One company has boldly gone where none has before and constructed an office based on the USS Enterprise.
Though the replica building was completed just over a year ago, pictures obtained from Google satellite photos have recently been impressing trekkies across the globe.
According to the Wall St Journal, the building belongs to gaming company NetDragon Websoft, which is based in Changle in China’s south-east Fujian province.
The company’s founder, Liu Dejian, also a board member in search engine giant Baidu, is a massive Star Trek fan.
The building stands at 260m long, 100m wide, and six floors high; and construction cost a total of 600 million yuan (€88.5m).
The germ of the idea came from looking a a poster of the Enterprise, and it was decided the finished product would be held up by pillars as if it were sitting on a landing dock.
NetDragon were careful to make sure they had the permission of US broadcaster CBS, who hold the rights to the Star Trek series. When contacted, CBS were left bemused by the question:
“That was their first time dealing with an issue like this and at first they thought that it was a joke,” NetDragon Websoft said.
“They realised somebody in China actually did want to work out a building modelled on the USS Enterprise only after we sent the relevant legal documents.”
