USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

I'll be disappointed if the turbolift is centered in the back of the bridge like it is on the exterior. Jefferies shifted it for a reason!

 

Maybe that open area is meant for bridge substations, like communications monitoring. Much like the SDF-1 Macross, where substations were directly underneath the main bridge deck.

 

according to the magazine, it's reasoned that only the turboshaft is centered. the lifts themselves are supposed to slot behind the bridge and move laterally to the shaft, then proceed down.

 

Anybody else notice that there is a corridor that is directly below the rectangle window and in front of the large empty space?
(with a doorway that enters into said space)

 

It's unusual. Isn't that good?

 

Perhaps it's the mess hall, just lacking the food processors and furniture in the rendering. Call it "Two Forward"!

 

This makes sense if there are more than one cab per shaft.

 

Sometimes different and unusual are good. Sometimes they don't work very well. Automatically assuming that unusual = good is a trap all too easy to fall into.

Let's wait and see what that space is for IF it actually made it into the final bridge module design. It could be cool and fun to see. It might be a dumb addition made because somebody thought it'd be cool.

 

I doubt what we see in the window there is what we’ll see in the show. Probably a mock-up or placeholder. Especially if it’s the 3D model made by the concept art team and not the final show model.

 

It'll come back from the refit with a new paintjob. Unfortunately, they will forget to mask the window off and it'll get painted over. Problem solved.

Either that or a new bridge module altogether.

 

You can almost see into the show used model on the cover of the regular Eaglemoss issue, hopefully we’ll get a clearer version once it’s released

 

well, you can't even see into the window in the actual screen appearance:

 

Well they did design that feature to make it opaque.

You can see the actual bridge view screen window in all those shots on the discovery bridge where the enterprise is facing Discovery



If the camera angled down more in that overhead shot we probably would have seen it.

It’s shiny, not matte, I’m just thinking there’s no internal lighting in that shot.

 

^ Absolutely, if that light is off, it'd be a lot harder to see, especially from those angles.

Such a minor thing they could've left alone too. I don't mind the angled pylons, but that large area behind the window, and that row of lights/windows weren't really necessary.

 

They're lights, Eaves did it for the Walker class as well.

 

Eaves really has a hard-on for negative spaces in starship saucers...

To be frank - I have yet to see a design where it works. Maybe the Enterprise-E, but it isn't really "negative space" there - the saucer just has an extra-layer in the aft third.

But it looks absolutely rubbish on the original TOS Enterprise - and honestly, I prefered the Discovery saucer from the early trailers (with much less negative space) much over the final version.

 

I agree. The Discovery Enterprise appears overdesigned, IMO.

 

I'm still hoping for a proper red door. Must every starship corridor look like the TOS movies?

 

Where's the negative space here?

 

In this case this weird, negative-ramp where the headlights are:

It's pretty unnecessary, and clashes more with the design than a clear bulge with lights would.

I think this design element worked okay on the USS Kerala and Gagarin (though even there it was unnecessary), because they were more busy designs along the center axis anyway. On the very smooth and rounded surface of the Enterprise it really sticks out negatively.