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Sure, you may have seen Star Trek fans dress up, wait outside in freezing temperatures for limited edition figurines, but how about building a custom home theater or apartment? Continue reading to see them both. Click here for first picture in gallery.

No Star Trek fan's home is complete without these pixel-art/3D masterpieces, made from thousands of beads -- includes the "holodeck door, Enterprise-D's bridge, and the 'beaming down" series.' Click here for first picture in gallery.

Bead curtains are like, so 1950's huh? Artist Devorah Sperber doesn't think so. Her amazing Star Trek bead curtains are much more likely to be adorning gallery walls than the front door of your local grocery store

Star Trek fan Gary Reighn spent approximately 2-years and $15,000 planning and building this incredible home theater setup in his basement, complete with Star Dock and 40GB PlayStation 3. Click here for first picture in gallery.

[via Deputy-dog - Reighn]

In this interesting "Kipkay" tutorial, he shows us how to hack the Playstation 3 Blu-ray laser by cramming it into a Star Trek Phaser, creating the: "Blu-ray Laser Phaser". Video after the break.

Measuring 70 x 22 ft., this incredible "Next Generation Star Trek Home Theater" took approximately six months to complete -- also includes a bar and ready room. Click here for more pictures.

"The client has amassed a very large collection of original props, models and drawings from "Star Trek," TV series and other sci-fi movies," says Hoover. Highlights include motion-activated air-lock doors with series sound effects. There's even a "Red Alert" button on the Crestron TPMC-10 controller to turn all of the LEDs bright red and flashing, along with the actual sounds from "Star Trek" blaring. "If you don't know it's coming it scares the pants off guests."

Created by a Star Trek fan, this nifty case mod boasts warp engines and even water cooling, but fortunately, it can't attain warp speed. First picture in gallery.

(Thanks, Brian L.)