Things You Won't See in Star Trek-For Dramatic Reasons (and sometimes costs)

[Samuel]

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Technically speaking, has there ever been a torpedo fired on something in warp?
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More times than I can count, "Encounter at Farpoint", "Q Who" "The Nth Degree" just quickly off the top of my head.

 

[MAGolding]

3) Combat Information Center instead of the bridge. Aboard real U.S. naval ships (and those of other nations) most of the "action" regarding command decisions takes place in the CIC with only a couple of low ranking people on the bridge that steer the ship. This won't happen in a Trek series for a couple of reasons. The "combat" in the term CIC and the fact that making it separate from the bridge would move two major character positions away from the action.

In Star Trek the functions of the Combat Information Center and the bridge of a modern warship are combined into a single room called the bridge. Starfleet probably chose the term bridge for the combined room because bridge had a much longer history of use - the Combat Information Center was quite new in the era of TOS, ironically partially inspired by science fiction. The room could always have been labeled on the door as the Command Information Center, or the Control Information Center, the Situation Information Center, or the Operations Information Center if Combat Information Center seemed too military.

 

[Timewalker]

In Star Trek the functions of the Combat Information Center and the bridge of a modern warship are combined into a single room called the bridge. Starfleet probably chose the term bridge for the combined room because bridge had a much longer history of use - the Combat Information Center was quite new in the era of TOS, ironically partially inspired by science fiction. The room could always have been labeled on the door as the Command Information Center, or the Control Information Center, the Situation Information Center, or the Operations Information Center if Combat Information Center seemed too military.

I suspect that another consideration was that "bridge" was simply easier and faster to say, in a medium where seconds cost $$$$.

 

[Jayson1]

Wouldn't the battle bridge on TNG count as a Combat Information Center? Granted I don't think they ever described how it was different from a regular bridge and might have just been a second bridge for when they had a sauser seperation.

Jason

 

[Samuel]

Wouldn't the battle bridge on TNG count as a Combat Information Center? Granted I don't think they ever described how it was different from a regular bridge and might have just been a second bridge for when they had a sauser seperation.

Jason

From what I've read, the original Enterprise "bridge" actually pioneered the design for command centers both aboard ships and on land. Most notably in the central chair for the captain, admiral, or watch officer and the forward main viewscreen.

Aboard modern warships the actual bridge is simply a couple of stations manned by low ranking crewman overseen by a single officer

 

[tharpdevenport]

More times than I can count, "Encounter at Farpoint", "Q Who" "The Nth Degree" just quickly off the top of my head.

Those first two are from warp. I don't remember the third.

The way it was written I thought it was firing at things that are in warp.

 

[Samuel]

Those first two are from warp. I don't remember the thir
The way it was written I thought it was firing at things that are in warp.

All three involved firing at ships or structures that are flying at Warp speed.

The Q matrix flying at Warp 9.6
Borg Cube traveling faster than Warp 9.65
The Cytherian probe, traveling at more than Warp 3