[Star Trek]

>From the AP Newswire: Starship Enterprise model boldly sold for $576,000 [...] A model of the Starship Enterprise used in the pilot and title sequences of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" sold for $576,000 Saturday at an auction of costumes, sets and props from 40 years of the "Star Trek" sci-fi franchise.

The 78-inch-long miniature of the "Enterprise-D," built by Industrial Light and Magic, debuted in 1987 in the episode "Encounter at Farpoint," and then was used in many subsequent episodes, as well as the film "Star Trek Generations."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/07/trek.model.ap/index.html

In the future are people going to have to bid on the animation source-code now that for the most part real models aren't being built for films any more?