How much would you pay for William Shatner’s home phone number? $1,280 seems a little steep–especially considering the fact that the information is most likely not current. How about if we tossed in the contact info for Leonard Nimoy and Carl Sagan’s secretary?
I’m guess that the loft sum paid for Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry’s Rolodex is more a sign of appreciation for its former owner than the genuine desire to make some really sweet prank phone calls.
The Rolodex recently went up for sale in a Star Trek auction, in which the winning bidder paid more than $1,000 for the thing. His coworker alerted Boing Boing of the purchase, stating that the office memorabilia will most likely end up behind glass, “so nobody does anything foolish like sneezing on it.” Not before some of the numbers get tested out, of course.
The rest of us will just have to sit and consider what life would have been like had Roddenberry survived long enough to see the Holodex come to fruition.
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