Memorabilia from ‘Star Trek’ fetches $3.6M

“Star Trek” memorabilia sold at warp speed over the weekend, raking in $3.6 million as buyers blasted past anticipated prices to bid where no man had gone before. Julien’s Auctions “Bid Long and Prosper” set records for numerous prop sales, with the “long-lost phaser” of William Shatner’s “Captain James T. Kirk” fetching a record $910,000, nine times more than expected, making it the highest-selling “Star Trek” prop ever, the auction house said Sunday. The second-highest price went to Kirk’s communicator, which took in $780,000, or about eight times the projected price of $100,000, Julien’s Auctions said. Kirk’s bridge chair went for $44,450.

— New York Daily News