Liu Dejian, a Chinese web app developer and over-the-top Trekkie, has built his company's corporate headquarters in the shape of the SS Enterprise, Captain Kirk's space ship. Now, this is what I call a fan!
At a cost of $160 million, Liu has actualized his obsession with Star Trek and fulfilled the mantra of 'going where no man has gone before'. Reports from within NetDragon Websoft, Liu's company, indicate that Liu went so far as to secure the copyright for the Enterprise, to make his dream headquarters 100% legal. No word on how much he paid for the copyright but it may have been a good bit over the $160 million construction cost for the building. The huge space-ship shaped corporate campus is quite functional and beautiful and may be as large, if not larger, than the fictional SS Enterprise.
NetDragon has had great success with mobile smartphone games and other apps in China, and Liu himself has branched out of the app game and into fields like bioengineering. Liu had an early love for the 'Star Trek' TV show and the Trek-series of movies, and is wealthy enough to indulge his passion as a Trekkie. This is quite impressive, it's fantasy to reality in very big terms.
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