A way the new bridge look could fit into existing Trek canon....

[ClayHefner]

Maybe...it's not the actual bridge, but the battlebridge!!! A cool nod to the TNG fans.

Look...there even is the hostess station.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Battlebridge_2367.jpg

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Probert_Battle_Bridge_concept.jpg

That would mean the actual bridge (which probably looks exactly like the 1960s one) is destroyed or there has been a saucer separation. OMG

 

[M'Sharak]

Maybe...it's not the actual bridge, but the battlebridge!!! A cool nod to the TNG fans.

Naah, TOS had one of those, but it was less cushy and called Auxiliary Control.

 

[Saul]

As I recall, bridge modules were made to be swapped out with new ones whenever needed. Sure this bridge doesn't look exactly like the old one, but why should it? I expect by the "era of Kirk" the bridge just gets swapped out with another module and voila, 60's technicolor cardboard baby!

I like this idea best.

 

[Sector 7]

I have an idea. Tell me what you think.

What if at the end of the movie, after some huge battle with the Enterprise being heavily damaged, they show her being repaired at space dock, and they show quick glimpses of the bridge being repaired. And in these glimpses, you can clearly see the bridge being redesigned into something looking a bit closer to the bridge we all know from the original show.

Now, assuming this movie is just the first in a series starring this cast and crew, maybe for each consecutive movie we see the bridge and other parts of the Enterprise being redesigned more and more to something resembling the TOS look.

Then in the last movie starring this cast, in the very last shot in that movie, we see the bridge and every other part of the Enterprise looking pretty damn close to how it looked in TOS.

What would you think if they did it like this?

Why oh why would they 'improve' technology by going backwards?!
Whether you like the new design or not, it IS a higher level of technology. It's like saying GM will go to a new futuristic design called the wood-burning steam engine.
Get over it people. The bridge we see IS the new bridge, like it or not.

 

[Classic Fan]

As I recall, bridge modules were made to be swapped out with new ones whenever needed. Sure this bridge doesn't look exactly like the old one, but why should it? I expect by the "era of Kirk" the bridge just gets swapped out with another module and voila, 60's technicolor cardboard baby!

I like this idea best.

LOL.

And, this old bridge installation is easily explained after a few years by Kirk's 'Fondness for antiques'.

 

[M'Sharak]

And, this old bridge installation is easily explained after a few years by Kirk's 'Fondness for antiques'.

Has anyone spotted a Commodore PET anywhere yet?

 

[Classic Fan]

And, this old bridge installation is easily explained after a few years by Kirk's 'Fondness for antiques'.

Has anyone spotted a Commodore PET anywhere yet?

Im still looking.

Watch this space.




Also, look out for McCoys ultra advanced 23rd century heart rate scanner...

 

[Franklin]

It has to be the bridge of the Enterprise around the time Kirk took command. It can't be much earlier than that. In the wide picture of the bridge, look at the rank insignia on Dr. McCoy's sleeve and the rank on Sulu's. Obviously, they may not mean exactly the same thing they meant in TOS, but McCoy has two stripes, one wider than the other, and Sulu has one stripe. So, is McCoy a Lieutenant Commander? Is Sulu a Lieutenant? Already? This has to be how the bridge of the Enterprise looks some time around the start of the five-year mission. (Either that, or McCoy and Sulu rose through the ranks very fast, then held the same ranks for a damn long time.)

 

[Sector 7]

It has to be the bridge of the Enterprise around the time Kirk took command. It can't be much earlier than that. In the wide picture of the bridge, look at the rank insignia on Dr. McCoy's sleeve and the rank on Sulu's. Obviously, they may not mean exactly the same thing they meant in TOS, but McCoy has two stripes, one wider than the other, and Sulu has one stripe. So, is McCoy a Lieutenant Commander? Is Sulu a Lieutenant? Already? This has to be how the bridge of the Enterprise looks some time around the start of the five-year mission. (Either that, or McCoy and Sulu rose through the ranks very fast, then held the same ranks for a damn long time.)

Damn you! Stop confusing things with your fancy logic crap!

 

[Franklin]

There is a weirdness to the continuity. As different as the bridge and overall look of the movie obviously is, McCoy still wears a pinky ring. The more things change....

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

If they are using Trek rank, McCoy is a lieutenant commander. If they are using U.S. Naval rank, he's a lieutenant, junior grade.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The bridge will look different because history will be changed due to the time travel plot. The bridge will remain that way because this story will not involve a reset button making things the way they were. Spock will be successful in his mission but not completely. The cost will be a slightly different looking future then the one he knew.

I do recall one of the interviews discussing the filming of an iconic final scene with whole main cast, finally all in their TOS-inspired uniforms, and an assurance that, by the end of the movie, even the look of the bridge may be even more familiar to older fans. (Or did I dream that?)

One of the complaints about that cast shot we've seen, that seems to be driving people crazy, is that Kirk isn't wearing the gold part of his uniform, and/or that Spock is not even in that scene. AA very deliberate tease by the publicity department. Well done! It's got people talking, asking questions, worrying about "the canon", yearning for a more complete picture.

I'm expecting that maybe, just maybe, some of the stark white on the bridge set portion we've recently glimpsed might end up with a more iconic black/silver colour scheme, with maybe bright orange/red bridge rails, etc., at the movie's conclusion. But I'm not expecting it will suddenly attempt to replicate the 60s exactly.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The bridge railings are orange-red - and that "white" color looks to be a similar shade of platinum grey to the TOS bridge. What's missing here is a sense of the large dark surfaces of the perimeter stations and the darker grey inset areas around the perimeter overhead monitors that broke up the very light walls of that set.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The bridge railings are orange-red

LOL.

Well, I'm red/green colourblind, so if it's not the same vivid colour of TOS, I can make it look like just about any shade of red, green or grey that I like!

http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2008/07/confessions-of-colourblind-man-now-i.html

 

[Nerys Myk]

How about we stick to it looks different because its being made in the 21st Century. Does the actual look of the bridge really figure into continuity? Does it change who the characters are and what does/did/will happen to them? Its window dressing and nothing more. Let me know when McCoy is from Minnesota and Chekov is a Middle-aged woman. Then we'll talk about continuity and "alternate realities".

 

[seigezunt]

Understandable motivation, but just won't happen. Sometimes the easiest answer is the right one. It IS the bridge.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

I think they should fit the old bridge into the new reboot this way:

At the end of the movie, show some actors rehersing for a dramatic show based on the adventures of a Star Fleet captain and his ship. For them, this would be contempory drama, not science fiction. The mock up for the show is the old bridge from the 60's. The drama doesn't have to feature Kirk and Spock, who aren't that famous at this point, just some unnamed characters. The rest can be up to our imagination.

Or just forget the old, jump into the new, second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Why is it so hard for some people just to accept that a $150m film made in 2008 isn't going to look like a TV series from the 1960's?

Agreed.

It's like Hamlet. Shakespeare staged it a certain way at the dawn of the seventeenth century. In the Restoration Era, it was staged differently. Olivier did it his way, Branagh did it his way, Kevin Kline had his own way of doing Hamlet. The play is staged for the times. The text evokes the past and the intentions, but it's presented in a way that the audience can accept.

I don't need rigid adherence to the past. I need something that makes me feel like I'm watching Star Trek.

 

[TeutonicNights]

I think they should fit the old bridge into the new reboot this way:

At the end of the movie, show some actors rehersing for a dramatic show based on the adventures of a Star Fleet captain and his ship. For them, this would be contempory drama, not science fiction. The mock up for the show is the old bridge from the 60's.

I like that. It could be pretty funny.

"You got the details all wrong. This isn't the real Enterprise bridge, it's an abomination! We need more plexiglass."

 

[Captain Robert April]

How about we stick to it looks different because its being made in the 21st Century. Does the actual look of the bridge really figure into continuity?

Seventy-nine TOS episodes, two pilots, one TNG episode, one DS9 episode, and one Enterprise two-parter says is does.

All that versus one misbegotten movie? Movie loses in that fight.