Anecdotes and correlation fallacies aren't facts,.
Sorry.
And yet, I'm right.
The facts are this...some "early" bridges even if they weren't called that, had similar designs to the 1701..some better known ones include the C57D from Forbidden Planet, the Cosmokrator from Silent Star(which looks a lot like Jeffries' early designs for the bridge), Raumpatrouille Orion..and it wasn't because of circular rooms only, because even Day the Earth Stood Still and Lost in Space had those..it was because of the efficient layout. Most of the others had controls or columns at the center, The 1701 had the commander there.
But none of these others are really what we think about when we think of a bridge. Just as we never really think of the C57D or the Space beagle when we think of FTL drive. In interviews (and I've read many) producers from other space scifi shows state they want to keep away from that design because it's that identifiable. So most modern shows post-TOS at least make an attempt at this unless they have a reason to copy it, usually these are parodies.
Something THAT identifiable is not generic.
So now the new show comes out...it follows that same pattern but upgrades the look to what we expect as what we might say is a default stereotype of a 2017 scifi...and all scifi borrows from a shared heritage. Yes the elements of other scifi are in it, that's endemic to our modern visualization, but it's within the framework of Trek. Show it to a casual viewer next to The Expanse or Dark Matter and they will immediately tell the DSC bridge looks like updated Star Trek.
As far as I can see, the biggest difference in the Shenzhou bridge (a great design top to bottom) is that instead of the straight, drywall-like bulkheads with monitors built in, it's an integrated set, that looks part of the ceiling and wall. I'm sure both design and buget had a lot to do with this.
Both the Discovery and Shenzhou upgrade things to volumetric displays as well as 3D ones. Tv Trek didn't have a lot of this, again..generic? Nope, it's the shared scifi aesthetic and different from what we've seen there.
You guys are never going to be right about it being generic.
RAMA
