Star Trek: Enterprise Hero Universal Translator for Communicators

From Dec. 15, 2006 through Apr. 13, 2009, the California based screen used entertainment memorabilia dealer ItsAWrap! (http://www.itsawraphollywood.com) conducted a series of weekly auctions via ebay on behalf of CBS/Paramount that offered a tremendous variety of props, costumes, set fixtures, scripts and production related artifacts from the Star Trek franchise to a worldwide audience and collector base. Over the course of 121 weeks, approximately 9100 unique items that spanned the first 10 Star Trek feature films and the last four television series (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise) were sold. Additionally, perhaps 10 costumes from The Original Series (consisting of 4 or 5 light blue Technicians Jumpsuits, 2 pairs of Federation uniform trousers, a dark green Nilz Baris suit seen in "The Trouble with Tribbles", and 2 Tellarite jumpsuits from "Journey to Babel") were auctioned as part of the vast Paramount warehouse inventory that was dispersed. The ItsAWrap sales commenced only weeks after the historic Christie's "40 Years Of Star Trek" auction was held in October, 2006; which offered collectors a total of 1000 lots of screen used memorabilia, highlighted by a number of major starship filming models from the franchise.

Presented below are some detailed photos of a screen used hero Star Trek: Enterprise Universal Translator hand prop that was sold during the auctions of ItsAWrap. This rare working piece, created to operate in tandem with the existing Enterprise Communicator prop, realized a final bid of $1601 in an auction which ended on March 13, 2007. The auction description for the lot is reproduced as follows:

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE "UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR" FOR COMMUNICATOR

A cast resin hand prop universal translator device featured in various episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. Painted metallic silver with black accents, this item features a 'display screen' with a transparent graphic reading 'Translation Mode: >Active' which is backlit blue when the button is depressed and is powered by four A27 sized 12 volt batteries. The battery casing is accessed by pulling the silver and black sections away from one another carefully. The item is made to have a Starfleet communicator (sold separately) fit down into the placement at the top and measures approx. 4.25 x 2.6 x 0.6 inches.



Below are some photos of a second screen used Universal Translator prop that was auctioned by ItsAWrap ...