5 Star Trek Collectibles That Fetched Record-Breaking Sums — No. 1 May Never Be Surpassed
Star Trek is closing out the Alex Kurtzman era with a sell-off: props from Discovery and Strange New Worlds are going under the hammer as the two flagship shows end — and, for the first time in 11 years, there’s no new Star Trek on the horizon.
Star Trek is closing out its current TV chapter the most Star Trek way possible: with an auction. As Discovery and Strange New Worlds wrap, their screen-used props are hitting the block. And yeah, the future is a little wobbly right now — for the first time in 11 years, there is no new Star Trek series in production or officially greenlit. Starfleet Academy has been canceled, though a final season is already shot. Still, Trek has been around forever for a reason. While we wait to see what rises next, the collector market is having a field day — and the numbers are wild.
The big-ticket Trek pieces that prove collecting is serious business
- Captain Kirk's bridge chair (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Sold in 2002 for $265,000 after being estimated at around $100,000. Fun wrinkle: other lots in that same sale did not keep pace and actually missed their estimates, which makes the chair's jump even more impressive. - Captain Picard's Ressikan flute (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
The one from 'The Inner Light' — the episode that won both a Hugo and an Emmy — has changed hands multiple times, ticking up in value each go-round. In 2025 it went to auction for the third time and most recently fetched $403,000. If you ever doubted how emotional attachments translate into dollars, this is Exhibit A. - USS Enterprise-D filming model
Industrial Light & Magic built two Enterprise-D models for The Next Generation. The larger one — about 6.5 feet long and nearly 5 feet wide, and later used in Star Trek: Generations — went to auction in 2006. It was expected to bring in $35,000. Instead, it soared to $576,000. - Captain Kirk's communicator (Star Trek: The Original Series)
2024 was a banner year. A screen-used communicator sold for $780,000, almost triple its estimate. Makes sense — it is basically the sci-fi grandparent of your phone. - Captain Kirk's phaser (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Trek weapons have serious heat with collectors. A phaser pistol went for $250,000 in 2021, and a phaser rifle in that same auction hit $615,000. Then 2024 blew past all of that when a simple screen-used Kirk phaser sold for $910,000 — more than nine times the pre-sale estimate.
Bottom line: even as Trek TV hits pause, the props are charting warp-speed prices. Records tumbled in 2024, and with Discovery and Strange New Worlds gear moving now that Kurtzman's two flagship shows are done, I would not be shocked if we see a few more jaw-droppers before this lull is over. You can slow down the shows, but you cannot keep the Enterprise — or its memorabilia — grounded for long.