When other people have junk that's taking up too much space and needs to be offloaded, the throw it in a skip to be taken away to whatever landfill is nearest. If you've got a load of Star Trek "junk" on your hands however, you might be better off going to Christies auction house to offload it for, ohh say, $7.1 million.

If you happen to be into this sort of thing then you could have picked yourself
up a model of the Enterprise D, used in the opening shots and "Generations", for
a mere $576,000. Too rich for your tastes? Then perhaps the USS Excelsior would
be more to your taste, at $110,000? No? Alright, well how about Kirk's jacket
from "The Wrath of Khan", at $17,000.

Jeez, you are a hard sell. Alright then, two tribbles, a bargain at a mere
$4,000. Come on, you know you want to.

Alright, so the market value of Star Trek memorabilia is not in question. What I
don't get is why auction houses always put such low estimates on this sort of
stuff - the Enterprise D model I was touting to you for $576,000 looked more
reasonable at the $25,000 - $35,000 that Christies was estimating. The whole
three day auction fetched more than double what was expected. It seems that
either the auction houses are very, very conservative; or they know just how
much news they can drum up with "An item expected to go for X fetched X, Y style="font-style: italic;">and Z this weekend..."

Pssht, PR tactics.