Imagine going home with this guy on a date? (the Star Trek apartment)

He's some dream date for a Trekkie woman. The article says the wife didn't divorce him over his Star Trek apartment but if anything that would confirm that I did the right thing by divorcing him.

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A man who spent ten years turning an apartment into the ultimate Star Trek bachelor pad is going to lose it all in a divorce.

Believe it or not, Tony Alleyne's wife didn't leave him because he turned their apartment into a highly-detailed [and hideously expensive] replica of the interior of the U.S.S. Voyager, the starship from the sci-fi television show of the same name. He transformed his one-bedroom apartment after she left him, handcrafting the whole thing himself, and while it's a little crazy, it's also pretty amazing handiwork. Obsessive or not, and questionable choice of Star Trek series to emulate notwithstanding, the results are undeniably impressive.

Alas, that decade of hopes, dreams and hard work will all soon be in the dumpster. Alleyne's wife left him in '94 but apparently didn't bother to seek a divorce until recently, and now that she has, she wants to sell the apartment "as a conventional property."

"To say I'm gutted is an understatement. It is my life's work - and it looks like it's going into a skip," Alleyne said. "I admit there were tears."

It's hard not to feel sorry for the guy, especially since he sunk more than $150,000 into building his dream home, but tempering that sympathy is the fact that his soon-to-be-ex-wife is the one who actually owns the apartment and has been paying the mortgage on it since they split almost 20 years ago. It's a sad loss of a tremendous amount of time, effort and money, not to mention one of the most gloriously nerdy joints ever made, but I can't help thinking that if Alleyne had put some of that money and effort into actually paying for the place instead of turning it into his own personal television set, he might not have to chuck it all into the garbage.













He was featured in 2007 in a magazine about cool homes. I can imagine seeing my ex husband who has been living in my apartment for a decade & thinking "really? you're not paying for that apartment, & you can spend the money on interoir design?!"

Alleyne actually parted with his own bed to perfect the Transporter area. However, it wasn’t entirely for aesthetic purposes. “A few years ago I suffered with sciatica and was advised by my GP [general practitioner] to sleep on the floor,” he says. “It cured the sciatica and gave me the opportunity to convert the bed area into the Transporter area—bed space is overrated.”

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Re: Imagine going home with this guy on a date? (the Star Trek apartment)

i am by no means a trekki fan, but that is awesome... too bad he didn't think about the fact the apt isn't his.. ha ha ha

Re: Imagine going home with this guy on a date? (the Star Trek apartment)

He gets no sympathy from me because he didn't pay for the mortgage on it for almost 20 years. He can cry all he wants, but his wife paid for it (probably to maintain her credit) and he blew his money on all the star trek crap. Seems like he got used to be taken care of and now he's sad. Oh well!

Re: Imagine going home with this guy on a date? (the Star Trek apartment)

At first I thought "Oh, that's terrible that she would make him tear everything down from their apartment!"... then when I read more, it turned into "Ohh..... it wasn't *their* apartment, he was just squatting in *her* apartment....."

He should just buy the apartment from her.

I'm thinking someone is going to make some money off of it as a tourist attraction or something.

ETA:
Even if the rent was $500/month (makes for easier math that way.... ), he didn't have to spend about $108,000 over the last 18 years... no wonder he could afford to spend $150,000 in decorations.

Message edited 1/30/2012 8:35:48 AM.