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.
If I was him: I'd learn the lesson that building permanent fixtures into a building you don't outright own is ALWAYS a bad idea. The lesson that most apartment dwellers (and divorce lawyers) know from day one.
If I was her: There's fans out there. Rich fans. Time to make back the mortgage money, plus.
He did all this... with something he didn't own... and she waited that long... and apparently isn't trying to sell it high-priced to another crazed Trekker...
There's just... not enough fail in the world to accurately describe this.
Well hope it isn't all to much for him. Would hate to have person off themselves so they don't have to see life's work destroyed. Also 94... it's 2012 and what was reason for waiting so long? Either he refused for long time or she is reason it took so long.
So I'm just going to make an educated guess, after checking out his website, and say he probably hasn't gotten laid in his own place since ~1994. Well... unless this kind of thing really does it for trek convention chicks. Speaking of which, where the hell is the bed, and/or any kind of personal entertainment besides 24/7 LARPing?
tangoprime: So I'm just going to make an educated guess, after checking out his website, and say he probably hasn't gotten laid in his own place since ~1994.
You'd be surprised...The Star Trek Con at the Holiday Inn is always rather full of rather...curvy females.
Allegedly.
(No, I've never been. The idea of some Beaumont Klingons terrifies me)
It's a shame to have that happen. But why in the world did she leave him 18 years ago and keep paying the morgage and still allow him to work there? That is crazy shit. If he had been paying for the place since then she would not have a leg to stand on, but he invested as much money as it may have cost him to just buy the apartment. That is some screwed up priorities.
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
Not necessarily. Lots of folks separate, but never actually get divorced, because its in their financial best interests to stay married. You get tax breaks and healthcare breaks, for example (at least in the U.S.). My aunt and uncle were separated for most of my life, and only formally got divorced when he decided he wanted to remarry.
In this case, their divorce was clearly quite amicable, as she allowed him to keep living in the property.
I'm both impressed and angry. Impressed by the craftmanship, but angry because that guy is a fucking retard. No shit you'll lose the house SHE'S PAYING FOR!
Granted, waiting 18 years to get a divorce is kind of excessive, but then, so is letting her pay for the damn thing. Idiot.
You know, part of me actually wants to live there not for the inherent geek thrills but just cause the place looks awesome.
And, though far from perfect, Voyager is better then a lot of people give it credit for. Enterprise is still the best though, theme song not withstanding.
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
As an alternate view, I sense someone who now wants to make the money back on a sound investment and, as a bonus, get an (apparent) freeloader out of the way.
Anyway, the guy must've known that this was a distinct possibility, the money he sunk into messing around creating said nerdvana would easily have covered a deposit for him to get his own place, which he could'vr turned into some other kind of techy hidey-hole. Hey ho, such is life.
Of course, there is one positive; there are plenty of memories for him to Klingon to.
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
Yeah, I'm thinking this can't be a coincidence. Like there's no way she just woke up one day after 20 years and said "Oh I think I'll finally get that divorce to my estranged husband now."
On the other hand, he probably should've ensured the apartment was in his name before starting on that project.
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
As an alternate view, I sense someone who now wants to make the money back on a sound investment and, as a bonus, get an (apparent) freeloader out of the way.
Anyway, the guy must've known that this was a distinct possibility, the money he sunk into messing around creating said nerdvana would easily have covered a deposit for him to get his own place, which he could'vr turned into some other kind of techy hidey-hole. Hey ho, such is life.
Of course, there is one positive; there are plenty of memories for him to Klingon to.
I'll be leaving now.
That joke was so bad it actually made me laugh! XD
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
Not necessarily. Lots of folks separate, but never actually get divorced, because its in their financial best interests to stay married. You get tax breaks and healthcare breaks, for example (at least in the U.S.). My aunt and uncle were separated for most of my life, and only formally got divorced when he decided he wanted to remarry.
In this case, their divorce was clearly quite amicable, as she allowed him to keep living in the property.
You don't get tax breaks in the us for being married unless only one person works.
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
Not necessarily. Lots of folks separate, but never actually get divorced, because its in their financial best interests to stay married. You get tax breaks and healthcare breaks, for example (at least in the U.S.). My aunt and uncle were separated for most of my life, and only formally got divorced when he decided he wanted to remarry.
In this case, their divorce was clearly quite amicable, as she allowed him to keep living in the property.
You don't get tax breaks in the us for being married unless only one person works.
Wow, you really want to get pedantic about this? There are financial benefits to staying married, or perhaps more precisely, to not getting divorced. That's the point I was making, as I'm sure you're quite aware.
Not necessarily. Lots of folks separate, but never actually get divorced, because its in their financial best interests to stay married. You get tax breaks and healthcare breaks, for example (at least in the U.S.). My aunt and uncle were separated for most of my life, and only formally got divorced when he decided he wanted to remarry.
In this case, their divorce was clearly quite amicable, as she allowed him to keep living in the property.
You don't get tax breaks in the us for being married unless only one person works.
Wow, you really want to get pedantic about this? There are financial benefits to staying married, or perhaps more precisely, to not getting divorced. That's the point I was making, as I'm sure you're quite aware.
It is a pet peeve of mine when I hear or read someone saying marriage has tax breaks. Just saying.
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
I kinda feel like we need to fire up the internet hate machine, track this bitch down and make sure the world knows this kind of bullshit is not acceptable. Seriously, this lady is a bitch.
I sense a certain conniving bitch who needs to be ejected into space.
I kinda feel like we need to fire up the internet hate machine, track this bitch down and make sure the world knows this kind of bullshit is not acceptable. Seriously, this lady is a bitch.
A bitch who owns the place the guy was building his stuff in.
Even the Jedi from Star Wars felt this one. I'm not a fan of Star Trek, but I can certainly appreciate the work this guy put into it. Real shame he's gona lose it, but I hope a Trek fan will buy it up.
Mike Richards: You know, part of me actually wants to live there not for the inherent geek thrills but just cause the place looks awesome.
And, though far from perfect, Voyager is better then a lot of people give it credit for. Enterprise is still the best though, theme song not withstanding.
Enterprise is best??? I am having a hard time reading that with a straight face, glad I wasn't drinking anything? As bad as Voyager was, it was better than Enterprise. The best Trek is DS9 but due to it's serialized nature, it's greatness wasn't seen until it hit DVD where people could watch the episodes back to back without commercials.
The most successful Trek was The Next Generation and the most hated was....you know the answer to that.
As far as the apartment, looks great. He lost it but if it helps him get a business off the ground, maybe it was worth it.
Crono1973: Enterprise is best??? I am having a hard time reading that with a straight face, glad I wasn't drinking anything? As bad as Voyager was, it was better than Enterprise. The best Trek is DS9 but due to it's serialized nature, it's greatness wasn't seen until it hit DVD where people could watch the episodes back to back without commercials.
The most successful Trek was The Next Generation and the most hated was....you know the answer to that.
I'll be the first to admit the series just did not have good episode plots for the entire first two seasons. But season 3's Xindi arc brought the serialization back in a big way and continued it through season 4's smaller arcs, whereas DS9 took 4 seasons just to get to any of the good stuff it kept hinting at.
I appreciated it because in it's own odd way it felt much more believable then the other series. The tech was imperfect, the people simultaneously behaved both more like officers on this type of mission would and like normal people would, the ship and especially uniforms looked much more realistic, the early seasons do an alright job indicating that a lot of space is empty, and not everyone on the ship and off gets along in a big happy family of hugs and flowers. It felt closer to being a world then a hodgepodge of impractical ideologies.
Even then, there are a lot of other series that outclass everything the whole franchise has accomplished, so it's hardly like Enterprise is the best that could ever be done. It just comparatively edges the others out in the areas that matter to me.
Crono1973: Enterprise is best??? I am having a hard time reading that with a straight face, glad I wasn't drinking anything? As bad as Voyager was, it was better than Enterprise. The best Trek is DS9 but due to it's serialized nature, it's greatness wasn't seen until it hit DVD where people could watch the episodes back to back without commercials.
The most successful Trek was The Next Generation and the most hated was....you know the answer to that.
I'll be the first to admit the series just did not have good episode plots for the entire first two seasons. But season 3's Xindi arc brought the serialization back in a big way and continued it through season 4's smaller arcs, whereas DS9 took 4 seasons just to get to any of the good stuff it kept hinting at.
I appreciated it because in it's own odd way it felt much more believable then the other series. The tech was imperfect, the people simultaneously behaved both more like officers on this type of mission would and like normal people would, the ship and especially uniforms looked much more realistic, the early seasons do an alright job indicating that a lot of space is empty, and not everyone on the ship and off gets along in a big happy family of hugs and flowers. It felt closer to being a world then a hodgepodge of impractical ideologies.
Even then, there are a lot of other series that outclass everything the whole franchise has accomplished, so it's hardly like Enterprise is the best that could ever be done. It just comparatively edges the others out in the areas that matter to me.
DS9 had it's good episodes prior to season 4, mostly when they were teasing about the Dominion. When DS9 took off in season 4 though, it really took off. Enterprise may have been getting better but it just never hit the high that DS9 did.
The Ultimate Star Trek Apartment Is Lost To Divorce
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.
Source: Blastr
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