That is wild to see. Really brings to life the difference between a preproduction sketch (as great as Probert is!) and what would happen if the thing being sketched were actually built! This is really great of you to make the effort to build it for everyone to see.
Thanks.
To me this big large4 bridge could be used for plesure cruise ships staying within safe zones in the UFP
Yeah, could be. In any case I'd love to just hang out there.
I got to say, I'm glad the original concept Bridge wasn't used. It's too big.
Those con stations in front of Picard are ugly.
That table behind them is unsightly and badly placed. I'm assuming that's the Conference table; having it in a separate room gave a change of scenery and a place for characters to talk apart from the rest of the crew if needed.
Yes, I can see why a separate, more private conference room would be preferable. However, this is the future so maybe they just have a forcefield Cone of Silence around the table.
A second platform is just unnecessary. And to all it serves is:
1: A place for bad guys to gun down the Captain and second in command in the back from above.
2: A place for crew members to fall to their deaths when the ships shakes or a panel blows.
The steps, while cool looking, are just another dramatic thing for people to fall down. Instead of tuborlifts, it would have been stairs Geordi was falling down.
Well, isn't that their most important function anyway? Can you imagine how much more
impactful it would be if in
Hide and Q, Worf threw that Klingon woman off the top balcony.
Too much empty space. Make the set look lonely, especially in potential dramatic moments.
The view screen -- too much view screen. Sure they could have done what "The Orville" does and have a rectangular window open on the screen for communications, but it looks ugly on TO and it certainly would have looked ugly on TNG.
Yeah, all that space may be bad for a production, but I do like it as a physical space.
And I still don't see a bathroom door. ;-)
Hey, maybe that's what the upper platforms is. One giant bathroom.
The ceiling's slope seems a little too drastic in front for me. Someone on the second level can barely see the viewscreen, all they've got to look at is the lights shining back at them unless they're peeking over the railing. The sketch makes me feel like the screen is a whole two levels, or very nearly.
I think it's pretty close. In the drawing the man is standing pretty much directly under the rim of the viewscreen and it's about twice as tall as he is. But the ceiling above the figure standing on the upper level is almost twice as tall as he is. So there's definitely some height above the viewscreen. Though I agree with the practicalities you mentioned.
As for the design itself, I feel like it'd might be an interesting "admiral's bridge," someplace that's very big-picture and more for meetings and discussions than for actual nuts-and-bolts operations of the ship. Or maybe a bridge/situation room for the UFP President's ship, someplace equally suited for diplomatic receptions as monitoring a Borg invasion.
That's a great idea, actually. You could fit a ton of tactical data on that viewscreen. And you have some nice benches to lounge on while you view it.
On the sketch it looks as if there's light radiating from behind the top of the wall up onto the ceiling.
Yes. I have that in my model, but even if I bump the emissions way up it's still not enough to light that command area.
