--- description: A Chinese executive who sits on the board of Baidu has built an office in the shape of Star Trek's USS Enterprise title: $100 Million HQ Looks Exactly Like the Starship Enterprise image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10edf087250b3c78/6988518a8e06018017460a65/cn-aa353_netdra_g_20150524223908.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [architecture](/tag/architecture/) ## architecture Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This $100-Million Building Looks Exactly Like _Star Trek's_ Enterprise by [Matt Vella](/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 25, 2015 6:15 PM CUT  NetDragon Websoft by [Matt Vella](/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 25, 2015 6:15 PM CUT A Chinese executive who sits on the board of Baidu has constructed an office that pays faithful homage to _Star Trek_‘s [USS Enterprise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEnterprise%5F%28NCC-1701%29 "undefined"). The building, which was built by NetDragon Websoft’s 43-year-old founder Liu Dejian, will provide office space for the Chinese game developer. [_The Wall Street Journal_ reports](http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/25/chinese-firms-headquarters-shaped-like-star-treks-enterprise/?mod=e2tw "undefined") the 853-foot-long structure cost 600 million yuan or about $97 million to build. Construction in the coastal city of Changle in China’s Fujian province reportedly wrapped late last year and began in October 2010\. The firm reportedly contacted CBS, the show’s rights holder, to get permission to construct the office. “That was their first time dealing with \[an\] issue like this and at first they thought that it was a joke,” NetDragon wrote _The Wall Street Journal_ in an email. “They realized somebody in China actually did want to work out a building modeled on the USS Enterprise only after we sent the relevant legal documents.” The structure looks particularly convincing from the air, as [seen here on Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Changle,+Fuzhou,+Fujian,+China/@25.9631693,119.6952034,963m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x3441b0d56df58391:0xe5e086c4e19c6ce2!6m1!1e1 "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3895655/star-trek-enterprise-building/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3895655/star-trek-enterprise-building/"},"headline":"This $100-Million Building Looks Exactly Like Star Trek's Enterprise","datePublished":"2015-05-25T18:15:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:17.402Z","description":"A Chinese technology executive made it so","url":"https://time.com/3895655/star-trek-enterprise-building/","keywords":["architecture","Newsfeed","Tech","China","Star Trek"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10edf087250b3c78/6988518a8e06018017460a65/cn-aa353_netdra_g_20150524223908.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Vella","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10edf087250b3c78/6988518a8e06018017460a65/cn-aa353_netdra_g_20150524223908.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NetDragon Websoft Star Trek Enterprise Building","caption":"","creditText":"NetDragon Websoft","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/architecture/","name":"architecture"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3895655/star-trek-enterprise-building/","name":"This $100-Million Building Looks Exactly Like Star Trek's Enterprise"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Why This Year's Geek Pride Day Is Way More Awesome","description":"May 25 is Geek Pride Day and celebrates the premiere of the iconic 1977 'Star Wars' film.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fdN51lIo/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-05-25T17:52:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fdN51lIo.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3895655/star-trek-enterprise-building/","duration":"PT1M20S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3895655/star-trek-enterprise-building/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```