hey everyone norm from tested here once again i am here at the warehouse prop store where megan
hensley expert in all things star trek and star trek costuming we've invited here to check out
and talk about and geek out over this upcoming auction yes thank you that is so wonderful to have
you here and i'd love to talk to you a little bit more about our props and klingon costumes yeah oh
my gosh so not only are there costumes but there are props part of this auction and very notably
this chair which has been used and seen what like twice in it happens uh well it's it's actually the
final appearance is as you see it uh appeared in a mud short uh it was a short trek that featured
mud and this is his bounty hunters captain's chair so it's not muds but the bounty hunter
that hunts for him captain's chair so um and it's just a beautiful piece uh i do believe they used
it on a previous discovery episode but i can't confirm that right now um but uh it custom-made
custom built all these pieces parts um have uh intricate use for the chair they even have
a little exposure pockets where they would put ipads to emulate the technology of the future so
that's a little fun tiplet tibbetts there um and we dressed them with the tribbles
because of course that's another uh short truck um offering we've got a bunch of
tribbles that we want to um be able to share with our customers too so tribbles as well
yes so if you can't get a full chair in your house even though that would be super cool
grab a pack of tribbles as well i love how ornate this is it is the detail is absolutely amazing um
to the point where they were just um painting various parts of it intricately throughout you
can see some greens you can see the the bronzes that bring it kind of back to that futuristic look
that you've seen a lot of these short tricks yeah there's definitely an industrial look here
oh my gosh yeah oh that's nice i know exactly it's very comfortable too not just a piece of furniture
but also paneling as well set dressing exactly we have a couple of uh well we have one major
piece here this was actually from the discovery show um where um one of the characters ends up
um sacrificing herself for the good and this is the airlock panel that she uses to escape
the um section 31 base so this is that that that piece we were lucky to grab that from
production they were happy to give it to us to sell in the auction
it again has a dimensionality where it's like to make it look like it's a real thing
not just you know you're a cardboard piece stuck in it has so much like the the angles the beveling
uh to the labeling and it's it's functional too but we haven't tried it out quite yet um
right supposed to plug in and to some ipads some lighting exactly so you know hopefully
we can try and get it to work um if not it's a beautiful display piece it's a nice testament
to the just the production quality exactly all their hard work into that piece a lot of hard work
and heavy work went into the costumes as well we last talked about the federation uniforms
but i also want to talk about klingons oh my goodness okay unique klingon design for sure
absolutely couture pieces every single one of them handcrafted handmade they did have molds
but once they molded that leather to those molds they were unique things that were done to them
little pieces that were added to them to make them a part of the uniforms as well as
specific to character too so we have this beautiful piece from one of the main houses
it's actually not complete so we do have some pieces that are going to be incomplete but you can
still see it's a wonderful display piece um with complete with the huge thigh-high boost oh my gosh
and just the attention to detail to each of these is absolutely incredible
um including uh some of the other houses i'm going to try picking this one up
oh my goodness can you tell me about some of the materials used here because um this is heavy it is
really substantial primarily used leathers um you know painted over them glossed over them
uh there's some vinyls in here they use spandex reviewability fabrics
you know lots of cotton under suits things like that but um the main pieces you see
are molded leathers and with some plastic detailing here you can see some of the emblems
and they have to paint it in a way to make it cohesive and they do as of one one type right
yes completely camera ready um you know even to the to the amount of shine that they use they
have to get that all approved um and so every every attention detail is intricate for these
um pieces oh my gosh i look at the paint job down the center here yeah it's not just black
it reads as you know it's it's dark but there's like greens in here organic exactly klingons
are very well known for their bone structure you know they see it in the prosthetics and
they're in their structure of their heads so that kind of emulates that throughout their
costumes oh my gosh i can't believe an actor had to wear this yes several several for this on set
oh wow that's just the outer layer there's under layers too of pleated leather and just i mean
heavy heavy but it just all speaks to the to the attention to detail that they give to each of
these characters it's just absolutely amazing you mentioned the houses were identifiers for color
and for shape yes and so as you look at and you organize you know what's available as part of
this auction we got to identify each of the houses exactly so some more golds you can see
some of the houses are gold um this particular house actually had a blend of black and maroon
and then we do have main characters so l'oreal she's in her white costume um you know in the
beginning of the show she didn't have she didn't identify as a major house so um and it's like
it's very evident in her costume but it's still a beautiful piece so wow yeah in doing this you're
also in conversation with the costume designers with the production team um i i did get to meet
them yep a couple times talk to them pick their brains the prop master i mean the way he works it
just is absolutely amazing he tries to absolutely take what was done before and bring that a new
kind of breath of fresh air into his pieces um you know we're hoping to get a couple other pieces
but we do have some vulcan um heads um that are gonna light up in the background and those are
absolutely beautiful we have michael burnham's um alice in wonderland futuristic book which
is nice um so you'll see a lot of that when the catalog releases on september 2nd awesome awesome
so people can check that out we'll have links in the description below but megan once again thank
you so much we're diving deep into the world of star trek discovery it's here have a triple ah
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these are all just background functional that's adorable thank you so much