Alec Peters

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Alec Peters

Alec Peters was the officially appointed archivist/property master in 2011 for the CBS Star Trek Archive, when the various Star Trek exhibition tours came to a close, the last one being the 2011 "Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex"–leg of the Star Trek The Exhibition tour exhibit. His responsibilities were the care of the props and studio models that were still in the possession of the studio and featured in the tours exhibits from 2006 onward.

Peters, as of the time of his appointment, had not been a stranger to the Star Trek franchise, as he had made a name for himself as an extremely knowledgeable collector of Star Trek memorabilia from 2006 onward. Peters, by his own admission, got seriously bitten by the collector bug when he attended the 2006 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction. An attorney by training, Peters graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law, passed the bar, and promptly took a job coaching men’s volleyball at USC, where he was assistant coach on the 1990 NCAA Championship team. He also coached with the USA National Team until starting his first business, AMG, a sports management company. [1] Yet, afterwards, pursuant his 2006 experience, he made collecting Science Fiction memorabilia collecting and trading his primary occupation, prompting his remark on the Propworx, Inc. profile site, "Alec isn’t quite sure what he wants to do when he grows up.".

The moment Peters started collecting, he started his own memorabilia blog, The Star Trek Prop, Costume & Auction Blog, and accompanying forum, which since then has become rapidly a major focal point for collectors of Sci-Fi memorabilia, and in particular those of the Star Trek franchise. Self-educated in the subject matter, Peter's repute has grown substantially during the last decade, to such a degree that he was sought out to facilitate the auctioning-off of the production assets of the revamped 2004 Battlestar Galactica-franchise. To this end he founded in 2008 his own auction company "Propworx, Inc.", that has since then held multiple auctions, selling off production materials from several Science-Fiction franchises, including four that involved the Star Trek franchise.

Peters' acquired expertise led to various (albeit sometimes begrudgingly) adjustments in various Profiles in History auction listings, as he pointed out inaccuracies and falsehoods in their listings, but which did eventually led to his appointment as CBS's archivist.

A very recent project, Peters was involved with was the acquisition of the Class F shuttle full scale mock-up, he managed to acquire with noted fellow collector Adam Schneider, in order to have it restored for posterity. [2] Peters was featured in the third season of the television series Auction Kings, when he was called in to authenticate a Star Trek Generations command uniform.

External links

• Propworx.com–official site
• The Star Trek Prop, Costume and Auction Blog - Alec Peter's blog
• 2010 Interview with Alec Peters at GateWorld.net
• Propworx.com profile