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I've wanted to build a Sci-Fi themed Bed & Breakfast for a while. The idea would be to build the "ship" under ground, in a hilltop in the middle of nowhere. It would isolate the rooms from the outside sound (trees and wind and animals can still be noisy). Lowerdeck portholes would have large, LED lightboards shadowboxed behind them to draw stars streaking by (I know it's not physically accurate, but it's still part of the Star Trek visual). The "bridge" at the top of the hill could have an observation skylight/porthole like the Enterprise has. On a clear night, you'd look up and out and see nothing but stars. There'd be at least one, large, CAVE VR system for a holodeck. We'd hire one of those bartenders who mixes dry ice into drinks. Maybe even setup a 3D food printer.

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The Flying Saucer restaurant in Niagara Falls has been around for 40 years serving great diner food. You can't tell very well from the photos, but the original design was shaped like a flying saucer, and the interior decor and menus are all themed.

I thought about a Star Trek themed burger joint called "To Boldly Grill." The burger would be the saucer section and the fries would be on each side and like nacelles.

It's super cheesey but I think it would have worked in the 90s. I have no idea how hard it would be to get legal permissions for something like that.

You had me at super cheesy burger.

Well, here’s a cozy Titan II missile silo for sale: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/980-N-Sibyl-Rd-Benson-AZ-...

For real though...I’d stay here—lemme know.

I just had another thought... the parking could be in the shuttle bay, in the back of the lower fuselage, jutting out of the slope of the hill. You could then take a "turbolift" up to the saucer section, where the rooms would be.

And I've always thought one of those mid-90s Chevy Luminas would be an ideal base to modify to make look like a shuttlecraft.

EDIT: yeah, kinda like this https://mikeshouts.com/minivan-turned-into-star-trek-shuttle... (though they used a Ford Aerostar)

>The "bridge" at the top of the hill could have an observation skylight/porthole like the Enterprise has. On a clear night, you'd look up and out and see nothing but stars.

But they would be stationary? And at any other time you'd see clouds / blue sky / planes and birds flying overhead. Seems like it would break the immersion a bit.

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