For many fans, collecting is one of the primary ways to engage with the world of Star Trek. Faithful reproductions can be exciting, but collectors of a certain kind seek the real deal: screen-used and production-made props, costumes, and other memorabilia. As Captain Picard sagely says in Star Trek: First Contact, “touch can connect you to an object in a very personal way, make it seem more real.” They may just be tools of the trade to those behind the scenes, but these unique pieces of Star Trek history can take on an almost sacred significance.
Every year, the major auction houses curate an incredible array of production-related props and memorabilia, accessible to fans all across the globe. There can be some amazing finds online, even on eBay. For the highest bid, anyone can own a little (or big) genuine piece of Star Trek. Each item has its own story to tell, unique in the insight it reveals of the production process. A few auction lots caught our eye, either by nabbing an astonishing price or simply for being interesting. So, in no particular order, here is a roundup of our picks for the most fascinating pieces of Star Trek to hit the auction block this year.
Kirk’s Mirror Universe uniform
Price: $52,500
Sold: October 24, 2025 through Heritage Auctions
The iconic Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Mirror, Mirror” yielded some of the coolest props from the series, including this snazzy Mirror Universe getup for a Terran Empire Captain Kirk. This alternate universe attire is no stranger to the auction scene as this exact piece was on auction only 3 years ago.
Mirror Kirk shines in this iconic alternate-universe captain’s uniform (Heritage Auctions)
USS Enterprise lineage from The Motion Picture
Price: $10,710
Sold: September 6, 2025 through Propstore
Star Trek’s feature film debut in 1979 included a memorable scene on the refitted Enterprise’s recreation dec, notably filmed with fans in the audience as members of the starship’s crew. The front of the set featured the debut of what would later become a USS Enterprise staple: an assortment of art pieces depicting the lineage of the storied USS Enterprises throughout the centuries. Featuring a mix of real-life history and futuristic aspiration, including the then-not-yet-operational Space Shuttle, this series of glass plates represents technological progress and admiration for the famous ships.
Enterprises past and future are represented in this glass plate collection (Propstore)
Photon collector from The Voyage Home
Price: £17,640 ($23,800)
Sold: December 5, 2025 through Propstore
In another iconic scene from another iconic Star Trek movie, Scotty and Chekov infiltrate “nuclear wessel” USS Enterprise to steal some photons from the reactor core. Screen-matched to the scene, this hero prop is now surely a prized piece for one UK collector.
Stealing photons from the “nuclear wessel” (Propstore)
Seven of Nine’s purple jumpsuit
Price: $10,240
Sold: December 11, 2025 through Julien’s Auctions
One of the Star Trek costumes most associated with Voyager is Seven of Nine’s purple jumpsuit. The somewhat controversial, skintight bodysuit that adorned everyone’s favorite ex-Borg was worn during Jeri Ryan’s time on Star Trek: Voyager.
Seven of Nine’s sparkly skintight bodysuit (Julien’s Auctions)
Matt Jeffries’ original Enterprise design drawings
Price: $31,000
Sold: December 9, 2025 through Heritage Auctions
In 1964, when Gene Roddenberry and his team began pre-production on a new television series called Star Trek, they enlisted the help of artist and flight engineer Matt Jeffries to design a starship that would be the home of the characters on the show. Starting with vague instructions and clear mandates—no rockets, no fins, no flames—Jeffries created from scratch what would become one of the most iconic spacecraft in fiction, setting a standard for the franchise with design elements like the saucer and warp nacelles. It all started with some sketches drawn by Jeffries, and the collection sold this year included several pages showing the evolution in design along with handwritten notes.
Sketches include handwritten notes for the design of the USS Enterprise (Heritage Auctions)
Uhura’s TOS miniskirt
Price: $45,000
Sold: October 24, 2025 through Heritage Auctions
The only known Lt. Uhura duty uniform from Season 3 of TOS was sold this year. Made of polyester, the third season uniforms were more durable than the velour of the first two seasons. This particular item sold in October 2023 during the sale of the Greg Jein collection.
Uhura’s uniform as worn by Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek’s third season (Heritage Auctions)
Spock ears from The Wrath of Khan
Price: $8,190
Sold: March 26, 2025 through Propstore
One of the most recognizable visuals of the Star Trek franchise: Mr. Spock’s pointed Vulcan ears. Director Nicholas Meyer was keenly aware of this, which is why he chose to open Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on a shot of Spock’s ear: From the first moment of the movie, you know that this is Star Trek. How cool an opportunity, then, to be able to own a pair of Spock’s ears from that very movie, widely considered to be the best of Star Trek cinema. Could these be the very same ears from that Kobayashi Maru scene? While there is no screen-matched details to say one way or another, whichever lucky fan owns these can choose to believe so if they want.
The opening shot of The Wrath of Khan zoomed out from a pair of Spock’s famous ears (Propstore)
Enterprise cel from The Animated Series
Price: $750
Sold: April 18, 2025 through eBay
When new Star Trek episodes hit to the airwaves in 1973, they did so as a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Filmation Studios. With the involvement of Gene Roddenberry, D.C. Fontana, and the most of the original cast, Star Trek: The Animated Series is an underappreciated chapter of the franchise’s history, a full-hearted attempt to produce the best Star Trek within the limitations of 1970s animation. As such, depicting the journey of the USS Enterprise didn’t require shooting an expensive 11-foot model, but instead involved detailed paintings of the ship from different angles. An original hand-painted animation cel of the front of the ship, seen in the opening scene of the series premiere “Beyond the Farthest Star,” was a great eBay find in 2025.
The Enterprise flies again in this hand-painted animation cel (eBay)
Genesis Device from The Wrath of Khan
Price: $88,200
Sold: September 4, 2025 through Propstore
Of course one of the main dramas propelling the plot in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the titular character’s pursuit and theft of the infamous Genesis Device. The only known Genesis Device in existence when up for sale this year and the full-scale, light-up Genesis Device prop sold for an eye-watering $88,200. No reports on whether the high bidder was screaming “Give me Genesis!” while outbidding the competition, but the compulsion to win was certainly there.
“Give me Genesis!” …for $88,200 (Propstore)
Janeway’s captain uniform
Price: $15,120
Sold: September 4, 2025 through Propstore
Almost as easily famous as Seven’s outfit, Captain Janeway’s uniform is arguably a more important piece of Star Trek: Voyager history (and fetching a higher price). Even after seven years of hardship in the Delta Quadrant, Captain Janeway kept her uniform clean and pristine, and now it’s in the hands of a happy new collector.
Janeway always looked ready for duty in this Starfleet captain’s uniform (Propstore)
Gene Roddenberry’s working draft of “The Cage”
Price: $21,250
Sold: December 9, 2025 through Heritage Auctions
What can be more historic than the original working drafts of the original pilot episode of Star Trek? The December Heritage auction featured the rarest and most historic collection of TOS scripts ever sold, which included Gene Roddenberry’s copies of the first pilot’s script. With annotations in the creator’s own hand, these scripts provide an incredible insight into the production process of writing and rewriting, showing dialogue changes that made it into the final cut of the episode. Of note is the title page of one script, which has “The Cage” crossed out and “Menagerie” handwritten in, capturing the moment in time when the pilot’s name changed. While originally produced under the title “The Menagerie,” the pilot ultimately reverted to “The Cage” after “The Menagerie” was used for the two-part episode that reused its footage. The first draft of “The Menagerie” script also went for sale in December, showcasing Roddenberry’s entrepreneurial talent in reusing his work.
Gene Roddenberry changes the title of the Star Trek pilot (Heritage Auctions)
Picard’s Ressikan flute
Price: $403,200
Sold: September 4, 2025 through Propstore
What better note to end it on than one of the most beloved props from one of the most beloved episodes in the entire franchise, the Ressikan flute? Featured in the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Inner Light,” the flute represents Captain Picard’s transformation from starship captain to family man as he ages a lifetime over the course of a lunch break. The episode is widely considered one of the greatest in all of Star Trek, which is why this prop sells for such astronomical sums each time it goes to auction. Until last year’s Julien’s auction, the flute was the second most expensive Star Trek prop ever sold. This year it sold again, combined with the screen-matched box featured at the end of the episode and a continuity script used on set, to a very well-funded collector.
A lifetime of memories symbolized in a single object: a flute (Propstore)
Yours for the taking: Kirk’s spacesuit
Unsold at auction this year but still up for grabs on Propstore’s website is Captain Kirk’s spacesuit from the episode “The Tholian Web” (originally estimated to sell for $100,000 – $200,000). An iconic costume from Star Trek: The Original Series, the silver spacesuits unique to this episode formed the basis for toys and fan art for decades. The original parts of this costume sold through Heritage in 2013 for $27,000, and the owner has since restored the missing pieces with high-quality replicas. Propstore is accepting offers on the entire suit and mannequin, meaning it’s not too late to treat yourself this holiday season! Act now before this suit disappears into interphased space forever.
Will you save Kirk’s spacesuit from auction interphase? Prop Store is accepting offers. (Propstore)
Other notable sales in 2025
The list above was just the highlights. Here are more fascinating pieces of Trek history that went up for auction this year.
Uniforms and costumes:
Props:
- The Wrath of Khan makeup appliance: $8,190
- The Wrath of Khan damaged Enterprise model: $18,144
- Want to own an ILM model? Someone did—and this thing is a beast, nearly 6 foot square and screen matched to The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Undiscovered Country.
- The Voyage Home Klingon disruptor: $3,000
- This disruptor is screen-matched to the scene when Chekov is questioned following his capture. As far as we know, it doesn’t work—“must be the radiation.”
- Geordi’s first season VISOR: $15,096
- Data head appliance: $10,625
- Hugh’s eyepiece: $8,125
- TNG transporter room console LCARS panel: $9,100
Scripts and production documents:
- “Where No Man Has Gone Before” scripts: $8,125
- A collection of draft scripts for the second pilot episode of Star Trek and the first to feature William Shatner as Captain Kirk
- “The City on the Edge of Forever” scripts: $10,000
- Widely considered the finest voyage of The Original Series, the production of this episode famously included a behind-the-scenes spat between writer Harlan Ellison and Gene Roddenberry, with the former so incensed by the latter’s story changes that he demanded his name be taken off the script. Roddenberry refused, and the entire process can be seen in these story outlines and work drafts
- Early script archive: $18,750
- One-of-a-kind collection of first drafts, revised drafts, and internal memos outlining development of the earliest episodes of Star Trek’s first season
- Planet of the Titans concept artwork: $13,860
- One of the many attempts to bring Star Trek back to the screen in live action format was this unmade story known as Planet of the Titans. While ultimately scrapped, it did make it to the preproduction phase, leading to this incredibly rare hand-painted concept art
- The Wrath of Khan continuity script: $13,860
- Continuity scripts are unique among the production scripts in that they often feature on-set photographs of actors’ outfits and makeup to maintain continuity from one shot to another. This one was signed by the director and the principal cast.
Trek auctions heating up
The market for Star Trek items at auction has been at an all-time high in terms of number of items sold and final sale prices. 2026 is bound to be another exciting year for collectors of these artifacts, as items and objects re-enter the market, and new treasures debut for the taking. Time to start saving—the next piece of Star Trek history could be yours.
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