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On June 4, 2011, there is going to be an online auction of items from the various Star Trek series and movies. They've got lots of really neat stuff, including stuff from DS9. #20 is a uniform that Dr. Bashir wore in an episode where it says Captain Sisko was killed aboard the Defiant and the Dominion War didn't happen. I can't place that episode, can you? And it says the uniform is black and green. I thought it was black and blue.?? Anyhow, it's neat. And for just a couple thousand dollar it could be yours!

Even if you're not planning to bid, the catalog is interesting to look at. There are close-up pictures of things you didn't get a good view of on the show. Like #48 and #49 are Bajoran, Ferengi and Cardassian phasers. #82 is a dabo chip from Quark's Bar; it looks like it has Quark's picture on it. It's impressive how much detail they put into things like that. I'd like to have #81, Nog's cane with the lion's head. And #117 is a baseball from "Take Me Out to the Holosuite." It's not the ball the Niners all autographed (wonder who's got that), but it has a black delta symbol on it and they actually played with it. There's lots of other good stuff in the catalog, too.

Peridot

My question is-"Who's got Kukalaka???"

Lol to the Kukulaka question? Maybe Sid has him sitting on a shelf

That still really irritates me that they're selling all that stuff. I think they would have been better off opening a museum of sorts. That way LOTS of people could see it and heck, they could make more money, and we all know that's what it's about.

Poor Sid, I keep imagining some really creepy fan buying that uniform.

Maybe it will be a nice person though

The Visitor, is my guess. (Don't like that ep.)

And... Teal or Torquoise is a kind of bluish-green, so that makes sense. I suppose. Or is it more like the All Good Things era uniforms? Oh well. Catalogues always messing such things up.

I expect you're right that the episode where Sid wore that uniform was The Visitor. I was thrown off a bit because it said Captain Sisko was killed in that episode. He wasn't, was he? Just trapped in limbo if I remember rightly.

About the color of the uniform: yeah, I guess you could call it a kind of bluish-green or greenish blue. Or maybe it's really green in person and shows up as blue on TV. It seems I vaguely recall reading something about that somewhere. Not sure though.

I watched some of the auction bidding live but I didn't see what Sid's uniform sold for. The Dabo Chip I talked about sold for $250.00. Nog's cane that I wanted sold for $500.00; I'm surprised it wasn't more. A Cardassian Doorbell sold for $600.00 and Grand Nagus Zek's Beetle Snuff Box sold for $750.00. The amounts people were bidding for stuff were incredible. There must be some wealthy collectors out there. The Defiant's dedication plaque went for $1,100.00 and the Defiant's helm control panel sold for $3,500.00. That helm control panel was really neat-looking though. Didn't Julian take over at the Defiant's helm at least once on the show? So he sat there using that control panel. It would be a fun thing to have on your desk.

But I agree it would have been nice to keep everything together and put it in a "Deep Space Nine" museum. I was just reading about London Bridge. It was bought some time ago by an American and shipped to Arizona where it was reassembled on land and then they dug a canal under it and filled it with water so the bridge wouldn't be sitting there high and dry. Now it's a great tourist attraction that has brought lots of people to visit and settle in the town where they put it. Well if they could do that, how hard would it have been to relocate and reassemble DS9's sets someplace where they could have been preserved and the fans could have come and visited them. But instead they tore everything down and the pieces went everywhere.

At least if people are willing to pay that much money for the things, they'll probably take good care of them.

Peridot

If anyone does set up a Star Trek / DS9 museum, I might... know someone with a degree in museum management... just saying... (or kidding lol.)

Hey yeah! That's a great idea! You'd be the perfect person to run it!

Peridot