How would you improve the bridge?

[Mytran]

That's a very good point. Seems like there should be emergency accesses to Deck 1. Because I can't remember any either. Ro climbed to the bridge through the turbolift shaft iirc.

Sort of - she climbed through the roof of a turbolift car which had got stuck and which had almost got to the bridge.
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Ro also mentions that an emergency bulkhead closed just beneath the car.

It would be insane if the command center of the ship could only be accessed by turbolift! If the power shut down, the entire bridge crew would be trapped?

Sternbach's blueprints and Stage 9's 3D-Enterprise project (which was shut down by CBS) connect the same ramp that leads to the Observation Lounge to the deck below:

I quite agree and in every other episode it seems that crew can access the rest of the ship via the farther Observation lounge door, if not the ramp to the bridge itself (as in your picture).

MANDEL: Chief O'Brien. The turbolifts aren't working. We're trapped up here.

Maybe the young officer was simply a bit panicked? As the episode progresses the major issue that O'Brien & pals face is not escaping the Bridge, it's bringing the ship to safety. Yes they could have taken the ramp down to deck 2 but what good would that have done?

 

[RandyS]

I would ask a bunch of random strangers on the internet what they wanted, then give them three of what they don't want.