Nerd sues over fake Star Trek stuff

From syfyportal, Data's uniform, poker visor and poker table is something that many "Star Trek: The Next Generation" fans would love to own themselves, and Ted Moustakis is one of them.
The Trek fan shelled out $12,000 last year for those items he had hoped to put on display at his home, according to the New York Daily News. But when he had an opportunity to test the items' authenticity from actor Brent Spiner himself, Moustakis learned the items were in fact never used on the show, and that both auction house Christie's and CBS Paramount knew it. So he's suing them both for $7 million, according to the New York Post.

Moustakis paid $6,000 for the poker visor as well as $6,600 for a poker table. When Moustakis attended a Star Trek convention earlier this year where Spiner was a guest, he presented the visor to the actor in hopes of getting his autograph.

"He said he had told Christie's not to sell it," Moustakis said, because the real visor Spiner wore was something the actor kept and later sold in his own auction. Soon after, Moustakis found out the table was fake, too, and is now wondering about an $11,400 uniform supposedly worn by Spiner and fears it might not be real either.

Moustakis purchased the items from among 1,000 pieces of Star Trek history that were auctioned off in October 2006 as part of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek.

"The public was told these were items used on the show," said Richard Borzouye, an attorney who is representing Moustakis in the lawsuit. "He believed he was getting the real thing."

CBS nor Christie's returned phone calls from both newspapers. Moustakis told the Post that he did contact Christie's before filing the lawsuit about the authenticity of the items, but Christie's was standing behind their claims they were used in the show.