![]() The phaser rifle was auctioned in 2013, and it sold for $231,000. Roddenberry also approached Klamer after the show was picked up about continuing to produce props for Star Trek, but no further arrangements were made. Gene Roddenberry was impressed with the U.N.C.L.E. weapon and sought out Klamer to oversee the design and production of the phaser rifle – which Klamer has said he only had two weeks to do. Klamer also invented television props, including the well-known gun for The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as well as the phaser rifle. He is best known as the inventor of toy company Milton Bradley’s The Game of Life, among hundreds of other toys and games. Klamer was born in Canton, Ohio (yes, the in-universe alternate site for the Millenium Gate in the Star Trek: Voyager season five episode, “11:59”). shared the news last week after Klamer’s death on Tuesday, September 14th. Reuben Klamer, the inventor of the phaser rifle seen in the Star Trek: The Original Series second pilot episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” has died at the age of 99. Today we remember the prop inventor who designed it. SEPTEMYou saw the weapon in one episode, but it’s a good bet you remember it. ![]()
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