This item was identified by Linwood Mielke of Elkhart, Indiana, Matt Wilkinson of St. George, Utah and Christopher Hodge from Chesapeake, Virginia.
According to the Christie's Catalogue, this is:
LOT 55 - TRANSPORT INHIBITORS
Three disk-shaped props made of wood and plastic with metallic pewter paint finish -- used as "transport inhibitor" devices on the Baku planet in "Star Trek: Insurrection"
Estimate:
$300-500
Apparently a lot of fans watched "Insurrection" very closely. Almost every entry identified this item correctly!
Linwood's almost immediate correct response included a photo from the movie of Data and Troi
putting up one of the inhibitors. Dave Carley from Richmand, Virginia said "Okay, this one took me about 10 seconds to realize what it was," and provided a description of a scene complete with dialog. Sebastian Prooth from England went multimedia, describing the device's blinking blue light and whirring noise. Danielle Snyder from Otsego, Michigan commented, "Uh oh! You've got one of the transport inhibitors! And according to Worf, 'We've lost an inhibitor! There's a gap in the field!' This could get messy!" [like that is somehow our fault... Ed.]
Resident comedian Ross R. Vincent from Arlingon, Texas said, "It is the 24th century version of the 'roomba', which is in every room of every ship of the line. Quark is rumored to have
unloaded a shipment on a Pakled ship, so that 'they could be clean.'" Thomas Fletcher thought it
was "Geordi's Evil visor. From the episode 'Oops where did Data's cat go?'"
Other sugestions included an unused design mockup of a Deep Space Outpost for the original series, photon torpedo launcher on Deep Space Nine, prototype lifeboat for the Enterprise-E and a Tholian ship.
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