Trekkie pays £45,000 for rusty shuttle A dilapidated shuttlecraft prop used in the original Star Trek series has sold at auction for $70,000 (£45,000). Some Trekkies have far too much cash in their hands. As you can see from the image below, the 24ft long shuttle, which had been acquired by a collector years ago, has clearly seen better days. This didn't stop a …
"This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation... but is this not the ninehundred-year-old axe of my family?"
That's not to say I see the logic in paying so much for it, but just saying...
Hey, what a great idea! Museums don't need to display actual historical objects - they can just make fakes and display those instead, because it's so much cheaper! While they're at it, they can pull down that tatty old Sphinx and put up a new one with a nose. Provenance? Who gives a damn?
Allow me to clarify. I know that fakes are already displayed in some museums and cities, for the purpose of preserving the original. However, the museums and cities in question do have the original. What the AC is advocating is making fake exhibits *instead* of acquiring originals, because "it's cheaper and it's just the same, innit?"
"However, the museums and cities in question do have the original. "
Unless it's a Natural History Museum, where they borrow someone else's originals and make casts in resin, or even borrow someone else's resin casts.
I'm thinking why bother anyway. Why not replace museums with facebook pages and just photoshop up the exhibits? Cheap and fast and no need for all those big buildings *and* it's iPad friendly so everyone will love it.
If you look at the auction, you can see that the nacelles are there, just not currently attached. According to the terms of the auction, all of that stuff was included in the price. From the photos, it looks like someone started a restoration project and gave up.
Here's hoping that they put it all back together and display it in a museum someplace, and not keep it in their garage.
"What happened to it? It looks as though it's been battered by a shower of boulders, thrown by a group of giant ape-like creatures."
You're forgetting the episode where it was stolen by Klingon's, who pillaged it, stole the nessels and threw it through a temporal rift where it would arrive on earth in the 1960's. The internals ripped out by the USAF and the chassis left behind, sparking a TV series and the modern era human race.
My mate had a boat that was built as fake shuttle as well,on canal nearish london,other mate had "friend" who was spitting image for bright green alien head from very early episodes of star terk opening credits,still kick myself that i could not put boat,"friend"and camera together at same time,ever.
would have made crackingly good pics.
Surely [and don't call me Shirley] it should read
"To boldly row where no one has rowed before"
Anyways, I was just thinking what an ace shed this would make - much better than a boring wooden 8x6. I'm just going to the shuttle dear sounds so much better than I'm just popping out to the shed - -and imagine the phone calls, "hang on, he's in the Shuttle - I'll just beam over to him right now"
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