Star trek enterprise bridge

It’s a rare young Star Trek fan indeed who does­n’t fan­ta­size about sit­ting on the bridge of the star­ship Enter­prise. That has gone for every gen­er­a­tion of fan, every Star Trek series, and every Enter­prise, whose bridges you can see in the new video above from the Rod­den­ber­ry Archive. It begins, nat­u­ral­ly, with the orig­i­nal Star Trek, the show with which cre­ator Gene Rod­den­ber­ry start­ed it all — and for which art direc­tor Matt Jef­feries designed a bridge that would become a mod­el not just for all sub­se­quent Enter­pris­es, but real-life com­mand cen­ters as well. As the nar­ra­tor says, “Jef­feries’ bridge made such an impres­sion that engi­neers from NASA, the U.S. Navy, and pri­vate indus­try have stud­ied it as a mod­el for an advanced, effi­cient con­trol room.”

That nar­ra­tor hap­pens to be John de Lan­cie, whom view­ers of Star Trek: The Next Gen­er­a­tion and sub­se­quent series will know as the all-pow­er­ful extra-dimen­sion­al being Q. He’s not the only famil­iar per­former to par­tic­i­pate in this ret­ro­spec­tive project: in the video above appears a cer­tain William Shat­ner, who as James Tiberius Kirk occu­pied the cap­tain’s chair of the very first Enter­prise.

Even those who pre­fer the lat­er, more com­plex Star Treks have sure­ly won­dered what that posi­tion would feel like, and now they can get a vir­tu­al sense of it at the Rod­den­bery Archive’s web site, which is now offer­ing vir­tu­al tours of the bridge of every series’ cen­tral ship.

“The site fea­tures 360-degree, 3D mod­els of the var­i­ous ver­sions of the Enter­prise, as well as a time­line of the ship’s evo­lu­tion through­out the franchise’s his­to­ry,” writes Smithsonian.com’s Sarah Kuta. “Fans of the show can also read detailed infor­ma­tion about each ver­sion of the ship’s design, its sig­nif­

U.S.S. ENTERPRISE BRIDGE SET

STAR TREK - THE ORIGINAL SERIES

AMT plastic kit, made with transparent components
Kit includes:
BRIDGE of the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 (Constitution Class)
- Scale 1/32 (according to the manufacturer)
- approx. 30 cm in diameter
- approx. 108 components - with over 100 accurate stickers (decals)
- Description well illustrated in English
- Paint & glue not included
- Manufacturer: AMT
- Year of production: 2022

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Recommended for ages 14+ - Please keep small children away. Danger of suffocation due to small parts that can be swallowed.

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The bridge, also known as the main bridge or the command bridge, was the starship equivalent of an operations center or command center.

Starfleet bridge design[]

On Starfleet ships, it was generally located near the top and front of a vessel. From here, the commanding officers supervised all ship's operations, ranging from vessel course control to tactical systems.

On Starfleet vessels, the bridge was usually located on Deck 1, on top of the vessel's primary hull. The bridge was the nerve center of every starship, and it was manned by the top officers of each department except for engineering and medical. There was typically an engineering station that the chief engineer could use when on the bridge, as well as science stations that the science officer or chief medical officer could use.

The commanding officer could supervise all the ship's operations while seated in the command chair, typically located in the center of the room, while having visual access to all major personnel stations and viewscreens, facilitating the decision-making process. By the mid-24th century, the standard was that a first officer was assigned to assist a ship's captain in this process.

The forward bulkhead of the bridge wa

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"Real" BridgeAlternate VersionsAddendumGallery

The bridge of the Enterprise-D, as seen in the seven years of TNG and in "Star Trek Generations", is one of the most famous sets ever built for a Star Trek production. While the basic layout of the doors, wall segments, stations and seats always remained the same, many details were changed over the course of the years, for the "real" bridge as well as for fake or for alternate universe versions.

"Real" Bridge

Encounter at Farpoint

The pilot episode shows the original appearance of the bridge.

The Naked Now

A new light strip was added above the aft consoles, providing better illumination for the actors' faces when they were seated on these consoles.

The captain's chair was slightly modified, with one small black inset added to the front of each armrest.

The Last Outpost

The command area was modified to add two small seats, one on each side of the already existing chairs. These new seats "disappear" again in the episode "Haven", as it was filmed before "The Last Outpost".

Datalore

The seats were further modified just a few episodes later to be somewhat smaller. Once again they change back and forth between the bigger and smaller seats for some episodes, as the filming order was very different than the release order.

The Arsenal of Freedom

During the first episodes, most of the LCARS of the aft consoles were turned off if they weren't in use. The keyboards in particular were almost always off, even when used, leaving only a very small usable area with few buttons. From this episode forward the keyboards will always be online, even when no one is using the console.

Season 2

The command chairs used by Picard, Riker and Troi were changed to new designs using different coverings. Whatever the reason, they took the modify to change all three chairs to keep a more uniform look.

The wooden "horseshoe" tactical console