I cannot believe I have never shared this autograph before!  It is one of my holy grails, and was my first-ever personalized, first-ever inscribed, and one of my only successes with my teenage attempts at fan-mail back in the late 90s.

Another sort-of catch-phrase.  :)

It’s as close to a catch-phrase as you can get with Riker.  He said it like, every other episode, right?  :P

I love buddy shots.  Rarely can you find such.  Rarely do the actors themselves plan ahead for such (traditionally). 

When I met Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes the first time (?) though, they where together and had planned for such.  Which I was thankful for, because I’d tried to find a good photo of the “smooth as an android’s bottom” moment from Insurrection, but couldn’t.  Now days I could do so with a blu-ray screen cap.  But they had this photo so I took advantage of the opportunity.

*Posts this for the sole purposes of tormenting the Garak/Bashir shippers…*

Found a third autograph of Garak and Bashir together in my collection I’d forgotten I even had.  Thought I’d torment some shippers (one in particular) that I know with it.  

*Evil laugh* Muhahahaha!

Sometimes, you have to condense an awesome quote to make it feasible to even ask an actor to inscribe such.  As is the case with the awesome quote from Saul Tigh in the third season finale of “Battlestar Galactica” where he states…

“My name is Saul Tigh. I’m an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that’s the man I want to be. And if I die today, that’s the man I’ll be.”

Asking Michael Hogan to inscribe all of that on an 8x10 would not have been realistic, nor likely possible.  You’ve usually only got the type of sharpie markers without the fine points (fine points risk leaving scratch marks or indentations) and you can’t usually get too small a size of text anywho when writing with markers.  Likewise, it would take a bit too long and be a bit complicated during a cattle-call line scenario.

So I widdled it down as seen above, to…

“My name is Saul Tigh.  Whatever else I am, that’s the man I want to be.”

It conveys the same sentiment, harkens to the original quote, but reduces it from 36 words to 16 — less than half.

This is one of the rarest “Star Trek” action figures produced.  They only made 5,000 of them as a J.C. Penny exclusive.

It’s of Lt. Cmdr. Data in Red Command Uniform from “Chains of Command” — they fucked up and have it as from the episode “Redemption” but that’s incorrect.  Though it’s what it’s known as in collector circles: “Redemption Data”

It’s signed by Brent Spiner and it’s individual collector’s number is 000059 of 005000.

As in the 59th of 5000 made.

If anyone wants to offer me a thousand bucks, I might consider parting with it… ;)

Michael Hogan autograph, inscribed in old school Tigh quote fashion simply “Godsdamn Frakking Cylons!”

Saul Tigh is one of the few characters I went from totally detesting and wishing he would get killed off to totally loving and rooting for.  That is a testament to the writing and especially to Hogan’s acting.

Cause inscribed quotes from the shows on autographs are cooler than just autographs, IMHO…

…My kingdom for a Leonard Nimoy “live long and prosper”… sigh…

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Adama & Starbuck buddy shot, signed by Edward James Olmos.  Still needs to be signed by Katee Sackhoff, someday!

Had this for quite a while, thought I had shared it previously, but went archdiving (diving through my own archive) and discovered I had not.  So… I am.  Cause… of reasons.  :)

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“What Do You Hear, Starbuck?”

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I enjoy having the actors of “Battlestar Galactica” tell me to ‘go frak myself’.  I’ve had Edward James Olmos, Luciano Carro (Kat), Tricia Helfer, Sam Witwer (Crashdown), and now Katee Sackhoff do so. 

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Some other guy may have been inside the suit physically, but it was James Earl Jones that was truly Darth Vader.  First autograph/photo is from the epic scene in “Empire Strikes Back” that needs no description or explanation.  Second is a more general publicity still that I’m not sure which film it’s from.

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