{"id":35084,"date":"2014-07-15T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=35084"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:42:52","slug":"star-trek-man-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/07\/star-trek-man-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Man-Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35087\" alt=\"TrekManCave071514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TrekManCave071514.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A<em> Star Trek<\/em> fan has turned his basement into a USS Enterprise-inspired man-cave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Sforza<\/strong> has $500,000 worth of<em> Star Trek<\/em> costumes and props in his collection.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sforza, a lifelong Trek fan, began his collection in the 1980s when he started collecting action figures. In 2010, he decided to build his own replica bridge in his own basement in Long Island, New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very difficult at first to find the materials that they used on the show,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I tried to call but getting an answer was impossible. But I was able to purchase a piece of the original set which I pulled apart to find out the exact paint and materials that were used and that&#8217;s how I created this basement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sforza, who is married with two sons, has the full support of his wife and family in his endeavor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyFP_sUEGr4\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Star Trek fan has turned his basement into a USS Enterprise-inspired man-cave. Anthony Sforza&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[7484,7487,7481],"class_list":["post-35084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-collection","tag-memorabilia","tag-sforza"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35093,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084\/revisions\/35093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}