I need help with crowd funding!

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Tiny Canadian town crowdfunding full-size USS Enterprise

A crowdfunding campaign aims to build a full-size working version of the USS Enterprise from "Star Trek" in the Canadian Badlands, but the funding goal is a long way off.

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The "Star Trek Capital of Canada" is a town of fewer than 2,000 residents located in the Badlands in Alberta. Vulcan has embraced its name by hosting an annual celebration called Spock Days, which has attracted "Star Trek" actors ranging from Leonard Nimoy himself to Walter Koenig and Robert Picardo. Just hosting a big "Trek" party isn't enough. Now Vulcan wants to build a working version of the USS Enterprise.

Vulcan launched its effort on Indiegogo with a modest goal of just $2 billion. The pledge levels escalate rapidly from $10 to have your name included on a monument, to $10,000 for an invitation to the debut of warp drive, to $500 million to have the Vulcan Super-Luminal Research Centre named in your honor. Chip in $1 billion and you'll get your name on the Vulcan Spaceport.

More here.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. "...modest goal of just $2 billion."

Stop right there. And don't even think of a warp drive really being built, although we should get at least a transporter for that kind of cash.

Alas, even though I am heartened by Chase Masterson and Nana Visitor still looking great, far too much money for far too little.

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2. Nana Visitor is right. They should build a space station.