DALLAS – This auction is set to stun.
Fifty-two years after NBC canceled Star Trek, one of its most sought-after – and rarest – pieces of prop-culture comes to auction for the first time: a detailed, ready-for-its-close-up Type-2 phaser. The pistol making its auction debut at Heritage Auctions during the July 16-18 Entertainment and Music Memorabilia event is isn’t one of the foam vacuum-formed plastic props handed out to redshirts, but one of only two original-series “hero” phasers known to have survived the show’s three-season run. This is something right out of Captain Kirk’s arsenal, down to the last detachable detail.