Replica Kirk reading glasses

[TK Doom]

Hi all, long time lurker, longer time fan...so I just finished watching Star Trek II and remembered that my eyesight needs help.

Recently started to sort of need reading glasses.

In my youth, I told myself I wanted glasses like those in ST II. Now obviously those are 18century (19th?) antiques, but you'd think they made a replica at a Trek worthy gouged price, but I can't find them.

Do they exist?

TIA!

 

[Xerxes1979]

For most patients your age I recommend retinox five.

 

[Melakon]

Do they exist?

Don't see any on Google. Go to an optician with a photo to show him what you want. Or just find a cheap pair of reading glasses at a drugstore.

 

[TK Doom]

For most patients your age I recommend retinox five.

Hello, I'm allergic to Retinax, that is why I'm asking this question!

 

[TK Doom]

Or just find a cheap pair of reading glasses at a drugstore.

What fun is that?

 

[Melakon]

What fun is that?

Then go with the optician suggestion. You may not find frames that are an exact match, but they'll likely be less expensive than any licensed replicas, which you'd likely have to have fitted with corrective lenses anyway. Been wearing glasses since I was 10, so it's hard to be enthusiastic about them after 50 years.

 

[dswynne1]

Interestingly enough, the wearing of glasses is still relevant in 'Trek, including the late 24th century:

http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Glasses

And maybe these guys can help:

http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/

Just use the Google search engine to get replicas AND a place that can fit a prescription on them.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Prop replicas of this kind are too "upscale" for STAR TREK to officially license. Souvenier-type items are more up CBS/Paramount's alley, like a cookie jar in the shape of Mister Spock, a pizza cutter in the shape of the Enterprise, or dollar $tore 'calogne' with high-end prices named after Sulu, Shirtless Kirk ... and Pon Farr. Didn't Benjamin Franklin wear the types of glasses Kirk uses? Maybe Revolutionary War re-enactment sites might be worth a try?

 

[eyeresist]

Maybe there's an antique shop in the Bay area that has a pair in stock?