It looks like an early NG 1701-D touch panels and what the new TFF 1701-A Bridge panels ultimately became.
So I think they would be fine.
Shane Johnson (Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise)
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So I think they would be fine.
I don't think it'd be possible to manipulate pushbuttons and switches much better during a space battle or turbulence. The Okudagrams were a really cool looking (and if I understand correctly, cheap) way of doing futuristic control panels. In today's world they look static (all our phones have more animation!), but for the time they were amazing.
"Torpedoes... Aaarrrrmmm-- *SHAKE* OH, WAIT! Dammit! Hold on, um-- NO! WRONG WINDOW! Crap! *SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE* NOOO! NOT the EXIT button! Wait, Keptin, I'm getting back to it... *SHAKE SHAKE* Bozhe moi!"
I think the main difference is that you can rest your hand or finger on a physical control without triggering it, so you've got friction/contact helping you keep on a relevant control during random bumps and shakes; you can't do that as well with a touch screen.
Though Trek touchscreens seem to have some level of contextual awareness, so maybe you can with those too.
It's interesting to think that at the time STIV and that GMA segment were made, touch screens themselves were science fiction. Now they're an everyday thing.
Just came across these photos of the STIV Enterprise-A bridge set, seemingly they completed the shiny white paint job and Okudagrams for a Good Morning America set visit?
Now that's what I call a find. I'm especially interested in the three large lights they added under the dome. Since I realized it, it's always bothered me how there's no visible lighting on the Ent-Refit Bridge. I could deal with there being no lighting fixtures (the other day I was in a room that was cleverly arranged so even though there were no visible lights, the space was pretty bright), but even so, you'd be able to see the light was coming from, say, the seams in the "hubcap ribs."
With regard to the mention of on the page of these being the only tour of the TVH-styled Enterprise-A, from the screencaps, it looks like these are more-or-less contemporaneous with Roddenberry's video introduction to "The Cage." Speaking of, I don't suppose anyone has any idea what the deal is with the oddball transporter pads. Most of the top elements have been replaced with lenses, as they were in the 24th century shows, but two of them have been replaced (or, possibly, not replaced) with dark, unlit versions of the thick TMP pads, top and bottom.
This video was likely shot within a month of my being there that summer. I don't recall seeing the red carpeting in ST III and it had been removed before I got there, so I'd imagine it was temporary for the GMA visit
Lora
Edit -- After watching the videos through, I'd guess they were shot a couple of months after I was there. The sets seem to have been restored to look more like the Enterprise, with some of the changes for ST III and IV undone. The red carpeting is an odd addition and seems a bit haphazardly done (and you can see where the actual corridor stops and the backdrop painting is placed in the shot where the floor changes color).
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So weird they'd go to all that effort for Good Morning America and Gene's video introduction to "The Cage". I guess they figured it was worth it because they'd need it all for the next movie. And that makes the outdoor storage and rain damage all the more painful 
Is it just me or is the intermix chamber more colourful than we saw in TMP or WoK? I wonder if it too received an upgrade or if it was originally made to display more than the blue/white tones we saw.
Is it just me or is the intermix chamber more colourful than we saw in TMP or WoK? I wonder if it too received an upgrade or if it was originally made to display more than the blue/white tones we saw.
So weird they'd go to all that effort for Good Morning America and Gene's video introduction to "The Cage". I guess they figured it was worth it because they'd need it all for the next movie. And that makes the outdoor storage and rain damage all the more painful
Is it just me or is the intermix chamber more colourful than we saw in TMP or WoK? I wonder if it too received an upgrade or if it was originally made to display more than the blue/white tones we saw.
If my memory serves, the actual lighting setup for the intermix chambers was rather complicated, the colors seen in the video may simply be a result of them doing something quick and dirty for the set visit.
If this was late 1986, perhaps the carpet was for early test shots of TNG?
I'd say that was definitely the case, as the corridor sets obviously aren't fully lit in those clips (That's probably why they had the red alert lights flashing, too).
Just as a note of interest, the red alert lights were all turned on at once by the flip of a single standard household light switch
Lora
The lenses on the transporter pad (fresnel light lenses) we actually always there, under the thick, translucent TMP-style discs -- they were where the light was coming from. When the set was re-worked for TNG, they simply just took the thick pads off, top and bottom and left the bare lenses.
I always wanted to know what that material was on the back wall of the pad - in TWOK they had two disco balls reflecting bounced light from behind the set to create that energy pattern that was never seen again. The wall material was also used for the engine room isolation door that became the shuttlebay door on TNG.
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