Video Look at the Enterprise-D Concept Bridges

[Mark_Nguyen]

This was recently discussed in his forum, but "We Travel By Night" has assembled a series of Probert's various preproduction sketches into CG models, taking a few artistic liberties along the way:

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Mark

 

[Dukhat]

I think you meant Enterprise "D" concept bridges...

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Argh - @Admin, can you please fix the title? :P

Mark

 

[Unicron]

Title fixed.

 

[BillJ]

I wish the video had shown the sketches.

 

[B.J.]

I wish the video had shown the sketches.

Same! I'm familiar with the original E-D bridge concept, but I was unfamiliar with some of the intermediate designs between that and the final design.

 

[Firebird]

Forgotten Trek has most of the sketches that were shared ages ago in an issue of Star Trek: The Magazine:

Designing the Next Generation Bridge — Forgotten Trek

The Enterprise-D bridge was less mechanic in order to show that a century had passed since The Original Series.

forgottentrek.com

 

[BillJ]

Forgotten Trek has most of the sketches that were shared ages ago in an issue of Star Trek: The Magazine:

Designing the Next Generation Bridge — Forgotten Trek

The Enterprise-D bridge was less mechanic in order to show that a century had passed since The Original Series.

forgottentrek.com

It is interesting to see the evolution of the design. Thanks.

 

[David cgc]

I don't remember many of those from the magazine article. I'm sure I hadn't seen the sketch placing the bridge at the back of the neck, in the battle section, which makes sense of a few things (the sketch with the final revisions of the ship overall, with the lengthened nacelles and the bridge added to the top-middle of the saucer, and also that since, if the premise of separating the ship had been stuck with, the stardrive section would've been the half of the ship doing stuff, and it'd make sense for the new, fancy bridge set to stay with it, instead of having the most dramatic moments of episodes in the tiny hacked-up version of the TMP bridge).