Engage. No, geronimo. TARDIS to warp factor 9.
Yes, prepare yourselves: IDW Publishing is releasing an official Doctor Who/Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover series this May. It will feature the whole crew—the Eleventh Doctor, Captain Picard, Rory, Amy, Worf, Data, Geordi LaForge, Deanna Troi, Will Riker and more. My doctor and my captain. I’m so in.
You can bet IDW will be divulging details at the upcoming Doctor Who convention, Gallifrey One, but until then you can feast your eyes on the cover art above.
(via Bleeding Cool)
After a long, hard day at the office, imagine coming home and resting your feet on the Enterprise NCC-1701-C. The seller crafted the starship from ash, poplar, and cherry wood. It will set you back $3100 before shipping—but you can’t put a price on endless jokes about the warp factor of your living room.
See the view from the aft end after the break.
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Super-Trekkie Tony Alleyne spent 10 years and an unbelievable amount of money converting his 500 sq ft Leicester, U.K. apartment into the interior of the USS Voyager, complete with hand-crafted furnishings, molded walls, voice-activated blue lighting, a command console and a transporter room. However, he and his wife are now getting a divorce, and she wants to sell the apartment as a conventional property – property that she owns and has paid for since 1994. (Apparently, they separated that same year. Why he put all of this work into an apartment he didn’t own is baffling—as is his ex-wife’s willingness to keep up the payments.) So, that leaves Tony with no choice but to destroy his creation:
To say I’m gutted is an understatement. It is my life’s work—and it looks like it’s going into a skip. I admit there were tears.
As you’ll see in the video after the break Tony tried to sell the place as is back in 2007, but it seems that sale fell through. Although the destruction of this beautiful creation is seemingly imminent, there’s always the hope that some rich Star Trek fan will step up and buy the place before its gutted.
Hit the jump to check out some additional photos, as well as a news report from Tony’s previous sale attempt.
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Deciding it would be impossible to contruct a large scale USS Enterprise using pure LEGO, Eurobricks Forum user Myko opted to build the more compact USS Reliant from Wrath of Khan. One year and 10-15k LEGO bricks later, the project is complete.
Check out some additional photos after the break.
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It’s a good day when science fiction meets board games. If you like Settlers of Catan and Star Trek, you’ll be happy to know that Star Trek Catan is an actual product. It’s slated for March release in Germany, and it adds Trekkie flavor to the already awesome board game. There are space stations instead of cities and star ships instead of roads. From the official description:
In Star Trek Catan, players start the game with two small space stations at the intersection of three planets, with each planet supplying resources based on the result of a dice roll. Players collect and trade these resources – Dilithium, Tritanium, food, oxygen and water – in order to build spaceships that connect regions in the galaxy, establish small and large space stations at new intersection points in order to increase resource acquisition, and acquire development cards that provide victory points (VPs) or special abilities.
It doesn’t make the most sense that these two things would be mashed together, but it’s actually kind of intriguing because it’s so ridiculous. Plus, just look at the board design!
(Topless Robot via Geekosystem)
Pretend your house is part of the Star Trek universe by fitting it up with an electronic door chime disguised to look like the wall communicator panels from the original series. The officially licensed product offers a door opening “swoosh” sound effect or a Red Alert alarm, which will sound whenever someone crosses the threshold.
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If you’ve always wanted to cuddle with the Starship Enterprise, now you can, thanks to this plush from ThinkGeek. Designed with accuracy in mind, this officially-licensed Star Trek collectible has the familiar look of the Enterprise along with blinking LEDs on the engine nacelles and the ability to launch photon torpedoes when squeezed.
Check out some additional photos after the break.
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Compared to this crazy Turkish Star Trek parody dubbed Spacekisser, Dodd Trek should have won an Oscar for best picture.
Experience it after the break.
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Trekkies will no doubt be making a pilgrimage to to East Peoria, Illinois, where word has it this epic USS Enterprise Christmas light display is currently wowing passersby. Details seem to be sparse, but hopefully the web will provide all the answers in due time.
(Reddit via Neatorama)
