NSA Chief Built the Star Trek: TNG Enterprise Bridge

[TheSYLOH]

Intelligence... the final frontier.
These are the voyages of the US NSA.
It's continuing mission, to monitor life and civilizations.
To boldly snoop where no one has snooped before..

 

[Strazdas]

You know Putin looks like a stereotypical supervillian, but this has to be his complementary mad genius. This is so mad and so ingeniuos at the same time you cant ignre it.

 

[J Tyran]

Funny but not as wasteful as it sounds, bear in mind they would have to decorate the place anyway. Unlike the imagery we see in popular media intelligence centers are not concrete basements with no decoration, they are fairly plush offices very similar to something you would see where the higher executives are. The cost of decorating that way was probably no more than setting it up any other way.

The Enterprise bridge was designed to be business like and comfortable (the whole ship was) and interior designers helped come up with its decoration. The big comfy chairs, central position to watch briefings and presentations on a large screen and large amount of personal screens for productivity lend itself well to something like this.

So while still being eccentric its not flat out crazy or wasteful.

 

[Psychobabble]

And you Americans wonder why the rest of the world hasn't been able to take you seriously this past decade.

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[Canadamus Prime]

That's cool and all, but I shudder to think of what it's being used for.

 

[Amir Kondori]

My first thought was "how cool" but then I thought about what the characters who populated that bridge might think of what the NSA is doing, especially the man who sat in that captain's chair, and it made me angry. They are appropriating the imagery but subverting the ideals of that show for their own political gain.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

....

So, the head of the NSA is insane. That's... a bit alarming.

I was hoping someone was going to post an update that this was a joke or something.

Is there really no oversight on this? I mean, it's cool and all, but... really?

 

[Ryan Hughes]

And you Americans wonder why the rest of the world hasn't been able to take you seriously this past decade.

Honestly, I do not wonder about that at all. I know why, unfortunately.

Still, I do wonder how Gene Roddenberry would feel about this. He saw the future as bright and fill of possibilities, as opposed to a place where the government spied on people endlessly.

This is simply nuts. I cannot believe that there is so little oversight that we could allow this waste.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

...in any other case I would be outraged that they spent tax money on this, but for the NSA I'm glad it was spent on something stupid and harmless instead of another spy satellite or something.

 

[Zipa]

So does this mean that Putin runs Russia from a replica of a Klingon ships bridge?