"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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It's the Centre Seat, the Big Chair.... thread for #StarTrekDay! Starting with Archer's first, which looks somehow both comfortable and forbidding at the same time.
Burnham's destiny, a seat which reflected the bridge design. It doesn't look very comfortable!
Perhaps the most well known. It has character. It has 60s chic. SNW & Kelvin variations also shown.
Discovery is returning for the final time - celebrate with a thread of art, props, VFX, costumes and more!
(Previous image by Lee Fitzgerald). Here's some early concept art by John Dickenson, who worked on the season 1 Klingon designs; a concept for the bridge by Bartol Rendulic, and a close look at the engine chamber similar to the one in the TOS engine room.
It wouldn't be Trek without a trusty phaser, tricorder and communicator! This time influenced by 'The Cage' era designs.