Obviously, this isn't about X:WP, but related to prop and costume collecting. I've blogged about the problem of fakes and forgeries within the Xenaverse, but here is a serious case of a fan being sold items with what looks like sketchy provenance. These items were part of the big Star Trek auction that Christie's held for Paramount last year.
NEW YORK --
A Trekkie who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was supposedly worn by the android Data on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" claims in a lawsuit against Christie's auction house that it's a fake.
Ted Moustakis of Towaco, N.J., said he began to doubt the authenticity of the visor he purchased at a 2006 auction after he took it to a convention in August to have it autographed by the actor who played Data, Brent Spiner.
According to the lawsuit, Spiner recognized the visor as the one that had been sold by Christie's and told Moustakis that it wasn't the real deal. The actual visor had been sold by the actor himself some time before.
Moustakis, who became a "Star Trek" fan at age 7, said he was humiliated.
"I thought this was a great piece of memorabilia to have, and I was so proud to get it," he said.
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