This should come as no surprise – China, I want to say, has a lot of money to spend, and it takes special people (sometimes those from the gaming world) to put this into practice:

Yes, friends, that is an office building modelled after the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E, from Star Trek. Yes, people do this sort of thing and yes, it is amazingly fabulous.

Built by Hong Kong-listed Chinese online game developer NetDragon Websoft founder Liu Dejian, the building is 260 meters long, 100 meters wide and six storeys tall. It cost $97 million to build and took three years.

When Dejian decided he wanted the building to look like the spaceship, he contacted CBS (who produced Star Trek) to secure the rights.

That was their first time dealing with issue like this and at first they thought that it was a joke. They realized somebody in China actually did want to work out a building modeled on the USS Enterprise only after we sent the relevant legal documents.

And as if working inside a spaceship wasn’t enough, employees also get to gaze at a life size replica of a T-Rex skeleton.

Happy days. You could never be grumpy on a Monday morning at this place.

[Source: The Wall Street Journal]