The megalomaniacs at the NSA have come up with a new way to, “proudly flaunt their warped imperial hubris” with their own Star Trek room, reports the Guardian (link).
The article includes this snippet from the PBS’ News Hour:
“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.'”
H/T to the Patriarch who added, “These are not even mentally healthy people.”
Who would’ve guessed that the final frontier would turn out to be my personal internet browsing history?<>
