Dim lighting on the bridge. Anyone else think it looked better?

[Needle and Spoonhead]

Offhand, I can think of a few episodes where the lighting on the bridge was dimmed - Cause and Effect, and Yesterday's Enterprise for example.

Anyone else think that it added a cool vibe, and wish it were permanent?

 

[JesterFace]

I think the well light bridge, as we're used to seeing it, looked better.

 

[Paradise City]

Well lit is my preference. Darker has a more militaristic feel. Yesterday's Enterprise wouldn't quite be as effective if they just switched to what was basically the same bridge.

The way they did it in some of the TOS movies looked cool too. Bright, then the bridge soaked in red at red alert.

 

[Shikarnov]

I think the darker bridge is cool only because of its rarity. We only see it when the ship is damaged, when they're deliberately trying to dress the bridge differently.

But if it was dark all the time, we'd be here discussing the mental and emotional effects of being in darkness so much, the strain on the eyes to be looking at lit screens in a dark room, and complaining that TPTB screwed it up again.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Would have been a nice compromise if they'd darkened the bridge for red alerts.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Would have been a nice compromise if they'd darkened the bridge for red alerts.

Interestingly enough, this was SOP on Voyager.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Must have blocked that from my memory....

 

[Mytran]

I for one would like to see what I'm doing in an emergency situation!

See what Kirk does in TMP: Red alert starts, and his first orders are to shut the noise off and turn the lights back on

 

[Needle and Spoonhead]

I for one would like to see what I'm doing in an emergency situation!

See what Kirk does in TMP: Red alert starts, and his first orders are to shut the noise off and turn the lights back on

Good point.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Actual CICs are dimly lit so that the controls and displays can be seen better.

 

[In_Correct]

In the first two seasons plus The Ensigns Of Command, the episodes were somewhat dark cinematography. But there were some that were even darker. The episode Lonely Among Us had dark corridors and a dark bridge when Picard began zapping everybody with blue lightning, and the ready room was dark in that episode.

Data hijacking The Enterprise in "Brothers" had a very dim lighting.

Also it seems that in many episodes, Ten Forward and The Observation Lounge are extremely dark.

I guess I prefer the dimmed rooms be cause that makes the entire ship feel much creepier. Add suspenseful creepy music to it and you have a TV series that you shouldn't watch by your self in a dark room in the middle of a windy winter night especially if there is a forest in your back yard.

 

[Mytran]

Actual CICs are dimly lit so that the controls and displays can be seen better.

But with the advances in tech by the 24th century, couldn't they just make the LCARS brighter instead?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Yes, absolutely the dim lighting looked better. TNG's lighting was too bright and flat in general. It made the show feel very bland at times.

 

[Ion]

I always figured when they pulled the set out of mothballs for Generations, they forgot to have someone change all the burned out bulbs...

I can't speak to the other series, but it really bugged me in Generations; perhaps not so much that it was dim, as that it was so... yellow. Yeah, outside light and all, and maybe more realistic in some places, but it just didn't look right.