Trekker turns flat into Starship Voyager

starn

This guy's nuttier then a a family of nuts, who been sent on all all exspensise paid trip to Nutaraga, who's plane has crashed in a bumper jar of Nutella in Grangorman

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/08/trekkie_interior_designer/

http://www.24thcid.com/24th_century_design.swf

December Son

And then he went bankrupt after spending 16, 000 on it. Who goes bankrupt for that much?? Goes to ram even further the point home that trekkers are solid gold losers

godtabh

December Son wrote:

And then he went bankrupt after spending 16, 000 on it. Who goes bankrupt for that much?? Goes to ram even further the point home that trekkers are solid gold losers

Read the post. He had debts of £166,000.

Some trekkers are fanatical. Some are normal but I'm sure most of them can read.

The Register wrote:

Obsessive Trekkie Tony Alleyne has spent so much cash turning his flat into a replica of the Star Trek Voyager that he's had to declare himself bankrupt.

Alleyne spent £12,000 converting his flat in Hinckley, Leicestershire, into a detailed replica of the Voyager spaceship. The flat has its own transporter room (not functioning), blue downlights (to give the illusion of being 'beamed up'), touch sensitive control screens, and portholes in place of windows. Last week he was declared bankrupt at Coventry Crown Court with debts of £166,000.

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Alleyne was a DJ until his stint in interior design. He has been a Sci-Fi fan since watching "The First Men in the Moon" when he was 11.

The intrepid Trekkie was hoping his home would turn into a business with other fans paying him to design their homes. But despite spending thousands marketing the idea, it did not take off.

He told the Sun he racked up the debts trying to market the business. He said: "I'm proud of what I created but it's been a financial disaster."

Loomis

Of all the ways to get into backruptcy...
What an idiot.

jor el

He only spent £12k on doing up the flat, that's not bad when you see how much he's done to it. But knocking up another £154k on marketing the idea as a business is just plain daft.

Loomis

jor el wrote:

He only spent £12k on doing up the flat, that's not bad when you see how much he's done to it. But knocking up another £154k on marketing the idea as a business is just plain daft.

He's daft either way.
And your banner in your signature got me wrong

mickymg2003

He's an idiot. He did a good job of the flat tho. But my god, the guy needs to get a life!

AdMMM

I know a few people that would like to meet this guy!

Goodshape

Mr. Anderson wrote:

He's daft either way.
And your banner in your signature got me wrong

I do believe that's a joke. Everyone is 127.0.0.1. It's your local address.

And maybe that guy would have been more successful if he didn't use Voyager as his inspiration. Crap show.

Loomis

|.Murderer.| wrote:

I know a few people that would like to meet this guy!

Then I feel sorry for you

Loomis

Goodshape wrote:

I do believe that's a joke. Everyone is 127.0.0.1. It's your local address.

And maybe that guy would have been more successful if he didn't use Voyager as his inspiration. Crap show.

I do believe I'm not on Xp...

ionapaul

Just goes to show that being a professional nerd rarely pays the bills...

dimerocks

i dunno was it the same guy but i remember someone trying to sell a flat that was the replica of some starship before. it was on one of those house tv shows that are ever so popular.

binaryboy

not to mention that voyager sucks

Beer is Life

That is SO COOL. When I was big into Star Trek back in the day I would have KILLED for something like that. Awesome stuff, pity it didnt work out for the guy.

Shabadu

Mr. Anderson wrote:

I do believe I'm not on Xp...

zomg, ur so 1337 :rolleyes:

Just because you don't get it doesn't mean it's not funny.

jor el

A joke? What, no. This is serious stuff. My supercomputer hacks into everone who reads any thread I post in, then tells them exactly where they are, what they had for breakfast and then steals all the pr0n from their hard disk before making a decision on what operating system they use.

OK, it doesn't always work, but that's no reason to make a joke of it <sniff>

...../me goes off crying

Pink Bunny

"The flat has its own transporter room (not functioning)"

I'm glad they clarified that.
All in all, pretty sad , especially for a man in his late 40's.

Rb

Pink Bunny wrote:

All in all, pretty sad , especially for a man in his late 40's.

I agree, very sad.