Spoilers The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise bridge to life

[Daedalus]

Oh come on, you know that a lot of Star Trek fans enjoy the tech, and the ships are as influential a part of the franchise as the characters. This has always been the case with Star Trek.

The Roddenberry Archive is a literally an example of this. It's a gallery of Starships, bridges, sets and props, not characters.

I don't think SNW would be a better show if they'd used the TOS Enterprise instead of their own, but personally I prefer the look of the original ship. Either way I'm not the producer making these decisions.

Seconded, or thirded..

You know, as a kid, I didn't care too much for the original design. It couldn't hold a candle to the refit in my eyes, but then the years rolled by and it became something of a work of art. This precious and ageless thing that all other starships are based upon and could've been something wildly different in another life. Imagine Trek without it, it's impossible.

Sentimental, I know, but it comes from a good place.

 

[Dukhat]

Broken record poster says, the TOS Enterprise does not need updating! Not the exterior. Maybe the interior ala the Ticonderoga sets.

What Ticonderoga sets?

 

[137th Gebirg]

Was wondering that myself.

 

[Tomalak]

James Cawley's TOS set tour.

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[137th Gebirg]

AH! Got it. Thank you...

 

[James Cole]

Look guys... the "heads I win, tails you lose" model some people wish to impose wherein certain Star Trek projects need to be immune from any criticism whatsoever, while others are subjected to numerous rounds of surface level soundbites is unsustainable on an open internet.

Many of the Star Trek projects from the last almost two decades have been divisive. When the rare thing that makes it out somehow manages to please 80%+ of the fanbase, it'll cause some ripple effects.

And, look, canon / continuity has always been a debate within the Star Trek fanbase, even when almost everyone could agree on something being "good".

 

[fireproof78]

Broken record poster says, the TOS Enterprise does not need updating! Not the exterior. Maybe the interior ala the Ticonderoga sets.

We appreciate your consistency and clarity.

 

[Tomalak]

One of the great things about the Roddenberry Archive is that everything is there, and it's all equally valid.

 

[James Cole]

Shout out especially for featuring the PHASE II Enterprise and the PLANET OF THE TITANS Enterprise. Everyone can have their share of the cake with the multiverse framework

 

[137th Gebirg]

Loved the "toon" filter they put on the TAS-E surface texture. Cool effect.

 

[Ronald Held]

We appreciate your consistency and clarity.

Thanks! In general I am against updating period pieces, Trek or others.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Robin Curtis as Saavik, acting out dialogue from an Early Voyages(?) comic book:

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[Turtletrekker]

Loved the "toon" filter they put on the TAS-E surface texture. Cool effect.

See also the Cerritos. they don't seem to have the bridge of the Protostar up yet.

 

[The Wormhole]

BTW, it seems weird to me for the Defiant bridge they used the version of it that was only featured in The Search.

 

[Rekkert]

BTW, it seems weird to me for the Defiant bridge they used the version of it that was only featured in The Search.

In general it's always better to start with the first version built of any set, and go from there. We did the same with the Enterprise-D, started with season 1 and moved forward from there.

Earlier versions tend to be easier and have less complexities, and that was indeed the case with the Defiant, more and more LCARS and details were added on 'Equilibrium', then on season 4, season 5...

 

[HotRod]

When the rare thing that makes it out somehow manages to please 80%+ of the fanbase, it'll cause some ripple effects.

You're right. Strange New Worlds certainly has caused some ripples.

In general I am against updating period pieces, Trek or others.

Then it's a good thing Star Trek's not a period piece.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I agree. Though I think they’d still have to update the interiors in terms of tech. Nothing about the bridge in TOS feels futuristic anymore.

TOS interiors were not perceived as "not futuristic", anachronistic to an imagined future or "old" when seen in then-latter-day Trek productions such as ENT's In a Mirror, Darkly" 2-parter. The reason why TOS sets worked for audiences in that series (and a few years earlier in DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"), is all due to the incredibly sharp, forward-thinking, aesthetically entrancing (yeah, I said it) design and execution of TOS's Enterprise inside and out.

 

[HotRod]

TOS interiors were not perceived as "not futuristic", anachronistic to an imagined future or "old" when seen in then-latter-day Trek productions such as ENT's In a Mirror, Darkly" 2-parter. The reason why TOS sets worked for audiences in that series (and a few years earlier in DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"), is all due to the incredibly sharp, forward-thinking, aesthetically entrancing (yeah, I said it) design and execution of TOS's Enterprise inside and out.

Or....

It was a fun, tounge in cheek and nostalgic look back at the past of the franchise. Both examples were a novelty.

 

[fireproof78]

Or....

It was a fun, tounge in cheek and nostalgic look back at the past of the franchise. Both examples were a novelty.

Kind of like Wile E. Coyote appearing on Night Court.

 

[Dukhat]

Then it's a good thing Star Trek's not a period piece.

No, but if you're going to make a prequel to something that takes place ten years after it, it would be nice if your prequel actually looked and felt like what it was a prequel to. And not something that looks and feels completely different.*

*I'm referring to DSC here.

But alas, this thread is about OTOY's bridges, and I don't want to derail it.