Would Star Trek II Work Without The Reset?

[Lord Garth]

just as TUC expects us to expect the interiors always looked the way they did in that movie.

There was plenty of time for the bridge to be refitted between TFF and TUC. However you want to count it, it was several years. When I first saw the movie in 1991, I just figured they re-modelled. It's the same set just painted differently and with a metallic finish. Pretty straight forward.

Between TVH and TFF is a different story. Completely different bridge sets and only weeks or months were supposed to have passed, not years. And, so, yeah, I suspend disbelief there.

 

[CoveTom]

There was plenty of time for the bridge to be refitted between TFF and TUC. However you want to count it, it was several years. When I first saw the movie in 1991, I just figured they re-modelled. It's the same set just painted differently and with a metallic finish. Pretty straight forward.

Well, plus the addition of all those ridiculous buttons, sliders, and other doo-hickeys that Meyer insisted upon. And clocks. Lots of clocks. Oh, and fire extinguishers. That's important.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I doubt it was Scotty who completely replaced the bridge. It was probably the Starfleet Corp of Engineers.

He built it all! Piece by piece! He did every weld! Like Geordi in PIC3!!!!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Between TVH and TFF is a different story. Completely different bridge sets and only weeks or months were supposed to have passed, not years. And, so, yeah, I suspend disbelief there.

One possibility. The bridge in IV is actually an auxiliary control room because they found the actual bridge (the V bridge) needed some work which Kirk and Scotty thought they could do on the way to wherever. Then they found they couldn't and went back.

Realistically, this is silly. They would not have left Spacedock with a barely functional bridge.