Where No Home Theater Has Gone Before

January 27, 2006 1:34 PM

Where No Home Theater Has Gone Before. The ultimate home theater for hopeless nerds: The bridge of the Enterprise. (Warning: site does not travel at warp speed.)
posted by frykitty (25 comments total)

That is sweet.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:44 PM on January 27, 2006

awesome

/geek-out
posted by raedyn at 1:50 PM on January 27, 2006

There is much sadness in the world.
posted by xmutex at 1:51 PM on January 27, 2006

site does not travel at warp speed

She cannae take much marra this, Cap'n! She's brrreakin' up!
posted by CynicalKnight at 1:52 PM on January 27, 2006

You should have preloaded it into the Coral Cache and posted that link instead. The site was already slow...I think you just killed it.

If you know a site is slow to begin with, it's extremely irresponsible to link it from a high traffic site. In essence, you just launched a moderate DoS attack.

I'm trying to get it loaded into Coral now, though I'm not having much luck. If I succeed: Coral Cache link.

It's partially loaded now, better than nothing.
posted by Malor at 1:52 PM on January 27, 2006

Now you too can loose your wife/girlfriend at warp speed! This is sorta what I imagined most the dot-com money went for just before the crash. Just a guess.
posted by Zorro on Doughnuts at 1:58 PM on January 27, 2006

It was on Boing Boing yesterday, so I'm guessing it was already well on its way to being dead. There's also a 3D tour of the bridge, but that link's dead, too, after Cory updated the Boing Boing post to include it.
posted by fochsenhirt at 2:07 PM on January 27, 2006

That's what I get for not reading BB. Ah well, still good fun. And yeah, if I'd had dot-com money, I'd definitely be watching movies from the bridge. Think I'd do 1701-D.
posted by frykitty at 2:09 PM on January 27, 2006

Wow. It'd be cool if he picked up some girls at the bar and convinced them to come back to his place and "watch movies." Their reactions on seeing this would be decent reality tv (assuming some would love it while others would run away screaming.)
posted by elwoodwiles at 2:20 PM on January 27, 2006

*drools*

That’s much snazzier than the bridge of the Enterprise
posted by Smedleyman at 2:56 PM on January 27, 2006

elwoodwiles, I'd pay a buck to watch that highlight reel. Especially if dude came out all dressed up like Picard.
posted by fenriq at 2:58 PM on January 27, 2006

Service Temporarily Unavailable . . .

:(

this is the internet for god sake. i wait for no web site!
posted by nola at 3:22 PM on January 27, 2006

I had a similar kneejerk (re: over-the-top) geekiness nausia, but then I realized it was some older gentleman.

I commend him for his enthusiasm, technical skill, and attention to detail.

I wonder why I felt that young geek doing something like this = stupid, old geek doing something like this = awesome?
posted by PurplePorpoise at 3:49 PM on January 27, 2006

As much as I'd like to make fun of that...wow. Badass.
posted by ColdChef at 3:51 PM on January 27, 2006

Tres cool. But does it come with working replicator? I so cannot wait for the day when I can go to a spot in the wall and say "Earl Grey, hot" and get a nice fresh cuppa.
posted by Zinger at 3:54 PM on January 27, 2006

If you know a site is slow to begin with, it's extremely irresponsible to link it from a high traffic site. In essence, you just launched a moderate DoS attack.

When it comes down to it, isn't the whole internet a moderate DoS attack? And isn't that a metaphor for life?

Think about it.
posted by The God Complex at 4:00 PM on January 27, 2006

Noooo, I forgot my quotation marks. It's been too long since I used MeFi!
posted by The God Complex at 4:02 PM on January 27, 2006

You can make all the lame, tired, cliched jokes about geeks being inept with the opposite gender, but you can't deny that he has a kick-ass home theater set-up.

If I were this guys friend I would rather watch the DVD of a movie at his place than a film at the theater.
posted by oddman at 4:02 PM on January 27, 2006

Imagine the fun:
Wife: "Sir, Willi Wonker is hailing us from the Chocolate sector"
Husband: "Excellent - on screen!"
Wife: "Should popcorn be provided for this meeting?"
Husband: "Make it so!"

Who am I kidding, this and having a wife are mutually exclusive. I don't know why it even has more than one chair.

He links to even more impressive homes theaters at the bottom of the main page.
posted by AndrewStephens at 4:07 PM on January 27, 2006

I love seeing something of this caliber being brought into the world. Also, it makes my lame-ass ceiling mounted projector and drop-down screen seem really frakking lame by comparison.

Or at least less nerdy.

All I can say is at least he had the good taste to go for TOS rather than the other models...
posted by Busithoth at 4:25 PM on January 27, 2006

(assuming some would love it while others would run away screaming.)

I'm assuming all of them would run away screaming...
posted by jalexei at 4:50 PM on January 27, 2006

Tell us more about hailing the Chocolate sector.
posted by trondant at 5:30 PM on January 27, 2006

If you've got hail in your chocolate sector, you should go and see Dr. Crusher.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:50 PM on January 27, 2006

It's gonna be kind of hard to live long and prosper after spending all that money on the bridge. Would the bridge help the resale value of his house?

And the signs with the DTS and Dolby logos might be even nerdier than the bridge.
posted by kirkaracha at 5:53 PM on January 27, 2006

Some girls/women would love this as much as the owner does. Hell, I'm female and not even that much of a geek, but had I enough time and money, I'd probably build something like this myself.
posted by kumonoi at 1:45 AM on January 28, 2006