Pretty much a sign: "Welcome, enemies....aim your weapon here." 
What purpose does the big picture window on the bridge serve?
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Pretty much a sign: "Welcome, enemies....aim your weapon here."
Ahahaha! That's priceless.
Pretty much a sign: "Welcome, enemies....aim your weapon here."
As I have pointed out on many a occasion: if you're up against someone whose weapons are accurate enough to hit a specific feature of your ship despite evasive maneuvers, the great distance between them and all shield protection, it doesn't matter where the bridge is, nor does it matter whether it has a window or a six-foot sheet of concrete.
Right after getting a chunk blown out of the Enterprise's neck Sulu reports; "Shields are at thirty two percent! We can't take another hit like that!" Presumably the force field could only absorb some of the missile's impact. Meaning, if that hit was with shields at full strength, getting the same again with the shields at less than half that would be very, very bad. In the face of that kind of fire power it doesn't matter where the bridge is, you're toast either way.
Pretty much a sign: "Welcome, enemies....aim your weapon here."
As I have pointed out on many a occasion: if you're up against someone whose weapons are accurate enough to hit a specific feature of your ship despite evasive maneuvers, the great distance between them and all shield protection, it doesn't matter where the bridge is, nor does it matter whether it has a window or a six-foot sheet of concrete.
Who wants to place bets that the 09 Enterprise has concrete in it?
You're months too late for that -- way behind the curve.Pretty much a sign: "Welcome, enemies....aim your weapon here."
As I have pointed out on many a occasion: if you're up against someone whose weapons are accurate enough to hit a specific feature of your ship despite evasive maneuvers, the great distance between them and all shield protection, it doesn't matter where the bridge is, nor does it matter whether it has a window or a six-foot sheet of concrete.
Who wants to place bets that the 09 Enterprise has concrete in it?
Give him some credit, M'sharak. At least he's trying.
One thing that has been shown since the beginnings of Star Trek...
When the Enterprise is struck by enemy fire ANYWHERE, it causes panels on the bridge to short out and explode. This means sometime in the past (presumably World War 3) the human race lost the ability to produce a vital piece of defensive technology known as the FUSE...
When the Enterprise is struck by enemy fire ANYWHERE, it causes panels on the bridge to short out and explode. This means sometime in the past (presumably World War 3) the human race lost the ability to produce a vital piece of defensive technology known as the FUSE...
Holy shit, it's Roger Ebert's Nemesis review all over again.
To be fair, only the Kelvin seemed to lack fuses.
The Enterprise seems to have plenty in spades.
Shame about the bridge walls being made of cheap stucco and the viewscreen being made of kitchenware glass, though.
The Enterprise seems to have plenty in spades.
Shame about the bridge walls being made of cheap stucco and the viewscreen being made of kitchenware glass, though.
wut ?
To be more serious, the bridge window seems to be a transparent section of hull facing forward. In TOS, the bridge had a powered viewscreen. If the viewscreen was damaged or lost power, the bridge crew were effectively blind. (See The Doomsday Machine. On Constellation, Kirk had to repair the viewscreen to have ANY idea what was happening to Enterprise...) On the new Star Trek movie designs, the transparent bridge windows seem to be able to display holographic data within them. If this system is damaged or loses power, the bridge crew can still use their Mark One Eyeballs to navigate the ship...
I know how stupid it sounds. If they lose the viewscreen, they have to do it SOMEHOW...
Do you have ANY idea how many WAY more stupid ideas than that Star Trek KEPT...?
I know how stupid it sounds. If they lose the viewscreen, they have to do it SOMEHOW...
No, I didn't mean that, I just thought that phrase sounded really hilarious. "Mark One Eyeballs"... No insult was intended.
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window too big is it
No, I didn't mean that, I just thought that phrase sounded really hilarious. "Mark One Eyeballs"... No insult was intended.
Really? I thought Mark One Eyeball was a common military term...
^ Never been in the military, so I wouldn't know about that. I just thought it sounded great.
In a TNG episode (I can't recall which, but it was one where the control of the ship had been locked out from the bridge and the command crew had re-convened in engineering) Riker remarks that "the only way we knew we'd come out of warp was to look out a window". Setting aside what that says about quality of the intruments in engineering, it's also a testament to the value of having a window on the bridge.
Those are both good points and make sense, Star Trek (XI) was all about having a more functional look than even the previous incarnations of Trek had.
