Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Star Trek Home Theater

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the money-to-burn dept.

Critical Facilities writes "Someone thought it would be a good idea to model their home theater after the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The result is super geeky, but actually rather cool. Named the best theme theater installation at CEDIA 2007, this Palm Beach County, FL home features motion-activated air-lock doors with series sound effects, and a "Red Alert" button on the Crestron TPMC-10 controller to turn all of the LEDs bright red and flashing."

9 of 123 comments (clear)

  1. Just shoot me... by djupedal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The guy has been trying to sell this house for the last year. I mean, come on - I don't slight the guy for building such a 'tribute' - it had to be fun. But then putting the house on the market and expecting someone to welcome such an addition? That just doesn't make sense.

    1. Re:Just shoot me... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Informative

      This is a different build - the one you are thinking of was a guy from England who went bankrupt trying to sell his 24th century flat.

      http://www.24thcid.com/
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/4695188.stm

      --
      liqbase :: faster than paper
    2. Re:Just shoot me... by morari · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Most people with a sense of humor would welcome it, I suspect. Selling a house is difficult work to begin with, and the real estate market in general has been horrid this year. The real problem usually lies within the buyer. You have a bunch of ignorant people house shopping, though they have no idea what they want or how much they're willing to pay for it. When they see something they like they try to hold up the entire process while they dick around with a bank to get a loan which usually falls through anyway unless it's a generic ranch house or a stuffy condo.

      Yay for our debt-based society!

      --
      "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
    3. Re:Just shoot me... by karnal · · Score: 4, Informative
      Actually, it doesn't look like he went bankrupt trying to sell it - he actually likes the 24th century interiors; it's just that he set up a business doing the same interior remodelling. With credit cards. And it didn't take off.

      Tony Alleyne, 52, spent nine years and £30,000 transforming his flat and used another £100,000 to launch a company which offered similar makeovers. But the schemes were funded by loans and credit cards and he has filed for bankruptcy with debts of £166,000. To speak to the actual article here though, building a home theater is a fun experience - especially enjoying it afterwards. I would have to wonder what the pricetag is on the star-trek based theater; however against true Slashdot fashion I did read the article and there was not even a ballpark estimate given.
      --
      Karnal
  2. Haha. by Gigiya · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like the comment left on TFA: "now, the only thing left is to actually convince a human woman to go in there with you..."

    1. Re:Haha. by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Informative

      The girl I was living with at the time Star Trek: The Next Generation first came out was one of those people (an English major, as it happens) for whom Star Trek, indeed science-fiction in general, held no appeal. Science either, for that matter. Just didn't see the point ("What good is that Space Shuttle? Bring it down to Earth and spend that money on social programs.")

      But the show was on at 5:00 PM every Saturday, and it didn't matter what social plans she might have made for the evening, I wasn't leaving until I'd received my Star Trek fix. I could have taped it, but that wasn't the point: this is my show and you will work around it. Now at first, this irritated her to no end, but as I watched each episode she would hang around in the background, feigning disinterest but with her curiosity obviously piqued. After a couple months of this, she sat down next to me and asked, "so ... who's the guy with the greenish skin that talks so oddly?" I explained to her that Lt. Commander Data was actually an android, who was trying hard to understand us better so as to be more human. A couple of months more, and she would answer the phone with, "Sorry, Debby, we can't come over now ... Star Trek's on. I'll call you later. Bye!" Turned her into a Trekkie just from secondhand exposure, and as a consequence she began to think about the relevance of science and technology to any modern culture, that in fact they make our lifestyle possible. She'd never really thought about that before. Most Americans don't, when you get right down to it: everything might as well be powered by magic.

      So it is possible. Trekkiedom is not solely the province of male geeks and nerds, much as some of us might like to believe that. I remember reading in the book "The Making of Star Trek" (original series) that the female test audiences were just completely in love with Mr. Spock, and oddly enough resented Uhura ("Who does she think she is, anyway, doing man's work on the bridge and wearing an outfit like that!") Things were a bit different back in the sixties.

      --
      The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  3. Re:Telepathic doors by module0000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...."There goes another one of those self-satisfied doors", said Marvin.

    --
    Trackball users will be first against the wall.
  4. Link to original article by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.electronichouse.com/article/next_generation_star_trek_home_theater/C154

    I hate getting sent to articles that are simple summaries of the original.

    --
    NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
  5. does the MPAA know... by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Interesting

    about those 3,816 DVDs he's admitted to copying???

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.