What is the best Starfleet Bridge design?
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Sovereign for me also. But I'd like to modify it a little. Since the helm and ops positions are almost touching; you might as well join them together. Like the old days. And a bigger main viewscreen, floor to ceiling and wider.
Now if you could take the TWOK bridge and replace all of the buttons, round viewers, and honeycomb lights with LCARS-style touchscreens then we'd have something.
My vote goes to TMP Enterprise. Its got a functional, yet attractive, feel to it.
The Enterprise-A at the end of STIV?
No, that was too different. They replaced all of the consoles and wall units and moved the turbolifts to opposite sides of the bridge. They just completely changed the layout. I'd keep the consoles and layout. I'd change the standing positions to seated ones though. Everybody gets a chair.
Hear hear!
As much as I loved the USS Relativity as a ship, its bridge was kind of lame. I wonder what they could have accomplished if they could have gone all-out and done a decent 29th century bridge.
The SGU producers clearly like the Kelvin bridge too!
Not for STIV. My only criticism of the STIV bridge is that it was so bright white that it resembled a cleanroom rather than a control center.
I have no single favorite bridge, but some of my favorites include:
TOS Enterprise
TUC Enterprise-A / TUC Excelsior / GEN Enterprise-B
VOY Prometheus (obviously yet another variant of the TUC Enterprise-A)
My biggest gripes about bridge designs are...
* Obstructed line of sight between the captain's chair and the main viewscreen. (Defiant, I'm looking at you.)
* Insufficient information displays. (How did Sulu and Chekov get any information about other ships from their TOS-era panels? Did they read Morse code from the flashing buttons?)
* Unused information displays. (The most visually interesting information displays on the Voyager bridge were the enormous cutaway diagram, which almost no one ever used, and the displays which were usually behind Tuvok and Kim.)
Unless the ship to ship video communication's software was editing it out, it always bothered me that a ship's status display, showing internal arrangement and damage control information, was behind the command chair on several bridges where it would be visible with whoever he/she was communicating with.
I would have to say the TMP/TWOK/TSFS bridge.
It had a spot for everyone to sit down and work (On the Enterprise D and E, what were Riker and Troi doing? They just sat there. It didn't look like they did much with the control panels near their chairs).
No one actually had to stand (That's the only complaint I have about the TOS bridge. Spock didn't have a chair.)
The captain's chair swivels (The captain doesn't need to get out of his chair to see the stations around him).
Two turbolifts (In case one breaks).
It had a spot for everyone to sit down and work (On the Enterprise D and E, what were Riker and Troi doing? They just sat there. It didn't look like they did much with the control panels near their chairs).
No one actually had to stand (That's the only complaint I have about the TOS bridge. Spock didn't have a chair.)
The captain's chair swivels (The captain doesn't need to get out of his chair to see the stations around him).
Two turbolifts (In case one breaks).
Spock did too have a chair in TOS. He used it often, as well.
Oh, man. I must be blind. Anyway, it still didn't have two turbolifts, so my preference still stands.
