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Gerald Gurian is a 40+ year collector of screen used Star Trek memorabilia and a passionate fan of TOS
     
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Star Trek: Enterprise Orion Slave Girl Costume

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 Orion Slave Girl costume from the 4th season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise entitled "Bound"; that was sold during the auctions of ItsAWrap. This alluring design, reminiscent of the costumes created by Bill Theiss for The Original Series, realized a final bid of $1838 in an auction which ended on March 16, 2007. The auction description for the lot is reproduced as follows:

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE "BOUND - D'NESH" ORION SLAVE GIRL COSTUME


The Orions are a humanoid species with distinct green skin from the Orion planet. This sexy costume was worn by the Orion slave girl D'Nesh (Crystal Allen) in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Bound". She was given by the Orion Harrad-Sar (William Lucking) to Captain Archer (Scott Bakula) as a gift in celebration of the Orion Syndicate trade agreement. Her costume is a two piece purple vinyl bikini held together with hook and eye fasteners and snaps. The straps are both vinyl and green mesh that is far sturdier than it appears. A shimmering fabric wrap of black and gold/blue patterns drapes around the waist. Due to the nature of the Orion appearance, there is green makeup over parts of the costume. The accompanying four inch heels (9M) are purple with Orion green straps. Costume comes complete with costume tag indicating wear by 'Crystal Allen'.