Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: This is a lifetime achievement award to Leonard Nimoy.

He actually gave it to me.

APPRAISER: What was it like knowing the man, the myth, the legend (chuckling): that is Leonard Nimoy?

GUEST: He was a very nice man.

He rented space from the company I worked for.

I worked in a cubicle and he had the office right behind me.

So he was 20 feet away, like, every day.

APPRAISER: Interesting, that is so cool.

You are correct in that this is a lifetime achievement award.

But what this award is actually known as is a Saturn Award.

First awarded in 1973, these are given out by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

A Saturn Award might not be a big name like we hear, you know, Emmys, Golden Globe and Oscar.

But in the world of everything cool, pop culture, nerdy science fiction, a Saturn Award is a pretty big deal.

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror was first created by Donald Reed in 1972, and they still give out the Saturn Award today.

In 1986, Leonard Nimoy received this right here, the lifetime achievement award.

And when it comes to Leonard Nimoy as a actor, as a personality, his name is synonymous with the world of pop culture.

Obviously, everybody knows him from Spock on Star Trek.

Spock was such an important character.

Everybody remembers that-- I'm gonna embarrass myself.

I don't know what it is, but I cannot do the Vulcan salute.

I know!

I don't have-- I don't know what it is.

I don't have these muscles.

GUEST: (laughs) APPRAISER: What do you think it's worth?

GUEST: I have no clue as to what it's worth.

It almost doesn't matter because it's my connection to Leonard.

APPRAISER: Gotcha.

GUEST: I got to see this thing every day.

So when he closed his office down and his assistant asked if I wanted anything, knowing I was a Trekkie, I said, "You know, I look at this thing every day, can I have this?"

Not knowing what it was, I had no idea what it was.

I just knew it was a statue in his office.

APPRAISER: (laughs) GUEST: And she said, "Let me ask him."

So she went, she asked him, next thing I know, it's on my desk.

APPRAISER: At auction for this award, today, at a pop culture entertainment memorabilia sale, we'd be able to conservatively estimate it $5,000 to $8,000.

GUEST: Okay, time for insurance.

(laughing) Wow!

APPRAISER: Based on the other Saturn Awards that have come up, I think this would be arguably one of the best to hit the market.

And I wouldn't be surprised if that high estimate was doubled in the $15,000-plus range.

GUEST: Holy cr...

I won't say that, um.

(laughs) Wow, that's...okay, it's still going back to my house.

It's still going to go sit next to the TV, because we watch Star Trek every night.

APPRAISER: I would not insure it for any less than $15,000 because you're not going to find another one.

It's truly one of a kind.

GUEST: Oh, wow.