Bridge Choice. ST TMP or TWK?

[Patrickivan]

I am also working on the rec dec for this build up and will post it here. I am including the contours of the ship because it has always bugged me that they didn't in the movie.

Fortunately, it works with the contours! Here's a work up in scale.

Any thoughts for my take on this?

This looks great. WHere can I see more?

My blog- and the art section- when I post more.

 

[SchwEnt]

I like the Rec Deck work. Reminds me of Probert's designs that also fit into the saucer rim the same way (but were ultimately not used in TMP).

 

[Marc]

In the choice between TMP and TWOK Bridges, I would have to go with the latter. I think it looks a little more worn and 'lived in', whilst TMP's was too sterile and shiney.

Though the Enterprise was in the final stage of a major refit so you'd expect the bridge to be shiny and I guess a bit sterile. Then after a few years cruising the stars and you get the worn and "lived in" bridge.

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

My all-time favorite Enterprise bridge look from the original films is the way it looked in "The Undiscovered Country"... IMO, that was the best.

 

[The Castellan]

Of the two, TMP.

Overall, TFF.

Though I did like the small, Grissom bridge as well.

 

[Data Holmes]

I am also working on the rec dec for this build up and will post it here. I am including the contours of the ship because it has always bugged me that they didn't in the movie.

Fortunately, it works with the contours! Here's a work up in scale.

Any thoughts for my take on this?

It really does feel backwards.

 

[Squiggy]

ST:TFF bridge. Only good thing about the movie.

Circle gets the square.

 

[Maurice]

re The Rec Deck: I never understood why—once they decided there wasn't enough budget to build the officer's lounge properly—they didn't just change the scene to take place in the rec deck. They could have made a lounge area on the upper level, and made use of the vastness of the set below as a more interesting background than what the cobbled together later. Probably no one thought about it before the Rec Deck was struck.

 

[Harvey]

My guess would be that the large rec dec set was struck before it was decided that they couldn't build more than the simplest version of the officer's lounge. As I recall from Walter Koenig's book about the production -- but it's worth checking to see if my hazy memory is correct -- the rec dec set was one of the first used, and struck long before the production was over.

 

[Uxi]

I liked the white look for the STIV bridge but do like the chairs of the TFF Bridge the best (I'd still love a version of Kirk's TFF chair as a recliner). The Okudagrams in that bridge seemed the least offensive too though SOME physical switches. I hate LCARS.

I mostly liked the TUC bridge, too... except for the clocks. They make sense, but don't fit with anything seen before (or since).

 

[Fisherman'sWorf]

I'd say the combo- TMP colors with TWOK station placement. The bridge looks lopsided in TMP with all the standing room only stations on one side.

 

[Maurice]

Actually, from a filming standpoint, having the sides look different is better photographically, because you can tell where you are looking, which is harder to do on a symmetrical circular set.

 

[Patrickivan]

I am also working on the rec dec for this build up and will post it here. I am including the contours of the ship because it has always bugged me that they didn't in the movie.

Fortunately, it works with the contours! Here's a work up in scale.

Any thoughts for my take on this?

It really does feel backwards.

Heh- ya. I've got a build up thread going in the trek art section. I'm spinning everyone around and putting a fold down monitor in the aft section of the room. Makes more sense- like a theatre. And the Enterprise Gallery will remain in the front.

 

[Gary7]

I also give a thumbs up for TWOK. There were a few things about TMP that didn't look right to me. First and foremost, they went bonkers on the "Jolly Rancher" buttons. Rather chaotic control layouts that would be a bear to operate under stress. And that enormous fixture hanging down from above center, like a kind of chandelier or echo of the lower saucer section. Just friggin' weird and useless. I was glad that they did away with that in subsequent bridge designs.

 

[starburst]

That feature was there on the Enterprise A (although toned down) in ST6 as well as the Enterprise E, in all likely hood it was meant to be there in TWOK too.