   - The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 28, 2012   "I
keep an email folder labeled 'bizarre,'" said BTE Dan.  A self-
proclaimed systems engineer, BTE Dan is the person behind Build
the Enterprise, a website devoted to, well, building an actual,
functional, space lasers 'n all version of the USS Enterprise,
the venerable pop-culture starship featured in the "Star Trek"
film and television franchises.  Estimated time frame? Twenty
years. Suggested cost? $1 trillion. Proposed missions? Dropping
probes beneath the giant ice sheets of Jupiter's moon Europa, or
maybe blasting asteroids before they can smash into Earth,
"Armageddon"-style.   "We are destined to be in space in a big
way," he said in an email interview. "And the idea of traveling
around in space, and seeing places beyond Earth, is fascinating
to humans. We Earthlings need something to get jazzed up about
as a collective civilization, and space exploration can do that.
"We went from shooting the first man into orbit to landing men
on the moon