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‘Star Trek’ Fans Can Now Virtually Tour Every Starship Enterprise Bridge

An interactive web portal explores the vessel’s evolution over nearly six decades

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For decades, many “ Star Trek ” fans have imagined what it would be like to work from the bridge of the starship Enterprise , the long-running franchise’s high-tech space-exploring vessel. Through various iterations and seasons of the series, created by Gene Roddenberry in the ’60s, the bridge has remained a constant, serving as the backdrop for many important moments in the show’s 800-plus episodes.

Now, die-hard Trekkies and casual watchers alike can virtually roam around the Enterprise’s bridge to their heart’s content, thanks to a sophisticated and highly detailed new web portal that brings the space to life.

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. Fans of the show can also read detailed information about each version of the ship’s design, its significance to the “Star Trek” storyline and its production backstory.

Developed in honor of the “Star Trek: Picard” series finale , which dropped late last month on Paramount+, the portal is a collaboration between the Roddenberry Estate, the Roddenberry Archive and the technology company OTOY. A group of well-known “Star Trek” artists—including Denise and Michael Okuda , Daren Dochterman, Doug Drexler and Dave Blass—also supported the project.

“Through new technology, we can bring audiences back in time as if they were there on set during the making of ’Star Trek,’ providing a window into new dimensions of the ‘Star Trek’ universe,” says Jules Urbach, OTOY’s CEO, in a statement .

The voice of the late actress Majel Roddenberry , who played the Enterprise ’s computer for years, will be added to the site in the future. Gene Roddenberry died in 1991 , followed by Majel Roddenberry in 2008 ; the two had been married since 1969.

The portal’s creators also released a short video , narrated by actor John de Lancie , exploring every version of the Enterprise ’s bridge to date, “from its inception in Pato Guzman ’s 1964 sketches, through its portrayal across decades of TV shows and feature films, to its latest incarnation on the Enterprise-G , as revealed in the final episode of ‘ Star Trek: Picard ,’” per the video description. Accompanying video interviews with “Star Trek” cast and crew—including William Shatner , who played Captain Kirk in the original series, and Terry Matalas , a showrunner for “Star Trek: Picard”—also explore the series’ legacy.

The interactive, 3D bridge models contain a surprising level of detail, right down to the consoles and turbolifts. The site, however, has so far been hit or miss for users, suggesting that the team behind it may still be working out a few of the technical kinks, reports the Verge ’s Sean Hollister. And as Kyle Barr writes for Gizmodo , one big downside is that the models don’t contain any “Star Trek” characters, who he says are “the beating heart of the show and its ideals.”

“Sitting in the captain’s chair, with all the stations empty beside you,” he writes, “is enough to make one wistful.”

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Trip To Toronto Was Never Supposed To Happen

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This post contains spoilers for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 2, episode 3.

As the location of Starfleet headquarters, San Francisco has been called the "center of the 'Star Trek' universe." It's appeared across numerous TV episodes and movies, most notably, "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," where the Golden Gate Bridge even featured prominently on the poster. We've also seen it appear in Holodeck recreations on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," but it's not the only Earth city to show up in "Trek."

In "Strange New Worlds" season 2, episode 3 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) and an alternate-reality version of James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) make an unscheduled time-traveling visit to Toronto. It's a less yellowish Toronto than the one we see in Denis Villeneuve's "Enemy." In fact, this Kirk, who was born in space and therefore has no experience with revolving doors, initially mistakes the place for "New York City, mid-21st century."

In an interview with Collider , "Strange New Worlds" co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman revealed that when the writers' room was conceiving the episode, they originally had New York, not Toronto, in mind:

"We wrote it for New York, right? We were gonna do this giant spectacle and take the show to New York, and we quickly realized we could not afford it. So then we went through the process of doing that thing that everybody does, which is, well, how do we make Toronto look like New York? And then we sort of thought, 'Huh, why don't we just let Toronto be Toronto?' And that was fun for us and probably lower impact on the city than you might imagine. So, you know, I don't think it was like trying to film 'Star Trek' in Times Square."

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As Akiva Goldsman alludes, Toronto has often been used as a stand-in for New York, so Kirk's confusion over his whereabouts (despite the huge video screen with news about "Budget Overruns on Lake Ontario Bridge") serves as an in-joke about that. The place doubles for other U.S. cities, too: as authentically "Boston" as "Good Will Hunting" might seem, its famous Harvard bar scene was filmed in Toronto.

La'an reminds Kirk that Toronto is "the biggest city in what used to be called Canada," but if she had the time or the meta inclination, she might have also educated him on how Toronto was (and in real life, is) a magnet for film and television productions due to government tax incentives. This has earned it the nickname "Hollywood North." Amazingly, even the Oscar-winning musical "Chicago" was shot in, you guessed it, Toronto.

"Strange New Worlds" co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers told Collider that local crew members helped make the Toronto of "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" more recognizable, though the episode uses VFX to invent new sections of the city:

"It also became an interesting gift for our director [Amanda Row], who came from Toronto and really knew it, and everyone who works on the show, who all know Toronto very deeply, and had a chance to kind of give it a look and a feel that made it feel a little bit different and more recognizable to people who knew that area of the world. [...] One of the only unique challenges we had, that we've never had literally in the VFX work that we do across the show, is there are sections of Toronto that we invent, and you wouldn't know that it's not real until you see it."

New episodes of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" stream every Thursday on Paramount+.

Local landmarks abound in special Toronto episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds

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Even if you would score a solid zero if ever forced to take part in Star Trek trivia, you may want to watch the latest episode of the long-running science-fiction show if you're from Toronto.

Those not at all familiar with the cult favourite franchise, any of its stars or its storylines can definitely still appreciate "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," the most recent installation of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which takes place in none other than our hometown.

Nice, #StarTrekSNW Strange New Worlds kept Toronto, as Toronto in their episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. 🖖🇨🇦 — Greg Banning 🇺🇦🌻 (@GregBanning) June 29, 2023

It is in this third episode of the second season of the series that a version of the ever-iconic Captain James T. Kirk joins La’an Noonien-Singh, Enterprise Chief of Security and one of the newer additions to the universe, on a trip back in time to change the future. (Warning: spoilers are ahead.)

After accidentally pressing the button on their time travelling device, the pair find themselves transported not to 21st-century New York City, as Kirk guesses at first, but to Yonge-Dundas Square during that same era.

I want to know which Torontonian on the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds crew made it their mission that not a single person on the planet would confuse this for any other city. Like they pushed Toronto HARD every single scene it was FANTASTIC #Toronto #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds pic.twitter.com/YcrM2SCXXQ — Eric Josey (@Eric_the_great7) June 30, 2023

After some remarks about "Maple Leafs, politeness and poutine," they go on a shopping spree in the Eaton Centre to don some new digs, take a walk along the Harbourfront, grab some street meat and play chess in a local park to win some Canadian cash.

But, after some lighthearted fun exploring the 6ix instead of outer space, our protagonists are brought to the scene of a terror attack that destroys a giant futuristic-looking bridge connecting the city to Niagara (that somewhat resembles the city's new Cherry Street bridges ).

Even Doug Ford would never green light a project that wasteful. — Jamie Patterson 🚅 (@Jamie_Patterson) June 30, 2023

On the scene at what residents will recognize as Billy Bishop Airport overlooking Lake Ontario and the T.O. skyline, the two commence their search for the perpetrator of the largescale blast in earnest to correct the timeline as planned.

This includes stealing a car to peel through parts of the downtown core, passing too many Toronto sights to count in the process.

The latest episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” being aggressively and unapologetically set in present-day Toronto makes me feel seen in a way I did not expect. — Frank Yang (@fyang) June 30, 2023

Without further ruining the show, audiences should just know that they can count on beloved staples like the Lakeview , the Royal Conservatory of Music, the ROM and other spots serving as backdrops later in the episode, too.

As one person on Reddit said, "It was really hard to watch and concentrate on the plot as a Torontonian."

Others are calling it a love letter to the city that they themselves are absolutely adoring, mainly because most things filmed here simply use the city to represent another locale rather than pay homage to it like this episode did with flying colours.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. A love letter to Toronto and the best ST episode in years. Well done #SNW — Mike Kubes (@kubesincanada) June 30, 2023

The only suggestion that some fans had? That writers should have chosen to destroy the contentious Gardiner Expressway rather than a fictitious bridge to really get citizens' blood pumping.

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The web portal will allow fans to virtually explore the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek‘s history, with each bridge made accessible in the timeline as a 1:1 scale, “in-universe,” 360 recreation. De Lancie, who has portrayed extra-dimensional being Q since 1987’s Star Trek: The Next Generation, narrates a supplementary documentary, offering a deep dive into the evolution and legacy of the bridge — from its inception in Pato Guzman’s 1964 sketches, through its portrayal across decades of films and TV series, to its latest incarnation on the Enterprise-G, as revealed in the final episode of Star Trek: Picard. This combined documentary and exploratory online experience brings the legacy and history of the starship Enterprise to life through meticulous recreations of the filming sets used for production as well as the aforementioned “in-universe” life size, functional immersive virtual interiors. The recreations were produced for the Gene Roddenberry Estate, and overseen by veteran Star Trek artists including Denise and Michael Okuda, who authored The Star Trek Encyclopedia, as well as Daren Dochterman, Doug Drexler and Dave Blass. The Archive will also, for a limited time, allow fans to try an experimental technology preview through the web portal, enabling them to walk onto the bridges of the Enterprise (boasting working turbolifts and consoles) and explore them in every detail, all from an instantaneous livestream.

You can find out more about this engrossing project at the Roddenberry Archive website and through the OTOY YouTube channel.

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Recap / Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

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On board the Enterprise , La'an goes about her usual business as Chief Security Officer: dealing with a Denobulan cadet accusing Chief Jay of stealing a prized ring, telling Spock that his lute playing is too loud, and dealing with Pelia's oddball collection of artifacts, one of which the Louvre would love to have back. However, while sparring with M'Benga, he notes that La'an is suffering in some way — she wasn't even at Una's welcome back party — but La'an refuses to elaborate. After that, La'an continues her duties when a strange man in a nice suit stumbles out into the hall and collapses. He's been shot with a bullet and, with his dying breath, gives her a strange device and tells her to "get to the bridge". Energy ripples go through the hall and, with only that warning, La'an goes to the bridge... and finds a certain James T. Kirk at the captain's chair!

Through a conversation between Kirk and a pleading Spock, we find out that Starfleet has been replaced with the United Earth Fleet, and the Romulan Star Empire is kicking Earth's ass and about to take over Vulcan. Kirk refuses to help out the Vulcans and focuses on La'an. In their conference room, Kirk is incredulous over the idea of alternate timelines and tries to order La'an to surrender her device. She refuses, and in the struggle the device activates and the two are transported elsewhere and else when . Kirk mistakenly believes they're in New York City until La'an points out the big honking sign reading "Toronto". Can't blame Kirk— man was born on the spaceship USS Iowa , and Earth is nothing more than a ruin in his timeline.

The two need to blend in, but being in 21st Century Toronto means money is still being used. Thus, La'an creates a distraction so they can grab some clothes, and Kirk uses his brains to... beat people at chess. As he's accustomed to the 3-D version, 2-D is easy for him. Afterwards, they get hot dogs and enjoy a sunset together, something Kirk has never experienced. The next day, Kirk is still not certain why they should be doing this, but La'an convinces him that just surviving is no way to live. Though humanity still has its dark period, her timeline is so much better... and Kirk's brother, Sam, is still alive. This is more than enough to convince him... just as a nearby bridge explodes. Oh, so that's what that man meant.

Kirk and La'an get to the bridge and La'an notices something off about a piece of rubble. Asking a photographer for her camera, they're able to see that the rubble was scorched with photonic energy, way too advanced for 21st century Earth. Stealing a car, the two chase after the van carrying the rubble, but are stopped by a cop. When the cop tries to arrest them, the photographer from earlier is able to deter him by filming the arrest. The photographer, Sera, reveals she’s something of Conspiracy Theorist and shares her thoughts. However, it's one of her photos that catches Kirk’s attention— a Romulan Bird-Of-Prey. He recalls that a cold fusion reactor in Toronto will explode in a few days, eradicating the city. This is the event they need to prevent. Without a tricorder to scan for it, La'an is inspired to find help.

She discovers the Archaeology Department and is able to convince the Pelia living in that era for help. She isn’t into engineering just yet (but she finds it interesting), but she is able to help by giving them a diver's watch from the 1980s, as the tritium byproduct from the reactor will cause the hands on the watch to glow. Back in Toronto, as they try to find the reactor, La'an laments her loneliness at being a Noonian-Singh, but Kirk (having never heard the name) doesn’t care, the two sharing a kiss. The moment is interrupted by the hands on the watch glowing. They’re close.

They reach a building and see there’s a hand scanner. Kirk wonders if they might need to force someone to let them in, but a sign pointed out by La'an makes it moot: Noonien-Singh Institute for Cultural Advancement. Her own DNA is enough to get them in.

Oh, whoops— them and Sera . Turns out she knows who Kirk is and feels dumb that she didn’t put two and two together. She didn’t blow up the bridge, but she’s here for something bigger. Gloating that she’s here to alter humanity’s history, Kirk realizes Sera is a Romulan. Kirk takes a gamble as he realizes she’s trying to blow up the reactor and goads her into shooting him. He’s dead, but the alarms prevent her from getting to the reactor. Sera captures La'an and she goes for plan B.

Heading for genetics, La'an realizes what plan B is: to kill her ancestor Khan . Sera explains that Khan's genocidal acts are needed to push humanity into its Dark Age and from there to its more enlightened state. She’s been here since 1992 and has waited 30 years for this moment. She urges La'an to walk away and live a life without her ancestor using that device she has, but La'an refuses. They struggle and La'an shoots Sera, who triggers an implant to vaporize herself before she dies. Curious, she enters Khan's room and meets the young future dictator, a scared little boy. Despite knowing that there are other Augments, La'an refuses to kill or take away Khan. The device activates, allowing her to return to her present.

20 Minutes into the Future : The time period La'an and Jim are sent to is clearly in the early 21st century, but the year is never established. It's early enough that the designs on Canadian currency haven't changed note there's even a brief glimpse of the Queen's face on a $20 during the chess sequence , but late enough that they've had time to build a gigantic impractical bridge from Toronto to... somewhere unclear on Lake Ontario.
Alternate Timeline : Thanks to temporal meddling, a new timeline is created where the Federation never comes to be, Earth is destroyed, and humanity (now living in lunar colonies) instead forms the United Earth Fleet. The Romulans are on their way to conquering Vulcan, and Earth forces are implied to be on the losing side of their war with them as well. It turns out that this is what happened when humanity never had Khan Noonien-Singh around to start the Eugenics Wars, as his plunging of humanity into another Dark Age and starting World War III was the kick to the rear that Earth needed to get its act together.
Ambiguous Situation : We're not told who Kirk's first officer in the altered timeline is, except that she's female and good at chess. Given the In Spite of a Nail similarities of the bridge crew, it could be Una, but it's also possible it's someone we've never heard of.
Ambiguous Syntax : The time traveler that passes his device to La'an instructs her to "get to the bridge"; she assumes it's the bridge of the Enterprise , leading her to Kirk. Once she and Kirk are sent to the past, they wander aimlessly until they witness a bridge in 21st-century Toronto being blown up. Since both La'an and Kirk recall this event, she realizes it can't be the attack she was warned of, until she sees the debris and recognizes the blast pattern as having been caused by a photonic bomb, technology humanity has yet to develop. This sets them on the path to discovering the actual target.
Apocalypse How : Earth still exists in Kirk's timeline, but it's an uninhabitable wreck with skies choked by nuclear ash.
Despite stereotypical Canadian politeness, the local police are not going to let a public safety threat like Kirk off with a warning , regardless of Sera's nagging and the radio dispatcher insisting that maximum police presence is needed to deal with the explosion.
Kirk and La'an manage to cross the American border, by road, into Vermont to visit Pelia, then go back into Canada, despite not having passports or even identities in this time period. There are plenty of unfenced areas of wilderness where sneaking across wouldn't be difficult, but a throwaway line reveals they bribed a guard — anyone who's been through the U.S.-Canada border in the last twenty years or so will raise an eyebrow at this singular lack of difficulty, especially since there was a terrorist attack less than a day ago.
Artistic License – Nuclear Physics : All the talk of a "cold fusion reactor" ignores the fact that there's currently no accepted theory that would make it work.
Artistic License – Art : The painting that Pelia allegedly stole from the Louvre is Vermeer's The Concert , was actually stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston as part of a larger 1990 heist of the paintings in the museum's collection worth at about $500 million, with The Concert itself being valued at $250 million which makes it the most valuable piece of art ever stolen and remains missing.
Big Brother Instinct : Little brother, in this case, but Kirk stops protesting his timeline's destruction when La'an offhandedly uses the present tense to refer to Sam Kirk. Kirk: Sam's alive ?
Bittersweet Ending : La'an saves the timeline, at the cost of having to ensure the survival of her genocidal ancestor. The alternate Kirk she bonded with dies. Starfleet Department of Temporal Investigations forbids her from sharing what she went through, meaning she has to live with the trauma of killing someone, feeling responsible for saving Khan, and losing Kirk on her own. She calls her timeline's Kirk, on the pretense of having questions about Sam, and breaks down crying when the call ends.
Bland-Name Product : The Toronto news channel that La'an and Kirk see when they first arrive in the 2020s is clearly based of the real life local news channel CP 24 , even following the channel's format of having the weather and traffic along the right side of the screen with the main feed occupying the upper left quarter, but the ident in the upper right corner is obscured when first seen and replaced entirely by a Canadian flag when shown on a smaller screen.
Borrowed Biometric Bypass : Double subverted. Upon seeing the hand scanner, Kirk initially suggests waiting for someone to enter/exit and then force their hand onto the scanner. Then La'an sees "Noonien-Singh Institute" on the wall and realizes she can use the scanner, as it actually checks for a DNA marker she possesses despite being several generations removed. It's then played straight when Sera forces La'an to activate another scanner to enter Khan's room.
Brick Joke : The intro has La'an dealing with Pelia's huge stash of historical artefacts, some of them seemingly stolen, before saying she'll leave that to the Captain. When she returns to the present and goes on the bridge, Pike, Una and Pelia are having a discussion about Pelia's stolen artefacts and Pike, noticing La'an, offloads the problem back onto her.
Call-Back : Sera mentions the Temporal Wars depicted in Star Trek: Enterprise .
As in " A Piece of the Action ", Kirk's ability to drive leaves something to be desired. Amusingly, this episode vaguely hints toward "A Piece of the Action" specifically— in "A Piece of the Action", the car Kirk is having trouble with is an (Iotian replica) vintage tourer with a manual transmission. The Dodge Challenger in this episode is an automatic. Maybe he just doesn't know how to drive stick !
The solution which Kirk, La'an, and Pelia discuss, but ultimately don't use because they lack the engineering background, is using a tricorder to find the temporal disturbance— the same solution Kirk and Spock will use several subjective years later (and a chronological century or so earlier) in " The City on the Edge of Forever ".
At the end of the episode, La'an gets a visit from the Department of Temporal Investigations to retrieve the time travel device and tell her to keep quiet about the events of the episode. They still haven't been formed yet, and presumably won't be until Kirk's encounter with the Guardian of Forever.
In the first episode where the Department of Temporal Investigations appears , they make a reference to James T. Kirk being one of their most prolific offenders. Guess who time travels this episode and adds to his gigantic case file?
Just like the Kirk of the original timeline, Alternate Kirk is an excellent chess-player, using his skills to get them some cash to operate with. He even mentions having regularly played 3D chess with his Number Two , although for him it wasn't Spock since Earth and Vulcan aren't allies in his timeline.
Sera mentions the concept of time itself "fighting back" against time travelers, a property originally brought up by Annorax in VGR: "Year of Hell" , whose own sanity was equally questionable after centuries of failures.
Canon Welding : Of a sort, this episode manages to explain various timeline and continuity issues that reflects the entire history of Star Trek through a reference to repeated efforts to mess with the timeline but it always corrects itself somehow. It manages to affirm Khan's place in history from TOS, implies this is part of the Temporal Cold War from ENT while including the cast and characters of this series.
The Casanova : The Prime timeline Kirk wastes almost no time flirting with La'an when she calls under the pretense of asking about his brother, offering to share drinks if they happen to wind up on a Starbase together.
Chekhov's Gun : During The Teaser , Pelia mentions in passing while arguing with La'an over her collection of, ahem, acquired objects that she ran an establishment called "the Archaeology Department" centuries ago. La'an seeks out a past version of her there, though she turns out to be an antiques dealer who hasn't studied engineering yet.
Chekhov's Gunman : The prominently featured Alien Invasion Conspiracy Theorist who happened to have a picture of a Romulan T'liss -class warbird is really a Romulan spy? Say it ain't so!
Coincidental Broadcast : Right when Kirk and La'an are mulling where they might be able to find an ally who could help them engineer a way to detect the cold fusion reactor that's about to be blown up by Romulans and destroy Toronto, La'an glances at a TV news channel that happens to mention unseasonably hot weather in Vermont— reminding La'an that Pelia is living there in this time period. (It's especially coincidental that this news channel note and it is a news channel— we see it reporting the news in an earlier scene happens to be reporting on the weather, and not on the explosion that blew up a giant landmark bridge in the city that morning. )
The Conspiracy : Sera, a human whom Kirk and La'an meet in the 21st century, claims that there's a global one to hide the existence of aliens while making advances using fragments of tech recovered from various attacks, while the attacks themselves are part of a conspiracy to stunt the progress of humanity. Sera is actually part of the latter conspiracy, and is a Romulan in disguise from the future who's attempting to prevent humans from forming the Federation to weaken their future adversaries.
Kirk as he appears in this episode is an expert chess player, consistent with his portrayal in Star Trek: The Original Series , where he was near-on-par with the near-perfect Spock.
While this alternate timeline Kirk was born in space, not on Earth, he was still born in Iowa. Or, more precisely, he was born on the USS Iowa .
Sera commits suicide similar to the Zhat Vash assassins in Star Trek: Picard , only with an implant in her neck instead of biting a tooth capsule.
Cosmic Retcon : Sera acknowledges that the Eugenics Wars originally began in 1992, but time travelers constantly mucking about in history has bumped up the date by a few decades. She attributes it to time itself trying to correct things.
Cute and Psycho : Sera first shows up as a disarmingly earnest and attractive investigator and activist ... who turns out to be more than a little unhinged by the end of the episode, gunning down the alternate Kirk and enjoying having done so to a Famed In-Story historical figure, and then murdering multiple institute guards and threatening to do the same to Khan .
A Day in the Limelight : The episode focuses on La'an.
Deadpan Snarker : Kirk and La'an. Kirk: You come from a line of axe murderers? La'an: Oh no, we never use axes.
Dresses the Same : When Kirk and La'an are at Roots picking out clothes to shoplift, they emerge from the dressing rooms wearing the exact same outfit. When they see each other, they share a Meaningful Look , and Kirk visibly deflates and goes to pick something else.
Door Dumb : Kirk's inexperience with some elements of 2020s Earth includes a complete inability to understand revolving doors.
Drives Like Crazy : Kirk recklessly drives around a Challenger and nearly gets arrested by the police while trying to track the van carrying the evidence from the bridge bombing, despite repeated protests from La'an to be discreet.
Eiffel Tower Effect : There are a few shots of Toronto 's iconic CN Tower.
Embarrassing Middle Name : La'an teases Kirk over his middle name being Tiberius, especially compared to his brother's more normal middle name of 'Sam'.
Epic Fail : Kirk's first time with a revolving door has him completely miss the exit and force the door back instead of just going back around. La'an even mocks him for never having used one before.
Expendable Alternate Universe : Initially, Jim resists the idea of ending his reality, expressing concern for his friends. But he gradually realizes that his world is a Crapsack World and gets on board with helping La'an, especially after learning his brother George is alive in her timeline.
Failed a Spot Check : When arriving in the 2020s, Jim immediately assumes that they're in New York, completely missing the Toronto Eaton Centre sign he's standing under.
Famed In-Story : Sera is actually embarrassed by how long it took her to recognize the James T. Kirk when she first met him. (Perhaps because he's a brunette ?)
The comical business of Kirk failing to recognize Toronto (despite the giant signs saying "Toronto" ) will get a pretty grim explanation later in the episode: not only is Earth in general an abandoned wasteland in his timeline, but Toronto specifically was annihilated hundreds of years ago— and they arrived just a few days before the event.
Sera's politics are not quite internally consistent (she films cops to prevent police brutality, which is left-wing-coded, but she proposes a conspiracy theory about an alien invasion being covered up by an international cabal, which is right-wing-coded). To a 21st-century observer, this could be a sign that something is off. Since Jim and La'an both know for a fact that aliens will try to invade Earth, they don't notice the discontinuity.
Kirk's lack of familiarity with La'an's last name foreshadows the real divergence point between their timelines: the death of Khan Noonien-Singh.
Sera shows La'an and Jim some photos, one of which is of a Romulan Bird-of-Prey (which Jim recognizes) with almost pristine quality compared to the other photos she demonstrates. Later, it is revealed that Sera is a Romulan.
Funny Background Event : La'an enters a clothing store and looks around. Behind her, Kirk utterly fails to work out how to use a revolving door.
Go Mad from the Isolation : Sera has been trapped on Earth for 30 years, watching various temporal shenanigans delay her mission to assassinate a young Khan, and her Motive Rant makes it clear that the frustration is getting to her.
The Greatest Story Never Told : La'an prevents a disaster that would have wiped the Federation from existence, but a temporal agent warns her that she can never discuss it with anyone.
Gun Struggle : At the climax, La'an manages to knock Sera's gun out of her hand, prompting a minute of keep-away before La'an manages to grab it and put two in Sera's chest, mortally wounding her.
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse : Kirk's first attempt at driving a car has him initially put it in reverse.
Heroic Sacrifice : Kirk goads Sera into killing him so she'll set off the alarm and be unable to reach the reactor.
Hidden Depths : Kirk is recalcitrant and bewildered for the first few hours that he and La'an are on Earth, but he proves himself when they need to get money fast and he absolutely cleans up against the chess hustlers in a local park. Even with the advantage of being used to 3-D chess, he says that he used to beat his first officer all the time. Later, he has fun with La'an by pretending not to recognize literary and Biblical references.
Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act : Discussed in relation to Khan Noonien-Singh. By killing him, his specific Eugenics Wars never happened but Earth suffered a far worse WWIII that rendered it uninhabitable by nuclear war. Humanity recovered and became a United Earth, though mostly spread among colonies in the Sol System, but has become isolationist, all because the Romulans were making sure they didn't advance enough to become a threat to them.
Identical Grandson : Despite being numerous generations removed from the Noonien-Singh (presumably Khan's parent) who runs the Noonien-Singh Institute here, La'an successfully opens the door to the facility with her palm print. In fact, it's implied that her ability to get into the facility is the whole reason why the Department of Temporal Investigations agent needed her help in the first place. (Why a palm print scanner is simply looking for Noonien-Singh family DNA note remember, it's Khan who's the augment— presumably his parents aren't, so the scanner can't just be looking for signs of augmentation , rather than scanning for specific authorized individuals' DNA profiles or, say, palm prints, is left as an exercise for the viewer.)
If We Get Through This… : La'an and Kirk discuss the possibility of his coming back to the prime timeline with her. This seals his fate and he is dead by the end of the episode.
I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin : The time traveler, half-dead from a gunshot wound to the stomach, passes his time travel device to La'an and tells her to "get to the bridge." Unfortunately, he fails to give her any context beyond that, so La'an, joined by Kirk, has no idea what to do and simply stumbles from one clue to the next until the duo figure out where history diverged.
Inconsistent Spelling : Resolved, for the moment anyway. It's never been quite clear in canon how Khan Noonien-Singh's name breaks down; one popular (although not uncontested) way of interpreting it has been that "Noonien" is his given name, "Singh" is his surname and "Khan" is a title. This episode establishes it as a given name with a two-part surname, "Khan Noonien-Singh" (like "Una Chin-Riley").
Infinite Supplies : The pile of money Kirk hustles at chess appears nowhere near large enough to rent the palatial hotel suite he and La'an share, let alone to get to Vermont and back.
Despite the wildly divergent history, most of the crew of Enterprise were still born and wound up on a version of the Enterprise . Even Spock is in contact with them, though as Earth is more isolationist in this timeline, he joined Vulcan's space fleet rather than Earth's. The two differences that stand out are that Sam Kirk is no longer alive, and the Noonien-Singh line has been wiped out, stunting humanity's progress into the stars. Knowing his brother survives in La'an's reality motivates Kirk to help her, as that plus the objectively better nature of her timeline is worth sacrificing his own.
Kirk was still born in Iowa— rather, on the U.S.S. Iowa , a spaceship.
Khan was killed and the Eugenics Wars never happened, but Earth suffered a more devastating WWIII that delayed First Contact with Vulcans. They have managed to build a ship as impressive as the Enterprise but humanity has nowhere near the same influence and resources they would as the capital of The Federation .
On a broader scale, Sera acknowledges the inconsistent canon of the franchise in regards to past events, namely the Eugenics Wars happening decades later than they were first stated to occur. This doesn't stop Federation history from playing out largely the same, a fact she attributes to time itself fighting back against the meddling of people like her.
Instant Expert : For a version of Kirk who probably didn't get to drive a car as a kid, Kirk becomes an expert driver in no time flat.
Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! : Sera threatens the cops with this, claiming she's live-streaming Kirk's arrest to the "entire, very judgmental Internet." They find an excuse to let him off with a warning.
Irony : Kirk's love interest is the descendant of a man he wanted dead in another timeline.
It Will Never Catch On : Pelia justifies her taking artifacts like a packrat with a "just in case" justification that the Federation's "no money, socialist utopia thing" could wind up a passing fad.

Sera's discussion about why the Eugenics Wars have been so inconsistently depicted (revealed to be because of constant time-traveling to prevent the formation of The Federation) hews similar to why fans have been splitting hairs trying to figure out where it all fits.
Kirk comments that while he calls his brother 'Sam', everyone else calls him 'George', only for an amused La'an to counter no one calls him George. In the original series a minor but critical plot point was indeed that only Kirk called him Sam, here everyone has been calling him that.
Sera kicks herself for failing to recognize the most famous captain in Starfleet history. Perhaps she didn't recognize him because he no longer looks like William Shatner .
Literary Allusion Title : The episode's title refers to Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5).
Pelia argues that even if her belongings are stolen, and she's not admitting they are, the statute of limitations on those crimes has long since expired.
Kirk playfully tries to pull rank on La'an to order her to eat a hot dog. La'an points out that he's not a Starfleet officer in his timeline, so she doesn't have to take orders from him.
Make Wrong What Once Went Right : The Romulans send an agent into the past so they can kill Khan, preventing the Eugenics Wars, thereby causing humanity to become isolationist and never solving their problems in the same way they did after having witnessed the horrors of World War III thanks to Khan. As such, their United Federation of Earth is on the losing end of a war with Romulus, and other species are facing the same fate.
"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name : As they follow the van, La'an tells Kirk to be discreet. He replies that "discreet" is "basically [his] middle name." Then, they get into a digression about her thinking his actual middle name, "Tiberius", is insane.
A Million Is a Statistic : Kirk realizes that saving her timeline requires destroying his. La'an's argument that his timeline is much worse (Earth in a perpetual nuclear winter, war with the Romulans, many millions of people killed) doesn't convince him. Her mentioning that his brother Sam is alive in her timeline does the trick.
When explaining to a Kirk who's never been on Earth what Canada is, La'an goes through several stereotypical Canadian things. "You know, maple leaves, politeness, poutine..."
Kirk later tries and gushes about poutine being served with gravy.
Canada's cold weather is brought up, with Kirk complaining about the cold and La'an noting that "It's actually not that bad for Canada".
Mundane Luxury : Kirk is wowed by a simple hot dog from a cart and amazed by poutine (with gravy!). Apparently food in his time leaves something to be desired.
Kirk recklessly drives a red sports car, which his younger self did in his first scene in Star Trek (2009) .
Kirk mistakes La'an's name for "Noonien Soong" rather than "Noonien-Singh", the former being the name of Data's creator .
Sera at first poses as someone tracking UFO activity on Earth, similar to Rain Robinson .
While Trapped in the Past , La'an seeks out help from a friend who is alive and living on Earth passing for human. Data did the same thing when he reached out to Guinan in " Time's Arrow ".
When La'an snarks at Kirk about his troubles operating a revolving door, he defends himself by saying he's from space, the inverse of one of his most famous lines .
Kirk being born on the U.S.S. Iowa rather than the state of Iowa was considered for Star Trek (2009) before the ship was renamed the Kelvin .
Similarly, La'an poking fun at Kirk's middle name, Tiberius, echoes George Kirk Sr. telling Winona that it's "the worst" before they settle on their newborn son's first name, James, as the opening scenes to 2009's Star Trek draw to a close and the alternate timeline U.S.S. Kelvin rams the Narada .
La'an's conflict in this episode is an inversion of Kirk's in " The City on the Edge of Forever ". In that episode, Kirk had to stop a time traveler from saving the life of Edith Keeler, a good person that Kirk had fallen in love with, because despite her good intentions, the future would suffer if she didn't die. In this episode, La'an has to stop a time traveler from killing Khan, an evil person who haunted her entire existence, because despite his atrocities, the future would suffer without his influence.
Noodle Incident : Kirk tells La'an that he spent six months in a Denobulan prison with a Vulcan cellmate. How he wound up in prison remains unknown, as well as why the Denobulans would imprison him and a Vulcan.
Not Me This Time : When Sera is accused of detonating the bridge, she says she's not responsible for that particular event - and since both Kirk and La'an remember that event happening in their respective timelines, they accept this claim.
Not So Stoic : The events of this episode show layers to La'an and finally at the end weeps for her loss.
Obfuscating Insanity : When Sera reveals herself as a Romulan spy, Kirk and La'an have to credit her for playing the kooky conspiracy nut act to the hilt.
Oh, Crap! : La'an is horrified when she sees crayon drawings hanging in the hallway Sera is pushing her down, and the horror only grows when she sees Khan's name in childish handwriting on the door.
Older Than They Look : Sera appears to be in her early thirties, but she states she's been on her mission for thirty years, indicating she's much older than that. Justified, of course, as she's actually a Romulan, and despite having been surgically altered to pass as human she still presumably ages at the normal rate for her species, who live longer than humans.
Out of Focus : La'an is the only opening-credits actor with any meaningful role in this episode, augmented by Paul Wesley as Kirk, Adelaide Kane as Sera and Carol Kane (no relation) as Pelia. The intro and denouement are the only times any other regulars appear; Chapel and Ortegas have no lines for the second episode in a row, and Uhura's screen time is limited to Double Takes at La'an's appearance.
Point of Divergence : It's quickly established the timeline has changed significantly and not just minor crew changes, the further into the story bigger changes are revealed. Kirk shares that Earth is in perpetual nuclear winter after World War III and humanity colonized other planets but remained isolationist, a far cry from The Federation . The first thing La'an and Kirk can confirm is they both remember the terrorist attack on the Ontario bridge, and then they pinpoint a reactor detonation that destroyed Ontario as what made WWIII far worse and resulted in a less idealistic future than what La'an is from.
Product Placement : Kirk namedrops Apple and DuckDuckGo at one point, and the store he and La'an shoplift their outfits from is visibly the Canadian retailer Roots (in fact, filmed in the actual Roots in the Eaton Centre steps away from where they materialize). He also steals a red Dodge sports car with numerous shots of the vehicle's logo.
Race Lift : Relatively speaking. Khan Noonien Singh is an Indian name in origin and suggested to have a Sikh background while he was portrayed by the Mexican actor Ricardo Montalbán , given the notoriety of the character it had been assumed an ambiguous background was in play. In this episode Khan as a child is played by Desmond Sivan, who is more clearly Indian.
Rank Up : Due to the on-going war with the Romulans, James Kirk has been fast-tracked to captain; when the time-line resets, he introduces himself to La'an as "Lieutenant Kirk."
Real Name as an Alias : La'an calls herself "Vanessa" when introducing herself to Sera, while Kirk just uses "Jim" because it's not like she'll know who he is. Little does he realize she will in fact recognize him, though she admits it took her an embarrassingly long time to connect the dots for Starfleet's most famous captain.
Right for the Wrong Reasons : La'an and Kirk conclude the divergening point was a cold fusion reactor exploding. Turns out it was actually the early death of Khan Noonien-Singh (and subsequently avoiding the Eugenics Wars), the reactor exploding was just the method used to achieve that.
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory : The time travel device La'an is given protects her from changes in the timeline.
Rubber-Band History : The reason for Khan and the Eugenics War occurring decades later than previous canon had established is revealed to be this. The Temporal Cold War and other incursions by time travelers have thoroughly altered major events, but certain things that have a particularly heavy impact on history have to occur, even if they don't happen when they originally did. Thus, the eugenics project that produced Khan happens about 50 years after it was "supposed" to.
Series Continuity Error : This episode actually subverts what seems like an error from the trailer when Kirk says "I'm from space" which would contradict " I'm from Iowa; I only work in outer space ." It turns out that this alt-timeline Kirk is the one from space; Prime Kirk is from Riverside, Iowa, as he should be.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong : A time traveler pops onto the Enterprise and tasks La'an with stopping an attack in the past, before vanishing and suddenly putting her on a version of the Enterprise with Kirk in command. Things are complicated by his only instruction being "Get to the bridge" devoid of any context, and the time travel device plopping her and Kirk in the past during a struggle with no equipment.
Ship Tease : After getting back to the prime timeline Enterprise , La'an places a call to "our" James Kirk to get closure. Being Kirk , he offers to buy her a drink if they ever happen to be in the same place at the same time.
Shirtless Scene : When Kirk is changing in the Roots dressing room, his shirt rides up. La'an glimpses this through a gap in the curtain and is rather distracted . (If that little bit of Kirk torso gets her that riled up, she's obviously never watched TOS. )
Shout-Out : The device La'an is given by the temporal agent — a handheld time-travel device with a red light indicating something needs correcting in the time period you've just arrived in, which changes to green upon a successful mission — seems pretty reminiscent of the Omni from the 80s sci-fi series Voyagers! .
Single-Season Country : Obviously the one time Star Trek visits Canada, it's winter; the Yonge-Dundas Square billboard helpfully informs us that it's -15°C today, and there's snow in several scenes (although it appears noticeably snowier and colder during the car chase sequence than when Jim and La'an are at the waterfront following the explosion just prior).
The Slow Path : Sera came back in time from an unknown date of origin intending to interfere with the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s by assassinating Khan Noonien-Singh and prevent the Federation from forming, only for everybody and their mother to apparently have a similar idea and delay Khan's childhood to the 2020s . Thus Sera was forced to live on Earth as a Deep Cover Agent for the intervening thirty years.
Smart People Play Chess : Kirk effortlessly defeats multiple opponents at traditional 2-D chess, dismissing it as "idiot's chess" when La'an is impressed by his skill. He also tells La'an that his XO got tired of losing to him and he's been searching for a Worthy Opponent ever since.
Stable Time Loop : Implied in regards to Pelia. La'an seeks her out because she knows Pelia as an engineer and knows she's alive in the 21st Century, only for 2022 Pelia to reveal she's not done any math since "Pythagoras invented the damn thing" let alone engineering. Still in the end she helps and La'an tells her that she's more of an engineer than she thinks, and Pelia remarks that maybe she missed her calling and that having an honest job as an Engineer would be nice. Implying this interaction would kickstart her interest in engineering and leading to be the Engineer we know with over 100 years of service at Starfleet by the 23rd century.
Star-Crossed Lovers : La'an clearly falls hard for alternative Kirk, and he falls for her, but he dies and it just wouldn't be the same with her timeline's Kirk.
Suicide Pill : When Sera is shot by La'an, she triggers a device which vaporizes her in an instant, presumably so humanity won't discover there's aliens running around.
Superman Stays Out of Gotham : Season two of Star Trek: Picard established the existence of Supervisors like Tallinn active on Earth during the 2020s with the explicit mission of safeguarding the integrity of the timeline. You would think such an organization would be very interested in Romulans travelling to the past to assassinate Khan Noonien-Singh and change the course of history. Granted, they're not always effective , hence the Temporal Wars.
There Are No Therapists : Starfleet has them, and M'Benga encourages La'an to talk to one at the start of the episode, which she declines, despite having been willing to do so in the previous season. Temporal Investigations, however, does not seem to keep anyone on staff who can talk to people who get roped into time-travel events so that they can deal with their trauma without breaking the Temporal Prime Directive. La'an is told that she can't talk to anyone, period, and is left to deal with all of it alone.
Time Crash : A variation. This episode finally provides an in-universe explanation for why the history of the Eugenics Wars has become so inconsistent and contradictory since "Space Seed". There have been so many attempts, both benign and malignant, to meddle with humanity's historical development — and especially the pre-First Contact period — that the entire original timeline's been shot to hell, with the repercussion that the Wars, while not being erased, have been displaced decades further into the 21st Century rather than the early 1990s; Sera mentions 1992 as when they were supposed to have started. Of course, Sera clearly has a few screws loose from being stuck on Earth several decades longer than planned , so that explanation is, shall we say, subject to interpretation.
Time for Plan B : When her plan to sabotage the reactor is ruined, Sera switches to Plan B: kill Khan Noonien-Singh directly.
Time Police : The man who arrives on the Enterprise in The Teaser after being shot is revealed during the denouement to be an agent of the Department of Temporal Investigations, originally introduced in DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations" . Another agent takes his time machine back from La'an and warns her not to discuss what she experienced lest she contaminate the timeline all over again.
The Time Traveller's Dilemma : Discussed. Kirk points out that if they succeed in restoring La'an's timeline, his own will be erased, so he doesn't actually have any reason to help her. La'an has to sell him on how much better her timeline is to get him on board, though it is the revelation that his brother is still alive in her timeline that fully convinces him.
Time-Travel Romance : Played with. La'an and Kirk are both from the future, albeit different timelines and they fall for each other as they have to cope with being in the past together.
The time travel device La'an is given is programmed to send her and Kirk back to a specific point and only allows a return trip when the timeline has been restored, so she and Kirk can't go back once she accidentally triggers it.
Sera is a Romulan time traveler who has been stuck on Earth for three decades.
Tragic Time Traveler : La'an is kicked into an Alternate Timeline where the Romulans are the galaxy's dominant superpower, and accidentally drags that timeline's version of Jim Kirk back to 2020s Toronto with her. She becomes attracted to him, and then he's killed helping her stop a Romulan temporal operative. Because of the Temporal Prime Directive, she's forced to keep these traumatic events secret forever.
Undercover as Lovers : They share a hotel room with one bed, and later Kirk refers to La'an as his wife.
The Unreveal : It's never actually clarified when Sera came back from in the future to infiltrate 20th and 21st century Earth and stop the formation of the Federation — or whether her timeline or reality still even exists after all the temporal incursions she describes.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid : Khan was just a scared, lonely boy before he became the most vicious dictator in all of history.
Visual Pun : A minor example. The monologue from which the title, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", is taken contains the line "all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death". The Romulan assassin uses a suicide device to convert her body to dust when she fails her mission. "Dusty death," indeed.
Wham Line : Kirk being so casual about La'an's name that he gets it wrong while teasing her tells her just what the divergence point is— and what she'll probably have to do to save her timeline.
A time traveler ends up on the Enterprise and tells La'an to "get to the bridge" before he dies. She does, but it's not Captain Pike in that chair... it's James T. Kirk.
La'an sees the name of the building where the fusion reactor is kept: the Noonien-Singh Institute. And if that wasn't enough, there's a small room that has one familiar name on the door... KHAN . And when La'an comes face-to-face with her notorious ancestor... he's just a scared little boy, not the genocidal dictator that he's destined to become.
What You Are in the Dark : La'an is given a chance to let Khan, her ancestor, die rather than let him become the next mass murdering dictator, while she has a chance to walk free and live whatever life she wants thanks to the time travel device protecting her from changes in the timeline. She chooses not only to stop his would-be-killer, but spares him despite knowing what he will do.
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? : La'an thinks that "Tiberius" is an insane middle name. La'an: Your parents must really hate you.
Would Hurt a Child : To change the future, Sera intends to kill a very young Khan. The initial plan was to detonate the reactor and wipe out Toronto, taking him with it, but she goes the personal route when Kirk derails the first plan. Overlaps with La'an's Wouldn't Hurt a Child , as she can't kill her genocidal ancestor because he's a boy.
Your Universe or Mine? : Kirk and La'an share a kiss, but they're from different timelines, so it wouldn't have lasted. (Unless the time travel device lets him stay with her, but he says that the universe probably couldn't handle two of him. He's not wrong.)

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Toronto was the capital city of Ontario , Canada on Earth .

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The Romulan agent Sera was sent back in time to assassinate Khan Noonien Singh but found that, due to various other temporal incursions, Khan's rise to power was delayed by several decades. By 2022 , Sera tracked Khan to Toronto. After the Lake Ontario Bridge was destroyed by Romulan photonic bombs , Sera was approached by La'an Noonien-Singh and James T. Kirk . Recognizing that they were from the future, Sera followed them, saving them from being arrested by the Toronto police department, feeding them clues about a Romulan attack on a cold fusion reactor somewhere in the city, hoping they could locate it for her. When the two tracked it to the Noonien-Singh Institute for Cultural Advancement , Sera held them at gunpoint. Though Kirk was killed, La'an overpowered and fatally wounded Sera who triggered a sub-dermal device that disintegrated her. ( SNW episode : " Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ")

The 23rd century Federation starship USS Toronto was named for this city. ( FASA RPG module : Federation Ship Recognition Manual )

In the 2370s , Toronto hosted a Starfleet office. ( ST - Tales of the Dominion War short story : " Eleven Hours Out ")

By 2374 , a Caitian restaurant named Felinity was located there, around the corner from Davey Honigsberg 's home. Mark Johnson ate there on a Saturday when trying to meet with Honigsberg. Johnson, his new wife Carla , and Honigsberg ate at Felinity after the news from Starfleet arrived that Voyager had made contact after four years lost. ( VOY short story : " Letting Go ")

Steven Mullen , an officer on the USS Essex , was born and raised in Toronto. ( ENT - Rise of the Federation novel : Patterns of Interference )

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In an alternate timeline, Sera or her cohorts succeeded in destroying the fusion reactor, wiping out Toronto and preventing the United Federation of Planets from forming. ( SNW episode : " Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ")

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Pocket Books has offices in Toronto.
Toronto's City Hall was displayed as one possible destination for an Iconian gateway discovered by the crew of the USS Enterprise -D in 2365 . ( TNG episode : " Contagion ")

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Toronto article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
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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 Trek s 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 .

“ T he 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 significance to the Star Trek storyline and its production backstory.” All this comes online to mark the end of Star Trek: Picard , the recent series built around Patrick Stewart’s Enterprise captain from The Next Generation , whose final episode went up last month on the streaming service Paramount+. For that grand finale, production designer Dave Blass “recreated the bridge of the Enterprise D ,” and “Picard’s triumphant return to his beloved ship brought nostalgic tears to the eyes of more than a few fans,” no doubt regardless of generation. Take the virtual tours here .

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Star trek: strange new worlds season 2 episode 3 review: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

Oh, the layers of meaning and nuance on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 3 are truly impressive.

For an offering that could easily be written off as a buddy-romcom time travel side adventure, there is a plethora of character development for La'an and multiple on-ramps for future plotlines, including the intriguing potential of a La'an-Kirk romance.

Bringing the Temporal Wars into the mix is a ballsy move; as we all know, messing with the space-time continuum always leads to shenanigans.

The timing of La'an's adventure is awfully on the nose, seeing as she's still struggling with Una's revealed identity as an Illyrian, a perceived betrayal in light of the name La'an carries.

Her sparring session with M'Benga underscores the emotional baggage she can't unload, while her personal logs indicate her isolation in her role as Chief Security Officer.

Where Hemmer and Uhura had a lot of bonding time on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 , with Hemmer providing Cadet Uhura with guidance and the opportunity to find her direction, Pelia could be the catalyst for La'an's emotional breakthrough this season.

With her extreme longevity and unique perspective on humanity's development over the centuries, Pelia affords a particular wisdom unlike any La'an is ever likely to run across again.

Once you have lived through every natural disaster and economic calamity in human history without becoming a packrat, then you can judge me. Pelia Permalink: Once you have lived through every natural disaster and economic calamity in human history...

Furthermore, she's had to hide her identity for nearly all of her existence. With Una and La'an, she forms a type of triumvirate of identity and disclosure.

Una is Illyrian and hid it until she couldn't. La'an has lived her entire life with the specter of her genocidal ancestor as public knowledge. Pelia has concealed her identity for much longer than either officer has been alive, but, in her case, disclosure carries no punitive consequence.

I love that Pelia is both a brilliant engineer and a pragmatic hoarder. I'd defend her liberation of Louvre artwork as an extreme devotion to souvenir collecting. Just my hot take, but don't bother fighting me on it.

Needless to say, Carol Kane is a fantastic addition to the crew, interested in the work but, even more so, interested in the people.

Well, both having brain-melting secrets is I guess a good enough reason to help someone. Pelia Permalink: Well, both having brain-melting secrets is I guess a good enough reason to help someone.

Pelia's natural curiosity and willingness to lean in when the call to adventure comes is probably why she seeks out the new and novel with such enthusiasm. It's an elegant balance to La'an's analytical and cautious approach.

Kirk: You’re … not an engineer. Pelia: I work retail. Does this look like an engineer’s engineering place? I haven’t taken a Math class since Pythagoras made the crap up! Permalink: I work retail. Does this look like an engineer’s engineering place? I haven’t taken a Math...

It's amusing that La'an's reluctance to trust Sera because of her conspiracy-theorist roots doesn't extend to Pelia despite the Lanthanite's even less reliable resources.

However, as with most organized packrats, Pelia has what they need when needed. And La'an is able to track her down because of a seemingly innocuous comment about Vermont when she's searching Pelia's belongings on the Enterprise. And DuckDuckGo.

Come to think of it, the shape of the narrative is a thing of beauty. Everything relevant to La'an's mission is seeded into the opening scenes.

It is a well-known fact that people love it when you bring them bad news…. And quite frankly, who doesn’t find having their belongings searched endearing? La’an Permalink: It is a well-known fact that people love it when you bring them bad news…. And quite frankly,...

Mind you, I don't think anyone expected Toronto, Canada, to play such a large part in Star Trek history.

And I'm skeptical that a bridge across Lake Ontario will ever be necessary. I'd really like to know where it goes to. Rochester? Oswego? Besides the symbolism, what would be the point?

A couple more semantical questions: How much money did Kirk win at chess that they could afford that hotel room, pay for the busses to get to Vermont, AND have enough to bribe a border guard? Also, they had to get back to Toronto using the same route, and Canadian Border Services are way bigger sticks in the mud, so how'd they manage that?

Kirk: Seems to be New York City. Mid 21st Century. La’an: What? It’s Toronto. The biggest city in what used to be called Canada? Y’know, maple leaves, politeness, poutine… Take it you’ve never been. Permalink: What? It’s Toronto. The biggest city in what used to be called Canada? Y’know, maple leaves,...

Space-born Kirk is now the second alternate Kirk we've seen Paul Wesley portray, the first being on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 10 .

His initial response to La'an's explanation for her presence on his ship seems reasonable.

Kirk: So you’re telling me that there’s an alternate timeline where I’m not the captain of this ship. La’an: All I know is that ten minutes ago, I was on my ship with my captain and now I’m here. Kirk: And everything’s changed. La’an: Yes. Kirk: Our scientists have theorized that such a thing could be possible. A far simpler explanation is you’ve lost your mind. Permalink: Our scientists have theorized that such a thing could be possible. A far simpler explanation...

Time travel shenanigans abound. They not only shoplift their clothes and steal a car, they leave their clothes from the future (but presumably not their com badges?) in a trash bin. They illegally cross an international border TWICE and shark many chess players. And then, there's Kirk's dead body left lying in the lobby of the Noonien Singh Institute for Cultural Advancement.

All this happens before the fork in the timeline, so it's now history. Unless, of course, Temporal agents go around collecting the clothes and retconning everyone La'an and Kirk interact with. And maybe dematerializing Kirk's corpse.

La’an: In my timeline, humanity has spread across dozens of worlds. We’re a part of a federation of species. Kirk: You don’t need anyone else’s help to survive. La’an: And just surviving is good enough for you? Kirk: Oh, and I suppose you come from some sort of a utopia? La’an: My Earth still has sunsets. Permalink: My Earth still has sunsets.

It's curious that Agent Ymalay remembers to take back the Temporal Agency equipment but doesn't feel the need to take La'an's watch or shoplifted clothes.

That final focus on the watch solidly foreshadows that the timey-wimey stuff isn't gone for good.

La’an: Never seen a revolving door before? Kirk: I’m from space. Permalink: I’m from space.

The title, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," refers to Shakespeare's Macbeth and a soliloquy that Q infamously appropriates on Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 Episode 9, when he and Picard debate the futility of the human existence.

In La'an's case, it seems more fitting to recall that "all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death" as it accurately describes Sera's demise. Also, would space-born Kirk then be the poor player with his hour upon the stage, to be heard no more?

La'an's time with space-born Kirk reminds me of Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 2 when Seven wakes up and discovers she is Annika, having never been assimilated.

Spending time with someone who has no idea who Khan Noonien Singh is lifts the weight off La'an, just as Seven finds freedom in life without the stigma of being an X-B.

People are usually… difficult for me. There’s always been a barrier and it can get lonely. La’an Permalink: People are usually… difficult for me. There’s always been a barrier and it can get lonely.

Perhaps, now that La'an's experienced that spiritual liberty, she'll remember how it felt and look for a way to free herself again back in her own timeline.

My real name is La’an Noonien Singh. My ancestor is Khan Noonien Singh and his legacy is genocide, torture, and ME. La’an Permalink: My real name is La’an Noonien Singh. My ancestor is Khan Noonien Singh is Khan Noonien Singh...

Or maybe, having met Khan as a young child and choosing to let him live, she is more accepting of the idea that his choices do not mean that she'll make the same ones or that she must continue to pay penance for his sins.

Sera: Time is like a black box. It’s too complicated to leave to intuition, so we built computers that will tell us the results of certain changes. La’an: And this was your answer? Sera: Khan becomes a brutal tyrant. Maybe humanity needs the dark age that he brings in to usher in their Age of Enlightenment. Or maybe it’s just random. Doesn’t really matter though. See, if I kill him, the Federation never forms and the Romulans lose their greatest adversary. Permalink: Khan becomes a brutal tyrant. Maybe humanity needs the dark age that he brings in to usher in...

La'an is confident in her skills, ability, and knowledge as a Starfleet officer, but under that veneer of polish and protocol, her insecurities as a person are immense.

Will the bud of romance that sprouted between space-born Kirk and her affect how she and the Earth-born Kirk get to know each other? And, really, do we want it to?

Now that she's in the know about Temporal agents, will she be tapped again when needs must? How will that watch play into the next mission?

La’an: I’ve been carrying something around for a long time, something in my heritage. Kirk: You come from a long line of ax murderers? La’an: Oh, no. We never use axes. Permalink: Oh, no. We never use axes.

The possibilities are vast, and because our tomorrows are not written yet, La'an could use her new experiences to take any number of paths.

Will it make her wiser? Softer? More understanding? Or will she seal herself off even more than before?

Hit our comments with your best guesses and biggest takeaways!

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‘The Bridge Is Yours:’ You Can Now Virtually Visit Every Star Trek Enterprise Bridge

To commemorate the end of Star Trek: Picard ’s third and final season , on Thursday the Roddenberry Archive created a new web portal that includes dozens and dozens of accurate 3D models of the famed Starship Enterprise alongside an inside look at its bridge. A timeline at the bottom of the page shows each Starship in chronological order from an early version of the Enterprise featured in early production artwork for Star Trek: The Original Series all the way to the Enterprise-G from Picard.

According to a release from the Roddenberry Archive and the cloud graphics company OTOY, the recreations were produced for the Gene Roddenberry Estate. This included input from Star Trek artists including Denise and Micheal Okuda, who created the series’ famed computer interfaces (both are also part of the Archive leadership team). The authors of The Star Trek Encyclopaedia also assisted bringing the Enterprise bridges to live.

Alongside the navigable bridges, the Roddenberry Archive and OTOY also released a few videos describing the process bringing these original Star Trek sets to life in a digital format. Another video describes the development of the Enterprise over time narrated by John de Lancie who played series extra-dimensional character “Q” which first appeared in The Next Generation .

Though there’s been some amazing professional and fan-made content exploring the ins and outs of Star Trek’s spaceships , this timeline easily one of the most detailed and carefully-crafted dives into the entire breadth of Star Trek history, at least one you can actually experience.

Users can not only strut around inside each bridge, but every Enterprise rendition includes small interactable features, even a few working turbolifts. Want to sit in the captain’s chair? Absolutely. Want to feel giddy as you fold in the side consoles on The Enterprise-C from Star Trek: The Next Generation? Go right ahead, as few Star Trek fans have any reason to judge. The actual cockpits are surprisingly detailed, from the blinking screens and control consoles to the real time reflections on the glass panels.

The Star Trek timeline is a complicated web of alternate timestreams and universes. There’s the Enterprise-J from Star Trek: Enterprise season 3 episode Azati Prime and the lore-waffling mention of a U.S.S. Enterprise existing in the 32nd centuring from an episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Both of which get a biographical reference on the Archive site.

Fans can also walk through the Apple-brand white interior of the Enterprise from the recent Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness movies (also known as the Kelvin Timeline). You can take a look around the bridge of the Mirror Universe I.S.S Enterprise displayed in the TOS episode Mirror, Mirror along with the bridge U.S.S Voyager for any lingering Star Trek: Voyager fans out there.

Jules Urbach, the CEO of OTOY and executive producer at the Roddenberry Archive, said the point of this attention to detail and fidelity “is an important milestone in preserving Gene Roddenberry’s vision for future generations to explore and see, through the lens of those that worked with him.”

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The restored star trek enterprise-d bridge goes on display in may, the bridge is going on display at sci-fi world musem in santa monica, california..

Jonathan M. Gitlin - Mar 22, 2024 4:48 pm UTC

A recreation of the Star Trek The Next Generation Enterprise-D bridge

More than a decade has gone by since three Star Trek: The Next Generation fans first decided to restore the bridge from the Enterprise-D . Plans for the restored bridge morphed from opening it up to non-commercial uses like weddings or educational events into a fully fledged museum , and now that museum is almost ready to open. Backers of the project on Kickstarter have been notified that Sci-Fi World Museum will open to them in Santa Monica, California, on May 27, with general admission beginning in June.

It's not actually the original set from TNG , as that was destroyed while filming Star Trek: Generations , when the saucer section crash-lands on Veridian III. But three replicas were made, overseen by Michael Okuda and Herman Zimmerman, the show's set designers. Two of those welcomed Trekkies at Star Trek: The Experience , an attraction in Las Vegas until it closed in 2008 .

The third spent time in Hollywood, then traveled to Europe and Asia for Star Trek: World Tour before it ended up languishing in a warehouse in Long Beach. It's this third globe-trotting Enterprise-D bridge that—like the grit that gets an oyster to create a pearl—now finds a science-fiction museum accreted around it. Well, mostly—the chairs used by Riker, Troi, Data, and some other bits were salvaged from the Las Vegas exhibit.

Unlike the actual set, which was made from wood, the replica is made of metal and fiberglass. The restoration was originally supposed to take up to two years , but the project ended up being a far bigger challenge.

When Ars checked in with the Enterprise-D bridge restoration in 2014, the science-fiction museum plan had taken shape. But that change of plans did not sit well with some of the project's original supporters, particularly after an imperfect re-creation of the captain's chair—which remained lost until recently—was sold on eBay.

Things got even uglier in 2018 when Huston Huddleston, who led the project, was arrested and then convicted for possessing child pornography. Although Huddleston still appears listed as the project's CEO on its Kickstarter page , that appears to be an artifact of its creation, and John Purdy is listed as the CEO of the Sci-Fi World Museum on its About Us page . However, Huddleston's mother remains as the museum's Chief Financial Officer.

The Enterprise-D isn't the only bridge you'll be able to find at the museum —there's also a replica of the bridge from Star Trek: The Original Series , which previously lived in a wax museum in Buena Park, California. Other exhibits include a hall of robots, as well as the "Bubbleship" and a drone from the movie Oblivion .

It's also not the only recent re-creation of the Enterprise-D's bridge. Okuda and his wife Denise both helped Paramount re-create the iconic set for the third season of Picard . The new Enterprise-D set can even be explored on Google Maps .

And earlier this month, it looked like Jean-Luc Picard's long-lost chair might be sold at auction. However, the day saw an agreement between CBS Studios and the auctioneer Propstore, which will return the chair to CBS's Star Trek Archive, which plans to restore and display it in the coming year.

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How The USS Enterprise Bridge Was Brought To Life For ‘Star Trek: Discovery’

| April 12, 2019 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 183 comments so far

The most buzzed-about new set for the two-part finale of Star Trek: Discovery season two is undoubtedly the bridge of the USS Enterprise. We’re taking a look at the design process behind the new take on the iconic ship, with more images and video of the bridge and the other areas of the Enterprise we saw in part one of “Such Sweet Sorrow.”

Designer discusses Enterprise bridge

Discovery production designer Tamara Deverell spoke to SyFyWire and StarTrek.com about designing the bridge set. Here are some of the highlights:

Work started back in season one

I actually started designing the interior of the Enterprise in season one. There was some thinking that the writers wanted to [use those interiors] earlier, but then we revealed the Enterprise at the end of season one. Starting the design work way back then … was a good thing because when we came to the end of season two, they actually had concept illustrations and most of the bridge of the ship worked out.

USS Enterprise meets USS Discovery in the season one finale

Authentic TOS buttons were used for the controls

We actually got some reproductions of the original buttons on the console, the same exact size and color, and we used those as the basis of our buttons.

The buttons came from huge TOS fan and owner of the Official Star Trek Set Tour, James Cawley:

Wow! Do these buttons look familiar? They should! James sent hundreds of buttons to the @startrekcbs production team last year for their version of the Enterprise bridge for Star Trek Discovery! Come see our buttons @startrektour ! https://t.co/y1EYEEfAay pic.twitter.com/Q4szB4rSH7 — @startrektour (@startrektour) April 12, 2019

Getting that TOS orange-red color just right

There is a distinct “Enterprise Red,” I actually took that color from the CBS archives … and it was orange! In certain episodes of TOS , the red became more of an orange. I went insane looking at different color tests. It is red. But, in canon, it’s also orange. In the end, I think it was fine and everyone was happy.

Deverell spent a lot of time dialing in the color for the red-orange railings and console accents

Respecting the classic design

I wanted to echo and be sensitive to The Original Series , so we were looking a lot at the original bridge and its geometry and where everyone was sitting. Still, while we remained true to the design, there’s a new methodology. It was exciting, yes. Terrifying, a little bit, for sure. You can’t worry too much about the history of Star Trek when you work on stuff like this. You can only look at canon and try to follow it with our vision and our Discovery world in mind.

A view over the shoulder of the captain’s chair

It was a new set built on an extra soundstage

The Enterprise set was completely new, we got a new stage and away we went. There was not one single element of it that was reused. What you’re seeing was really there.

The bridge takes a beating in the preview for “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”

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CBS has released a new video today, with Rebecca Romijn and Anthony Rapp speaking about stepping on the bridge of the Enterprise.

More images of the Enterprise bridge and interiors

The Enterprise hallway complete with TOS-like grid

The turbolift has a new version of the moire pattern that lit up to show the lift in motion.

And the turbolift still has activation handles too

The conference room also features an iconic 3-sided viewer on the table

While it’s hard to make out from a still frame, the dedication plaque says “Starship Class” just like on TOS.

Looking from the captain’s chair towards Number One’s station

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The fact that the Enterprise bridge set is not a redress will fuel a lot of speculation.

Why? Because everyone wants a Pike show or something else.

Regardless of whether or not we get a Pike series, if DSC did nothing else right, the Enterprise inside and out was a beautiful interpretation of the classic. The effort spent on the sets is very well appreciated by this fan of Star Trek.

Only among those wanting another show on the Enterprise.

Which is EVERYBODY!!

Speak for yourself….

Okay – _almost_ everyone.

Which is a lot of people.

And includes me!

Me too!!! Bring on Pike, Number One, Spock.. and apparently even Colt!!

That is a better statement.

Hell yes. Pike, played beautifully by Anson Mount, saved Discovery and maybe the future of Star Trek on Tv. He represents the true vision Gene Roddenberry Trek.

L.p. is it just me but Pike being played by Ansun Mount reminds me of Pike in the Kelvin timeline in the movies? This guy brings a lot of depth to this character and makes you feel like you know him already

They can use it as the bridge of any starship. It is beautifully done, what the Abrams movies should have leaned towards. The quality of sets, effects, fight choreography, all of that production stuff has been mind-blowingly good.

The abrams movies were set in a different time line and it is possible that the designers of the enterprise in the different time line may have preferred blue as opposed to red. The original designers prob never joined star fleet or designed another ship and tech obviously progressed at a faster pace

Personally, while I was not a huge fan of the KU ship designs, (The Kelvin bridge itself I thought was REALLY good) those films were essentially reboots so the changes didn’t bug me at all. Easy to get past all that. Discovery, however, keeps telling us they are prime yet look more like the KU than the KU does!

If only the writing was a fraction as good! Instead it is like the CW in space after school special. I agree that the aesthetics are very well done. Props to the production team for that. It isn’t really what the show needs though to be embraced at this point.

I don’t find anything wrong with the writing to be honest.

It’s nothing like you described.

I disagree and here’s why:

The JJverse enterprise is a totally different enterprise that was never meant to look like the TOS original. It was meant to have some loose callbacks but it’s in no way the same ship. It’s a ship built in response to the Narada threat. There were some cut scenes and changes to the movie’s script, but essentially that ship was never meant to be anything other than loosely inspired by the TOS constitution class vessel were it built for different reasons (in response to a threat as opposed to just an evolution in space flight). It’s way bigger, and totally meant to be different. Personally I like the design of it for it being a different ship.

This is actually supposed to be the TOS enterprise. And I love it too. It’s definitely what the prime universe constitution would have looked like, or at least really similar, were the same designers and set builders building it today as opposed to the 60s.

I appreciate both designs with the understanding that they weren’t ever meant to be the same ship. One is a design that’s supposed to be an actual update of the original, the other is a ship loosely based on the original. And I’m fine with it.

The enterprise wasn’t completed the same year in the kelvin timeline as it was in tos so Spock was an instructor at the Academy and you never get that first mission with him and Pike. Number one was working aboard another ship imo. Yeah, the fact it looks different makes totally sense because it isn’t even the same ship. Just like the characters, the kelvin enterprise is her own unique ship influenced by the tech of that reality just like her tos counterpart was the result of events and influences from that reality.

This bridge looks a bit like Abrams version, but with a tos color scheme that I’m not even sure I like. I think neutral colors are safer than making it look like Saturday Night Fever. I don’t find dark bridges and contrast too realistic for what these people do there. I do get the vintage quality to it, but tos sets were the cute 60s flavour of what they thought looked futuristic. It was fun but it was the freaking 60s. Ostensibly trying to have the same thing now is illogical. Nice nod and all for those who care but it shouldn’t become the rule.

They look nothing alike to me. Abrams bridge literally looks like something from another universe. If he went just a bit more in this direction, I think more TOS fans would’ve liked the movies a bit (just a bit though lol).

Not me lol I prefer the look in the movies as I find it more polished, easy to the eyes and better quality design overall. I truly had no issues with it (and I have no complains about discovery as a ship either) I really don’t care about nostalgia, I prefer plausibility and creativity so I’m glad he went on another direction. I doubt those tos fans would’ve liked the movies more if the bridge looked like this, but I wouldn’t design sets according to what those people want anyway because it would be a waste of time.

I’ve wanted a Pike series since the first JJ movie. Anson and Ethan as Pike and Spock in a series would be awesome.

They can build sets and take them down just as fast. It means nothing.

it means they decided it was worth building them. For one episdode that ende up being two? Could be. But no other bridge so far in this series was built for a single use. Shenzhou was featured in the 2-part pilot and the Mirror universe segment. It was then redressed (and heavily modified) for the Section 31 ship, that was used in a handful of episodes this season and could still be getting a spinoff. And, of course, Discovery’s, featured in all episodes but the first two. So, if they built a whole bridge for 1 or 2 episodes only, that would be a first. Not to mention they had a meeting room built as well, and a turbolift. That offsets a lot of costs for a possible spinoff (we would still need at least sickbay, engineering and maybe a rec room, at least), and would allow for telemovies and/or Short Treks right away.

You know I’ve been thinking about those titles that CBS trademarked last year and Star Trek Destiny kind of works for a show focusing on Pike, Spock and the Enterprise…

They had no other choice but to build the set. It’s not like in TNG where they can just Kitbash a cheap bridge set in a day or two.

Even TNG built a partial Enterprise bridge set for that one scene with Scotty.

I have said from the beginning that this is headed toward a reboot of TOS.

This is my favorite thing about last night’s episode. The Enterprise bridge looks amazing! Good job to the designers and crew. They did a awesome job.

They really did. They also did a very good job with the featured crewmembers; they all seemed like people worth seeing more of.

Excellent insights in this article. There is something about the color red on the bridge that instills a unique energy to the bridge. Red alerts seem to become redder, for example.

I think the amazing quality of the reds on TOS owes to how they put some white light in to keep the red from flattening everything. TOS had great contrast with very rich blacks, which is something you don’t see much anymore in this post-Kodachrome era (not saying TOS was shot on Kodachrome, but I shot Kodachrome and TOS level contrasts is what I strove for on my zero-budget space epics.) In fact I think the Berman shows suffered from not handling alerts and intense colors right too (except for maybe TNG s1 & 2 — people complain about those seasons, but they at least had a sharpness that was in the right direction.)

Even when they’re in crisis alone without the red, like DAY OF THE DOVE when Scotty calls Spock a Freak, the lighting is just awesomely expressive.

As a graphic designer I loved the insight into the color research, since I know the effort that goes into color accuracy.

It looked Perfect. Exactly how I imagined it would. Stellar.

Haven’t seen the episode yet, and will probably refrain from commenting until the podcast thread. Still, am pleased to say that I’m prepared to eat some crow — not a full portion, perhaps, but more than a crow drumstick — regarding my initial negative impression of the Enterprise bridge set. Still way too many neon strips and other lighting to glare in your face, still too cluttered with bogus details that don’t add anything useful to the design, and the shiny reflections on the floor just make it all look more busy and uncomfortable as a workspace. Still, as an update of the TOS bridge into DSC’s aesthetic, it’s not bad, and infinitely superior to the Kelvinverse Enterprise iBridge.

(And, of course, the best-looking thing about that bridge: Rebecca Romjin. Hot damn.)

Interesting, too, that James Cawley and New Voyages provided TOS references for the DSC people. When I worked on NV about a decade ago Cawley told us a pretty funny story about his experience seeing the J.J. bridge, which I hope he won’t mind my repeating here. “I was on the Paramount lot for a meeting when I encountered J.J. Abrams, who offered to give me a tour of the sets. Naturally, I was eager to see them, but when he brought me onto that sound stage it was like I’d been kicked in the balls. J.J. was like a kid all eager to show-off his new toy, and when he turned to me and saw my expression it was like someone had kicked him in the balls. I told him that I thought it was a beautiful set, but for me it was just not the bridge of the Enterprise , and never would be, sorry.”

James, if you’re reading this, I hope you found this one more to your liking. :-)

The Enterprise bridge is incredible. I want to be on that ship!

sounds to me like JC and JJ should stop kicking each other in the balls…

the starship Discovery will be thrown into the future and the crew will return and get a Constitutional class starship named Discovery and the set gets to be used with maybe a different paint job.

Yes, this, exactly what I think.

Ties in with the abandoned Short Treks ship.

That’s new and interesting. Not a bad idea. Unfortunately the bulk of the bland characters that permeate Discovery will be there too.

…mehhhh, IDK. I don’t ever recall a Conny named Discovery in Star Trek canon. This might be a hard pill to swallow for devout Trekkers. Casual Trekkies, on the other hand, would probably eat that up.

I happened to catch “The Squire of Gothos” the other night. Kirk asked a crewmember to “notify the discovery.” The intent was probably for him to say “notify STARFLEET OF the discovery,” but I’d accept this as enough evidence of a “Discovery” during TOS. :)

There’s stuff in the role-playing games published over the years -= FASA’s material in particular – suggesting that a Constitution -class Discovery could have been built at some point. Not canonical, true, but they’ve already briefly played with FASA material for Talos IV’s appearances.

The original 12 Constitution Class ships were named in the TOS Writer’s Guide, but no one seems to have taken that seriously, including the third season producers when they gave us the Defiant . So it’s a moot issue at this point.

I’m a devout Trekker and/or Trekkie. I accept it. I also accept Michael as Spock’s sister bc I understand things happen off camera. So, whether or not you do recall (makes you seem like a Casual Trekkie there) the powers that be can make that call and “devout” Trekkers will accept it as they always do until Discovery.

As said before, as a devout Trekker I can accept Spock having an unmentioned adoptive sister. I just felt it was a bad creative choice. Never claimed it was a canon violation.

It doesn’t have to be a Constitution class ship. No more than the Reliant did.

We don’t have the names for all 12 Connies in canon.

I consider myself pretty hard core TOS Trekker. And I would have no problem with a Constitution Class Discovery. It’s only canon if it appears on screen, technically. Other non canon sources have listed the 12 Connies, but they have not all been con screen.

There was that display in Commodore Stone’s office in “Court Martial”, although it doesn’t specifically go into whether those are just those at Starbase 11 or they represent all Constitution-class ships.

I do not recall such a display. But Kirk did say there were 12 ships of the Constitution Class. We’ve only seen or heard of a handful.

Nope. I think they’re going to hit the future and stay in the future. Then they don’t need to build all new sets, and can give the show a clean fresh start, and hence why Spock never talked about Burnham and why Pike is not coming back next year. Also think Calypso — Disco is waaaay in the future and was still captained before being abandoned. I’ve been thinking this is the case for the past couple of weeks since we started getting into the red angel stuff, and if it’s the case it will have made all of this worth while, and i’m very excited about it.

And I was thinking Calypso when I posted this.

I still didn’t like the huge, wall sized, view screen, and I wish there were fewer touch screens, but those are minir nitpicks. Over all, I loved the new bridge.

Fewer wall lights in every direction you look would have been good too.

It makes no sense that the viewscreen wouldn’t be the entire wall. And likewise the touch screens. If modern airliners have touchscreens all over, why would a starship 300 years from now go back to buttons or viewscreens smaller than today’s TVs?

I can’t speak for tech 250 years from now but when NASA handed out contracts to design for the now defunct Constellation program they opted to NOT have touchscreens in the capsules.

Yes, I’ve said this elsewhere but is appropriate to say here. Given they were restrained by the new (rebooted but not rebooted) Discovery aesthetic, what they did with the Enterprise bridge was pretty darn good. I said the same thing about the outside design when we saw the Enterprise show up in last season’s finale. But I think it could have been a lot better had they not been beholden to the Discovery aesthetic. And no, that does not mean a 100% duplicate of the ’60’s sets. I mean something that can evoke the feel of those sets but still have a modern take on them.

That bridge does look very nice. It could maybe be a bit brighter (less Discovery-ish) but all in all, it does look very nice.

I’ve been wishing the lights were turned up for all 28 episodes of the show so far.

I have to admit, it’s the first set from any new Trek’s done in the past ten years that I thought looked great and yes a modern take on the old sets.

Why would you ‘hate to admit’ that you liked something?

Somebody’s doing some Freudian-slip-style misreading.

Nah, just a misreading brought on by a pair of eyes six decades old that were never all that reliable to start with. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

This really was a wonderful interpretation of the Enterprise.

It’s a pretty set and all, but I have difficulties reconciling it with the TOS bridge due to the vastly different dimensions. In all of its incarnations, the original Enterprise’s bridge was a much smaller, more cramped space than this is. The Captain’s chair is supposed to be directly behind the helm. The ultrawide viewscreen doesn’t help things, either.

And the dimensions being different really is a killer. That was the one thing that remained consistent between TOS, TMP, Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock even as the bridge’s color scheme underwent major changes.

It’s still Discovery. ;) ALL their ships are pretty big and spacious. I’m not surprised this one is the same. I don’t mind it personally but I can understand why others might.

Yeah, I can’t believe all the praise this abomination is getting. There is still ZERO good reason to even bring the Enterprise onto this show…just let Discovery be its own thing!

Cause although I watch Disc , it’s still in trouble and by far the worst of all trek series. They need to do something to save it. And even the guest actors and characters like new Pike , Spock and #1 are better actors and far more interesting than 98% of Disc. Saru and Tilly are the ONLY ones worth a damn.

That is true. They needed something to bring in the subscribers they DIDN’T have last season. Hence, Pike, Spock and Enterprise. I still wonder what this show will do next season without them. It goes back to the bland crew from season 1 unless they are planning more surprise guests from established, and more popular Trek shows…

Not even the Sisko can save this turd of a series. What they did to the Enterprise is a crime.

Because those who praise it don’t see it as an abomination?

Oh no, someone likes something you don’t.

I’m not a fan of the extra square footage either. Nor that little mini hallway from the turbolift out to the bridge proper. There are elements that I like and glad designers incorporated but I concede that it has to fit withing the existing Discovery aesthetic more than it needs to evoke the feel of the previously established era producers claim their show is set in.

The weapons on Pike’s Enterprise are LASERS(like Lost in Space!), not Phasers at that point in time! The new show better get THAT right! – same with Discovery in the same time frame!

Nobody cares.

We haven’t seen this point in time, the Cage took place two years earlier so those that enjoy the minutiae can assume that phasers were installed on starships shortly after Pike’s mission to Talos IV.

That ship sailed with Star Trek: Enterprise. You’re late to the party.

How so? That show did a great job at paving the way to what we got in TOS. They called their weapons Phase pistols and the shipboard ones, Phase Cannons! One can easily see how 150 years later they became what we saw in TOS. Nothing in Discovery feels that way at all. (Except for 10 years rather than 150)

I loved all the little details like the trapezoidal alert light between helm and navigation. The “Sulu scope” was there. The grill shadows across the turbolift doors. The general shape of the captain’s chair, the railings, the shape of the outer ring consoles were all in the spirit of the original. I’m sure I am missing a bunch more. Bravo Discovery team!

Glad you brought up the Captain’s Chair. I loved it and it was nice that it is duplicated but it is one thing that just doesn’t fit in the aesthetic at all.

The chair got a subtle update. It’s still got those Danish Modern wooden armrests, but the control surface is a wraparound white U-shape with small displays where the buttons used to be. Feels like there are many nods to Scott Chambliss’ designs for ST 2009, but nicely integrated.

I love this incarnation of the helm console, a nice nod to the Cage variant but with the color update of the post-Cage era. And the bridge stations have those ‘arcs’ of controls.

It’s easy to look at this bridge and imagine a few updates to take us to 2265 in the show’s aesthetic, in terms of even more simplified and streamlined shapes, less bulky massing, more subtle lighting etc – but I say this not to diminish the great job Deverell and her team have done.

I think there would have been fewer complaints had the Discovery bridge looked more like this. This is spectacular.

My problem with Discovery is less with aesthetics and more so with character development.

One of the parts that stood out to me in “Such Sweet Sorrow” was the roundtable of bridge officers discussing solutions. Regardless of the inane technobabble, it was reminiscent of classic Star Trek. It was not focusing on one individual.

Some have criticized the moment where Stamets and Culber “kinda” confront their relationship in a very tense moment of separation. But to me, again that was Star Trek. They were being separated by choice, duty, circumstance, whatever, it was still a character development moment…. and it made me empathize with them.

And that is what Star Trek does. It has never focused on one character, it develops all primary characters. It creates a connection between the primary characters and the viewer.

I have no such connection with Michael Burnham and that is my complaint, not aesthetics.

Yeah , Burnham really hurts this show. A new Pike series (with new Pike , Spock and #1) , this great new bridge , somehow save Suru and Tilly… Stammets too maybe but not his partner. Throw everything else out , develop a few more good characters and then we might see some truly great Trek again. Without the guest actors on Disc now season 3 isnt going to be any better than season 1 was Mirror Georgio and this new Section 31 show coming could be great too. Maybe with some better writers and Frakes directing as many as possible.

I wouldn’t bring anyone from Discovery over to a Pike Enterprise show with the exception of Jett Reno. She should be their chief engineer.

I’m with you and not with you here. I agree that I would prefer good characters over good sets. While the sets were nice and looked good they did NOT evoke the era they were supposed to be in. However, if we had great characters the set problems would be very minor. They wouldn’t go away. They would just be minor.

Sure, the Culber-Stammets relationship talk while there was a crisis with a ticking clock going on was a nice character moment. (except I still can’t accept that Culber is Culber which pretty much takes me 100% out of the moment) But it was TOTALLY the wrong time to do such a thing! Can anyone imagine Bones complaining to Kirk about something as petty while the ship is at crisis? No way no how. Even Tom Paris wouldn’t use a critical moment where time was of the essence to hash out some relationship issue with B’lanna. It just felt wrong for two professionals to act that way. Which also took me out of the scene. One of them should have said, “Really? You want to talk about this NOW?”

But that is also the thing about Discovery characters. There are so many issues that I get taken out of any meaningful moment for nearly all of them. Trek is about the people. This is something Discovery has totally missed the mark on. Which is unfortunate.

TNG also missed the mark when it came to characters. But they made up for it with the occasional good piece of sci-fi writing. Again, something Discovery writers have had a very difficult time with.

I don’t recall the original precisely, but thought red. In my initial work in ancient (90s) computer video, I was advised to stay away from red, as it was very tricky to do justice. So, this episode…I see red, Georgio enters and says, “ugh, ugly orange”. I laughed.

Good looking bridge. Only a minor problem I have, and that’s the super shiny floors and the lighting along the edge of every surface. Reminds me too much of the glossy, overwrought sets on cable news programs.

But I dig the retro Sixties bits incorporated into the design. Nicely done.

As so many have said, this is such a beautiful interpretation of the TOS bridge. It remains true to the spirit of the TOS bridge, unlike (again, as has been pointed out) the JJ bridge.

And yet the JJ bridge was much easier to accept. Why? Because that was a reboot!

This is amazing and I wish we would see more of the set. So much better that jj’s Apple store.

Not sure it was worth the colour-matching given that the end result looked nothing like the interior of an old multi-screen cinema rather than Minority Report, and the original bridge was a bright and cheery grey workspace not a gloomy space full of health and safety tripping hazards due to poor lighting.

Poor lighting? Where?

All over. Do you not see how dark the Discovery show aesthetic is? Not just in tone. But in lighting.

Wouldn’t it be something if the new ‘Picard’ series has all been a ruse and Discovery ends up in his post TNG era with Picard as lead for season 3? Stranger things have happened…..I have often wondered how exciting a new Picard series could really be, but if they tied in Disco in the 24th century they could use a bunch of actors from TNG, VOY, DS9, and they’d all be about the right age. Really tie up all the series (except ENT)

I doubt that Patrick Stewart would agree to return to TREK only for Picard to be a guest captain on the Michael Burnham show for 1 season.

This is how bad things have sunk when I would actually welcome a bore like Picard to take command of Discovery. At least Stewart has charisma and we are pretty sure he isn’t the MU version.

I would be so in for this.

The oddly anuglar screens are just not practical (not talking about the viewscreen). Keep the angles at 90 degrees.

I’d watch the TMP era movies then. This bridge also borrows from them.

I had a quick glance at the various bridges and the screens are predominantly rectangular or circular. No odd impractical angles. The consoles might be angular, but they have pretty much a fixed button layout, so that’s a slightly another story.

That color looks nothing like orange. If anything this particular red gravitates towards the other side of the color wheel (purple rather than orange). I’m not complaining about the look achieved, it’s simply NOT orange.

J.S. we can’t tell what colour it is from a screencap on our mobiles or a production still.

What I’m seeing depends on which device I’m using and what its settings are.

This is the whole issue Deverell was getting at.

The Enterprise red-orange colour is particularly variable dependent on the lighting, but also the recording media and what its looked at on.

What colour it was originally in reality was not how it appeared on film and then it was further changed by video transmission and people’s TV sets.

I suspect Deverell was trying to make sure that she got it right in reality and on HD….

Not to forget, back in the 60s shooting on soundstages tended to use far harsher lighting setups than is common nowadays. Camera technology got more and more sensitive over the years, which enabled filmmakers and TV show producers alike to shoot in darker and darker conditions without loss of image quality – not to mention that this enabled more creative choices about when and where to shoot, and how to light.

In the lighting that was used in the episode, on several screens that I saw either the episode or the stills it looks nothing like orange, and even the peeping at RGB color values can prove that. That’s why I was put off by Georgiou’s comment about it being “orange”. They might have tried to make it orange but in the lighting used it looks nothing like orange.

love the pic of the bridge crew tossed to one side by enemy fire or turbulence (?). classic OS move.

Trek’s long-term, Sci-Fi & visual design reached rare, iconic success. People so positively influenced that they became engineers & scientists. I ended-up in animation, set design & video game gigs. So I’m glad to see this great work /dedication continued in this production set. ..HOWEVER..

*The Starfleet uniforms are terrible.* Give the designers freedom to craft bold, iconic uniforms. The current uni’s are not futuristic; they look contemporary, like chic Nike exercise or UnderArmor athletic gear.

HOW does a massive project, of a legendary & trendsetting production, manage to reboot bold adventurous characters by deflating the forward thinking designs that were the ethos of Trek’s visual success?

To the point that their style defined much of the show’s tone as a cultural icon?

Ok- we know the Legal department will not allow them to make classic Trek uniforms, but it’s NO reason for these corny “zip-up excercise-coverall fashions.”

C’mon.

Evoke some (even a tiny bit) of that TOS style which embodied [pardon the pun] the sense of strong contrasts of dark, mod punky pants & boots, contrasted against great textures & colors that represent the character’s station or assignment, etc..

The current uni’s project NO forward thinking, nor does it evoke the classic “Boldly Go” that set an expanding tone for every Trek series.

The Fans & the Star Trek phenomena deserve better.

“Ok- we know the Legal department will not allow them to make classic Trek uniforms, but it’s NO reason for these corny “zip-up excercise-coverall fashions.””

This is flat out false.

Some Speculation – maybe the upcoming Section 31 series has the Enterprise in it?

The Section 31 show is still not greenlit. There is no date for season 1. My guess is that it has been put on the back burner because CBS as soon as they saw rough cuts with Anson Mount’s Pike that they started considering a Pike series then. All Section 31 stuff slowed down, and they broke the finale into 2 parts at that time.

They are probably gearing up for Pike series, and Section 31 might be in that (probably would), but the Section 31 show is likely not happening.

I would hope Kurtzman would put the brakes on the S31 show and focused on Pike instead. I just woldn’t bet on it happening.

Yeah, I have a feeling they might mix the two shows. The problem is they want Michelle Yeoh for a lead role and I wonder if they could consider or if it is possible to have two leads with Yeoh and Mount together or would they just relegate Mr Mount to a recurring role.

Michelle Yeoh really stinks up the place. Her “acting” is wooden and amateurish in tone. I’ve seen high school plays with better actors! Get her off the show and NEVER allow her to star in a new Star Trek series.

Sheesh, just how stupid are the producers?

“You can’t worry too much about the history of Star Trek when you work on stuff like this” More clues that the idiots are in charge of the franchise and don’t give a crap about it at all.

Baxter, Deverell is not an idiot. And she absolutely does care.

You are cherry-picking to validate your prejudice.

You’re taking one comment – wherein she’s saying that at a certain point she has to do her job and be a creative and not let herself get too bogged down in researching the production archives.

Basically, she’s saying that she cares a lot, and had to rein in her perfectionism while ensuring the new bridge respected canon

Deverell watched TOS in first run, and it helped shape her as it did many of us. She has spoken about how its images shaped her childhood dreams and nightmares (Talos).

She wouldn’t have sought out evidence of the original colour or reproductions of the plastic buttons if she didn’t care.

And yet isn’t she also the source for the latest ‘cardboard’ reference to TOS?

Yup, kmart she did call them cardboard.

Because it’s a fact that they were made of cardboard.

She’s done the research. And she’s honest enough to put it out there. She’s challenged her own nostalgia about those sets.

Deverell’s noted that cardboard was inexpensive worked for black and white and early colour low definition but would be unacceptable to today’s younger audience. It also had durability issues.

Discovery’s bridge and corridors, which were designed by the original production designer have wood cores and wood framing. We’ve heard that they’ve also had durability issues.

Rumour (or leaks…) about the new Enterprise bridge is that she had it built with a metal frame.

She clearly has high expectations for what they put on the screen.

Isn’t that the attitude we want for a franchise to endure another 50 years?

No, it’s not a fact they were made of cardboard. Plywood, yes. That said, the assertion about cardboard sets on TOS has been an enshrined as a bit of false hyperbole for ages now. Repeating it doesn’t mean that Deverell didn’t love the show growing up, or that she didn’t do the necessary research to perform her job.

I was about to say the same thing. They were NOT cardboard. They were backed with plywood. The same thing the Discovery sets are backed with. This falsehood seems to be as prevalent as the incorrect cliche of “Kirk was a space horndog”.

I think they care. They just don’t get it, though this bridge shows they get some things. The design is pretty close to perfect. What they don’t get are the philosophical underpinnings of a trek story. If they can wrap their head around it, they can fix a lot if what is wrong with discovery. Nothing they can do about annoying characters at this point though. Every trek had one or two but Discovery has really forged an identity based on bad characters nobody likes (excluding Pike and Saru).

Thanks Trek fan…

It sounds as though they get part of it – positivity, science-based solutions, characters drive story…

But haven’t really listened to Roddenberry’s critique of 1950s TV and his motivation for creating Trek…

He very specifically said that he was tired of writing for shows where the last 10 minutes were always a gunfight.

He wanted to create a show where the problems and solutions weren’t always rooted in violence.

It’s as much a problem in the era of peak television as it was in the 50s.

So, Trek can and should stay true to offering something else.

Yes, sometimes Trek historically has gone there, but not just for a weekly quick, cool hit of sensationalism.

But season 2 of Discovery has had as many skirmish or horrific death endings as not.

Note to TPTB – no more than 25% of episodes should have violent or horrific the key dramatic moments.

Otherwise we stop believing that the crew are looking for other solutions.

Right. It isn’t star wars. I like star wars and space operas in general but that isn’t really what trek is about. trek had us reflect on our human qualities while pondering various possible futures. Religion, politics, science, diplomacy, and ethics were dealt with fairly regularly during various challenges faced and interactions with the wider universe. I hope they can get back to including these characteristics. There have been hints of it here and there. The planet with the community that was moved by the red angel and their aversion to tech, or the debate over Ripper and it’s value to the mission versus the value of life itself. These examples are few and far between though. Unfortunately.

Just who are you to speak for everyone, i.e. “nobody likes”?

I’m just a guy. Perhaps I was lazy articulating my thoughts. How about characters most long time Trek fan’s dislike? Or perhaps even more accurately, every trek fan I know personally which is an admittedly small sample yet nevertheless very passionate group? I am fairly certain the dislike extends beyond that though based on rotten tomato rankings and countless other online reviews.

Maybe going forward it would be best just to speak for yourself, and what you like.

It’s called hyperbole. Where one exaggerates on purpose to make a point. It’s quite common and quite easy to spot.

I love that they even got the sounds of the original bridge right. Noticed it immediately and actually got goosebumps. I think Discovery is one of the better Trek iterations so far and I really want more!

Abrams Enterprise bridge looked nothing like TOS. Plus, with added overhead desk lamps at every station the set was blinding,and not as aesthetically pleasing as the Discovery series Enterprise.

For some reason my favorite part is all of the bright lights running along the top of the stations. I’m not a huge TOS fan, but I’m glad they put those in. It also reminds of how more color was added to the NX-01 bridge during the last season of Enterprise.

So when we first follow Pike from the turbolift to the bridge, it seems there is a hallway or open area to the left and right of the turbolift going behind the bridge duty stations. I remember this was a thing seen in the blueprints, but never shown on screen. IF those areas are indeed access to behind the bridge stations then that is extremely cool.

I also think there are too many lights, but other than that this is an amazing bridge set.

Yes, there’s definitely a hallway, at one point there’s even a yellowshirt walking into it.

Hopefully there’s an emergency stairway hidden behind one of those walls. It was a design blunder that the TOS bridge could be blocked by one malfunctioning (or sabotaged) turbolift.

I think the updated bridge set looked amazing. I also appreciated the offset turbolift placement, even though it STILL makes no sense related to the outside of the ship. :)

Here’s hoping we see more of this marvelous set in future seasons (or on other iterations of the franchise—hint hint!)

I still like the idea that the lift travels a short distance to the left, then down, to justify the bridge facing forward. In fact that has to be the case in this situation, given the “window” on the exterior CG model.

I remember when Trek Remastered was being discussed on these forums, and there was one guy who couldn’t get over that they didn’t show the offset in that really cool shot establishing Pike’s bridge.

Since the 2009 etc. movies, the interiors and outsides of the ships have little to do with each other.

Also on the blueprints was a head. Which made sense to me and I understood why it was overlooked on the show. ;)

Seriously would a future Star Ship not be an organic self-healing Artificial Intelligent Craft that instead of the inhabitants connect to all and every device on the Ship via the Helm but a completely open area with no light distractions run by telepathy, minimal controls and with semi-transparent walls to provide total visuals to the outside deep space. If you want to at least break out of light speed it would make sense that the place we imagine would be our destination in a microsecond with no inertia.

Would’ve preferred grey floors and better lighting, but I loved the homages.

I love when Georgiou goes “orange? yechth.”

Especially when it doesn’t look orange in the lighting that they used…

EXCELLENT episode! Very happy to see the Enterprise bridge.That’s how you modernize the looks without disrespect to the past. That’s hoylw I’d like to see the Enterprise in movies … I’d very happy to see a Cap Pike/Number One miniseries, it would be awesome.

The past was totally disrespected and shat on.

Wasn’t the Pike-era bridge predominantly greys and blacks? The red/orange was a Kirk era thing. I know the Enterprise has just been in for repair, but I think I’d prefer the more understated – almost Star Wars Imperial – feel of the bridge (and corridors) in The Cage. Somewhat easier on the eye.

I tend to agree, though I could argue it either way.

This bridge is still predominantly grey and black. The railing is really the only splash of color until the ship goes to red alert.

Looked kinda cool but it also looked cramped and dated compared to Discovery

It reminds me of the bridge of the Enterprise-A in ST: TUC.

Love it! But at the same time, it is kind of cruel to put so much effort in creating the Enterprise bridge and not giving us a Pike series.

Yes, though with the exception of the single offset turbo lift that bridge was actually closer to the original than this one. But of course this bridge design also had to tie-in to the established DSC aesthetic, which it does quite nicely.

I loved how they updated the bridge, I wish they did that for the kelvin films

PLOT TWIST: The Picard series is set on an old Constitution class starship! #whatatwist

The Picard series will be shot in California while Discovery is shot in Canada. So they would need to dismantle, ship and rebuild the set if they wanted to use it on the Picard show.

It was a joke

I love Star Trek. Can’t wait to be able to watch this new take

Love the new interpretation of the Enterrprise bridge. With Captain Pike, Spock, Number One, and the Enterprise along with its interiors, we just have to imagine what a Pike spin-off would be like.

Why is it that all the bridges that I’ve seen from Discovery remind me more of a set from Tron than from Star Trek? Even with the Enterprise, take out the handful of TOS elements they threw in, and it’s all black with blue and red neon outlines. Nothing like anything else we’ve ever seen in any incarnation if Star Trek. And I hate that it’s an actual window that spans the entire width of the bridge rather than a more centrally focused view screen. Doesn’t fit in cannon at all.

Yes, thank you. I was just thinking that it looked like Tron threw up in here. There are too many lights in the wrong place. Impossible place to work.

TMP got it the most right-Illuminated work surfaces with even Mid- to Low- key general lighting.

They did an amazing job creating a “new” TOS Enterprise. When I watched Part 1 on Thursday I was awestruck looking at that bridge. I too, hope to see an episodic Pike/Enterprise Series come to fruition.

It looks terrible with only the slightest resemblance to the original. The people producing this show continue to arrogantly shit on everything that came before.

The bridge set is simply fantastic. First thing I noticed was the integration of the colored light panels just above eye level which really nails it down for me. Yep, this should have been the bridge for the movies. KUDOS to the design team. They got it right and this is coming from a purist.

Looks an Abramsverse bridge with a few TOS-esque doodads tacked on. And did they grease the camera lenses? Every light looks like a smeary glarey blur. Not impressed. But it doesn’t have to look like the TOS Enterprise bridge, since ST:Discovery is an alternate universe. But couldn’t they stop the flares and glare? Or maybe my eyes are just sensitive to light.

Your eyes and mind are simply demonstrating classical tastes, instead of an unhealthy love for bad visual trends that had overstayed their welcome a decade back.

What I would give for Amy Vincent to shoot TREK. Look at THE CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE sometime (it is often streaming), the picture quality is astonishingly clear and sharp and it makes everything so much more inviting and therefore involving, instead of having to look through what amounts to being screen doors, which seriously distances a viewer.

Really like the PD on the show overall, much more successful than the JJ films. Only criticism would be the use of led tape everywhere which may well date it to this decade.

I found it funny when the bridge exploded and there were rocks all over the floor. Why do they have Rocks in computers?

They came from the alternate future, Yesterday’s E, where they were everywhere, especially in Riker’s neck.

In jest, starships had geologists. When they explored new planets, the geologists collected rocks and stored them in the ceilings of the bridge.

I remember when I was a kid building a plastic model of the TOS bridge and having to mix the old Testors red and orange paints to get the right look of what I saw on TV. It is funny that with all of today’s modern tech used to create the exact pantone and colour, they still had a hard time recreating the exact blend of red and orange needed to appear just right taking into account the lighting and post production effects. All and all, I think they did a great job with the colours and with the re-creation of the beautiful classic TOS bridge. Also loved the sound effects when they entered the bridge.

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The bridge served as the central command and operations center of a starship

The bridge was the starship equivalent of an operations center or command center .

1.1.1 Command stations
1.1.2 Flight control
1.1.3 Operations management
1.1.4 Security and tactical
1.1.5 Supportive stations
1.2.1 Freedom class
1.2.2.1 Command area
1.3.1 Kelvin type
1.3.2 Walker class
1.3.3 Crossfield class
1.3.4 Constitution class
1.3.5 Huron type
1.3.6 Oberth class
1.3.7 Miranda class
1.3.8 Excelsior class
1.4.1 Galaxy class
1.4.2.1 Background information
1.4.3 Sovereign class
1.4.4 Defiant class
1.4.5 Prometheus class
1.4.6 Nova class
1.4.7 Luna class
2.1.1 K't'inga class
2.1.2 Bird-of-Prey
2.1.3 Vor'cha class
2.2.1 Bird-of-Prey
2.2.2 D'deridex class
2.2.3 Valdore type
2.2.4 Scimitar
2.2.5 Narada type
2.3.2 Dominion
2.3.3 Son'a
3.1 NX class
3.2 Constitution class
3.3 Defiant class
4.1 Constitution class
5.1 See also
5.2 Further reading
5.3 Background information
5.4 External links

Starfleet bridge design [ ]

Overview of a 23rd century Starfleet bridge

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.

Main bridge of the Constitution -class USS Defiant

The forward bulkhead of the bridge was typically dominated by the main viewscreen. Directly in front of this was usually the helm console, from where navigation and vessel course control were carried out.

Many of the support stations that were present on 23rd century bridges were combined into one post by the 24th century, mainly that of the operations officer . Some bridges featured an operations console alongside the helm station, from where the officer on duty had access to internal systems control, communications , sensors , resource scheduling, and hardware and system usage.

Each bridge typically featured several supportive consoles for engineering, gravity control, damage control , environmental engineering , sciences , and library computer , most of which did not necessarily need to be manned under normal circumstances. Internal security along with weapons control could be found at the security station .

Features [ ]

Command stations [ ].

The bridge of a 24th-century Galaxy -class starship featuring three command chairs at center

The bridge command stations provided seating and information displays for the commanding officer and one or two other officers, typically including the first officer . The command chairs were located in the center of the bridge, to maximize interaction with all key bridge personnel, while permitting an unobstructed view of the main viewscreen.

Typically, the armrests of the captain's chair featured miniaturized status displays. Using a keyboard or vocal commands, the captain could use these controls to override the basic operation of the starship. ( TOS : " Court Martial "; TNG : " Peak Performance ", et al.)

Flight control [ ]

The ops and conn consoles on the Galaxy -class bridge (forward)

The 24th century flight control position, also referred to as the conn , evolved from the 23rd century helm and navigation positions. The officer manning the flight control console was responsible for the actual piloting and navigation of the starship. Despite many of these functions being heavily automated, their critical nature demanded a humanoid officer to oversee these operations at all times.

Operations management [ ]

The ops and conn consoles on the Galaxy -class bridge (rear)

Many shipboard operations involved scheduling resources or hardware that affected a number of departments. In many such cases, it was common for various operations to present conflicting requirements. It was the responsibility of the operations officer to coordinate such activities so that mission goals were not jeopardized.

The operations position, also known simply as ops, evolved from older 23rd century positions. The bulk of the duties held by the helm and navigation positions were combined into the conn position. Other functions of the helm panel, such as internal systems control, became the purview of ops, as well as some communications and sensor system usages.

Security and tactical [ ]

The security station, integrated in the wooden handrail encircling the Galaxy -class bridge

The bridge station dedicated to defensive systems control and starship internal security was tactical . Parts of the default control layout presented the security officer with information readouts dealing with the internal protection of the starship and its crew. A wide variety of starship defensive systems were available to the chief tactical officer (sometimes doubling as chief of security), ranging from the defensive shields to phaser and torpedo systems, as well as intrusion detection systems.

Other systems that could be commanded by tactical included communications , long- and short-range sensor arrays , sensor probes , message buoys , and tractor beam devices.

Supportive stations [ ]

Every Starfleet bridge also included several supportive consoles and backup stations. These could include consoles for planetary sciences , engineering, mission operations, and environmental control. Most of these were meant to relieve the senior bridge officers of secondary duties during alert and crisis situations.

Mission ops provided additional support to the operations officer, and was specifically responsible for monitoring activity relating to secondary missions. Mission ops was responsible for assignment of resources and priorities according to guidelines specified by the operations officer and by operating protocols. This station was also responsible for monitoring away teams . ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual , pp. 41-42)

The environmental control console provided similar relief to the operations officer, monitoring the starship's life support systems . Due to the highly automated nature of these systems, this console was unattended under normal circumstances, but became of crucial importance during alert situations to maximize crew survivability.

The bridge's engineering station duplicated in simplified form the chief engineer's primary status displays from main engineering . The purpose of this station was to permit the chief engineer to maintain supervision over the engineering system while on the bridge.

22nd century bridge design [ ]

Freedom class [ ].

See Freedom -class main bridge

NX class [ ]

See NX-class main bridge

Command area [ ]

The command area at the catwalk

When the crew of Enterprise NX-01 had to take shelter at the ship's catwalk in September 2152 , Commander Tucker and Travis Mayweather built a "command area" within one of the compartments to replace the main bridge. Conn and the communications station included, the small area also included a provisional captain's chair, a cargo container with a netting , and place for Archer and T'Pol to sleep. ( ENT : " The Catwalk ")

23rd century bridge design [ ]

Most of the bridges during the later half of the 23rd century shared a similar layout to that of the upgraded Constitution -class vessels, which evidently set the standard for bridge design and layout.

Kelvin type [ ]

Kelvin -type bridges were large with many consoles and three windows acting as the viewscreen. They shared the joint helm/navigation consoles of Constitution -class starships. ( Star Trek )

The Kelvin 's bridge in a deleted scene

Walker class [ ]

Unusually for Starfleet vessels, Walker -class ships had their bridge placed at the bottom of the saucer section. Like the Kelvin -type bridge, it used a large window as the viewscreen.

Crossfield class [ ]

The Crossfield -class bridge was placed in a spherical section within the inner negative space of the saucer section. It possessed a wide window as the viewscreen, similar to Kelvin -type and Walker -class ships.

Constitution class [ ]

See : Constitution -class main bridge

Huron type [ ]

Huron bridge

Huron -type bridge. ( TAS : " The Pirates of Orion ")

Oberth class [ ]

See : Oberth -class main bridge

Miranda class [ ]

See : Miranda -class main bridge

Excelsior class [ ]

See : Excelsior -class main bridge

24th century bridge design [ ]

In the early half of the 24th century , before the introduction of the Galaxy -class starship, bridge design was based on the successful layout of the Constitution -class starship, featuring a single captain's chair in the center of the room with two consoles directly in front of it and additional consoles surrounding this central command area.

Galaxy class [ ]

See : Galaxy -class main bridge

Intrepid class [ ]

The Intrepid -class starship bridge

The Intrepid -class bridge was ovoid in shape. At the bridge's rear was a large bank of consoles and data-readout screens. Center of that area was the master systems display . Control consoles flanked it on either side, mission ops I to starboard and mission ops II to port.

Starboard of that information center, past the starboard side turbolift , was the chief tactical officer's console. This area was maintained mostly for internal security and combat situations. An identical station could be found on the other side of the bridge, where the operations console was found.

Two turbolifts provided access throughout the ship, and there was an emergency ladder which connected the bridge with lower decks. Forward of the upper ship operations areas were doorways to the briefing room at one side, and the captain's ready room at the other.

Directly forward of the central command area (where the captain and first officer were seated) and sunken down by two steps was the Conn. From here, the flight control officer served as helmsman and navigator for the vessel. To the Conn's right sat the chief engineer. The console allowed complete control over all engineering systems. Directly opposite sat the chief science officer in a similar console. ( VOY : " Caretaker ")

Behind the captain's chair, there was a small secondary tactical console located on the handrail. On the USS Voyager , this station was typically unmanned, however Seven of Nine used this station on several occasions, particularly on encounters with the Borg . Other crew members, such as The Doctor and B'Elanna Torres , used this station on occasion.

In between the captain's and first officer's chairs there was a small console which could be folded down when not in use, or opened and accessed by either officer. Like the larger consoles on the bridge a phaser could be stored within this unit.

Background information [ ]

After six years as production designer on The Next Generation , Richard James was no stranger to the legacy of Star Trek and the production requirements of episodic television. When given the assignment to create a new starship from the inside out, he had to start up from scratch.

Nothing had yet been established, and thus for his first meeting with Star Trek: Voyager 's creators and producers, James decided to push the boundaries of everything that had gone before. Early concept sketches show bridge designs without the large viewscreen in the front of the bridge and command functions decentralized, obviously breaking the traditional bridge mold.

A Jim Martin concept art for the Voyager 's bridge

However, by exhaustively reexamining the dramatic requirements and technological underpinnings of the Star Trek bridge without preconceptions, James rediscovered the strengths of the basic template laid out by Matt Jefferies almost thirty years earlier. But with the broad strokes of the bridge's layout firmly embedded in Star Trek 's past, James and his team went on to bring a fresh new interpretation to the heart of every Star Trek adventure, investing it with a sleek, efficient, and welcoming appearance that made Voyager something of its own – the Star Trek for the nineties and beyond.

Sovereign class [ ]

The central area of the main bridge provided seating and information displays for the captain and two other officers. The captain's chair was raised from the rest of the bridge officers, to that of the surrounding level which included Tactical and Operations. The two officer seats were equipped with fully programmable consoles for a variety of uses.

The main bridge of the Sovereign -class starship

Directly fore of the command area was the conn officer, who faced the main viewer. To the port side of the conn officer, also facing the main viewer, was the operations officer's console, which was identical in size and design to the helm station. At the very front of the bridge chamber was a large viewscreen. In 2373 , when the screen was not active, a standard bulkhead was present.

Aft and to the left of the command area was an elevated platform on which tactical and security consoles were located. To the captain's right, behind the tactical console, was the mission operations section of the bridge. Against the port side walls of the main bridge were the consoles for sciences along with others that were programmable for a multitude of functions.

Located against the aft wall of the bridge was a large master systems display monitor, similar to the one in main engineering. All relevant ship information (such as damage, power distribution, etc.) was displayed on the cutaway image of the vessel. This monitor could be used to direct ship operations and could be configured for limited flight control if necessary. Also located against the aft wall of the main bridge was the large engineering console. This had a smaller cutaway diagram of the vessel, which displayed all engineering-relevant data and showed warp fields and engine output.

There were two turbolifts on the bridge that could handle normal transit around the Sovereign -class starship. In addition, there was an emergency ladder that connected the bridge to lower decks. There was also one door, on the aft platform of the bridge, that led to the observation lounge, directly aft of the main bridge, with another door leading to the captain's ready room. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

Defiant class [ ]

The Defiant -class' bridge at red alert

The bridge layout of the Defiant -class was compact, but nonetheless accommodated the familiar engineering, tactical, science, conn, and ops stations. The bridge module was sunken into a much larger deck 1 than on most Federation starships to provide added protection during combat situations. Access to the bridge was provided by two doorways at the back, located on both port and starboard sides. Just forward of the starboard entryway was the location of the ship's dedication plaque, as well as an auxiliary computer access panel.

The port side of the bridge housed the engineering and tactical I stations, while the starboard side featured the science and tactical II consoles. Because of its nearly exclusive role as a combat vessel, stations aboard Defiant -class vessels were designed with speed in mind.

The center of the bridge featured the lone captain's chair, which was on a raised platform and had a clear view of all bridge stations, as well as of the main viewscreen. On both sides of the command chair were separate control panels, allowing the occupant access to virtually every system aboard the ship. Between the command chair and the viewscreen was an integrated flight control and operations panel, capable of performing the joint duties of those stations' larger counterparts on other Starfleet vessels. Like all of the bridge stations on Defiant , the conn had been designed for maximum speed and efficiency of commands input by the operator, allowing the craft to be handled almost like a fighter when under the hands of a skilled pilot.

Flanking both sides of the viewscreen were two tactical stations, which had primary access to the ship's powerful pulse phaser cannons , torpedo launchers and various other special ordinance packages. Working closely with conn, the officers stationed at these consoles were responsible for firing the various weapons aboard the Defiant -class starship during combat operations. The purpose of the tactical II station was to lighten the load on its sister station, particularly in battle.

Prometheus class [ ]

See : Prometheus -class main bridge

Nova class [ ]

See : Nova -class main bridge

Luna class [ ]

See : Luna -class main bridge

Non-Starfleet bridge design [ ]

Klingon vessels [ ], k't'inga class [ ].

See : K't'inga -class main bridge

Bird-of-Prey [ ]

See : Klingon Bird-of-Prey main bridge

Vor'cha class [ ]

See Vor'cha -class main bridge

Romulan vessels [ ]

See Romulan Bird-of-Prey main bridge

D'deridex class [ ]

See : D'deridex -class main bridge

Valdore type [ ]

See : Valdore -type main bridge

Scimitar [ ]

See : Scimitar main bridge

Narada type [ ]

The Narada 's consoles were dotted around the ship due to the ship's spacious design. ( Star Trek )

Bridge designs of other species [ ]

The Borg possessed the only known vessels not to have a discrete bridge, but whose controls were instead highly decentralized, being run collectively by the Borg drones . ( TNG : " Q Who ") However, Borg ships did have a command center known as the central plexus .

Dominion [ ]

Jem'Hadar attack ships had a bridge that was very peculiar in that it had no chairs, and only two head-mounted Virtual sensory displays instead of a viewscreen. Only the Jem'Hadar First and leading Vorta were allowed to view the outside of the ship. ( DS9 : " A Time to Stand ")

See : Ru'afo's flagship main bridge

Mirror universe bridge design [ ]

Bridge of the NX-class ISS Enterprise ( 2155 )

The bridge of the Terran Empire 's NX-class ISS Enterprise was quite similar in appearance to that of its counterpart from the prime universe, only that it featured Terran Empire emblems painted on the walls. ( ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly ") The bridge of Admiral Black 's flagship , the ISS Avenger , was similar in appearance to that of the Enterprise . ( ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II ")

Bridge of the Constitution -class ISS Enterprise ( 2267 )

Similarly, the only differences between the bridge of the 23rd century ISS Enterprise from the mirror universe and its counterpart from the prime universe was the appearance of Terran Empire emblems appearing on walls and doors, and a high-backed throne-like command chair. Also, guards were stationed on the bridge under all circumstances. ( TOS : " Mirror, Mirror ")

The bridge of the Terran Rebellion 's ISS Defiant was similar to that of the Defiant -class bridge from the prime universe, the vessel's schematics being based on specifications stolen from Starfleet at Deep Space 9 . ( DS9 : " Shattered Mirror ")

Alternate reality [ ]

The alternate Enterprise bridge

USS Enterprise alternate universe bridge forward

Forward view

The alternate reality 's Constitution -class bridge retained the largeness of the Kelvin -type bridges, as well as the use of the viewscreen as a window. It was larger than the prime or mirror universe's bridge, featuring more consoles in addition to the command chair , science station , communications station , helm , and navigation consoles , which were roughly in the same place. It was aesthetically much brighter and smoother, with white paint, blue monitor screens, more lights (that would bathe the room red when red alert was signaled), and even transparent touchscreen boards. A turbolift was located on the port side, while airlock doors were on the starboard side. ( Star Trek )

Appendices [ ]

External links [ ]

Bridge at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Bridge (nautical) at Wikipedia
Bridge Gallery at Ex Astris Scientia
Interview with designer Andrew Probert at Forgotten Trek
Interview with Matt Jefferies (X) at BBC Online
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