Late 23rd Century Control Panel UI

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While that should be true, there seems to have been some difficulty insofar as upgrading console appearance. Off the top of my head, the Raven was the first vessel observed with her too-modern rendition of LCARS, suggesting it should date back to 2347 and was thus a 15 year old user interface by the time of the Enterprise-D's construction. While it was seen to have been retrofitted onto various vessels that were much older, the Stargazer and other ships that hadn't been updated (though I need to review this idea for other members of the set) is interesting.

While it's entirely possible that Stargazer had missed a scheduled upgrade or perhaps even not yet reached her major refit milestone prior to Maxia, it's worth remembering that IRL the final Okudagram style hadn't yet been created in TNG s1 -- and as such imho it's the kind of inconsistency that doesn't need to be given much weight.

In all honesty I prefer to ignore this and similar oddities that we know were largely driven by the frenetic production pace of the time. Things like Valeris' red cadet undertunic, O'Brien's ever-changing rank pips, general uniform and insignia errors, the mismatched interfaces on the Hathaway (and the Jenolen, iirc), the bizarrely advanced displays on the Bozeman -and similarly the Raven- all go into "Ignore This, There's Really No Point Acknowledging It" box, to save myself the mental gymnastics As I'm sure Freud once said, sometimes a production flub is just a production flub.

 

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Now where's the fun in that? :-)

The Bozeman (at least the RXIO version) is actually what started my whole bother, mixing thorughly 2290 standard with a handful of TOS-style screens.

It's also the first chronological appearance of the rounded prism console (a la the TNG Helm and Ops) if I remember correctly, though the ones on the Stargazer and Hathaway may suggest it wasn't early by very much. (I forget offhand if the Jenolan sported one, but I have it noted.)

 

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Now where's the fun in that? :-)

The Bozeman (at least the RXIO version) is actually what started my whole bother, mixing thorughly 2290 standard with a handful of TOS-style screens.

It's also the first chronological appearance of the rounded prism console (a la the TNG Helm and Ops) if I remember correctly, though the ones on the Stargazer and Hathaway may suggest it wasn't early by very much. (I forget offhand if the Jenolan sported one, but I have it noted.)

Believe it or not, for me it's far more fun - and not least because although as a kid I had the spare time to try and align and rationalise the countless oddities, I now very much do not

These days I tend to follow a "general rule of thumb", and ignore the truly batsh¡t discrepancies. This way lets me imagine instead what the Bozeman "really" looked like (something I actually find infinitely more satisfying and less frustrating than trying to contort myself around production flubs, typos, budget constraints, or Executive-meddling nonsense ).

I don't remember the Jenolen having a TNG standalone console, but I do remember that bloody anachronism of a command chair. (Now let me tell you what that bridge really looks like in my head.....!)