Are you a Trekkie?

[Merika]

http://community.webshots.com/album/70233469ukYjLT

http://www.24thcid.com/

Apparently, this guy has taken being a Trekkie fan a bit too far.

Tony Alleyne boldly went where no other DIY enthusiast had gone before when he turned his studio apartment in Hinckley, Leicestershire, into a replica of the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.

The flat included a life-size model of the show’s transporter room. He even reshaped his windows to look like portholes and set up vertical lights so that he can pretend to be “beamed upâ€Â�, but the nine-year mission failed and Mr Alleyne, 52, came crashing back to Earth with a bump. Yesterday, at Coventry County Court, he admitted that he has been declared bankrupt with debts of £166,000.

Mr Alleyne spent more than £30,000 turning his modest Midlands residence into a Star Trek set, and another £100,000 marketing his firm, 24th Cen-tury Interior Designs, which offered to do the same for other people. Astonishingly, there were not that many takers.


All that being said...it's still very unique and cool. I'm surprised he had no buyers!! What does everyone else thinK???

[Adonaicole]

It was pretty unique and cool. But really, the guy needs to get a life or a girlfriend. Can you imagine? His girlfriend would have put an end to all that nonsense... "You want to spend $52,159.13 on what?" :ouch:

[Vautrin]

Originally Posted by Adonaicole

It was pretty unique and cool. But really, the guy needs to get a life or a girlfriend. Can you imagine? His girlfriend would have put an end to all that nonsense... "You want to spend $52,159.13 on what?" :ouch:

The 13 cents would have floored me. But there is a positive: at least that prevents him drinking 26,079.565 beers (assuming the cost of a beer in a bar is about $2), during his life time. Over the course of 20 year marriage, that would be more than 3 beers a day the husband would be drinking.

[darkangelism]

i mean i like star trek, but not that much.

[Duke]

Good Lord, he could have just given me the money :roll:

[BattleaxE]

Beam him up Scotty.......he's lost his marbles

[Merika]

Originally Posted by BattleaxE

Beam him up Scotty.......he's lost his marbles

HAHA! I think the article DID say his wife left him.

As for me...I'm not enough of a Star Trek fan to want to LIVE on the Enterprise forever...but I think it's still pretty darn cool!!! I like it better than MY place.

[darkangelism]

i just realized that i use a star trek theme for my computer, i had gotten used to it so i didnt think about it.

[Merika]

I'd like to change my computer theme....but it always ends up slowing my puter down.

[Luba]

I'm not or have ever been a "Star Trek" fan because when it first came out there were no hot guys there!

[Vautrin]

Originally Posted by Luba

I'm not or have ever been a "Star Trek" fan because when it first came out there were no hot guys there!

After decennia of the show being aired, however, Luba seems to differ in opinion (on the hot guys :P). Age-dependent?

[Merika]

Thru the years, I thought both male captains were very attractive as men. William Shatner is older NOW....but he was young once.

[Duke]

Originally Posted by Merika

I'd like to change my computer theme....but it always ends up slowing my puter down.

Don't change the theme, just change the desktop :doh:

[Merika]

Originally Posted by Duke

Don't change the theme, just change the desktop :doh:

That's what I meant. Everytime I goof with something like that, even a personal picture, it slows my puter down.

[Duke]

That's odd, it shouldn't affect computer performance at all because it's just an image file.