Star Trek Grand Slam IX:
Day Three
4/2/01
Anyway,
it was also another day full of auctions that had really cool things going
for more than I bought my used pimpmobile for, but hey, I`ll bet they get
it all back on Ebay or even more when they cart it back to wherever they
came from. There were a lot of cool dealers I talked to and would
you believe a set visit to Star Trek series V went for $4,200??? That`s
pretty wild, but chances are, Paramount will roll out the red carpet and
the two people who go will get to see the magic of multiple takes, set-ups,
make-up touch-ups, and scheduling, scheduling, scheduling. If I`d had $4,201,
I would`ve bid.
Anyway,
Kate Mulgrew was the big auction person as she was raising money
for an Alzheimer`s charity. The first thing she brought out was her copy
of the script to the pilot episode of Voyager. It had her script notes,
her call sheets, and was autographed by everybody. Want to take a
guess? She started the bidding at $2,000 and it went for $10,000. Damn.
She did the same with a script of Resolutions and it went for $5,500. She
then did it with a signed by the entire cast candid photo of the crew "doubled
over with laughter" and there was only one bid for $3,500 (where she started
the bidding as it went for that somewhere else) and she kept trying to
amp it saying that wouldn`t-you-like-to-have-a-photo-of-these "chic, glamourous
people lost in space?" $3,500 it went for.
Kate
Mulgrew was not who I thought she`d be, but I`m not sure what I expected.
She spoke about the craft of acting, what she`s learned while playing Janeway
("you can either be an excellent actress or an excellent mother, not
both") and about the season finale (they only have 6 days of shooting left
on Voyager - next Monday is it for the show) she would only say that Rick
Berman would have her head if she said anything, but then said, "it`s beautifully
written" and that "not one person in this room will not be satisfied."
She also said that people would be "moved." The other day, she mentioned,
she`d already filmed her final scene with Tim Russ. Interesting.
