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ananova said:
Man goes broke over Star Trek home
A Star Trek fan has gone bankrupt after spending £12,000 turning his home into the Starship Voyager.
Tony Alleyne's flat in Hinckley, Leics, has moulded walls, touch-panel blue lighting and a life-size model of the show's transporter room.
He even built a command console, reshaped windows to look like portholes and set up vertical lights so he can pretend to be "beamed up".
He hoped his pad would tempt other Trekkies to pay him to convert their homes too.
He took out two huge loans and ran up debts of over £100,000 on 14 credit cards marketing his idea and paying for the merchandise and has filed for bankruptcy.
Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a "warp coil" said: "I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.
"But I was wrong and just overstretched. Building it in my apartment was the enjoyable and easy bit. But then I got hooked up with marketing and merchandise people here and in America and it all got out of hand.
"I'm still proud of what I created but it's been a financial disaster."
OMG!!! www.newvoyages.com
Surprisingly OK for a "fan film". New episode out shortly...and old Trek stars are lining up to appear - for the fun of it as its all done not-for-profit.
They make about one episode a yeat so I reckon its only good for a few - unless its cult popularity leads to an interesting deal...
Surprisingly OK for a "fan film". New episode out shortly...and old Trek stars are lining up to appear - for the fun of it as its all done not-for-profit.
They make about one episode a yeat so I reckon its only good for a few - unless its cult popularity leads to an interesting deal...
Mrs Fish said:
I went to a 3 day star-trek convention once, it was a hotbed of sexual devience IIRC.
Sounds interesting....
It was a great laugh actually, my then gf took me - dancing to 'star trekkin', maccarena, time warp etc. till the early hours. Lots of normal people and Lots of social freaks really letting their hair down so I fit right in. Awesome atmosphere the whole time
Very high proportion of vigrgins, lesbians, and older perverts mixed with fancy dress made for lots of classic moments 
>> Edited by aldi on Tuesday 7th February 17:24
Nah you can have more innuendo as a gamer than a trekker. http://bash.org/?7780
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