Comments on: Guy who built epic "Star Trek Apartment" may lose it in divorce

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:45:00 +0000

With a little more effort he could have his flat take off at warp speed.

By: edkedz

edkedz — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:46:00 +0000

Voyager?!? Well, the hell with him, then…

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:56:00 +0000

Why do people who aren’t compatible with each other get married in the first place?

By: Mace Ojala

Mace Ojala — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:34:00 +0000

NNNOOOOOOO please have the heart, pretty pls Mrs. Alleyne!

By: Dvulture

Dvulture — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:36:00 +0000

I totally agree, if it is really true they are separated from 1994, and she is paying the mortgage on the place and he almost filled for bankuruptcy than he clearly is not living in reality. There is no such thing as free lunch, and a post scarcity society like Star Trek is just a show, in the real world if you don’t have the money to do something or a way to make it profitable you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

By: Dvulture

Dvulture — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:29:00 +0000

What, they are separated for 2 decades and he didn’t have enough time to think his marriage could fall apart? At some time since 1994 he should have considered that he… like, didn’t own the place and maybe postpone his mods and try to buy the thing from her?

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:02:00 +0000

Orion. :P

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:01:00 +0000

Show us. ;)

By: BonesRodriguez

BonesRodriguez — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Why don’t all the Trek fans get together and donate some money to let him buy it? As a thank you, he could let us hang out in it every friday night!

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:17:00 +0000

Well, they would be right.

Though I suspect that I, as a German, do not get a joke here.

Is “good access to amenities” an euphemism for “23-4 hour Kwik-E-Mart with check-cashing at the ground floor”? Like “close to the breach” means “500 metres to the beach, if you are okay with line of sight through four other hotels” ?

By: Stephen Rice

Stephen Rice — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:26:00 +0000

Estate agents would call that “good access to amenities”.

By: McGreens

McGreens — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:22:00 +0000

There’s an error in the third para. It should read “British shit-rag The Sun…”

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:31:00 +0000

You are absolutely right, but this guys behaviour is totally fringe.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Warning, anecdotal data ahead.

I *am* a fan of Star Trek, by any reasonable measure. I dropped, over the years, hundreds of Euros, possible more, into this hobby by buying (and selling, but at a loss) VHS cassettes, DVDs, novels, comics, autobiographies, art books. I watched every movie save one at the cinema. I have a Franklin Mint 3-D chess set standing behind me.

And yes, even if I had the money, needed a new apartment in the city where an apartment like this was located, I wouldn’t buy it, because I wouldn’t want to live there.

And even if I wanted, I couldn’t, because my wife wouldn’t want to live like that. (Now, the Tendo Dojo I could probably sell to her, if the price was right.)

It’s one thing to have a hobby your partner can easily ignore (at least most of the time), to have one that forces him or her to live with it 24/7 quite another.

I think you seriously overestimate the number of prospective buyer.

Also, this is gloomy Voyagerish. Voyager was the first Star Trek series I ever dropped. The darkness got on my nerves. 24th century and they can’t afford light bulbs?

By: Lobster

Lobster — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:58:00 +0000

How often did that come up? “Oh, great, another BOIL plotline…”

By: Lobster

Lobster — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:57:00 +0000

Yes, you’re right, taken on average it would be a stupid investment to make like a whole apartment complex of these things. That said, if you have one apartment to sell, you only need to find one fan willing to pay anything extra for the furnishings. That can’t be that hard.

By: Palomino

Palomino — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:18:00 +0000

I don’t understand, was she awarded the house or has she always owned it? It’s a confusing read, since laws are a bit different here in the United States. If she’s always owned the flat, then he never should have made those changes. If she won it in a divorce, then he must not have had enough cash money to pay her off, hell, he dumped it into his obsessive interior design scheme. I don’t feel sorry for him at all. Someone who makes those kids of changes to a home sets down a heavy anchor and never imagines that nothing is ever going to change or hopes it insures nothing ever does.

By: Boyd Kn

Boyd Kn — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Errh, he -is- “barmy”. Not because he did this rather then “spend time at the pub” or because the apartment isn’t extremely cool but because (as the original says ) “back in 2006, Alleyne was about to file for bankruptcy over the money spent on renovations”. This is not a business plan, people aren’t going to hire you to rebuild their space if youhave driven yourself bankrupt redesigning your own. He doesn’t have a science fiction problem, he has a math problem.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:50:00 +0000

Depends on the realtor, I guess.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:48:00 +0000

Precisely. That prospective buyer live far, far away and are unwilling to move tends to bring down the price of immovable property.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:03:00 +0000

@boingboing-58f0c31fbecfaeccb4c08eb37ea9e4f7:disqus I applaud you for your crafty example illustrating why those are usually awfully simplistic, on par wit bible school stories.

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:02:00 +0000

Simple. Wrong country.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:58:00 +0000

I would totally live there

Well, why don’t you buy it then. :-)

By: Jonathan Dowland

Jonathan Dowland — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:57:00 +0000

Maybe it isn’t him that’s spinning this story any which way, but the media reporting it?

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:30:00 +0000

I would totally live there.

Although… it would be strange to not be able to actually use a replicator in these surroundings. But maybe the apartment has Starfleet field rations? :)

By: HahTse

HahTse — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:17:00 +0000

I think that honour actually goes to Doctor Who. At least if you’re british ;)

By: zarray

zarray — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:09:00 +0000

So she’s a Firefly fan, huh?

By: zarray

zarray — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:08:00 +0000

I think because it was the first fringe nerdity that the mainstream took ahold of.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:41:00 +0000

Does it have exploding console technology?

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:58:00 +0000

The normal living quarters on the Emterprise D look reasonable comfortable to me, if a little bi too much like Hotel rooms or Americam homes, for my taste.

But it has a Holodeck AND travels to different worlds.