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5 Best Places To Sell Your Star Trek Collectibles For Cash

Do you have some Star Trek collectibles you’re looking to sell to put a little bit more cash in your pocket? Lucky for you, Star Trek collectibles are typically always in demand so you should have no problem selling them. The biggest question is *where* to sell them.

Here are 5 suggestions from the team at Neatstuff Collectibles , one of the largest buyers and sellers of collectibles nationwide – including Star Trek collectibles!

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You Can Sell Them Directly To Us!

Usually when you’re selling any sort of collectible, you need to decide whether you prefer to sell it in a fast and easy transaction, or if you’re willing to put in time and effort to sell them for a little bit higher of a price. When you sell to Neatstuff Collectibles, you get the best of both worlds! We spend millions of dollars each year buying collectibles, and we pride ourselves on making all-cash top-dollar offers for items we’re interested in. We also make the process extremely simple – all you have to do is fill out our short seller inquiry form or call 800-326-7064 and one of our experts can help kick the process off for you!

You Can Try To Sell Them on eBay

Many people turn to eBay first to sell a collectible, however selling collectibles on eBay isn’t for everyone. For starters, it takes a lot of work to get a listing live, and even after writing the description, taking pictures, answering questions from potential buyers and waiting, you may not even sell your item. If you are lucky enough to find a buyer, you’ll still need to pay transaction fees to complete the sale.

You Can Try To Sell Them On Facebook Marketplace

Facebook Marketplace is another way people initially think of when selling their collectibles, but selling collectibles on Facebook Marketplace also comes with issues of its own. The main issue people come across on Facebook Marketplace is that they simply help you connect with a buyer, but they do not participate at all in facilitating the transaction. So when it comes to personal safety and protection from fraud, it’s all up to you.

You Can Try To Sell Them To Another Collector

If you have a wide and active network of other fellow collectors, selling directly to one of them can be an attractive option. Success here really comes down to how big your network is, how desirable your Star Trek collectible actually is and of course a little bit of luck. One word of advice – if you’re planning on publicizing your sale within a collectors group, be sure to check the rules of the organization first and possibly run it by the administrators first. No one wants to be accused of spam!

You Can Try To Sell Them To A Local Pawn Shop

Last but not least, pawn shops are another popular place to sell Star Trek collectibles. If you’re looking for a very fast transaction to put cash in your pocket fast, there’s possibly no quicker way than selling it to a pawn shop. The big caveat here is that you’ll pay for that convenience with a much lower selling price. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it really just comes down to personal preferences and circumstances.

What Are Your Star Trek Collectibles Worth?

Determining what your star trek collectibles are worth is more of an art than a science – there are a lot of variables to consider.  For example, what condition are they in?  What have similar items sold for recently?

The process won’t give you an exact number but will certainly give you a rough idea of its value.  With that information, you can determine the best path forward in selling your collectibles.

Sell Star Trek Items To Neat Stuff Collectibles!

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10. Leonard McCoy (Quantum Mechanix) ($300)

9. Khan (Quantum Mechanix) ($330)

8. Spock (Blacklight) (Funko Pop! Digital) ($350)

7. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Quantum Mechanix) ($350)

6. Hikaru Sulu (Quantum Mechanix) ($380)

5. Captain James T. Kirk (Quantum Mechanix)( $390 – $410)

4. Yorktown Class (Mixed Dimensions) ($500)

3. Montgomery Scott (Quantum Mechanix) ($730)

2. Gowron (Tool Part) (The Hamilton Collection) ($980)

1. Gorn (Tool Part) (The Hamilton Collection) ($980)

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The 10 best star trek collectibles (updated 2023).

Why not collect what you truly love? Live long and prosper! Check out the best Star Trek collectibles you can find for some fandom fun.

The Sci-Fi fan base and collectibles go together like bread and butter — or like Kirk and Spock. Nothing says “fan geek” like attending Star Trek cosplay events, staying in to binge-watch Deep Space Nine , or waiting with bated breath for the release of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds except watching the series premiere in a room with shelves filled with some of the best Star Trek collectibles . Fans love to collect items that celebrate their eclectic enthusiasms, and what stirs up more tremendous enthusiasm than a series set in space, far into the future, with unique characters exploring strange new worlds and interacting with alien beings?

Star Trek has been stirring up excitement in fans and filling viewers with wide-eyed wonder since 1966, when the original series boldly went where no man had gone before by launching the U.S.S. Enterprise into space and iconic characters like Starship Captain James Kirk and his ship's Vulcan scientist, Spock, into living rooms. The network received an astonishing 29,000 fan letters in the first season and over a million by 1968, proving there’s no fan like a Star Trek fan.

Spaceships, aliens, heroes… what other combination could inspire more toys , models, and fan merchandise than a series tackling serious societal issues while set in space?

Today, with the success of Picard , and anticipation over the release of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , some of the best Star Trek collectibles are more popular than ever. Displaying the action figures, ship models, accessories, and other fan merchandise filling our homes is the way true Trekkies bring a small bit of the magic of the Star Trek universe out of future faraway galaxies and into the rooms we occupy daily. Sure we can watch and re-watch each episode in series marathons, movies, and binge-watching sessions, we can dress up for Halloween, cosplay, and fan events, and we can join online forums, but being able to touch, hold, and display items representing our favorite Starfleet generation’s characters and adventures in the stars can turn memories into memorabilia.

The United Federation of Planets, Starfleet, and generations of crew member adventures on faraway planets are perfect material for some of the best Star Trek collectibles to ever please a collector.

With a total of 30 remastered Blu-ray discs, this set takes you where no one has gone before — back to where it all began, but this time with widescreen viewing and Dolby DTS surround sound. Finally, the original Star Trek episodes have made it to 21st-century viewing, making this set one of the best Star Trek collectibles of all time. With this complete set in your Blu-ray library, you can seek out new lifeforms and explore new worlds any time you feel like joining the away team in faraway galaxies.

Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Blu-Ray Collection

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• Fantastically restored visuals and audio
• Fantastic gift for Trekkie
• Includes a 2.5-hour documentary
• Packaging needs improvement; it's difficult to remove the discs in the series set

This is also one of the best Star Trek collectibles for authentic packaging. You’ll feel like you’ve traveled back in time when the action figure arrives in a full replica of the original Playmates action figure packaging from the 1990s.

• Comes with a stand for display
• Includes detachable tricorder, holster, Type-2 phaser, and phaser beam
• 14 Articulation points and highly detailed face
• Compliments the original Playmates line from the '90s
• Scale is slightly off from the '90s versions and comes with fewer accessories

This is one of the best Star Trek collectibles for authenticity in every detail from the accurate uniform and shiny black boots to the iconic Captain Kirk hairstyle with a side part as in the original series. Plus it comes in a windowed display box to please collectors.

• Includes high-quality plastic stand with a Command Shield logo
• Highly detailed face, costume, and accessories
• Collect all 4 including Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Uhura figures
• Limbs are bendable but the body is not

This is one of the best Star Trek collectibles to add to your home decor for a stunning Starfleet ambiance or to give as a gift to a favored fan in your life.

• Beautiful polycarbonate frame with ready-to-hang clip-hook
• Includes printed copy of Patrick Stewart's autograph
• Gift-ready with professional mounting and finish
• Feels surprisingly lightweight for the high-quality appearance

The Funko Pop Spock figure comes in a gift-ready box with a window display for collectors who prefer to keep their best Star Trek collectibles in unboxed mint condition. Of course, you can also remove the Pop and enjoy placing it on a desk at work as a conversation starter or on a display shelf at home with your other Star Trek collector’s items. It’s one of the best Star Trek collectibles to give as a gift to anyone you want to “Live Long and Prosper!”

• Perfect addition to the Star Trek Set of 3 Collectible Funko Pops with Kirk, Uhura, and Kahn
• Adorable details in his features and hands
• Place in your collection, on a shelf, or on your desk at work as the perfect conversation piece
• Straight black hair lacks the detail we usually see in Funko Pops

Any Star Trek fan will find the incredibly detailed decals the best part of this build. While the pieces snap together, by the careful addition of model glue this model becomes much sturdier for long-term display. It’s one of the best Star Trek collectibles for any fan to add to a collection or to get one started. The model comes complete with a display stand and attachment for the Botany Bay ship.

• Fun to assemble with snap-together pieces
• Includes attachable Botany Bay model as a bonus
• Highly detailed and accurate, with instructions for making various versions of the Enterprise like the pilot episode version, mirror episode version, and final version
• Compatible with separately sold light-up kits
• Some snap together pieces may require trimming to fit tightly
• Doesn't require glue, but adding glue makes the ship sturdier for handling

Boldly go where no man has gone before by adding all three collectibles in a single buy as a great way to start a collection or fill out your existing collection of Funko Pops or Star Trek collector’s items. It also makes a fantastic gift for a true Trekkie.

Each Pop comes in a separate window display box for collectors. This is one of the best Star Trek collectibles for lovers of the original series.

• Each figure comes separately boxed
• Perfect way to start a collection with a 3-in-one buy
• Incredibly detailed Pops
• Spock would have been a better choice than Kahn for this set

The deck also comes in a gift-ready box featuring an image of your favorite Enterprise crew. It’s one of the best Star Trek collectibles to give to any Star Trek fan and makes a great stocking stuffer.

• Sturdy cardstock playing cards that shuffle beautifully
• Gift-ready box with characters from the original series
• Each card has a unique image so looking at the cards is as much fun as playing a game
• Only wish it came in a collector's tin

Inside the Hallmark Keepsake Transporter, you’ll see Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy, ready to beam down to a distant planet. This is one of the best Star Trek collectibles to give as a gift, with a ready-to-wrap original collector’s box.

• Dated 2019, so it's already a collector's piece
• Transporter sounds, dialogue, and lighting for realistic effects
• Choose a setting for a continuing light show for the holidays or activate dialog and transporter effects
• No volume control

This is more than just a child’s toy, the BendyFig Star Trek Spock figure comes with a plastic stand featuring the Command Shield emblem. Place the figure on your desk, shelf, or your entertainment center while you binge-watch the original series. Not adding this figure to your collection would be “highly illogical.”

• Highly detailed figure with accessories and stand included
• Bendable arms and legs for playing or posing
• Comes in a collector's windowed display box
• While the arms and legs are bendable, the body isn't

Collecting Iconic Characters

Some of today’s best Star Trek collectibles help fans to commemorate and celebrate their favorite Starfleet crews. Who could ever forget the officers of the original Star Trek series with unforgettable characters like Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and the smart and savvy, Uhura — a female communications officer from the future “United States of Africa” who spoke over 30 languages — a character given a nod by Martin Luther King Jr, himself.

For Gen X and the millennials, two spinoff series also offered iconic characters to collect in toys and action figures like Star Trek: The Next Generation’s courageous Captain Picard, android Data, and Klingon crew member, Worf. Later series brought strong and thoughtful Captain Janeway, Native American Commander, Chakotay, and the sexy borg drone, Seven of Nine. These legendary characters were strong, smart, talented, tough, and diverse ahead of their time. They are also immortalized in Star Trek toys and collectible figures we love to find, gather, and display in our homes.

Starships, Transporters, and Future Tech Tools

Besides figurines and action figures depicting our favorite Star Trek characters, the futuristic technology showcased in every generation of Starfleet is a rich trove of material for some of the best Star Trek collectibles, including iconic images on items like framed artwork, posters, and playing cards, plus real-life items we can touch and hold like Christmas ornaments, toys, and buildable 3D starship models. Star Trek offers vivid imagery of the far future that comes alive in our hands with the merchandise we can collect and display.

Whether you’re shopping for yourself or you’re ready to find a gift for a Trekkie you treasure in your life, you’re sure to find the consummate collectible for everyone who loves Star Trek .

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Collectibles sellers often shop around with their collections, looking for top dollar offers. Back to the Past Collectibles has a track record of  being the last place people stop, because they find the best options here!

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Back to the Past Collectibles is always on the hunt for quality vintage items of all sorts, from vinyl records to statues, from comic books to rock posters, as well as coins, advertising pieces, movie materials and lots more! Let us help you find the right market to convert that collection into the best return.

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Set up an appointment when you have items to sell, consign or trade and see what’s percolating in our warehouse. We’re always hard at work on sorting & cataloging the next collection and we love giving tours! Much like watching the fudge get made when you’re on Mackinac Island, you’ll be amazed and delighted when you see what we’re handling next!

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Back to the past collectibles handles some of the most unique finds in the industry, some with jaw-dropping realized prices.

Our customers love us for the work we do, both finding these rare treasures and getting them properly packed and arriving world-wide safely! That’s why our ratings are among the best in the industry: Proxibid 4.8+ rating over thousands of transactions , eBay 100% rating over 75,000+ transactions , and on local review sites we consistently earn high marks.

Our selling clients love us for the prices we get when bringing their valuables to market. Our experts are always standing by to discover the gems buried in your collection. We’ve been successful for more than 3 decades because we focus on making your collectible sale a hit, and when you win, we win!

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Greg Jein is a Hollywood legend who picked up Oscar and Emmy nominations for his work on many of the iconic science fiction projects of the 20th century. His work on Star Trek spanned decades, starting with the Phase II project in the 1970s. Working with effects legend Douglas Trumbull, Jein led the team that built the 50-foot-long V’ger model used in 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with the conceptual artwork and architectural shot model both featured in this auction. Jein and his company continued to work on Star Trek shows and feature films throughout the 1990s, and garnered an Emmy nomination for Deep Space Nine in 1997.

He was also a big Star Trek and sci-fi fan as well as a collector, amassing one of the largest private collections of Star Trek props, costumes, models and production photos, spanning from The Original Series through to the follow-up series and feature films. After he passed away at 76 last year, his family decided to put his impressive collection up for action. “Greg loved this craft — loved the whole world he lived in, ” says his old friend, Heritage Auctions’ Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena in a statement. “He was an inspiration. Being able to handle his collection is one of the most significant things I’ve ever done because I feel like I am the custodian of my friend’s treasures.”

The Jein Collection auction is taking place this weekend, October 14th and 15th, with online bidding already underway at Heritage Auctions .

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The complete Jein Collection features 556 lots, including some iconic pieces of sci-fi history like an original Star Wars X-Wing model and a maquette of the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind . But the anchor of the collection is memorabilia from Star Trek, including a number of very rare or unique pieces he collected from Star Trek: The Original Series. Jein’s Trek collection includes two of the few surviving original models: the more than 3.5-foot-long SS Botany Bay model from “Space Seed ” (current bid: $60,000), and the Galileo shuttlecraft model  (starting bid: $60,000).

Also up for action from Star Trek: The Original Series is a hero Type 2 phaser prop (Current bid: $80,000) and a TOS hero tricorder prop built by Wah Chang (starting bid: $60,000).

There are also more affordable offerings available, including elements from the hair and makeup department. This includes a Captain Kirk hairpiece worn by William Shatner (current bid $2,100) and some Vulcan ears worn by Leonard Nimoy (current bid $2,500).

There are lots of costumes as well, including a Kirk wraparound tunic worn by Shatner (current bid $21,000), and a Spock Starfleet tunic worn by Nimoy (current bid $21,000).

While Jein collected a lot from TOS and the TOS moves, there are also a number of items from the TNG era, including a Next Generation   Picard Starfleet Uniform worn by Patrick Stewart (current bid $10,000) and a  Voyager Seven of Nine Bodysuit worn by Jeri Ryan (current bid $21,000).

Bargain hunters can find plenty of lots available with no or few bids currently. Affordable items just from Star Trek: The Motion Picture include a V’Ger Art Director’s Shot Model (Starting bid: $500) and a Starfleet Security Officer Helmet (Starting bid: $600).

For a complete list of lots from the Jein Collection, visit ha.com .

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Sigh. I want to bid on almost everything in this auction, but I keep losing the Powerball every week. 🤔 “Blue Crewman Jumpsuit from Star Trek: The Original Series (Paramount TV, 1966-1969)….” is still $500

Just think, if you hadn’t spent that chuck of you retirement savings on that $15,000 FE MasterWorks Enterprise model a few months back, you might have some $$ left for this action.

The article has a very broad meaning for the word affordable! LoL

Garrett Wang is gonna have a field day (iykyk)

Obviously the thing to do here is buy the Shatner hairpiece and make a horror movie about it turning the wearer into a Shatner clone.

Something something Halloween.

funny, since the one Halloween movie that doesn’t feature Myers or the ShatMask is the one where the masks turn wearers into monsters!

the title? “Hell Toupee”

I thought it was a tribble.

I don’t normally comment on TrekMovie headlines but “Greg Jein Star Trek and Sci Fi Memorabilia Auction Takes Place This Weekend” would have been a better fit. The auction serves as a tribute to Greg Jein, his contributions to the industry and his collection. The image of Shatner’s hairpiece and mention of it’s availability could simply have been referenced as one of the more unique items in his collection.

We have different definition’s of what a “tribute” is I guess. I don’t think selling off all of his Trek memorabilia is much of a tribute. Displaying it to the public in a museum that also covers Jein’s contributions, now that for me would be a tribute.

I hear ya’. I’m still pissed that Paramount auctioned everything for a cash grab all those years ago but this auction was a family decision so it’s their call.

The best hairpiece of all times!

Years back there was a George Lucas tribute and Shatner joked about how much he envied Lucas’ hair.

Does anyone know from when the Kirk hairpiece is? I’m assuming not from TOS?

Looks like what the blog “Shatner’s Toupee” calls a “Jim Kirk Lace,” IIRC. Looks TOS, I’d say.

The blog is actually entertaining and good-natured in its vibe, if a bit satirical at times: https://shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com/?m=1

Either season one or two. Shatner’s hair was noticeably darker in season three.

It’s from TOS alright. Shatner started wearing hairpieces in the ’50s.

So was this one of the ones he stole from the set and kept for himself, or one of the ones that stayed?

Why would Greg Jein have a hair piece that Shatner stole from set?

I didn’t see it comming that Shatner wore a hairpiece in TOS.

Without it he would have been baldly going where no man has gone before…

Sorry I could not resist…

Paramount should buy the collection (at a good price which takes care of the Jein family financial need) and put this in a future Star Trek Museum or permanently loan it to Cawley to show at his NY tour facility.

Just letting more ageing, wealthy tech execs in Silicon Valley (I am generalizing, but I don’t think I am that far off) gobble up Star Trek’s history is a bad idea, and with auction after action like this it’s dispersing Star Trek’s history in a way that it’s going to get harder and harder to ever have a sizable collection left for future public display.

Every time I see one of these auctions, I feel like a little more Star Trek history dies.

“This belongs in a museum.”

Ikr, this guy had LOADS of absolute holy grails of Trek props/costumes etc. Shatner must be like ‘wow. so thats where all my stuff was!’

According to Robert Justman, Shatner had a habit of taking his piece with him after filming wrapped for the season for his personal use.

Why wouldn’t you? Who else would want to wear it?

Problem was, as Justman explained, the purloined hairpiece would be in “unfilmable” condition when it got returned when production started, necessitating the expense of creating a new one (they had two since they had to be cleaned periodically).

Greg Jein used to display much of this collection at World Con, I’m sure he showed it other places as well. He rescued the Proteus from Fantastic Voyage from destruction and restored that (not in the auction. Problem with museums is they cost a lot to maintain– James Comisar tried to get one off; he recently sold his collection. I don’t mind fans having this stuff– that’s why most of it exists today.

PROTEUS is one of the most phenomenal ship designs ever … pretty sure I remember seeing at least one SF paperback cover where the artist stole it, though the funniest repurposing in SF art for me are the timing light gun instead of phaser on ABODE OF LIFE and the SLAVE-ONE model with the top and bottom joined so it looks like a cool ship instead of a streetlight cover (I know it looked better this way, because years earlier I had gotten hold of the toy and taken it apart to put together the same way the artist wound up doing, and it was a massive improvement.)

I’ve been buying a not insignificant number of significant props lately, and I think I’m gonna donate them to Ticonderoga cuz it’s a complete travesty to just let them sit in my living room unseen by the fans. We’re gonna see what else I can scoop up this weekend and I’ll determine what belongs where, but my hope is to share my treasures with the Trekkies

Good man!!!!!

Back in the day Paul Allen might have picked all that up and put it in what’s now called MoPOP in Seattle. They had a nice exhibit there a several years ago with bits of the TOS bridge, some costumes and the D and E filming models hanging from the ceiling.

Impressive, very nice. Lets see Paul Allen’s collection.

If Paul Allen were still alive he probably would have bought the entire Jein collection and put it in his Science Fiction Museum in Seattle to go with his TOS captain’s chair and other Trek stuff. Sadly, he’s dead, Jim.

Well. . . as a fellow traveler I technically grok what you’re saying, but bear in mind that much of the world’s historical and cultural legacy lies in the hands of private collectors, for better or worse. Given that what we’re talking about is a late ‘60s TV space opera, it’s a minor miracle that so many of the original props reside in public venues at all, let alone that thousands of tax dollars were actually spent to restore the miniature of the galaxy’s most famous fictional starship to its former glory.

I, too, am always of very mixed feelings when I hear about auctions such as these. All of these items belong in a museum and not in some wealthy collector’s hands where almost no one outside of friends and family will ever see them.

For an analogy, I have a decent-sized collection of classic coin-operated video arcade games and pinballs (early 1980s mostly) that I have amassed and maintained over the passed 25 years or so, several of which are pretty rare, especially in working condition. When I do move off of this mortal coil and if someone wanted to pay tribute to me and my passion for these older style games, I’d want them preserved also in some sort of public viewing setting so others could still play and otherwise enjoy them.

And even now, I bring them to a local arcade show each year (which is no small effort as each one is about 200-250 lbs. and the the size of a refrigerator) so that at least once a year, folks can play them as they once did back when the video arcade was a new thing and all the rage.

RIP Mr. Jein certainly, but as others have already said, having these items in a museum would be a much more fitting tribute to the man.

Nooo why would you tell ppl about this >:( now I’m gonna have to fight for all this stuff with all my fellow trekkies!

I bid in the Studio Auctions event this past Saturday which had more of Greg’s stuff… You’ll never believe what I won 😲😳

Dude, what did you win?

Well it makes music :)

Spock’s Vulcan Lute?

Nooo that’s up for grabs this weekend. I won something that makes music from the Studio Auctions sale last weekend.

The ghost of Jerry Goldsmith?

The Wra i th of Horner?

It’s spooky season and I’m being haunted :(

Come to think of it they both composed some truly frightening music for TMP and WOK

Jein buit the interior vger not the exterior, and his part of things was much less in size than 50′ (exterior done at Apogee was 68′ long.) ‘

The irony of tens of thousands of dollars being spent on memorabilia for a show where the heroes live in a hopeful future where money doesn’t matter. :D

At least this is fun irony, unlike the time I ran into a prominent Trek fan who said he shouldn’t have to pay taxes to help foster kids, sick people, or really just about anyone, they should all just either die or get a job. And he was serious.

That’ an all-too-familiar type, I’m afraid. Right up there (or down there) with the ‘to church on sunday/to hell on monday’ folks, who have done a lot over the last 50 years to prejudice me to the point of making my default thinking about those who do the organized worship thing become decidedly uncharitable.

“Hear, hear!”

Tell me why I bid on Shatner’s old toupee I found it On eBay

Lol, the moment I saw the toupee, this song immediately came to mind. Weird Al is a musical genius, you can’t convince me otherwise. :)

I’m glad I’m not the only one!!!!!! Yes!!!

I mean the toupee is such a conversation starter. $2,100 sounds like a bargain. Fascinated to see where it ends up!

Are we sure that isn’t an attack tribble?

Toupee or not to pay, that is the question. :) Everytime I read something about Shatner’s toupee, I cannot forget the much often rumored story about him riding that horse on Star Trek V with the machine winds blowing and while galloping to make THE shot, his toupee blows away and the crew that was there broke out in laughter. Then the rumor goes he fired them on the spot.

If someone ever gets a Q&A with the Shat, someone please ask him if that is true of not. I’d guess he’d deny or it or..maybe not?

The teamsters were on strike and there probably wasn’t any replacement crew to be had if he fired people, especially while out on a fairly distant SoCal location … certainly the department heads were all the same people at the start of prod and the end, and you’d better believe that if he fired camera people, the DP would have walked. I talked to the SFX guy (not VFX) about another movie a few years later and he was wholly complimentary about Shat, saying he’d never seen a big-movie situation where resources were so limited to the point of being nonexistent. That bears out some of what Ralph Winter has admitted (in many interviews, not just when I spoke to him), that they didn’t do Shat justice with a lot of the logistics on this one.

I’d actually never even heard that story you mention before, and (after TMP, a distant second for me) TFF is something I always try to find more about when interviewing folks. There was a poster on trekbbs who actually got in contact with the original writer of the CAPTAIN’S LOG making of TFF book 15 or 20 years back — she didn’t tell him anything unfortunately — who basically got ousted and Shat’s daughter came in to finish the book. Always wondered how much worse it could have been, because there was plenty of honest, unflattering stuff in the published version.

I do remember reading something from Christian Slater about meeting Shat during TOS (I think it was WHOM GODS DESTROY) and that he came in complaining about all the green stuff that got on him, while carrying his toup in his hand. So I guess he wasn’t always shy about showing the level of dome on his head.

Don’t roast me if I’m wrong, but are they sure that shuttle craft model was a filming model from tos and not the one that was displayed in a lounge on TNG in The Neutral Zone?

Shatner was wearing a hairpiece in TOS??

That was a good hairpiece. The movies? Not so much.

It would be AWESOME if Patrick Stewart bought the Shatner TOS toupe and wore it Star Trek: Legacy. Another reason to demand a Star Trek: Legacy series.

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