That square on the front of the bridge dome in 'The Cage' might also be window.
Plus in Requiem for Methuselah, didn't they look through it like a window?
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Plus in Requiem for Methuselah, didn't they look through it like a window?
Maybe it's a Picard exhibit to honour the new Chancellor. There's an Enterprise one as well, which could be the D. Of course, that doesn't explain the Excelsior display, which clearly mentioned Sulu.
I don't remember us ever getting a shot from the outside looking into the bridge, so I'm assuming it's not a window. I could have forgotten something though!
The square was added for the second pilot, and whenever we get close ups in that episode it disappears due to them using footage filmed for The Cage.
Kirk looks down onto the ship, the viewscreen shows him as if he's looking in from the front.
When the USS Rubidoux is breaking up in 1x07, it starts to crack. There's concept art of it actually breaking apart and pieces floating in space, but that didn't make it into the episode IIRC.
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Oh, I'd totally forgotten that. You're both right and wrong, as we do get to see it break apart into pieces which fly out into space. 100% a bridge window. (I still don't think the Cerritos has one though, at least not post-refit).
There is is still something in that spot on the outside.
I still like my theory that it needs to be powered on to be transparent. Which kind a defeats the purpose of being transparent, but still.
Well, they had a viewscreen-shaped hole to fill when they were refitting the ship!
At the risk of sounding obtuse but why is that weird? I'm not a huge car guy but certainly I see design cycles that happen within vehicles. Different engineers like to change different things, especially as technology gets innovated and they try new things.
I think that would be an interesting idea, hopefully with a manual override.
Apparently “the window” goes in and out of style at the ship yards at Utopia Planitia.
Or just an emergency battery connected nearby for those niggling times the ship looses power.
That's not something I can remember noticing. Car evolution has always seemed pretty one way to me (excluding the occasional deliberately retro design). I could be forgetting lots of obvious examples though.
Whether something is retro design or a design cycle is in the eye of the beholder. I immediately thought of Buick Ventiports, a design element that, while no longer a mainstay, still occasionally appears.
I probably am a terrible person to ask since it just stands out to me, but it doesn't stick because I really don't care about cars. I'll look at front end grills and be like "Oh, that reminds of this older car." So that's about it.
But, I largely see windows coming and going depending on the emphasis of the ship. Larger combat might prove a window to be less desirable, while more explorer makes it more desirable. Or some Starfleet engineer is like me and just likes it better.
Funny how his opinion just happened to change when Star Trek started paying his bills again.
I find it very unlikely it had to do with that.
Except that the display specifically calls out Picard (and only Picard) as captain; we absolutely know that Picard wasn't the only captain of the ship. Do the dates fit for it being Jean-Luc's captaincy?
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Are those open risers showing the deck below (leading up to the captain's thrown), or are those reflections (presumably of the viewscreen)?
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