! - Thanks for the upload. -
An awesome show, in every respect, rip Leonard Nimoy, Jimmy Doohan, De Forest Kelly & most recently Rene Auberjoins as Constable Odo, we fans salute you
Sad that these things were sold as collections, it should be in a museum where everyone that was effected by Star Trek could enjoy it. Instead of being hidden or damaged in private collections.
+Daniel Ho Socialist much?
+GreenJelloHell No shit, if they cant have it no one can have it.
A) Many wealthy people who do this will also lend items to a museums.
B) Many times private collectors do a much better job than some bureaucrats.
70sgunman OMG, you're so astute! What's your point?
LibertarianUSA1982 gawd damn Google+ and drop down menu replies. One little misstep and it all goes bye bye. Anyways I said something about kindred spirits without trying to sound gay, 'not that there's anything wrong with that'. I think of myself as a Radical Centrist. Miffed that Rand Paul is not doing better, at least Rubio is starting to get some traction.
+Daniel Ho Yeah , only the rich can enjoy those delights . I hate to see them auctioned off like the original Enterprise with the saucer half blown off . Oh well as I say they are material things and rather have a rich life instead .
And mr Roddenberry was and still is to me a genues to put together a show that has lasted 40 years and counting. And with an iconic cast of countless superstars that are an honer and to me being a veteran of the u.s.army makes me proud to watch and enjoy god bless all of you allways and forever
'The fuck does being a hired murdering goon have to do with star trek? God bless you to bud but your comment makes no sense and you SHOULD be ASHAMED of your participation in tyranny, theft and murder.
They say instead of throwing it away, "GIVE" it to fans....give my ass. Did you see the handsome prices they were asking, for their so-called junk? No matter where the money ended up, some surely lined their pockets with gold in the process.
Lucille Ball, started it all and deserves most of the credit.
Why, because she owned the Studio??
@@lukestrawwalker No one wanted to back this project. It was dead. Lucy stepped up and made an executive decision to make this happen .
Just like Rodenberry, Lucille Ball was ahead of her time.
You guys must've watched a completely different documentary... Lucy asked Herb Solow about "that south seas show with the USO visiting the troops" and he didn't have a clue what she was talking about, and kept racking his brain till she finally remembered the name "Star Trek" which she assumed from the title was some sort of show about movie stars trekking to the theaters of war to entertain the troops in WW2 or something, which is why her description didn't ring any bells with Herb Solow... It also shows Lucy didn't have ANY idea what the show was really even about!! So you guys dream on about how visionary Lucy was and essential to Star Trek ever existing, but it don't jibe with reality... In reality she owned the studio, didn't really understand what the premise of the show even was as evidenced by her conversation with Solow, and basically all she did was greenlight production of the show on her managing producer's (Solow's) recommendation... Maybe being generous she greenlighted Star Trek's production over her business studio executive's reservations or opposition, at most, but she CERTAINLY didn't have some visionary revelation to make Star Trek happen out of the blue or anything remotely like that.
Suggest you watch the documentary again and pay attention this time...
Later! OL J R
@@lukestrawwalker
Ok, you're right, I stand corrected. But Lucy was still ahead of her own time in other areas (outside of Star Trek).
I seriously love Star Trek
Quiet frankly, they should have put it all in a museum. Safe, but visible. The money alone that would probably make....
Plus they should have given every cast-member some things they had a connection to. A uniform of each variety, something related to the characters (Picard's flute, Siskos baseball etc). I was shocked when I heard that they not only didn't get some small for of memento, but also were not even able to buy them. Greedy, greedy Paramount.
and today, right at this moment in time , it is the 8th of September 2016 and 50 years have passed since this journey began.
much has changed, much more will change ,and yet this journey continues .
these stories are still as realivent today as they were then, as they will be tomorrow .
it is not the destination that is important, but the journey that is important, as the hero's journey always is.
yet this is not one hero's journey, but an entire peoples journey, as portrayed by this cast of players, standing for us.
showing that no matter our sins, our faults, our fears, our future can and will be a better one than what we have now.
and so, the journey continues...
Call it a dream on how we all would like the future to become where we all work together for peace for a better world for mankind to survive together as one planet.
yeah right thats why the staff was a closed club of jews
I can understand the 110.000 on DS9. To think bidding started at 4000... I would lay that money down right now. I would love to have that thing on a pedestal in my house. It's not just a spaceship, it's a sculpture.
Armin shimermam was slightly wrong because Doctor Who has been on television longer, it may not have as many episodes but is the longest running sci-fi Series
Can't help but imagine Gul Dukat sitting there and betting on the Deep Space Nine model... :p
olafreinhardweyer Hahahahaha thanks for the laugh, mate
You should re-title this "Star Trek: The Christie's Auction Experience" the people talking about the show were great, but the Christie's staff only talked about how great of an opportunity this was for them.
+Matt Cooper Yes, it's insufferable. What is this, Christie's Greatest Financial Quarter?
haha! good call.
Hehe!! Cool comment!!!!
That’s ok, it’s what they do.
This is just depressing. Some of my favorite and most respected actors debasing themselves by shilling crap to and for greedheads.
It's far from the most debasing thing an actor's had to do to put food on the table.
Who knew ... That of _all_ people, it would be Picard that would come back and put the final nail in Star Treks coffin ...
500 k for a model and 20 k for a flute - most of those "buyers" were not real loyal fans, those were rich depraved unmoral rich a-holes with no sense of what Gene originally meant the series to be or what he wanted to tell. I bet quite a lot of the sold objects were found later on ebay and re-sold for insane prices just to make a quick profit out of it. Disgusting.
Someone's salty they made bad decisions.
they're rich because they worked hard in life and were successful. You're poor because you're lazy.
7 of 9 Tertiary Junction to Uni-matrix Zero ... Where are you? I loved the mother daughter relationship between Janeway and 7of9.
Always on the brink of going full lesbo.
The MoRAl of the Story is most important in TEAching young and growing PerSONs.
some houses defiantly got mortgaged here.
1:40 rest in peace mr.nimoy 20:54 rest in peace mr.roddenberry 24:00 i must agree 26:40 alwayed liked that romulan ship 28:00 my second favorite enterprise
I always love Star Trek Jean Roddenberry was a genius he see things from above where no man has gone before
1.22.40 "I'm not gonna put on a Starfleet uniform again." Oh yeah he will 😁
Indeed, he did already :)
How much money did the auction bring in and who pocked the proceeds?
Great question that I often asked....still don't know.
I just found out it was over US$27 million!
WOW! How was it split?
The article didn't say! The action house takes between 5-20% of the end price, depending on what type of article it is. I guess the rest all went to Paramount as it owned all the costumes.
Makes sense.....thank you for the effort!
Great documentary! :-)
This is on TV, right now.
It is truly a shame what these people did with these terrific one-of-a-kind pieces of star trek history or television and movie history, just sold for cheap money, you could have made it into such a brilliant Star Trek Museum, especially because these ship models nowadays are no longer being produced at all, I just can't believe what a shame and these people who sold it all who approved that everything was sold should be ashamed of themselves
SO MANY CUTE TREKKIES
I was in the 90s at at convention in germany, not the official big one in cologne/bonn, it was in a small city with like 200k population. But George Takei was there, James Doohan AND Lt. Barclay ;) I was 10 or 11...tickets were cheap and every star was nice and signed everything for free...i heard that that changed todays
Yeah I went to a convention in Houston back in about 90 or 91... met Jimmy Doohan really super nice guy, had a Q & A session with him and autographs afterwards, very nice. I think tickets were like $20 took a girl I knew at the time with me... I don't remember if there was a charge for the session with Jimmy Doohan but even if it was it wasn't a lot.
I've been wanting to take my daughter to a Trek Convention but nowdays they're all licensed and run by "Creation Conventions" and they've turned it into a cash cow... tickets are upwards of $70 just to get in the door, any cast appearances are usually around an extra $70 or more per person, for about an hour chat if your lucky and then stand in line for another hour or two to get an autograph, and be hustled on after maybe 5-10 seconds at most of seeing whomever the star attraction is... It'd be kinda fun to do at least once but hard to justify that kind of money for what it is...
BUT, that's EVERYTHING nowdays... my daughter is a high school freshman and plays trombone in the band... I went to one of her "contests" run by "Bands of America", which didn't exist back when I was in high school in the 80's and my siblings were in band in the early 90's... I was shocked and amazed when I got to the PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM and found them charging $21 for the preliminaries, or $31 for the prelims and finals... if you ONLY bought the prelim ticket, and your band made it to the finals and you wanted to see them, they cleared the stadium prior to the finals and then you had to pay ANOTHER $21 to see the finals, unless you had your "combined ticket" for $31 dollars bought ahead of time! RIDICULOUS! Then to find out that they CHARGE A BIG ENTRY FEE to the bands to participate in it, and they don't give out any "cash awards" to the winners or first/second runners up... Just turned it into a huge cash cow where SOMEONE is making out like a bandit screwing over the parents who want to see their kids perform, and then screwing over the kids too who are performing FOR FREE, and screwing over the schools by making them pay a big entry fee to participate... so some greedy jackwagons can make a killing selling high-priced tickets just because they organized the contest and coordinated the venue and entries... Don't get me wrong; I'm not opposed to the organizers making *SOME* money for their efforts, BUT there's a huge difference between the contests we went to when my siblings were in school where you paid $10 a person for the WHOLE DAY and where the entry fees per school were maybe $100 bucks or so for the contest (just to pay the judges for the day), versus $30-40 bucks a ticket now and probably $600-1000 bucks for the entry fee per school... It's just GREEDY... BUT, nowadays, if people can't make a FORTUNE doing something they don't want to do it at all...
Later! OL J R :)
The people that won those, weren't the most dedicated fans. They were just the ones with the most money. lol
that's what I thought right away. disgusting.
Our memories are worth more.
how do you know that?
you can't be rich dedicated fan?
Welcome to how the world works. Channel your inner ferengi.
Nonsens, they are really fans. Sure they are fortuned to have the money to buy themself a bit of Star Trek. Don't you see how happy these people were when they won a lot? Du bist ja nur neidisch. If you want, you can have your own tricorder get at ebay.
For me I hope kids still under the age of 5 that Gene Roddenberry dream won't be fiction. Somewhere out there there is a real Jonathan Archer and we have colonies on Mars and the Moon. When he or she is old like us the first extra solar mission will have been launched.
+Harru Kuehn Not with Som Dom Phuc as president.
Are you kidding me? Now people think the earth is flat lol If anything mankind is regressing.
@@kobraracer1887 Lowest unemployment in fifty years...lower taxes...peace talks all around the globe...most pedophiles brought to justice EVER in US history.........................................but I'm sure you'd prefer the mass murderer AND PEDOPHILE Killery?!?!?! You are truly a fucking idiot.
Like Star Trek, Dr Who from the BBC which actually started in 1993 till1989, and had a reboot in 2005. Like Star Trek, it has had spin offs in the form of Torchwood and the Adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, and it has addressed many philosophical and moral issues along the way. I think both shows attract a wide audience because, these issues are universal, as they are part of being human. This is why here in America, those with faith, and those without faith, have found inspiration from Star Trek. The fact Star Trek takes place in a future, where technology has solved much of today's problems, and has created a society that travels the universe, and that uses that technology to make a difference, is part of what has inspired many to become the engineers, astronauts, scientists, etc, that this documentary speaks of.
You're absolutely right my friend. :)
I can never get into the series. Each time I tried, I'd watch it for a few minutes then change the channel. Unlike Star Trek, the characters of Dr. Who never touched my bone marrow. The stories were just too, maybe serious. IDK.
+Ernest Dickinson The difference being that Dr. Who was painfully stupid every time.
Er, 1993-1989? Some weird time travel/vortex type thing there. Timelag from the last trip in the TARDIS? lol ;)
22Nov63. The date that C.S.Lewis and Aldous Huxley died. And some American President.
Feels like a Trek version of "Flog It" Some of the titbits by Nimoy are ok, but then again I could listen to him all day...
Happy First Contact Day, everyone!!!! On this date April 5, 2063, we made first contact with the Vulcans, after, we made our successful warp drive. Live long and prosper.
+Super Heroes I'll be there! Another one of my many reincarnations.
stop smoking meth ~
They can't fool people with Hollywood fantasies anymore, the deadly Van Allen Belt is real, man will never travel in space, he hasn't gone even to the moon ~
2007?? it looks so old like it was taken from a late 90's vhs
How much money did Paramount make on those auctions overall?
"There have been no shows that have been on the air for 40 years"
How about Doctor Who?
Jonathan Nowak The longest running show is Coronation Street or The Sky at Night which is an astronomy programme on the BBC.
At the time of this documentary, Dr. Who hadn't returned I don't think
Probably thei reffer to US
Daves Reality The Sky At Night was first shown in 1957. Coronation Street followed in 1960.
Panorama is older still, going back to 1953.
The best show ever 🏆🎊🎊🍾🥂🍰
Wow, the finds in the Paramount Studio warehouse are mental!
AMAZING what StarTrek did.
The ideas it showed are now or becoming reality.
Like medical scanner known as an MRI. And the shot with a gun not needle
Oooh Paramount... you greedy bastards... selling all these stuff for "the richest fans". Why not put them in a Star Trek museum to be seen for generations. That would have been trekkie. Shame.
better because in the old times they used to burn sets and props
1/ If not for 'trekkers' it would never have happened 2/ They made the original and all that followed for us, the post WWII baby boomers, because of us, yet, back in the original days, they never thought to ask us if we liked it or not. They asked our parents and our grandparents who didn't like it, and it got cancelled based on the wrong people to ask. If they had asked us back then the original would have 'gone on' for at least 10 years, if not still 'original going' today. How could they have been so brilliant and so stupid at the same time back in those original days. Those that followed were equally good, true to the story, till the latest - 'Discovery' which I can only say about it - not 'what if' as a poignant lesson, rather WTF ? - but, still, tragic the original was cut off after only 3 seasons.
Plot Twist: The Giles fellow that bought the Picard robinhood outfit and the Viceroy outfit is a porn actor that played Picard in the XXX Parody of Star Trek: TNG.
Holy fuck, seriously?
And also reprised the role of Picard in a fan fiction Starship Intrepid episode.
IT SAD ALL OF THAT STUFF WAS JUST OFF PART BY PART LIKE THAT ILL BET NOT ALL WINNERS OF THE TREK GOODS ARE TREATING THEM WELL
This was a wonderful show, but I couldn't help feeling that they should have made a Star Trek Museum or something, where everyone could then go and enjoy seeing these things..Oh well, at least it didn't all get thrown out hahaha...
Guys it’s already in the best museum ever TH-cam.
Is there a higher quality version of this on youtube or elsewhere on the internet?
What about a serie based on the Excélsior?
He said they delivered. Enterprise happened. I guess shit is deliberable
What episode of TOS at 22:50?
A lot of UK weekly shows have been on for more than 40 years. "Coronation Street" started in 1960 and so far (to this week) there have been 8,933 episodes...
Soap operas aren't that good though.
there are two shows in Australia with over 25000 episodes
Doctor Who ! true a lot less episodes, never the less, True si-fi not soap without a box.
Any other fans out there find it annoying when they say "About far off galaxies"? They are in the same galaxy, just maybe different quadrants. There are a couple of episodes that might take place in a different galaxy, but, they don't have the tech to travel that far.
Lol ... Imagine if they had offered Jeri Ryan's corset and/or catsuit for auction? Probably would have caused an inadvertent DDOS on the Christie's website when that lot number came up. And it probably would go for a six digit price :)
Yeah And Sadly Probably to Some 300lb Sweaty balding German Guy that rents his parents garage so that he can prance around in front of the mirror wearing it
when It could Go to Me where I would cherish it and Make it look good at conventions and Cosplay
Zoey Amiro 😂👍🤤
There are stories to be told perhaps watched from Mars or beyong? We as a people go Boldly no matter the risk...because it's what we do. Live Long and Prosper.
Enterprise doesn't count. As Leonard Nemoy said on his Futurama cameo, "way to kill the series, Bakula."
When I saw that Lizard man and that living rock thing as a kid...they both terrified me!
The model of Deep Space Nine looks amazing as do all of them. but I would love to know who would have the money and the space for it!! lol
20:14 But for now we continue to be offended by everything.
David Eriksson people are victims of propaganda. I m sure propaganda was not allowed in the Trek universe.
How many of those winning bids; where heartless investor buyers, that is people that deliberately buy things at inflated values in order to profit later having inflated the worth of that item ? I think too many but that's the world today. A far cry from Roddenberry's dream.
Without The Enterprise we wouldn't have The Orville.
why did paramount even give all this unique star trek stuff to auctions? man? cant they put it in a warehouse or make a star trek museum out of it? i dont get it
Are you kidding?? They didn't "give" it to the auctions, they had it auctioned off... Paramount made a HUGE amount of money off this auction, as did the auction company who keeps a percentage of the sale price...
If you had a warehouse full of stuff that had been sitting in storage for 50 years (some of it) and could turn it into cold hard cash, wouldn't you do it?? Agree that they COULD have hired a company to create a museum out of it and operated it for them (which is what NASA did-- all the NASA museums and "visitor centers" at the NASA facilities like Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center in Houston, etc are all operated by companies working under contract for NASA... NASA retains ownership of all the artifacts on display, and gets a share of the ticket sales, but isn't bothered with the day to day operations of a museum or dealing with the public... Paramount COULD have done the same thing with these Star Trek items, but for whatever reason they chose not to and simply decided to sell it off... Later! OL J R :)
Captain's Log-Stardate 5713.36
The Romulans, the Gorn, the Klingons, the Tholians are not happy
that we were back on the air. They sat on the edge of their galactic
backside burners salivating at our defeat at Wolf 359; pulling out the
old Tupperware to have a go at what they thought was the end of the
Federation. But we sent a message blazing across federation space and
even violating the Neutral Zone to say to Ms. Haversham, and all the other
Havershams, that Pip was back! With even more pips on his collar. And if it's
a blemish on our com badges to watch an old witch burn, well. as the Klingons
say, she shouldn't have fought in a burning house.
Funny I know this video is old ,but Orville uses ship models.
I burst out laughing at 3:06...
Because I am a child.
Funny how all the TV series used all the movies intro and end music for their intro series music
That is not funny, just plain wrong
MarCuseusFX but it's true..check it out and compare
having a show that was on occasionally over 40 yr does not count as 40 being on 40 yrs, rather it was on over 40 year, but the guy is arrogant in his assumption.
There are programs that have been on even before the first episode and are still going daily in other countries.
What show was on before 1966 and is still being on the air today. I am curious.
Carollowry Pate In England one Soap called Coronation Street. Started 1960 and is still going twice weekly.
51years ago now
ironic isn't it.. to do the very thing star trek is against.
Against greed? Maybe. Would the truly greedy spend that kind of money on movie props? - unlikely; that takes true love.
I bought some ST shit and resold it for double ~
Well, yes. Then where to put all the stuff? It occupied a company's warehouse. They needed the room. Better sell out than dump it, isn't it?
@@themajor743 The fact that they have that kind of money to spend on movie props speaks volumes... They didn't come by that amount of money to throw around by emulating Mother Teresa... OL J R :)
Why can't Star Trek return?
+trevgoodchild I think CBS had the rights for many years. I think it's because they brought Paramount
Hopefully Discovery is good....
Be careful what you wish for.
@@ravagegames3459 Another rape of the Science Fiction community... WE must pat extra for everything... Discovery stinks and Picard probably will too.
STAR TREK.. The Original Series.. The Picad Enterprise Series.. The Voyager Series.. Deep Space 9 Series.. and The Star Trek Movies with the Original Cast.. After all this the Star trek Magic was gone.. Anything done to recreate the series and new movies just does not capture the spirit of Star Trek..
I wanted the wheel chair that captain Pike was in the two part original series!!!!!##
The stupidity in the first 5 seconds was enough for me to puke. I didn't go any further.
Did Kirk ever actually say beam me up Scotty?
strek trek voyager was the best
Not sure if trolling or sincere? But I agree. That series fully encompasses "To boldly go where no one has gone before."
I was being sincere it was the first star trek I ever watched
Kieran Murphy
Then I do agree. I did love DS9 up until the end of the dominion war. Went downhill from there. And of course the childhood nostalgia of Next Gen. But for me Voyager always held on to " To boldly go "
I'm with you on that one. I followed TNG when I was in middle school but Voyager was the first star trek i followed avidly. And RDSHOCK is right.. throwing a ship right into the delta quadrant with a ship's crew meeting species for the first time does encompass the "Boldly go" idea
Totally agreed! Love TNG I really do, but Voyager was something else for the reasons u guys say and more. I was very upset for the way they ended it . Voyager could gave us more interesting stories coming back from the Delta... Voyager was on its prime. Shame we did not see a Voy motion picture with that great cast and interesting storyline. Love u Picard but adore u Janeway ,
1:22:42 little did he know!!!! 12 years later?
you know people say way over the top things about star trek all the time
so im going to say one
but i think its actually quite true
i think, by in large, peoples ideas about what our future world SHOULD BE, what we are working to get too
are shaped totally by star trek
we, all deep down inside, want to make the future like star trek
Roddenberry just wanted to make a hit show
but he ended up painting a picture of the future that the world has fallen in love with
thats a hell of a thing for a mediocre mid sixties TV show to do ain't it?
Lets Centrally locate all this stuff so a fire can burn it down.....LMAO Museums were bidding on the items too nothing wrong with spreading the love.
Vivat !!!
I love the part where Uhura says in our Century we've learned not to fear words! LOL. I wish someone would tell that wish someone would tell that to the feminists and SJWs who want to ban all kinds of words
I have never seen anyone wanting to ban words.
once a ferengi,always one haha 5 year mission 50 years later....
If you do not understand the GA Language you miss a lot of creative information.
does anyone know if they sold geordi's visor?
Nicole Baker it's currently in use as a Cadillac air filter.
Someone on here suggested that the articles auctioned off should be in a Star Trek museum for everyone to see. I gree!
That would be great but Museum are usually run by City, County, State or Federal Government agencies unless they are Private nonprofit with lots of money they fail. But yes, I too would like to have a Star Trek Museum.
And if they fail what happens to all the stuff? Hopefully a bit of this stuff is in the Smithsonian.
I agree and I’d agree that here in the UK 🇬🇧 should have a Star Trek Experience in every city here in the UK 🇬🇧 so that every UK 🇬🇧 fan can experience the universe of Star Trek
If Paramount had made it a touring show of some of the best items, it would have been a major hit.
I agree there should be a Star Trek museum. But remember this would have to be supported by the public. how many people would pay to see these props? and how much? $20? $50? $100? if this museum fails, guess what? all these props will probably be auctioned off. so Paramount Had already guessed, why take the chance? just auction off the props already.
I think Armin Shimerman in the Quark Costume had have been the Auctioneer at Christi’s. The whole thing reminds me on some Ferengi profit-making. I thing that they don’t understand the idea of Star Trek. Otherwise they had given whole things to Fans for less
Money. So real Fans who do not have 500 - 700 Dollar for a Tricorder could affort it. But maybe Money is the only thing that makes the World go round.
The entire thin g feels like a marketing promo for Christie's. :(
It's filmed in 2007, but it feels 90s.
Well, it's now 2019 and Star Trek is dead from blunt force trauma to the rectum. Thanks STD!
Star Trek *ended* in the 20th century. Voyager was the last of the franchise. Anything that came out during this century is just trash that has stolen the _Star Trek_ name.
Well, it's 2020 and Star Trek: Picard resurrected it with a vengeance!
cry about it and go watch reruns.....bet you didnt even watch the 2 seasons but here you are bitching like you did.....
Even though this was published quite a while ago, I enjoyed all the 'versions' of Star Trek, I enjoyed all the music even more that went with the different 'Treks'.
For every one concerned that these pieces ended up in collections. A large amount are in museums already. These were either large pieces no longer suited for storage or items that could be tied to the cast and would sell well. To trekkers this is gold but to Paramount it's surplus crap they got to pay to kept stored and catalogued decades after their shows ended.
I feel that paramount missed an opportunity here, awfully short sited of them.
What makes Star Trek so popular? Part of it is how the people interact with each other, the Science of the next great adventure of man, going into Space beyond the limits of our Soler System, but most of all, the hope of a Future that doesn't end in the Destruction of ourselves and the Planet Earth. We all need the hope this brings us. Idealistic perhaps, but in a good way, it has changed us and continues to in ways no other TV show ever has.
I’m surprised by how much the amount of time spent on the auction saddens me. It sends the message that Roddenberry’s vision can be reduced to a commodity and the exorbitant prices somehow validate the love the fans have and the culture they’ve built. How can we ever hope to form the Federation when we’re already the Ferengi Alliance?
Kivas Fajo wanted to bid on Data, but he wasn't among the items up for auction.
of course there are no programmes that have been on for fourty years.*cough cough* doctorwho*cough chough*