I know that any time of the day or night, some local TV channel is showing a Star Trek episode, but it was nothing more than amazing to read that an unnamed trekkie has coughed up £308,000 for a model of the Starship Enterprise. The 78 inch space vessel which made its television debut in 1987 and was used in the pilot and title sequences of Star Trek: The Next Generation", sold for 20 times the estimated sale price during a Christie's auction of 1,000 lots from CBS Paramount Television Studios. The three-day sale, which saw fans shell out £214,000 for a model Klingon "Bird of Prey" ship and £104,000 for a space suit worn by Bones in The Tholian Web, generated a total of £3.8m. Just to take it completely over the top, hundreds of fans, dressed as “Trekkies” packed Christie's salesroom in New York for the sale while staff donned Trek-style costumes to take telephone bids.
It was originally made from a ten dollar kit!
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