Another Bridge

[tnpir4002]

Hi folks...me again :-)

This is another set for my "Specter of the Past" project, this one's eventually meant to be for a Dawnstar-class ship, but for right now I'm just building the 1701-B bridge from "Generations" with plans to redress it later. No ceiling, no viewscreen, and no railing yet (also no wing on the console by the turbolift), but other than that it's come a fair way in just a few days.

(Yes, I know it's the TNG chairs spread around, thanks to SeanR for that; this is meant to be early 24th century so it's basically meant to combine the film bridge used in Generations with the evolving design lineage of the 24th century--kind of like the Ambassador was a midway stop between Excelsior and Galaxy).



What do you think? I'm starting to realize just how red everything in Generations looked (go back and check out the 1701-D bridge, and it looks a lot more red as well, particularly the turbolift alcoves; it's strange that David Carson would want to light it that way, but...what do I know haha)

[Dr Lee]

I'm not seeing any images....

[tnpir4002]

My fault, when I posted the first time I forgot to upload the thumbnail. Should be fixed now.

[Dr Lee]

it is... looks good

[rduda]

Looks very good!! Keep it up.

[homerpalooza67]

yup. looks good

[Tovette]

It's very cosmopolitan in it's interior design. Sort of like a mix of corporate boardroom with an obvious military feeling.

[Pearse]

Well, red is supposed to make us feel anxiety and think of danger, so it made sense to light it like that during all those dramatic moments. The whole movie had to up the ante from the tv show. Anyway, great modeling.

[tnpir4002]

To those who swore I never finished anything :-)



Thanks to SeanR for letting me use his chairs and helm/ops stations from the Olympus bridge here. This isn't actually meant to be the 1701-B bridge, it's going to be used for a Dawnstar-class ship (for which I plan to cheat and use an Ambassador MSD since they're structurally very similar), and it's meant to be in the latter 1701-C era, which is why it's the ST6-style bridge but with TNG-style chairs; in just the same way as the Enterprise-C was designed to look like a midway step between the Excelsior and the Galaxy, this is meant to look like a transition between 1701-B and 1701-D, but with a more expansive bridge than we saw in Yesterday's Enterprise. This is also why we see carpeting instead of riveted metal for the deck surfaces.

I would like to give SeanR further credit because I used his 1701-A and Excelsior bridge models to help figure out some of the details I couldn't figure out from screencaps from the film.

This bridge has a terrific color scheme, a subtle balance of red-gray on the walls with the copper-colored trim. I choose to believe that the red carpeting that was present in Generations was simply there for Kirk and company (a literal red carpet treatment, backed by its absence in Star Trek VI) so I didn't include it here. But the blue chairs look good and very distinctive in that set. I'll probably wind up adding clocks for the bridge of the Daystrom (the Dawnstar ship) since that was one touch I always liked about STVI.

What do you guys think?

EDIT: And does anyone know if this was the same set they used for the Prometheus bridge in "Message in a Bottle" or the Excelsior in "Flashback"? For some reason those bridge sets always looked much smaller, more like the Nebula/Miranda bridge swing set from DS9.

[Aresius]

Nice work.