There seems to be plenty of appetite for the 2011 glow-in-the-dark Comic-Con exclusive Hallmark ornament. The third U.S.S. Defiant in nine days was put up on eBay and sold for $1,779.95 in a matter of hours. All three ornaments were from the same seller.
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Two Uhura Golds and two 2011 Defiants were sold this week on eBay by an individual (dus115) out of Valparaiso, Florida. Together, the four ornaments sold for nearly $7,500.
I did just sell two. Same buyer. I will put another up for sale soon.
-dus115
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A collection of 80+ ornaments is up for auction with an asking price of $3,600. The collection is missing a few notable ornaments (2007 Uhura, 2020-22 Enterprise Tree Topper, the Event Exclusives and others). The auction also appears to include at least three duplicates (1999 Worf, 1999 Stamp and 2005 Enterprise A).
UPDATE:
SECOND UPDATE:
Be sure to watch this short Simpsons clip before watching the Enterprise Tree Topper unboxing…
OOF! Yeah, that tree topper never should have been shipped as it was. Ridiculous.
The upside is that this proud fan uploaded a second video only five days later with a much happier ending.
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The upside is that this proud fan uploaded a second video only five days later with a much happier ending.
-Kevin Dimore
“Cause you had a bad day. You’re taking one down. You sing a sad song just to turn it around. You say you don’t know. You tell me, ‘don’t lie’.”
“You work at a smile, and you go for a ride. You had a bad day. The camera don’t lie.”
“You’re coming back down, and you really don’t mind. You had a bad day. You had a bad day.”
–Daniel Powter
The Academy motto was “Ex Astris, Scientia“, meaning “from the stars, knowledge” in Latin. The ancient Romans usually did not use verbs in inscriptions, so it would be better translated as “knowledge comes from the stars”. According to Michael Okuda, the motto was inspired by a quotation on the Apollo 13 mission patch, “Ex luna, scientia“. The Apollo 13 quote was itself a paraphrase of the motto of the United States Naval Academy, “Ex Scientia Tridens,” which means “from knowledge, seapower.”
The initially shown version “Ex Astra, Scientia” was grammatically wrong, as the preposition “ex” requires the ablative case “Astris“. According to Michael Okuda, six months after “The First Duty” aired he received a letter from a Latin Professor at Brown University pointing this out. This error was corrected for later appearances and also in the remastered Blu-ray edition of TNG.
There have been three versions of the Academy logo. The first version being the original logo seen in “The First Duty”, with the Latin grammar error. The second was seen only briefly behind Harry Kim’s interrogation in the alternate timeline in “Non Sequitur”. This logo had the updated Latin phrase and the rays of light had been inverted when compared to the original, with the outer border changing to a shade of pink rather than a red. The third logo debuted shortly thereafter with an updated Starfleet insignia and the border returning to a shade of red.
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