Posted on 09/13/2013 5:24:55 PM PDT by markomalley
Congressional leaders already have a lot of power, but do they secretly want to captain the USS Enterprise? In an in-depth profile of NSA Director Keith B. Alexander, Foreign Policy reveals that one of the ways the general endeared himself to lawmakers and officials was to make them feel like Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the starship Enterprise from the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
"When he was running the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir for a tour of his base of operations, a facility known as the Information Dominance Center. It had been designed by a Hollywood set designer to mimic the bridge of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek, complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a 'whoosh' sound when they slid open and closed. Lawmakers and other important officials took turns sitting in a leather 'captain's chair' in the center of the room and watched as Alexander, a lover of science-fiction movies, 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."
I guess I was wrong.
I’d like to see pictures of that room.
Fantasy is their medium of infinitization...
I’d like to see pictures of that room.
This is why so many general officers are regarded as jokes. This is what they do with their authority.
Wonder how much it set the taxpayers back.
We’ll never get to play with that set.
Truth is, the Star Trek set designers are probably more competent than anyone in the NSA...
Picard......that makes sense.
Beige Naugahyde?
Think about it. He’s the commander of Cyber Command - the name based on a term popularized by a draft dodger. (1)
1. See William GIbson
Words fail me also.
"But they'll see the Big Board!"
It said he was the CG of INSCOM, not ARCYBER.
Which Star Trek ? They keep changing the darn set.
He was Commander INSCOM about 5 years ago. Present day, he’s the head of NSA and Commander CYBERCOM.
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