What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[TheFlutteringHorde]

Starfleet isn't a military. It does military things, but that it doesn't see itself as such is actually an important distinction in and of itself.

This does not make Starfleet an unalloyed good, and their unwillingness to acknowledge their military role contributes to actions we would consider war crimes and the crazy admiral phenomenon.

 

[HotRod]

The Strange New World bridge set is, in my opinion, the best bridge we've had since the Refit Enterprise. It's bright, it's colourful, and it's functional. I also absolutely love the Bridge window. At last, an actual reason for the bridge to be at the top of the Saucer!

 

[fireproof78]

TNG and DS9 had better sets than SNW and Disco and even Picard. Yeah, come at me all you want. It's true.

Ok.

I think SNW and the Kelvin have better bridges than any ship on TNG or VOY.

Come at me; it's true.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

In terms of layout, the original is the best. All the perimeter stations is equidistant to the captain's chair. The captain can reach the weapons and navigation stations. No one is immediately behind him.

NX-01 was the best set. It's worthwhile hearing from Herman Zimmerman how functional it was.

The best Star Trek set was the Promenade. I believe it was the largest continuously standing indoor set. The people who acted on the show say it felt like a real place. There could never be a revival if the Promenade isn't rebuilt.

 

[cooleddie74]

No hero ship bridge set is as a bad as DSC's. Except La Sirena's from PIC.

 

[Ovation]

TNG and DS9 had better sets than SNW and Disco and even Picard. Yeah, come at me all you want. It's true.

No. They weren’t. True story.

(because there is no point of reference other than a generic statement of preference—thus each statement is equally true)

 

[Bad Thoughts]

No hero ship bridge set is as a bad as DSC's. Except La Sirena's from PIC.

Although it hurts me to say it, but the Defiant has one of the worst design elements: the captain can't see the screen because of navigators head.

It would have been better to turn the navigation stations 180 degrees to get a good view of Jadzia's face.

 

[Turtletrekker]

The bridges of Jem Hadar ships didn't even have a view screen! Or chairs! Or sandwiches!

 

[cooleddie74]

The bridge of Columbia NX-02 is fugly thanks to the Beebs sticking those pulsating light columns on either side of Captain Hernandez's chair. They took a pretty great NX-01 bridge design - one of my favorites - and proceeded to chimpanzee fingerpaint all over it with the Columbia add-ons that make no sense either in-universe or outside it.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

The bridges of Jem Hadar ships didn't even have a view screen! Or chairs! Or sandwiches!

Nor seat belts (would have come in handy).

 

[Richard S. Ta]

No love for the Voyager bridge?

 

[fireproof78]

No love for the Voyager bridge?

Not really.

The bridges of Jem Hadar ships didn't even have a view screen! Or chairs! Or sandwiches!

The next bridge will have blackjack and hookers!


But, no seat belts.

 

[Jayson1]

TNG and DS9 had better sets than SNW and Disco and even Picard. Yeah, come at me all you want. It's true.

I don't know about that but I will say their is comfort level to those sets you don't get with the modern ones. The moderns fill slick but sterile. TNG on the other hand feels like a place you would like living in. Their is a beauty to simplicity A kind of intimacy you might even call it. DS9 I think less so it has it's charms to it being our first ever Trek setting that is not a starship.

 

[Jayson1]

No love for the Voyager bridge?

I think the Voyager bridge looks great I loved how they changed things around by having the pilot basically have cockpit and moved ops to the back. They had a good main engineering as well and sickbay. Voyager really did have impressive sets. Only their conference room, kind of sucked. Bad looking table .

 

[fireproof78]

I don't know about that but I will say their is comfort level to those sets you don't get with the modern ones. The moderns fill slick but sterile. TNG on the other hand feels like a place you would like living in. Their is a beauty to simplicity A kind of intimacy you might even call it. DS9 I think less so it has it's charms to it being our first ever Trek setting that is not a starship.

I wonder what the intimacy feeling is because the beige feels deeply sterile and corporate.

 

[Daedalus]

In terms of comfort, the D bridge is right up there.

I love it, but with that ambient sound and those comfortable seats, I'd be doing a lot of this.

Spoiler

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I don't know about that but I will say their is comfort level to those sets you don't get with the modern ones. The moderns fill slick but sterile. TNG on the other hand feels like a place you would like living in. Their is a beauty to simplicity A kind of intimacy you might even call it. DS9 I think less so it has it's charms to it being our first ever Trek setting that is not a starship.

I think it's the fact that the Berman Era Trek had Carpetting for TNG/DS9/VOY.

It's something we haven't re-visited for the sets of Trek since that time.

It's always hard metal flooring, even in shows that re-visit the 24th century.

The interior design of that era of the 24th century felt like a comfy home you would see in the ikea catalog.

After that, they became to "Modern Minimalist" in interior design.
A bit to generic and on the side of Apple iDesign language IMO.

Only their conference room, kind of sucked. Bad looking table .

It was also a ugly designed table and wasn't really functional for the type of meetings that StarFleet should be doing.

The table felt like a reject from Las Vegas used for gambling craps inside the large cavity.

Somebody got it on a deal and renovated it with a different color to make it work with Voyager's set design.

Especially compared to the simplicity of the Enterprise-D's conference room table.

I think the Voyager bridge looks great I loved how they changed things around by having the pilot basically have cockpit and moved ops to the back.

IMO, the Pilot / CONN station should always be in the Front & Center.

On my Head Cannon for my Ultimate Standardized Bridge, they have the CONN station lowered onto the floor with a Japanese Style Floor Chair.
The CONN Station is also lowered in height as well to match the Floor Chair height.

This way the Pilot's head doesn't get in the way of everybody else who has to look at the main View Screen.
Also, during extreme manuevers, the pilot can't fall out of his seat since his seat is basically right above the floor, there's no real height for him to fall off of.

And everybody gets Seat Belts as well =D.

The Captain along with his 1st & 2nd Officers have elevated Central Platforms like the TNG Movie design.
This allows a very clear view of the Main View Screen w/o people's head obstructing your view.

The entire bridge mimics Movie Theater style seating to some degree.
That's what the Enterprise-D bridge got right.

They had a good main engineering as well and sickbay. Voyager really did have impressive sets.

Yeah, both of those Sets were well designed.

Voyager's Warp Core has always been my favorite design, especially it's animation on the side walls.

It looked like Plasma was flowing through it.

 

[Tallguy]

A really cavernous engineering set with an absolutely massive core would be cool though.

Doesn't SNW have one of those?

I love SNW. But I'm getting really tired of Pike "taking the stage" whenever he talks to anyone on the view screen. OTOH, I've noticed that this makes the times when he SITS IN HIS DAMN CHAIR to talk to someone look like bad ass defiance.

This started with TNG but that bridge was also kind of designed for it. And, well, Patrick Stewart.

For all the TNG love and the fangasms that the appearance of the D bridge caused in Pic 3, no one has even tried to make anything derivative of that design let alone revisit it, except as a literal museum piece. Everything that isn't based on the TOS / TMP bridge is kind of based on Voyager. Including the Cerritos. Nothing even vaguely like the TNG bridge.

Starfleet isn't a military.

Ehhhh. Maybe I'll catch the next one.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Strange New World bridge set is, in my opinion, the best bridge we've had since the Refit Enterprise. It's bright, it's colourful, and it's functional. I also absolutely love the Bridge window. At last, an actual reason for the bridge to be at the top of the Saucer!

I just wish it had the extra stations ahead and to the sides of helm/nav like the Kelvinprise. After that, I just see so much empty, wasted space in that big pit.

 

[FredH]

The Strange New World bridge set is, in my opinion, the best bridge we've had since the Refit Enterprise. It's bright, it's colourful, and it's functional. I also absolutely love the Bridge window. At last, an actual reason for the bridge to be at the top of the Saucer!

It’s nice to have a reason (same with the Kelvinverse bridge), but it still seems like a weird tactical weak spot, given that (a) viewscreens give just as good visibility and (b) a hole in the screen means a hole right into space. (That said, I love the 32nd-century thing of the screen also being an instant spacesuit-derezzer, even if that also means it’s a forcefield instead of a physical screen, which makes it even more dangerous if power goes down. Well, maybe if it’s programmable matter it just freezes in place.)