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.
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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?
You mean to say you're not using it?
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]
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.
Meep. My husband pointed out my mistake.... WARP DRIVE. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/13.gif)
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]
Gopher wrote:
P.S. My phaser is primed in anticipation.[/DIV]
ROFL. Good one. I had to scroll that one down quickly.....
Of course you did, there are certainly no Klingons on YOUR starboard bow.
Interestingly, the one piece of mint condition Star Trek memorabilia that remained unwanted was the average Trekkies virginity.