NSA Director Replicated War Room After TNG's Enterprise

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NSA Director Replicated War Room After TNG's Enterprise

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I don't know if this is TNG, current events, or humor...
http://www.neowin.net/news/report-revea ... enterprise
Leaked documents suggest the NSA could have a replica facility of the iconic Bridge of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek.

A Foreign Policy investigation into NSA director Keith Alexander has exposed his former Fort Belvoir facility, which had a war room designed to mimic the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek.

During a tour of the facility, Alexander allegedly showed his colleagues the Information Dominance Centre, custom built by a Hollywood set designer to replicate the iconic sci-fi setting. The area reportedly came complete with “chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall”, and even doors that made a "whoosh" sound when they open and closed.

His colleagues, made up of high ranking lawmakers and important officials, were allegedly impressed by the scene and took turns sitting in the “captain’s chair”, while Alexander passionately "showed off his data tools on the big screen".

Everybody wanted to sit in the chair at least once to pretend he was Jean-Luc Picard,” says a retired officer in charge of VIP visits.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... -star-trek
Inside the mind of NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander

It has been previously reported that the mentality of NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander is captured by his motto "Collect it All". It's a get-everything approach he pioneered first when aimed at an enemy population in the middle of a war zone in Iraq, one he has now imported onto US soil, aimed at the domestic population and everyone else.

But a perhaps even more disturbing and revealing vignette into the spy chief's mind comes from a new Foreign Policy article describing what the journal calls his "all-out, barely-legal drive to build the ultimate spy machine". The article describes how even his NSA peers see him as a "cowboy" willing to play fast and loose with legal limits in order to construct a system of ubiquitous surveillance. But the personality driving all of this - not just Alexander's but much of Washington's - is perhaps best captured by this one passage, highlighted by PBS' News Hour in a post entitled: "NSA director modeled war room after Star Trek's Enterprise". The room was christened as part of the "Information Dominance Center"

But now, on the website of DBI Architects, Inc. of Washington and Reston, Virginia, there are what purports to be photographs of the actual Star-Trek-like headquarters commissioned by Gen. Alexander that so impressed his Congressional overseers. It's a 10,740 square foot labyrinth in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The brochure touts how "the prominently positioned chair provides the commanding officer an uninterrupted field of vision to a 22'-0" wide projection screen":
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I wonder if there is a point to have a command chair in a room like that.
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McAvoy wrote:I wonder if there is a point to have a command chair in a room like that.
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The thing is, by modern standards the bridge of the Ent-D is just plain weird. I'm not sure how efficient a design it is to begin with and it doesn't seem to have any real applicability to the NSA's operations.

Well apart from the computer monitoring everyone's thoughts. I bet they popped a stiffy when they heard that.
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On one hand, very cool design.


On the other hand, fuck those Constitution-ignoring bastards.
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Tsukiyumi wrote:On one hand, very cool design.


On the other hand, fuck those Constitution-ignoring bastards.
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:lol:

Wait, I mean :takecover:
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One one hand, way cool.

On the other, what a damned betrayal of Trek principles. :(
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Obviously big enough nerds to know Trek and want to emulate it. Still ignore the moral of some of the best episodes of TNG. Nice.
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Section 31 anyone? :twisted:
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Atekimogus wrote:Section 31 anyone? :twisted:
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