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Home Theater Transformed Into Star Trek Bridge
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:41 AM
from the because-you-can-shutup dept.
from the because-you-can-shutup dept.
gevmage writes "Gary Reign, a guy with apparently way too much time on his hands, built a home theater in his basement. This is not unusual. However, the room is designed, floor to ceiling, as the bridge of a Star Trek style starship. See his
photo page for details."
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"Ach! Capt'n!!!" (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:"Ach! Capt'n!!!" (better solution) (Score:3, Funny)
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http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_
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Working mirror (Score:5, Informative)
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One photo missing (Score:5, Funny)
However, there's one photo missing: one of these days, he'll have to sell that house. I want a picture of the real estate agent's face when they see that room!
"Captain, property values have slowed to impulse power."
Market value, schmarket value. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's nowhere near as kitsch as you guys are making it out to be. If he had a regular door instead of a Starfleet door and replaced any blatantly Star Trek-related items with something more contemporary, no one would be bashing his setup. "Nice bookshelf, nice ceiling lighting, leather chairs, big screen, hidden speakers -- this is really nice. Oh wait. Look! The door (that can very easily be replaced) is a Starfleet door! Oh, how stupid this whole thing is!!" Oh, please. I honestly think that to anyone who is a Star Trek fan and has an appreciation for home theare this is not nearly as much of a turn-off as you'd think.
Yet look how Slashdotters react when the newest, highly-creative, PC case mod comes out. "Cool!" "Where do I get one!" "And it's water-cooled!" "Look how it glows!" "r0x0rz!" "Awesome case!" I certainly love cool-looking PC cases, too, but most people would scorn us for paying premium prices for a PC case, no matter how cool it looks. So, perceived value goes both ways.
And don't confuse "market value" for "marketability" or "sellability". They're completely different. The "market value" for a PS3 when it first came out was $699. The "marketability" and "sellability" values were obviously much, much higher. Houses are no different. I don't see this particular home theatre design hurting its market value, but I do see it increasing its marketability to even mild Star Trek fans who happen to love home theatre, especially when the blatant Star Trek-related items appear to be easily replaceable.
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I'm curious if he has any sound effects set up for the room.
Re:Market value, schmarket value. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:One photo missing (Score:5, Insightful)
Says who? Oh sure, some day he'll die. But I'm betting he'll be interested in an entirely different real estate market by then.
A house is just a place to live. If you want to make money, there are a few hundred thousand other things in the world you can pour money into that will have a better return.
Spending your time designing, sweating, building and creating just so that the next guy will give you a couple extra grand to enjoy the fruits of your labor seems like a waste of time to me.
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If this was something you'd show off on the first date, you're not the kind of person that gets dates.
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SWEET!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Also on Digg (Score:5, Informative)
Original Digg link: http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_t heater/ [electronichouse.com]
Digg story: http://digg.com/mods/Really_Cool_Homemade_Star_Tre k_Theater_(slideshow) [digg.com]
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The Larger image: http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5278/bridge20p2 byb1.jpg [imageshack.us]
The Rest of the Images:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/359998062_55e90 27569_o.jpg [flickr.com]
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And the Shatner quote: (Score:5, Funny)
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Why did he.. (Score:3, Interesting)
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Were I one of those fan artists, I'm not at all sure how I'd feel about his use of my work, so perhaps he's just protecting himself from that issue.
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Slashdotted? (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, I wanna be that guy! (Score:3, Funny)
entertaining! (Score:5, Funny)
What I really want to know, though, is whether he requires his guests to lean dramatically back and forth during chase scenes?
Re:entertaining! (Score:5, Funny)
All I can say is that if he invites you over to watch a movie do not, I repeat, do not wear red.
KFG
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Star Wars theater is better (Score:4, Insightful)
A good place to NOT wear a red shirt. (Score:4, Funny)
Good for him (Score:5, Insightful)
I say good for him. And I yield to his nerd superiority. I'd buy him a beer, but something tells me he only drinks whatever they serve on Deep Space 9.
Time on hands (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually it looks like a good thing to do with spare time: he was creative. That took some thought, design work, and craftsmanship.
"a guy with apparently way too much time on his hands" is apparently code for "I think how you spend your free time is silly."
Not thinking this through... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's almost like he never expects to have a woman over...
Re:What a retard! (Score:5, Funny)
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You might want to look up the word 'Plenty'.
There are not plenty of good looking or smart girls interested in science fiction, much less women that are both.
There are a few, and I married one(yeah me), but plenty is not the word I'd use.
When you go to a star trek convention and half the attendeess are good looking and smart women, then we will have 'Plenty'.
Of course, that means that the other gender needs more good looking and smart people as well. Fortunatly m
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Ha! This isn't true, at the last convention I went to most people didn't even know that in Episode #4F04 of TOS, if you freeze frame 16237 you can see some of the sound wiring from the set. How can any true fan not know basic knowledge like this?
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Re:What a retard! (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:What a retard! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:To Boldly go ... (Score:5, Funny)
More like where no woman has gone before.
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Calling a "Nerd Alert" on Slashdot is like... (Score:3, Funny)
It's almost, like, surreal...ya know?
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Re:I've seen this before (Score:4, Informative)
You're thinking of Tony Alleyne [bbc.co.uk], who designed his apartment in grand Trek style.
Also, just to nitpick, have you ever watched Star Trek? It's "transporter", not "teleporter".
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