I sure this has been gone over before, but deserves reiteration...
One thing about the new Enterprise bridge I greatly appreciated: the large number of support crew in the background.
Instead of four principles and one extra (silently tapping buttons and waiting to get killed by some energy being), you have at least ten people moving back and forth through the camera frame, exchanging information and heading between stations, on and off the bridge. These backgorund crewmembers have overlapping conversations while working on their own set of duties and solve problems, completely independent of whatever the main cast is dealing with.
It gives you an idea of just how massively complicated it would be to run a starship, and it’s a welcome step away from the automation you see in TNG. This is something I’ve long desired to see, even when I was a kid.
At ten years old, I knew there was something wrong with only five or (at maximum) six people running the entire ship. You saw these other crewmembers in the cooridor or in engineering but you never understood what the hell they did since it seemed like Geordi and Data (and Scotty on TOS) could take care of pretty much everything themselves. Here their in the background of every shot.
One thing about the new Enterprise bridge I greatly appreciated: the large number of support crew in the background.
Instead of four principles and one extra (silently tapping buttons and waiting to get killed by some energy being), you have at least ten people moving back and forth through the camera frame, exchanging information and heading between stations, on and off the bridge. These backgorund crewmembers have overlapping conversations while working on their own set of duties and solve problems, completely independent of whatever the main cast is dealing with.
It gives you an idea of just how massively complicated it would be to run a starship, and it’s a welcome step away from the automation you see in TNG. This is something I’ve long desired to see, even when I was a kid.
At ten years old, I knew there was something wrong with only five or (at maximum) six people running the entire ship. You saw these other crewmembers in the cooridor or in engineering but you never understood what the hell they did since it seemed like Geordi and Data (and Scotty on TOS) could take care of pretty much everything themselves. Here their in the background of every shot.