Kirk's Reddish Monster Statue

[UnknownSample]

It sits there behind his desk, in his quarters. It might be the most frequently seen, totally unexplained object in our lives. The crazy thing just sits there, never referred to, never breaking during any of those battles... What the hell do you think it is? It seems ceramic, like some Mayan artifact or something.
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I may be starting some pointless obsession with knick knacks in the characters' rooms... now that big flat screens and Remastered make us feel like we're standing in the room with them...

 

[Push The Button]

Another random bit from the Desilu prop warehouse. It probably appeared in a hundred other tv shows and movies over its lifetime.

 

[UnknownSample]

I think I just found out its type is "Zapotec" (?) rather than Aztec or Maya, which may be a separate tribe. In what other shows has it appeared?

 

[johnnybear]

Can't say I've noticed it I'm sad and embarrassed to say! Have you got a pic or something, please?
JB

 

[F. King Daniel]

I like to think it's a souvenir from Capella IV, even though it appeared prior to "Friday's Child". Maybe a gift from McCoy during his earlier time there.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Can't say I've noticed it I'm sad and embarrassed to say! Have you got a pic or something, please?
JB

It looks like a Buddha but it isn't one.

I think I just found out its type is "Zapotec" (?) rather than Aztec or Maya, which may be a separate tribe.

I agree it looks like (or is meant to look like) a pre-Columbian artifact from S. America.

 

[dahj]

It looks like a Buddha but it isn't one.

It's an Ahddub.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

It's an Ahddub.

That's a backward thing to say.

 

[alensatemybuick1]

So what is that "Parthenon"-looking thing, then? in the corner? A data tape organizer?

 

[urbandefault]

I know of two others, both in Kirk's quarters.

 

[johnnybear]

In such a small space as The Captain's quarters, where does one keep one's DVD's? And no I don't want to know about downloads or the like! Under the bed?
JB

 

[Christopher]

In such a small space as The Captain's quarters, where does one keep one's DVD's? And no I don't want to know about downloads or the like! Under the bed?
JB

They used those little rectangular data cartridges instead. Not so much DVDs, more like the MiniDisc audio format that Sony put out as a more compact alternative to CDs in the '90s. My father was generally an early adopter of new audio technologies, and I remember being amused at how much his MiniDisc player and its discs reminded me of a TOS tricorder and data tapes.

 

[Shawnster]

I know of two others, both in Kirk's quarters.

Those are 2 pictures of the same thing, just a different angle.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It looks like a Buddha but it isn't one.

I agree it looks like (or is meant to look like) a pre-Columbian artifact from S. America.

What's with the skull? On loan from McCoy?

 

[diankra]

In such a small space as The Captain's quarters, where does one keep one's DVD's? And no I don't want to know about downloads or the like! Under the bed?
JB

In the computer mainframe. The cartridges are only used for secure back-ups, or eyes-only info.
Retcon, obviously.

 

[UnknownSample]

So what is that "Parthenon"-looking thing, then? in the corner? A data tape organizer?

Incredibly technologically advanced Kleenex.

 

[urbandefault]

Those are 2 pictures of the same thing, just a different angle.

Those are two different sets, in two different states.

 

[GSchnitzer]

Incredibly technologically advanced Kleenex.

The "Parthenon" thing (I've always thought it looks more like Washington, DC's Kennedy Center) is just a jewelry box-type container. Kirk flips open the lid looking for the phaser on overload hidden in his quarters in "The Conscience of the King:"

 

[alensatemybuick1]

Cool info, did not recall that from the episode.

 

[kkt]

The "Parthenon" thing (I've always thought it looks more like a Washington, DC's Kennedy Center) is just a jewelry box-type container. Kirk flips it open looking for the phaser on overload hidden in his quarters in "The Conscience of the King:"

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/10901121@N06/32189396435/sizes/m/

Maybe he keeps his ribbons for his dress uniform in there. I don't remember him ever wearing jewelry.