We already know history will never forget the name Enterprise, but now architecture won't either.
There's a building in China that looks almost exactly like the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. Drone footage (which we really wish was set to this music) shows how a relatively conventional-looking building from the ground dramatically transforms into a regal starship when viewed from the air.
Lest you think this is visual trickery done via Holodeck or CGI, the starship/building is clearly visible on Google Maps.
Our tipster explained to us that the building is the headquarters of NetDragon Websoft, a Chinese gaming and mobile Internet company. And it's no Chinese knock-off: Company Chairman Liu DeJian is reportedly an uberTrekkie, licensing from CBS the rights to build an Enterprise replica. Construction began in 2008 and was finished in 2014; the project cost $160 million total.
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:We all laugh now... then in a month or so the thing takes off into space.
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939
McAvoy wrote:Be kinda cool if they made a Chinese Star Trek if there wasn't laws to prevent them from doing it.
China seems to consider US patents as "free blueprints" so I don't know that there's any law they'd care about as far as that goes. Though they wouldn't be able to sell whatever they produced legally in much of the world. I don't know if they really have the productions values to do Trek well though. And for national pride reasons I don't think they'd be willing to go with a half measure.
That said Trek has enough of a touch of socialism you'd wonder if those in power over there wouldn't be inclined to support it.
