Hacking Lego Star Wars Into Star Trek  Star Wars Hacked to Star
Trek  Jon Ippolito, Associate Professor of New Media at the
University of Maine and an oft-quoted source in some past Wired
stories, has a problem. You see, Jon purchases Lego sets for his
son — specifically Star Wars Lego sets. That’s not the problem,
as we all know how awesome those sets are. Lego has done a great
job expanding their universe to include the Star Wars one as
well. So back to Jon’s problem. His problem is that the Lego
universe has not expanded far enough to include the Star Trek
universe as well as the Star Wars one. That’s Jon’s problem,
because like his son and daughter, he loves Star Trek.  However,
it’s not his son’s problem. With the occasional help from his
sister, Jon’s son has found a way to incorporate the Star Trek
universe into the Lego universe by utilizing the Star Wars
universe. Did you get all that? He’s using the Star Wars sets to
create smaller but accurate Star Trek sets. So Jon built his son
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