Star Trek prop auction brings crazy prices.

[Homer J Simpson]

Original phaser $900,000..

[TimFox]

I am reminded of an ancient New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams, where the patent attorney turns from the office window to the inventor and says, "Death ray, fiddlesticks!  It doesn't even slow them down."

[edit:  corrected the punch line]

[tszaboo]

I'm just going to leave this here.
Apparently it received two (2) bids, almost went for the starting price.
There are uniforms in that auction that didn't sell.

[coppercone2]

i don't like them in black it looks like 'space police' standard issue glock

it was supposed to be something different. A dangerous tool maybe, but not militarized

maybe they will put some kind of rail on it next

I liked the old trek where it was a big deal that kirk got a rifle out, the ones they run around like everywhere that is not a luxurious federation stronghold is basically afganistan. it made me think the federation is not very good at keeping the peace and might be centralizing wealth 

[tszaboo]

I think there were bigger issues with Discovery than the color of the phaser.
But the prices seems to indicate the original series is 70x better than the new one.

[coppice]

I understand people paying a lot for memorabilia from the original Star Trek, but who is paying more than a few dollars for memorabilia from Star Trek Discovery? That's just weird.

[coppercone2]

It could be investors hoping that in 20 years it will be worth 20 times as much

Also, given social media and stuff, I would not be surprised if its just making a scene that "i like the bad show everyone hates, look I spent $20k on this!" It seems like it could be used to make some kind of highly orchestrated mini scandal for people under 20

I always thought they need better set designers, because they invented so many weird particles and technologies, but you never see a good test fixture anymore. Maybe for some reason you need a fractal coaxial antenna with some wave guide and a spark gap to make vertigon particles do something.. with how clean all those labs and engineering look, it feels like they have not developed any new technology within 50 years.

I started to think that it basically started to look like how you think people that tangentially understand the basics of some first order block diagram they heard about in a power point presentation think it might look like. It seems like the childrens phone app version.

[coppice]

It could be investors hoping that in 20 years it will be worth 20 times as much

Doesn't something have to be loved for its memorabilia to be coveted? I doubt its one of those things, like Blade Runner, that failed on its initial run, but over time has become a classic.

I could understand someone buying, say, a whole set from Discovery, and blowing it up in a YT video.

[coppercone2]

I literally imagined drunk rich people deciding "its time to add that to my 0.1% diversity investment portfolio".

96% stock, 3% gold, 0.9% other metals, 0.1% movie props

I mean you need to figure basically rich people go online to go to the 'art gallery' now. Tons of people buy paintings and shit like that based on investment and hearsay, usually with little thought. I noticed art galleries love wine. I guess it helps some of that stuff go through haha

or simply, gambling

I mean people reacted to all kinds of dumb shit like random NFT that show up in advertisements.

That's a kind of advantage they have, using a shot gun approach on random widely seen stuff as a investment. Purely statistical reasoning, with 0 attachment to the 'goods'

They already let something akin to 'mechanical harmonic analyzer' invest millions for them. Every time I see someone buy something stupid, I think how ridiculous a HFT machine making automated economic decisions is.