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Mr Spock’s parka sells for £6,000!

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:44:16 +0000

Memorabilia from nearly five decades of the popular sci-fi series was auctioned by Julien’s Auctions. The Summer Entertainment Sale was an auction dedicated to the science fiction franchise, offering memorabilia from Star Trek’s 1960s origins through to 2009’s successful box office hit.

Among the auction’s lots offered were number of iconic props, including guns and communication devices used by the USS Enterprise’s crew, uniforms and other related memorabilia. One of the auction’s big sales was Ambassador Spock’s gray leather parka and gloves as he is marooned on Delta Vega by Captain Nero in “Star Trek” (Paramount Pictures, 2009) and worn by Leonard Nimoy.

The parka jacket was auctioned with an estimate of $5,000-7,500 but it finally realised $8,960 – a massive £5,985.64!

Story & image source: www.paulfrasercollectibles.com

Star Trek reunited

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:10:58 +0000

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy are rarely spotted together these days and spend much of their time sparring through their Twitter accounts but their characters Captain Kirk and Spock infamously teamed up to explore strange new worlds on Star Trek.

It was a treat for sci-fi fans to see the actors in each other’s company at Vancouver airport this weekend, after appearing at a Star Trek convention.

At 79-years-old, both were casually dressed, with Shatner sporting sunglasses and a cream trilby and a Nimoy wearing a baseball cap and glasses. Although the actors are now good friends, they weren’t always so close when the Star Trek TV show first started in the 1960s.

Nimoy telling the Los Angeles Times: ‘We’ve always been like two competitive siblings.’

Story & Image source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Captain Picard Knighted – Make it Sir!

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:03:59 +0000

It’s about time…

Patrick Steward aka Captain Jean Luc Picard was knighted yesterday at Buckingham Palace London. The classically trained actor of both stage a screen thanked his old English Teacher for starting him on his road to acting.

“Although many people in my life have had great influence on me, without this man none of it would have happened,”

“He was the one that put a copy of Shakespeare in my hand [and] said, ‘Now get up on your feet and perform’.”

The 69 year old hero to many is best known for Star Trek: The Next Generation and more recently the X-Men Trilogy has just completed a run a the theatre working alongside fellow X-Men actor Sir Ian McKellen in the stage version of ‘Waiting For Godot’.

Sir Patrick was relaxed after the ceremony and recounted his early beginnings in acting:

“But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theatre and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier [and] Sir John Gielgud,”

It has now been announced that Sir Patrick would chair a jury as well as deliver a talk at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland.

If you want to see him in action at the moment then head over to the Minerva Theatre in Chichester where you will see Sir Patrick playing William Shakespeare in the Edward Bond play ‘Bingo’.

Check out a quick interview by ITN on you tube: