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Gene Roddenberry typed letter signed
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Category:Entertainment Memorabilia
Start Price:3,000.00 USD
Estimated At:3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD
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Gene Roddenberry typed letter signed - 2 pages, Typed Letter Signed, dated April 25, 1966, marked CONFIDENTIAL, written to writer/producer/agent Mr. Alden Schwimmer. Roddenberry writes (in full):
Dear Alden:
Have just completed sketching out for our art people a rather unique three-stage phaser hand weapon-pistol-rifle, one convertible into another. Not only do they meet STAR TREK’s dramatic requirements but also they are adaptable for the toy market in which each device when added to the other does something different, new lighting effects plus new sounds plus new sighting potential. The latter is a periscope-sight utilizing a simple soncave mirror and ground glass which lets the hand phaser be aimed via crosshairs on the ground glass. Whit it becomes a part of the pistol, another concave mirror creates “close up” aiming on the ground glass. It has everything THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. gun has, plus many new features.
Have also invented a “tricorder” device for our female Yeoman, again basically for dramatic uses on our show but also with female child’s toy potential, a device which acts sort of as a portable secretary-recording-photographic unit capable of taking down any information the Captain wishes at any time he is away from his bridge. Also have spent a considerable amout of time working with our costumer, improving the basic design – items which also have considerable sales potential. And without deprecating the work of any of our talented pople involved, these are all items on which I have had to come up with the basic conception.
The point of all this, Alden, is that I am finding myself required to come up with inventions and designs far beyond what we earlier thought necessary and far beyond what any show creator-producer should be expected to provide. I absolutely am not content to see Desilu and others getting from this profits off the top while I have to wait for a profit-loss statement on the entire show. Admittedly, STAR TREK is a very special thing and requires a special kind of inventiveness, perhaps also a special kind of “unity” from one person. But however it is sliced, I find myself necessarily becoming a toy-costume-etc. creator and inventor and going far beyond what any of us conceived necessary when we set up the original contract.
The point of this all is that I am not at all happy with these provisions in this contract. They are one-sided, unfair, and each day become more demonstrably so.
I have mentioned this to Herb Solow. Cordially, Gene R.”
With the introduction of the Star Trek TV series, a veritable phenomenon was unleashed upon the public, numbering physicists, engineers, housewives, senators, children and intellectuals among its devotees. Roddenberry’s reputation as a futurist and visionary began to grow as the the series continued and the present letter represents a milestone in his mentioning the birth of two of the most quintessential and revered devices in Trek lore: the phaser and the tricorder. Also evident is the frustration of being the chief conceptualist during the show’s earliest stage. Original binder holes at the top; otherwise, Fine.
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Estimate Prices: In addition to descriptive information, each entry in the catalog includes a price range which reflects opinion as to the price expected at auction. These are based upon various factors including prices recently paid at auction for comparable property, condition, rarity, quality, history, provenance. Estimates are prepared well in advance of the sale and subject to revision. Estimates do not include the buyer’s premium or sales tax (see under separate heading). See Paragraph 10 of the Conditions of Sale for important restrictions as to reliance on estimated prices.
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