To all the Trekkies of this world, Are you trekkie enough for this? Options

[stargelman]

If you're reading this, you're either a trekkie, or you're a non-trekkie who hopes to get a really good laugh. I think the subject at hand has potential to please both groups.

Trekkies, if you wonder if you're geeky enough, there is now a chance to find out. Turns out Paramount has cleaned out the garage and is now selling off crap from 40 years of Star Trek! And before you think back to that last convention you went to where they sold all that cheap crap like horribly glorified drawings of aging actors, this crap they're gonna sell is good crap! Among the highlights are:

- that flute Picard played in that one episode where...uh.. you know
- a real Klingon captain's chair! (Q'Pla!)
- Phasers!
- and the ultimate dream of the real basement-dwelling trekkie: 7 of 9's season 7 jump suite!

The auction is done by Christies, and takes place stardate October 5th through 7th. In case you want to browse a few of the highlights, click here - Flash required.

[Foster]

Yeah, B'lanna is pretty ugly in real life, but with the strange cornish-pasty head and hair...not too bad. Personally though for Trekkiewomen you've got to look no further than the gorgeous Dax (either one, really - personally Jadzia was better), though I know there is quite a following for the old Deanna Troi.

Anyway, I find it funny that there is a bunch of this tat (no offense, but really... thousands for a toy runabout?) on sale. I remember when I was in Vegas taking a wrong turn in the Hilton and finding myself face to face with a Gorn, standing on the promenade of DS9. Freaky stuff, almost as wierd as getting sequestered by the Scientologists in Hollywood.

On an aside, did you know Patrick Stewart has tons of this tat? He like, had it in his contract to get one of the spares of everything they made more than one of, so he's probably sitting on a goldmine of futuristic spacey jumpsuits.