Ezri and Aventine <POTENTIAL SPOILERS>
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I imagine it as being something akin to a combination of the Voyager, Enterprise-E, and Prometheus bridges.
Though I had to fight while reading Greater Than the Sum and Destiny not to picture the Enterprise-E bridge as looking like the Enterprise-D bridge.
Hypothetically speaking, there's no reason why, at that point, it couldn't have. Bridge modules are supposedly "swappable," which would indicate that they're also fairly standard -- just posit that something happened to the E's bridge module post-Nemesis, and it got replaced with a vintage Galaxy-class bridge module.
No, I'm not seriously positing this as having happened. But there's nothing to say that it didn't.
Hypothetically speaking, there's no reason why, at that point, it couldn't have. Bridge modules are supposedly "swappable," which would indicate that they're also fairly standard -- just posit that something happened to the E's bridge module post-Nemesis, and it got replaced with a vintage Galaxy-class bridge module.
No, I'm not seriously positing this as having happened. But there's nothing to say that it didn't.
True enough, but I know that that's both unlikely and not the authors' creative intention. The fact that I have trouble picturing the E bridge as not looking like the D bridge as more to do with the fact that we spent so little time on the E bridge in the films compared to the amount of time on the D bridge in TNG -- it's a matter of pure mental familiarity. The post-NEM TNG novels feel so much like a continuation of TNG the series in new circumstances that I have trouble not picturing the D bridge, that's all.
It's probably a sign of creative success for the authors.
^I definitely wrote the GTTS bridge scenes with the E-E bridge in mind, using online photos and drawings of that bridge as reference. In particular, I plotted out the climactic action on the bridge based on those references, including the assumption that the tactical station is to the left of the first officer's seat rather than above and behind the captain as on the D.
I've had a simliar problem picturing the various bridges, for some reason the layouts just won't stick in my head. Luckily I found this site. It has the layouts of Starfleet Bridges, Alien Bridges and other locations.(scroll down to locations)Hypothetically speaking, there's no reason why, at that point, it couldn't have. Bridge modules are supposedly "swappable," which would indicate that they're also fairly standard -- just posit that something happened to the E's bridge module post-Nemesis, and it got replaced with a vintage Galaxy-class bridge module.
No, I'm not seriously positing this as having happened. But there's nothing to say that it didn't.
True enough, but I know that that's both unlikely and not the authors' creative intention. The fact that I have trouble picturing the E bridge as not looking like the D bridge as more to do with the fact that we spent so little time on the E bridge in the films compared to the amount of time on the D bridge in TNG -- it's a matter of pure mental familiarity. The post-NEM TNG novels feel so much like a continuation of TNG the series in new circumstances that I have trouble not picturing the D bridge, that's all.
I'm kind of in the mood to do a quick 2D layout of the bridge today, let me see if I can come up with something.
I also have been playing around with Photoshop to create a fake "coming soon" thingy, just for fun.
I sort of imagined it was something like this myself:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fadmvulcan/2532365263/sizes/m/in/set-72157604354548317/
But maybe with an ops station added somewhere...
Me too!
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I'm kind of in the mood to do a quick 2D layout of the bridge today, let me see if I can come up with something.
I also have been playing around with Photoshop to create a fake "coming soon" thingy, just for fun.
WOAH!
Funny--that was gonna be my next question: What'll the Star Trek: Aventine logo look like?
AWESOME!!!
Thanks! The March 2010 date is hopefully the date that I have updated the Aventine model.
Personally, I've been picturing the Aventine bridge as a "redress" of the Sovereign-class bridge. Just with two centre seats instead of three, and maybe a pallet-swap (from "warm" beige/brown to "cool" blue/silver) to distinguish from the Enterprise.
Similarly, I picture engineering as being similar to the Sovereign's engineroom, but stretched into a "figure-8" (the Sovereign's engineroom is more of an "omega" shape, with the core in the loop and the ops table and consoles at the base) with the Slipstream core at the opposite end of the room. The ops table kinda "flares" out from the domed Slipstream core (it's kinda like an exclamation point, with the Slip core as the dot and the table as the line).
Rather than the core being set into the floor as on the Dauntless, the Starfleet version has a waist-high "counter" around it --the counter extends out on one side to make the table.
Both ships are about the same size, so I figure the interior spaces would be on a similar scale. The Akira-class bridge seems too cramped.
Similarly, I picture engineering as being similar to the Sovereign's engineroom, but stretched into a "figure-8" (the Sovereign's engineroom is more of an "omega" shape, with the core in the loop and the ops table and consoles at the base) with the Slipstream core at the opposite end of the room. The ops table kinda "flares" out from the domed Slipstream core (it's kinda like an exclamation point, with the Slip core as the dot and the table as the line).
Rather than the core being set into the floor as on the Dauntless, the Starfleet version has a waist-high "counter" around it --the counter extends out on one side to make the table.
Both ships are about the same size, so I figure the interior spaces would be on a similar scale. The Akira-class bridge seems too cramped.
Well, we know from A Singular Destiny that Ezri's ready room has a low desk--so her legs won't dangle.
Personally, I imagine she also had the "desk-and-window" half of the ready-room floor raised--with steps, so that she steps down when heading for the bridge.
Adds an air of power--kinda like the dais in Ops, on which is located the Commander's office.
Personally, I imagine she also had the "desk-and-window" half of the ready-room floor raised--with steps, so that she steps down when heading for the bridge.
Adds an air of power--kinda like the dais in Ops, on which is located the Commander's office.
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