Sep 22 2009I'd Live In It: Homemade Enterprise Galileo 2
Somebody went and built a USS Enterprise Galileo 2 shuttle in their backyard out of particleboard and, well, more particleboard. I would totally live in it too, I don't care if there are a bunch of spiders. Or roly polies! You see, I never had a treehouse growing up, so I'm trying to rekindle my youth. Sure, this technically isn't a treehouse, but it does beat camping out in your uncle's basement under a stained bedsheet draped between two barstools. Ah, the memories. Mostly bad ones.
Hit the jump for some more shots, including the ultra-sweet interior and a link to even more.
some grankids get tree houses, and some grankids.... [thechive]
Thanks to dr venkman, who got drunk on Slimer goo and drove the Ecto-1 right through that bitch.
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Reader Comments
1. steve - September 22, 2009 2:03 PM
woop, i hope i beat the first fags
2. faggot - September 22, 2009 2:10 PM
^ fag
v fag
3. SiGee - September 22, 2009 2:13 PM
hhmmm........
4. Johnny B - September 22, 2009 2:13 PM
To boldly go where no WOMAN has gone before... into that nerd's trailer.
5. Blastphemer - September 22, 2009 2:14 PM
Um...in a way, you did.
Anyways...
Good news - kids have a pretty cool playhouse, complete with decent job on the interior.
Bad news - attributing to more future Trekkies.
Build 'em a Death Star, Gramps!!! Sheez...back in your day I thought they dreamt BIG!. Pansy.
6. naas - September 22, 2009 2:26 PM
piece of crap transporter
7. livingjetlag - September 22, 2009 2:30 PM
Shuttle up on blocks in the yard... trailer trash from the future!
8. Darth Maul - September 22, 2009 2:30 PM
So I never understood- since they could 'beam' themselves anywhere they needed to go, why even have shuttles (except that it was convenient to the plot)? Can any trekkies answer that?
9. Robert - September 22, 2009 2:34 PM
Ah! I missed that! The concrete blocks are awesome! wow this thing's trashy
10. Mr. cow - September 22, 2009 2:37 PM
Moo
11. naas - September 22, 2009 2:38 PM
looks great on cinder blocks & I like the snack table next to the entrance
12. Ham Bone - September 22, 2009 2:41 PM
If this shuttle is rockin' dont come knockin' ... but it probably wont be so come on in
13. naas - September 22, 2009 2:47 PM
hehe... http://www.sneeko.net/images/gifs1/a64171955baf14ad4337bc6c3394c45f1142a81a.gif
14. naas - September 22, 2009 2:47 PM
^ language btw, lnsfw
15. Eskimo Dave - September 22, 2009 2:47 PM
If I was a poor Trekkie, this might not be the worst place to live.
16. Moose Knuckle - September 22, 2009 2:50 PM
Looks safe, as long as you're not wearing a red shirt when you go out.
17. whitney - September 22, 2009 2:54 PM
@ Darth
The range wasn't very far on the transporters. And scenes depicting the shuttles were expensive to shoot.
TNG Trekkie for life. Hans Solo is a BITCH.
18. ted - September 22, 2009 3:04 PM
@17.
who is HANS Solo. didn't know he was plural.
OH SNAP!
19. Moose Knuckle - September 22, 2009 3:07 PM
@8, 17, Also, there are times when the transporter is impractacal or unsafe to use, (ion storm, radiation storm, tachyon particles, beginning of 1st Star Trek movie, ect.).
There may be times when a handful of crew members could use the shuttle for research or visit a planet or space station while the Enterprise is doing something else and can rendevous later.
A shuttle can be taken to places to confining or turbulant for a starship.
Doctors, including Leonard "Bones" (little bitch) Mccoy were notoriously phobic of transporters having intimate knowledge of what it actually is doing to your body.
Shuttles can transport things that a transporter cannot lock on to or has special properties that may interfere with the process.
Battlstar Galactica FTW!!
20. Mr. pig - September 22, 2009 3:43 PM
Oink
21. Andyman - September 22, 2009 3:49 PM
Gene Roddenberry originally wanted to have the Enterprise "land" on planets but the production costs were too prohibitive so he came up with the transporter concept as a budget dodge. I imagine any scenes featuring the shuttle were pricey, too.
Oh god...did I just betray my inner trekness?
22. Gancos - September 22, 2009 4:50 PM
If it really is made of particle board I bet it'll swell up the size of the Death Star when it rains.
23. Blastphemer - September 22, 2009 5:03 PM
1. Let me just say that someone who likes a series where all the characters run around in tight-fitting brightly colored uniforms, whose hero is The Shat, calling Han Solo gay...hell, i don't even have to finish that sentence.
2. Props to the Battlestar Gallactica reference, but I'll take Col. Deering from Buck Rogers ANY DAY! Just sayin.
3. I'll give it up to the Trek for 2 things...7 of 9, & holodecks programmed to run 7 of 9 sexual encounters.
Excuse me while I go rewatch all of the greatest movies and episodes from Star Trek, who knows...maybe I missed something.
...........
24. Blastphemer - September 22, 2009 5:05 PM
.........
Done. Turns out I didn't.
25. _me - September 22, 2009 9:05 PM
THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!!!!!
26. Murree Hotels - September 22, 2009 9:49 PM
This thing looks a lot like the icecream parlour I go to every week !. but thier icecreams are better :)
27. ted - September 22, 2009 10:38 PM
what the hell state would you think that is?
28. asher - September 23, 2009 1:06 AM
concrete blocks because some jedi came and stole the nacelles
29. Jaded Icon - September 23, 2009 7:36 AM
If this was created for kids (or grandkids) than all the more power to him. But if this was created for himself than I want to personally thank him for volunteering to stay a virgin all his life.......more ladies to go around, yee-ha!
30. Geekogee - September 23, 2009 9:49 AM
Must See!!!
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31. Steven Arango - September 23, 2009 1:17 PM
Hey Steve... YOUR A FAG!!!
- Steve the REAL fag
P.S. You're a f-ing tool
32. Tardis - September 23, 2009 8:18 PM
Well, it sure beats an At At bunk bed
33. roxlyde - September 28, 2009 7:27 AM
It looks like ol' Gene got his inspiration from a Big Mac container.