Chinese Businessman Built Amazing $100M ‘Star Trek’ Inspired Corporate HQ Resembling USS Enterprise

I have no idea what NetDragon Websoft’s business actually is, but I do know that its founder Liu Dejian — a 43-year-old University of Kansas alumni — is THE MAN for conceiving this absolute masterpiece of a corporate office, modeled after the USS Enterprise from Star Trek.

Naturally, the 260-meter long, 100-meter wide, six-floor Star Trek replica is literally recognizable from space!

And there’s clearly no debate about where Mr. Dejian derived his inspiration for the awesomely engineered headquarters, located in the coastal city of Changle in China’s southeast Fujian province. I mean, here’s a schematic right from the USS Enterprise’s manual.

A Wall Street Journal article explains how NetDragon’s interstellar inspired HQ came to fruition.

According to the company, executives didn’t make a building based on the Enterprise their first choice because much of it would have to be elevated. But one day, inspired by a poster for the franchise, they decided to put the giant ship on several columns, as if it had landed on the field for repairs.

Once NetDragon made its decision, it said, the company contacted U.S. media company CBS , which produces Star Trek, to secure the rights. “That was their first time dealing with issue like this and at first they thought that it was a joke,” said the company in an email.

But it wasn’t. Four years later, after beginning construction in October 2010, the Star Trek tribute office was completed last May, after a total investment of some $97 million by Liu, who also happens to sit on the board of Chinese internet magnate Baidu.

Surely a pretty awesome place to go to work at every day whether you’re a Trekkie or not, that’s for sure. The Star Trek-esque building is cool in it’s own right, but all the amenities surrounding it scream, “Our corporate culture is fucking awesome!”

Anddd I just looked it up and discovered that NetDragon’s business is video game development, so yeah, definitely an stellar place to hold down a job. They probably holograph everybody to the conference room for meetings, all “Beam me up, Scotty” style.

[h/t WSJ, NetDragon]