King Abdullah of Jordan to build $1.5 Billion STAR TREK theme park
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You couldn't build it to look the same externally without a bunch of supports holding it up that would ruin the look, but I think having a conventional building with a full-scale mock-up of the Enterprise-D (only because it's the most hotel-like) on the inside serving as a giant luxury hotel would be awesome and feasible given a kingly budget and no concerns about its viability as a business venture.
You could use reprogrammable TV screens in the cabin windows to simulate space, have the elevators look like turbolifts, have dumbwaiters deliver food to the replicator slots after you choose your meal from a touchscreen menu, have motion trusses and interactive panels/vidscreens for guests to run simulations on the bridge and battle bridge, have several pre-selected holodeck themes and environments which you can request in advance and then have the holodecks/ballrooms set up that way by your allotted time complete with in-character hotel employees (want a Klingon wedding for instance?), have a full-scale dolphin and killer whale aquarium for cetacean ops, have Ten Forward and an arboretum and a mall, have a Stellar Cartography planetarium with guest seats around the bottom, and have Star Tours like shuttlecraft rides (amongst other things).
Get the real actors from the shows to pay a visit and perform sometimes, and hold conventions in the giant main shuttlebay.
That's what I'd do if I had billions of dollars to blow and was more concerned about my personal fanwank than building universities or hospitals or something.
If i were one of those 40 millions pounds lottery winners at some stage i would buy a fair sized house near the sea, and in the basement a replica of TOS bridge as a movie room..........self indulgent i know but you can do that in dreams.....and i would pay Shatner $1 million to officially hand command of it over to me and call me Captain.......yes i like that.......Captain Haggis........Yes....she's mine now......all mine.....(And que nurse with medication).
Well, the Star Trek theme park is part of a wave of new waterfront development in the Jordanian coastal city of Aqaba designed to make it have a similar appeal to Dubai and attract more foreign tourism. Right now they typically get about 98,000 European visitors as their main foreign tourist element (according to Wiki) and about three times as many Jordanians, and the development should hopefully increase that.
Whether a Trek-themed park is going to attract enough local and worldwide visitors to be economically viable is another matter, but considering that this seems to be the King's passion project, he might be inclined to prop it up financially even if it doesn't do so well.
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