Bouncing around the web today, we ran across a facebook post by one of our Trek friends, many of you may know her as @starfleetmom on twitter.  We had the awesome opportunity to hang with starfleetmom at Vegas Khhaaan! and had a blast with her and all of the gang.  Anyway, back to the point of this article, starfleetmom posted a link to a Trek item she's selling on a site called Yardsellr.com.  It's a really cool poster featuring Data & The Doctor from Voyager complete with signatures of Robert Picardo & Brent Spiner.  Yardsellr.com is something we'd never heard of and the idea of finding hidden Trek treasure was more than we could pass up.

After a bit of lurking / searching around the site and after weeding through 10 pages of lame t-shirts, we found some pretty interesting Trek stuff.  Oh, by the way, the title of this article was too catchy to pass up.  And, just so we don't get tons of comments about calling the following Trek items trash, they're definitely treasure to us.  Notice what we did there, we put trash in quotes....  

So the first thing that caught my eye was an amazing Ferengi-head lunch box. In all honesty, I'm not sure I get the correlation between Ferengi craniums and lunch.  We're guessing that it's supposed to be Quark, and you know he had a bar that served food, but let's just roll with it.  Who even knew these existed and what kid wouldn't want to have their sandwich & jello fill the space a Ferengi's brain should occupy.  For a lot less than a bar of gold pressed latinum, you can be the proud owner of a food storage conveyance that you can use to practice your oo-mox.  Maybe that's not a selling point.  Check out the Ferengi's head lunch box here.

Next up, we found a complete set of all twelve Star Trek Fotonovels that were published between 1977 and 1978. The fotonovels were produced by Mandala Productions and published by Bantam Books in the 1970s. These books were essentially retellings of Original Series episodes, with word balloons and text being arranged over stills from the episode in the style of a comic book or graphic novel. Something of a short-term fad, such books were conceived in the days before the advent of home video and quickly fell out of fashion thereafter. (info source Memory Alpha)  With every episode from "City on the Edge of Forever" to "Amok Time", these are apparently in mint condition.  The seller even claims that the pages haven't been turned.  These fotonovels could be a nice center piece to a Trek collection.  Check out the fotonovels here.

One of the coolest items we stumbled upon was a set of 4 "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" iron-ons.  Being a child of the late 80's, iron-ons were what all the cool kids would use on their t-shirts and jean jackets.  From "The Dukes of Hazard" to "CHiPS" these things were as popular as tall bangs and crack cocaine. The iron-ons consist of colorful, very 70's-ish, images that feature Kirk / Spock -- wait... no... um -- forget the slash -- uh... that's Kirk & Spock, plus a shot of Lt. Ilia after V'ger had it's way with her.  We're seriously thinking about buying these and ironing them onto an outfit consisting of dove shorts and a sleeveless shirt. Check out the iron-ons here.

Maybe we're a little late to the game on Yardsellr.com or maybe it's just a fluke that we found some really cool Trek stuff tonight, but we had tons of fun killing an evening exploring all the Trek treasures available.  

Never been there before? Check out Yardsellr.com here.