Patrick Stewart has seen first 5 episodes, hopes fans won't be disappointed
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that’s possible. The trailers look good but at the same time it looks a lot like disco. I’m betting they go back to window view screens.
Windows make sense.
Not in a space battle. It leaves the bridge more exposed and let’s enemies view who’s there during a battle
It's already exposed. If protection is the question then the top of the ship is the worst place.
Go for the Enterprise-E bridge viewscreen design. A blank wall that becomes a projection of what's happening outside the ship.
Having a window doesn’t make it any more vulnerable than not having one.
Having the crew all sitting facing a blank wall is one of the silliest design choices ever. At the very least they'd use the screen for a myriad of heads-up displays when not in use as a faux window.
If I were them I'd go back to giant flatscreen TVs on the walls the way most Starfleet viewscreens had been from 1964 until 2005 but with these producers it's a complete crapshoot to figure out what they're going to go with.
Having a nice big window so your enemies can easily see what's going on is idiotic. Also a thick solid wall is way preferable to a window even if it is transparent aluminum.
I'm assuming the enemy will have to blast through the shields first.
Not really, no. Also, the enemy has sensors. Keeping the bridge on top is tactically unsound, window or no window.
that’s possible. The trailers look good but at the same time it looks a lot like disco. I’m betting they go back to window view screens.
How does it look like Discovery? What does that even mean? We've only seen the interior of a civilian cargo ship, not the bridge of a starship. In fact, the one starship we have seen looks 100% like TNG -- the holographic Ent-D! The uniforms look like TNG, the characters look like TNG, etc... I fail to see how this "looks a lot like Disco", beyond just wanting to be a downer about it.
Yep. Nothing to date in any of the trailers has been visually retconned to more closely line up with the DSC design aesthetic. The TOS-Era Romulan Bird-of-Prey looks like the classic TOS vessel albeit with more detail, the TNG Movie Era/VOY/DS9 commbadge Picard kept as a memento from his previous career is unchanged from the Berman Era of Trek and even the LCARS on the wall computer readout in the Starfleet Admiral's office looks like Okudagrams, only with a different and greyer or more purple color scheme.
Exactly. And presumably the colour scheme can be changed to suit the user's preference, in the same way you can alter your desktop and window style.
Not really. As soon as the shields are down the hull is as useful as construction paper (unless you have ablative armour)
Look at all the space battles in the franchise that have shields failing. It doesn't take several shots to go through the hull after that, it's always one or two. In Undiscovered Country, a single torpedo goes straight through the saucer like it was nothing.
The only series that doesn't do that is Enterprise, but polarized hull was basically shields with a different name.
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Yeah it changes with every series/movie.
Why? In TNG era Star Trek they have sensors that can determine the amount of dust in a room from orbit. Trek ship designs in general are dumb dating all the way back to TOS with the Bridge being totally exposed and (in most cases) at the top of the ship.
If anything the Bridge should be deep within the ship, in the most protected area - with the sick bay right next door. But not on Star Trek - or virtually any science fiction IP involving spacecraft.
There's a cinematic reason to have a window - it's exciting and pleasing in its aesthetics. Similarly the this holds true for having a sound of a ships engines audible in the vacuum of space - to not do so would be boring.
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