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I should have posted this ages ago. You may have heard about the Trekkie. Well about 3 years ago I took a tour of Trek flat 1.0 in the company of Tony. You can hear me beaming down to Nuneaton Station and otherwise making a fool of myself here. The two things about the flat worth mentioning not captured by the audio are a) the strong smell of plastic and b) that the mock 24th century interior lay behind a 1980's mock tudor exterior

The sold for "5 times original price" headlines in most of the news reports fail to reflect the full extent of Tony's expenses as ::

Tony Alleyne, 52, spent nine years and £30,000 transforming his flat and used another £100,000 to launch a company which offered similar makeovers.But the schemes were funded by loans and credit cards and he has filed for bankruptcy with debts of £166,000.

Following this set-back Tony did what many a home-seller has done and redecorated. .Tony updated the flat to resemble the Voyager series. It seems to have done the trick, now that he's successfully sold the property. A rather happier ending than that of Star Trek itself, which after Enterprise,