Spoilers The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise bridge to life

[Pauln6]

Sybok making Saavik relive her childhood on Hellguard would have been cool.

Looking at the trippy nature of the Otoy videos, I can also see how character pieces for Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov could be done.

I spliced one for Sulu being shown an image of Demora, Implying that it was her that delayed his Captaincy when Sybok reminded him that he would sacrifice he childhood for his career.

After seeing Kirk's time travel, I can also see how they could turn the Memory Wall into something artistic, akin to 2001, as V'Ger reacts and tries to rationalise the presence of the two carbon units. Spock is smart enough to coast on momentum and make only visual assessments. Kirk, alongside a second crewman, like Rand, would likely try to scan for Spock and trigger some weird sh*t.

 

[Jules / OTOY]

Lots of great BTS material discussed at our (first ever!) conference - RenderCon. Some videos of the talks will be coming online soon I hope!

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[F. King Daniel]

Live action Caitian!!!

 

[Jules / OTOY]

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Definitely doing another one of these events next year!

 

[BillJ]

Still waiting for the ST III Excelsior bridge!

 

[137th Gebirg]

IIRC, the full bridge was never built all the way around, so most of it would be speculative. Don't think we ever even saw the main viewscreen.

The GE Fabbri Official Star Trek Fact Files took a stab at interpolating the full bridge. I suspect that, whatever we eventually wind up seeing, it will look something like this:

 

[Nightowl1701]

IIRC, the full bridge was never built all the way around, so most of it would be speculative. Don't think we ever even saw the main viewscreen.

From storyboards/concept art, think super-wide screen (taking up almost a quarter of the wall), blending in almost seamlessly with the black console displays on either side of it, with holographic tactical overlays on top of showing what's outside, and you'd be close.

 

[Tomalak]

It was obviously a very cheaply constructed set for the movie, but I'm sure OTOY's wizards will polish it up as they did the Grissom bridge, and all the concept bridges. The Ken Adam concept turned out beautifully.

 

[BillJ]

I haven't spent a lot of time at the Roddenberry Archive, but have been impressed by what I've seen.

 

[Macintosh]

From storyboards/concept art, think super-wide screen (taking up almost a quarter of the wall), blending in almost seamlessly with the black console displays on either side of it, with holographic tactical overlays on top of showing what's outside, and you'd be close.

I suppose these concepts anticipate TNG with its endlessly reconfigurable LCARS touch panels – the entire bridge is just one large wraparound display that divides itself up into control panels and viewscreens on the fly, though of course the final bridge set didn't really convey this very well.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I suppose these concepts anticipate TNG with its endlessly reconfigurable LCARS touch panels – the entire bridge is just one large wraparound display that divides itself up into control panels and viewscreens on the fly, though of course the final bridge set didn't really convey this very well.

Shades to 21st Century Trek!

 

[The Wormhole]

I haven't spent a lot of time at the Roddenberry Archive, but have been impressed by what I've seen.

Taking virtual walkaround on various sets from the Trek shows is extremely addictive.

 

[BillJ]

Taking virtual walkaround on various sets from the Trek shows is extremely addictive.

I do love that they have the Phase II bridge.

 

[Tomalak]

I'm just as excited about getting more sets from existing ships as new bridges.

The holy grail would be walking around the TMP hanger/cargo complex! The rec room would be amazing too.

I'm also interested in seeing some more speculative additions. What's at the back of the Promenade, for example? Or those blue windows behind the Enterprise-D's main shuttlebay - is it the arboretum? And Cetacean Ops is a must!

 

[137th Gebirg]

I suppose these concepts anticipate TNG with its endlessly reconfigurable LCARS touch panels – the entire bridge is just one large wraparound display that divides itself up into control panels and viewscreens on the fly, though of course the final bridge set didn't really convey this very well.

This would be amazing to see digitally recreated.

Oh @Donny!!!

 

[NCC-73515]

Or those blue windows behind the Enterprise-D's main shuttlebay - is it the arboretum?

It is

 

[Tomalak]

It is

But it’s not confirmed on screen.

 

[NCC-73515]

Right, it was said to be on the neck (deck 17). Maybe they have 2, or those windows are cetacean ops

 

[knightgrace]

Two. One following the the neck of the Battle hull.

Consider the length of time that a crew/dependents would be onboard. Fifteen to twenty years!

 

[Macintosh]

Right, it was said to be on the neck (deck 17). Maybe they have 2, or those windows are cetacean ops

A number of those recessed windows on the underside of the saucer align with where Cetacean Ops is shown to be on the official blueprints.