This same story was sent in by several ScaryPlace readers in the UK, credited to Reuters.
A British "Star Trek" fan has turned his home into a replica of television's most famous spaceship.
Tony Alleyne spent more than $11,000 to convert his one-bedroom apartment into the starship Enterprise. The apartment now includes a command console and windows reshaped to look like portholes. The centerpiece of his spaceship home is a three-dimensional ceiling with an "infinity" mirror at the center. "It can make you feel a bit dizzy because it looks as if you're peering out into space," he told Reuters on Friday, posing in a space suit.
Alleyne, of Hinckley in central England, said he used magazines and information from NASA to get the design right. "What really fascinates me about 'Star Trek' is the artistic and technology side of it," the ex-disc jockey explained.
Alleyne, 48, who said his wife left him for another earthling, lives alone in the apartment.
"My mother would say it's not very cozy -- but I do make people a cup of tea when they come and visit," he said.
"Star Trek" was first launched in 1966 as a television
series with William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as pointy-eared
Spock. The series and "Star Trek" films sparked a cult following around the
world, with fans converging for regular conventions and memorabilia commanding
high prices at auctions.
Now I appreciate Star Trek for what it is, and I can understand wanting to have a cool replica of a phasor or something... but the whole freaking USS Enterprise bridge?! And he doesn't even own the apartment? Seriously now folks... isn't this guy even scarier than Hannibal? (And his girlfriend left him... tsk tsk... any clue as to why that may be?)