STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES LASER PROP WEAPON

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  A laser prop from the first pilot episode of Star Trek : The Original Series (Desilu Productions, Norway Corporation, Paramount Television, 1965). “The Cage” was the first episode and original pilot produced for Star Trek in early 1965. “The Cage” was rejected by NBC and a second pilot was produced, “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” Though “The Cage” was not broadcast in its original form until 1988, footage from the episode was incorporated into the two part, Season 2 episode, “The Menagerie.” There were a number of differences between “The Cage” and the series as we know it, most notably that the Captain of the USS Enterprise was Christopher Pike (played by Jeffrey Hunter), not Captain Kirk (played by William Shatner). While “The Cage” was never broadcast as originally filmed and edited back in the first run of the series back in the 1960s, and for some time was considered partially lost, a complete copy of the footage was found in 1987, and it was first broadcast as part of a two-hour retrospective hosted by Patrick Stewart in November 1988, as part of “The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next." In the context of the initial imagining of the Star Trek Universe, Starfleet crew are armed with “lasers” (laser pistols, or hand lasers) rather than “phasers”, and this offering is one of just two known copies to have survived the production. The props were built by sculptor Wah Ming Chang, who also created the tricorder and communicator seen in the ongoing series. Though the laser pistols were intended to be the primary sidearm of the members of the Federation in “The Cage”, and then replaced with phasers going forward, they did make some appearances in other episodes of the ongoing series (“Where No Man Has Gone Before," “The Man Trap,” and “What Are Little Girls Made Of”). Some changes were made (via paint and/or additional parts added on) with some of these subsequent uses, though this example appears as it would have in “The Cage," with no other alterations. Only one other example of this style of prop has been authenticated, and it does differ from this one offered for sale. The other example was modified following “The Cage,” to be used as a generic villain laser gun in the ongoing series. As an example, it was used in the second pilot starring William Shatner, though with some changes. It is believed that at least four were made, and two hero versions. We believe that this is the second hero version, with the extending barrel (the other hero version has a fixed length barrel). The base (handle and body) were molded in a clear acrylic/Perspex type of material, which has been painted, with some found part metal parts added. In addition, there are two magnets built into the side (with opposing polarity) for use in affixing to the actors’ belts (sans holster, as seen in the episode). An extremely rare piece from the earliest days of production of Star Trek, one of the biggest sci-fi franchises of all time, in both film and television.

  9 by 5 by 3 inches

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