Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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Hilariously, Doug Drexler is posting in reply to hardcore Treknical window/Abrams hating fans that it's not a window and that looks are deceiving.The bridge dome reminds me of the DSC Enterprise
So it's a non-window with 100% of the properties of a window
Hilariously, Doug Drexler is posting in reply to hardcore Treknical window/Abrams hating fans that it's not a window and that looks are deceiving.
So it's a non-window with 100% of the properties of a window
Lmao I seriously, seriously don't understand some fans' aversions to bridge windows. You get all the tactical advantages of a viewscreen than can be overlayed on the window, plus the tactical advantages that come when systems are offline. You're on an exploration vessel, don't you want to be able to look outside?
Granted, the execution of visual effects can absolutely ruin the look of the bridge window but if pulled off well then it just looks way cooler than an ordinary viewscreen. And the rule of cool trumps all
I think it's become symbolic of JJ Abrams and so gets the more... special... fans' ire.Lmao I seriously, seriously don't understand some fans' aversions to bridge windows. You get all the tactical advantages of a viewscreen than can be overlayed on the window, plus the tactical advantages that come when systems are offline. You're on an exploration vessel, don't you want to be able to look outside?
Granted, the execution of visual effects can absolutely ruin the look of the bridge window but if pulled off well then it just looks way cooler than an ordinary viewscreen. And the rule of cool trumps all
Fucking hilarious considering the bridge viewscreen was a window in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", but I don't think they noticed that.
Maybe it’s like lower decks? It’s only transparent when powered on.Hilariously, Doug Drexler is posting in reply to hardcore Treknical window/Abrams hating fans that it's not a window and that looks are deceiving.
So it's a non-window with 100% of the properties of a window
Sot it's not a window... it's an electric window
Some future space age material that can turn transparent when poweredSot it's not a window... it's an electric window
Exactly.
Lmao I seriously, seriously don't understand some fans' aversions to bridge windows. You get all the tactical advantages of a viewscreen than can be overlayed on the window, plus the tactical advantages that come when systems are offline. You're on an exploration vessel, don't you want to be able to look outside?
Granted, the execution of visual effects can absolutely ruin the look of the bridge window but if pulled off well then it just looks way cooler than an ordinary viewscreen. And the rule of cool trumps all
You've basically got it here. I think if the view-screen feature worked as well as it did on the old standard screen, it would have been better received. But what we got in the Kelvin movies was translucent faces you could see through, and aspect ratio incompatibility on top of that (as if a 23rd century computer is only as good as your grandma at fixing screen ratios). Discovery's screen is much more pleasant to look at, but the well has already been poisoned. Having the window dramatically crack to show danger is also a clear demonstration that this is less safe, and thus a bad idea. The window just gives a reason for the Bridge to be on top, but everyone had already gotten used to that, it didn't need an explanation.
Where do you see that?
Well... Yeah, kinda-sorta. The second pilot bridge dome did have what appeared to be a window:
Even the original Cage version had a little black rectangle that some might have considered a "window":
This was all done away with when the whole dome was replaced entirely with a lower-profile dome for the production run.
Many folks, to this day, insist that there was a window on the original-original version, which is probably where the Abramsverse movie people got the idea, and the DSC showrunners subsequently rolled with it in the PU in an attempt to be somewhat "retro".
Even the original Cage version had a little black rectangle that some might have considered a "window":
This was all done away with when the whole dome was replaced entirely with a lower-profile dome for the production run.
Many folks, to this day, insist that there was a window on the original-original version, which is probably where the Abramsverse movie people got the idea, and the DSC showrunners subsequently rolled with it in the PU in an attempt to be somewhat "retro".
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Windows for the win!
"Requiem for Methuselah(TOS)" didn't help when Kirk was looking through the bridge viewscreen to see his bridge officers frozen in place and Flint's captives.
Yep - forgot about that one. Curious what kind of detailing the bridge dome on the lost 3-footer had.
He actually looks in through the dome at the top, so the viewscreen must have been set to automatically show any giant faces approaching the ship.
That yellow box came and went depending on the shot (because they also used footage from The Cage), so I'm not sure it had anyone convinced the Enterprise had a window there. Especially as it's the wrong shape and too big.
Now I'm trying to remember if anyone involved in production ever said that was put there to imply the viewscreen was a window, and they changed their minds later. Right now I can't recall anyone saying anything about it at all.
Now I'm trying to remember if anyone involved in production ever said that was put there to imply the viewscreen was a window, and they changed their minds later. Right now I can't recall anyone saying anything about it at all.
It looks like all the other windows on the ship, soooooo....
Yes, but the other windows generally stay put from scene to scene! And when we get a close up it's not there.
