"All the world’s a bridge, and all the men and women merely Starfleet officers."
Journey with me through a thread of 50+ years of starship bridge design art! We'll start with Pato Guzman's initial proposal for the TOS Enterprise.
Mike Minor's concept for the aborted 1970s TV series Trek, which was adapted for the first movie. Featuring the Captain's Sofa.
Enterprise-D designer Andrew Probert's visions for the bridge interior (and battle bridge), still leaning into 'comfortable exploration'.
Cheating slightly, DS9 Ops obviously isn't a starship bridge, but for all intents and purposes... this evocative art, by Ricardo Delgado, couldn't be more of a departure.
Concept sketches from Defiant designer Jim Martin for the Voyager bridge.
A look at the closer-to-NASA bridge consoles from John Eaves for the NX-01.
For the alternate Enterprise in the first JJ Abrams movie, Ryan Church reimagined the TOS bridge.
The perhaps more artistic, rather than functional, approach carried over into the USS Discovery bridge, a concept here from Bartol Rendulic.
Full circle? The second reimagining of the TOS bridge for the Discovery-era Enterprise was a more faithful affair.
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