Poor Trekkie Loses His Star Trek Themed Home in Divorce
If this weren’t a story about divorce, and instead just about a guy who spent thousands of dollars making his home look like a to-scale replica of the Star Trek ship. I would giggle and poke fun and tease the guy for clearly being a loser and having nothing better to do with his time and money. However, because this story ends with his ex-wife destroying the fantasy home he has built and poured money into over the past ten years, I instead mourn for his passionate hobby and CURSE MARRIAGE EVEN HARDER THAN EVER BEFORE. It’s funny how the mind works, huh?
According to TheDailyMail, 52-year-old Tony Alleyne has spent the years since his divorce in 1994 pain-stakingly recreating the Starship Voyager’s interior in his home. Everything from the flight deck to the teleporting transporters has new life in Alleyne’s home. However, his dream is about to come to a screeching halt, as his
‘It all started as therapy after we split up,’ he said. ‘Building every bit from scratch really helped me to deal with the stress of it all.’
‘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.’
Alleyne claims that to rebuild the faux-ship elsewhere it would cost up to 100,000 pounds.
You know what comes next, folks. Reason #44,990 not to get married: your selfish bitch of an ex-wife might take your years of work and flush them down the toilet.