Christie’s Auction: 40 Years of Star Trek

[TehBorken]

Christie's Auction: 40 Years of Star Trek

An amazing collection of Star Trek props, costumes and models are being put on the auction block at Christie's - if you've got $20,000 to $30,000, you can bid on this Star Trek Enterprise: 2001-2005 bridge set. I have to admit, this would look cool in my living room.

 

[Lise]

I saw that on the news lately. Incredible. You've got to a hard-core ST fan. I think someone bought a model of the Enterprise for something like $52,000 or so. Insanity.

  Now where's my wrap-drive?

[Gopher]

You mean to say you're not using it?

[Lise]

 Oops. That $52,000 tag wasn't for the Enterprise replica, it was for the captain's chair.

  And my wrap-drive is working just fine. I just gotta find one that takes me straight to Gopher's lounge.[/DIV]

[Gopher]

Just what is a wrap-drive? I always thought the word was warp. Whatever, I await your arrival, Lise.

P.S. My phaser is primed in anticipation.

[Lise]

Meep. My husband pointed out my mistake.... WARP DRIVE.

  Trivia bit of the day:

 In the [A title="Fictional universe" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe"]fictional universe[/A] of [A title="Star Trek" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek"]Star Trek[/A], the warp drive is a form of [A title=Faster-than-light href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light"]faster-than-light[/A] (FTL) propulsion. It is generally portrayed as being capable of propelling spacecraft or other objects to many multiples of the speed of light, while avoiding the problems associated with [A title="Time dilation" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation"]time dilation[/A]. The motion picture [A title="Starship Troopers (film)" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_%28film%29"]Starship Troopers[/A] also uses the same term to refer to faster-than-light travel. It is not generally capable of instantaneous travel between points at infinite speed, as has been suggested in other science fiction using theoretical technologies such as [A title=Hyperdrives href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdrives"]Hyperdrive[/A] and [A title="Jump drive" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_drive"]Jump Drives[/A]. It is called Efti'el in the Titan novels.

 The concept of using spatial warping as a means of propulsion has been the subject of theoretical treatment by some physicists (such as [A title="Miguel Alcubierre" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Alcubierre"]Miguel Alcubierre[/A], see [A title="Alcubierre drive" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive"]Alcubierre drive[/A]), although no concrete technological approach has ever been proposed, nor is there any known way of inducing the effect described by Alcubierre.

 [A href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive"]vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive[/A]

[Lise]

Gopher wrote:
  P.S. My phaser is primed in anticipation.[/DIV]
 

  ROFL. Good one. I had to scroll that one down quickly.....

[Gopher]

Of course you did, there are certainly no Klingons on YOUR starboard bow.

[Raver]

Interestingly, the one piece of mint condition Star Trek memorabilia that remained unwanted was the average Trekkies virginity.