Technically it isn't. It's the outer shell for the Deck 1 turbolift car and shaft. 
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Pedantry aside, I still don't believe that it's ever canonically stated anywhere that the bump is related to the turbolift at all.Technically it isn't. It's the outer shell for the Deck 1 turbolift car and shaft.
It isn't. But until the creators confirm otherwise it makes sense. Bump. Bridge deck. About where the turbolift car would stop within the module. Works for me!
Except it makes no sense for the bridge to be offset. But I don't want to resurrect that debate in this thread, so I shall stop here.
Also, the opening shot of "The Cage" shows the turbolift is not in the little bump.
I know. It's weird. But I try to rationalize it as future spacecraft design and some quirk of the Federation.
4/5! Maybe 3? 2?
I think the pod might have been a nacelle. And I'm somewhat agnostic on the bridge these days.
But DS9 all the way.
The bridge of the military vessel Enterprise was offset by 36 degrees and was paid for with money!Holy God…not the “Bridge is offset” thing.
He has turned his chair around to face the Captain. Nothing stranger than that.
But from the angle shouldn't the camera be facing directly towards the viewscreen?
Actually, look again. The front of Chekov's console should have the viewscreen. It doesn't. It looks like his console was shifted to face the engineering side consoles instead.
It should be facing right out the viewscreen not other bridge stations.
Now the bridge can rotate on the inner and outer circle!
Yeah, the console prop was moved for that shot. Looks wrong and makes no sense once you notice it but, hey, in "Relics(TNG)" Captain Picard visits Scotty on the holodeck recreation of the TOS Enterprise bridge and enters about where Scotty is sitting and lamenting his old friends.
In that case the "Relics" set was just a small section and not the whole bridge and they had to stand Patrick Stewart in front of what they had. But it's still noticeable.
In that case the "Relics" set was just a small section and not the whole bridge and they had to stand Patrick Stewart in front of what they had. But it's still noticeable.
I just don't understand how that even occurred. The bridge was all one set, right? Did they film the foreground and background separately and make a mistake while editing? Did they rotate the console just for that one shot?
I believe the bridge station set panels are moveable in sections. So they just rotated it around. Possible pick up shot.
I'm not sure they ever stated where the engines are, either. Just saying.
I see. Well, if the set can be rearranged, it makes sense that the actual in-universe bridge could also be rearranged. Maybe Chekov was too lazy to swivel his chair to face the captain, so he pushed a button to rotate the entire console instead.
I've edited my post to show that "The Cage" proves that the bump is not the turbolift.
Oh yeah, thanks.
IIRC, there was a gap in the set wall to the right of the viewscreen for the camera, it was the most often used angle when they filmed the whole Bridge. I guess they had to move the science console bit to cover it for this shot.
Clearly inspired by the Discovery and its spore drive activation sequence.
Probably not controversial, but I think they should give TFF and especially NEM the Rocky vs. Drago Treatment, and air them on Paramount+.
With TFF: Cut out the silly "trying too hard to be like TVH!" moments, get rid of the Enterprise malfunctioning, add in deleted character-building scenes, and don't bring the SFX up to Current Standards but bring them up to an approximation of late-'80s ILM standards. How it could've looked in 1989 under better circumstances. I think the Rock Man can stay on the cutting room floor -- instead of added in -- since this would be a more serious version of the movie and the Rock Man wouldn't fit. I'd also cut out the Scotty/Uhura romance. I wasn't buying it and I don't think anyone else was either. It came from out of nowhere and then, in TUC, it was like it never happened.
With NEM: Cut the action scenes by at least half, cut down all the parts where Picard goes into Rambo Picard mode or minimize where completely cutting those parts out isn't possible, add in the character-building scenes, and massage the film's narrative so it looks like it's heading in the direction of Picard. Make it feel more in-line with what's coming next. Maybe add footage from TNG to show when a Romulan would've had an opportunity to grab a sample to clone Picard. "Unification" would be the easiest. Picard was surrounded by Romulans everywhere, some of whom would've had the motive. It further emphasizes that Shinzon's age would have to have been accelerated.
With TFF: Cut out the silly "trying too hard to be like TVH!" moments, get rid of the Enterprise malfunctioning, add in deleted character-building scenes, and don't bring the SFX up to Current Standards but bring them up to an approximation of late-'80s ILM standards. How it could've looked in 1989 under better circumstances. I think the Rock Man can stay on the cutting room floor -- instead of added in -- since this would be a more serious version of the movie and the Rock Man wouldn't fit. I'd also cut out the Scotty/Uhura romance. I wasn't buying it and I don't think anyone else was either. It came from out of nowhere and then, in TUC, it was like it never happened.
With NEM: Cut the action scenes by at least half, cut down all the parts where Picard goes into Rambo Picard mode or minimize where completely cutting those parts out isn't possible, add in the character-building scenes, and massage the film's narrative so it looks like it's heading in the direction of Picard. Make it feel more in-line with what's coming next. Maybe add footage from TNG to show when a Romulan would've had an opportunity to grab a sample to clone Picard. "Unification" would be the easiest. Picard was surrounded by Romulans everywhere, some of whom would've had the motive. It further emphasizes that Shinzon's age would have to have been accelerated.
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I don't know, the two of them looked like they were starting to get close at the end of The Voyage Home, when approaching the Excelsior/Enterprise A.
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