In a rare and recently unearthed interview from 1965, the actor who preceded William Shatner as first captain of the Enterprise, stated that the series was based on the RAND Corporation's u201Cprojection of things to comeu201D.
Actor Jeffrey Hunter, who played captain Christopher Pike in the Star Trek pilot u201CThe Cageu201D told a Hollywood columnist in January of '65 that he hoped the pilot-episode would be picked up as a series because he was intrigued by the fact that the series was based on the RAND corporation's u201Cprojection of things to come.u201D
u201CWe should know within several weeks whether the show has been sold.u201D, Hunter stated almost half a century ago.
u201CIt will be an hour long, in color, with a regular cast of a half-dozen or so and an important guest star each week.u201D, he stated hopefully.
u201CThe things that intrigues me the mostu201D, Hunter said, u201Cis that it is actually based on the Rand Corporation's projection of things to come. Except for the fictional characters, it will be like getting a look into the future and some of the predictions will surely come true in our lifetime.u201D
Trekweb, the first Star Trek website ever to appear on the internet, republished part of the recently discovered interview with Hunter in the context of celebrations around the historic pilot-episode- considered by many u201CTrekkiesu201D to be the blueprint of the entire Star Trek project. As Trekweb notes, the character of Captain Pike u201Cremains a popular character with Trek fans.u201D
According to one Star Trek-dedicated website, the involvement of the RAND corporation in the series was limited to u201Ctechnical adviceu201D by RAND researcher Harvey P. Lynn Jr. As Trekplace points out, Lynn u201Cprovided Star Trek's original series creator Gene Roddenberry with scientific and technical advice during preproduction of the series.u201D
According to Lynn's son (Harvey P. Lynn Jr. died in 1987) in response to a question from Trekplace's Greg Tyler in 2002, his father u201Cworked at RAND as a liaison Officer between RAND and Project Airforce.u201D
In RAND's own FAQ the question whether a RAND researcher designed the initial bridge of the Enterprise, is irritatingly anwered with the statement that Harvey Lynn was indeed u201Cconsulted, but as a private citizen, not as part of a RAND project.u201D
This is clearly at odds with the spontaneous statement made by Hunter, namely that the entire Star Trek series was based on RAND's u201Cprojection of things to comeu201D. Furthermore, a 2002 MSNBC article (Cached version) titled Is Star Trek in our future? noted that Lynn was not merely consulting on the pilot episode of the series, but was intimately involved in the creation of several aspects of Star Trek which have become part of our cultural nomenclature. The article also expands on the relationship between the series creator Gene Roddenberry and u201CLiaison officeru201D Harvey P. Lynn Jr:
u201CLynn, it turns out, was an invaluable resource. He had been referred to Gene through Colonel Donald I. Prickett, an old Air Force buddy from his days as a pilot during World War II. u201CI am going to forward a copy of Star Trek to a physicist at Rand,u201D Prickett wrote Gene after he had read an early summary of the series. u201CHe's a retired AF type and I can count on him to keep it to himself – he is a creative, scientific thinker and will appreciate your concepts.u201D
Despite of RAND's own statement that Lynn was consulted as a u201Cprivate citizenu201D, the article goes on to say that u201CAt first Lynn worked informally on the series. Later he was paid a whopping $50 per show for the use of his brain and expertise. He contributed indispensable insights that helped shape ideas like the ship's computer (he suggested that it talk, in a woman's voice), the sickbay (he suggested that beds be outfitted with u201Celectrical pickupsu201D that monitor the body) and teleportation.u201D
Predictive programming as a way to introduce certain u201Cpossibleu201D technologies is an aspect highlighted in great detail by researcher Alan Watt. Watt, naively described on Wikipedia as a u201Cconspiracy theoristu201D, is the first to accurately and thoroughly communicate the concept of predictive programming:
u201CA subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders.
If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as u2018natural progressions'; thus lessening any possible public resistance and commotion.u201D
Societal changes can range from premonitions of u201Cpossible technologiesu201D to desired political and/or economic objectives. One might say that Star Trek is a predictive programming parade, as anyone who studies the series finds an abundance of examples. On the technological aspects, foreshadowed in Star Trek, the following clip gives a good summing up:
Harvey Lynn's role as a u201Ctechnical adviseru201D is only part of this story. Notions such as u201Cworld governmentu201D, and a u201Cfederation of planetsu201D are of course embedded within the series, as Gene Roddenberry's vision was oriented towards a global society striving for u201Cpeaceu201D. Of course to get his project launched, Roddenberry had to tolerate certain alterations and adjustments on the insistence of his benefactors. In retrospect it's perfectly understandable that intelligence agencies had a more than average interest in the series. What better way to gradually introduce people to the concept of world government as a natural step in the evolution of things than through science-fiction. After all, the genre provides screenwriters a key to imaginative Valhalla- at the same time allowing RAND's social engineers the perfect format for weaving its desired world government patterns into.
As Daniel Brandt wrote in his article Philanthropists at War, the interlocking system of u201Cfoundationsu201D and think tanks after WWII were part of the push by central banks to establish, by stealth, a one world government. And this global system of control, as Carroll Quigley brought to light in his Tragedy and Hope, would not be some idealized u201Clet's all come together in peaceu201D sort of political utopia. Rather this thousand-headed creature was forced into being and controlled by the major central banks on the planet acting in concert. Quigley, by the way, described the RAND corporation as u201Ca private research and development firm, under contract to the United States Air Force.u201D Brandt wrote:
u201CCovert foreign policy became the standard mode of operation after World War II, which was also when Ford Foundation became a major player for the first time. The institute most involved in classified research was Rand Corporation, set up by the Air Force in 1948. The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation.u201D
The involvement of RAND in Star Trek is presumably far from an isolated experiment. In a July 26 2011 article by Daniel Taylor of Oldthinkernews, the author writes about a trailer for the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, getting the people ready for a transhumanist future in which man merges with machine.Taylor points to a report prepared by RAND for the National Intelligence Council titled The Global Technology Revolution. In this 2001 report these themes are outlined as u201Cpossibilitiesu201D. These u201Cpossibilitiesu201D then magically find their way into fictional formats such as movies and video-games.
Being sort of a Star Trek fan myself, it is not with pleasure that I'm writing about these matters. But it's exactly the familiar lust to escape from the present (and straight into some idealized vision of future society) which the elite adds to its arsenal to get the public to go along with its banker-controlled world government, albeit under the guise of a benevolent one.
Jurriaan Maessen’s post first appeared on his blog, Explosivereports.com.
Reprinted from Infowars.com.
