When Scotty whines, “Is there ANY Starfleet officer who’s been more persecuted, misunderstood, and STARVED than me?”

Keenser, without missing a beat, goes, “Me.”

I would then move uhura onto the back right console with sciences and comms getting theirn own clear area wiothout spock and uhura sitting next too eachother for no particular reason!!!!

agreed?

It is best to view the entire new movie as a parallel timeline, including the kelvin.

Personally, the transparent heads up display approach for everything including two-way video conversations is ridiculous. They already have electronic opaque switching glass, which works on the same principle as LCD vieo. There is no reason the window cannot become opaque and function solely as a viewscreen as well as a window. Think how beneficial that would have been in TNG instead of sending Geordi out to “get a real look at it” every time they questioned their cameras. But when you want to see a magnified image of something, you want to see it, not see through it.

But the fact remains, that’s how the bridge viewscreen was originally conceived by Roddenberry and Jeffereies: as a WINDOW, much like the overhead dome, which persisted until TMP era, but returned in TNG. If anything I welcome this addition to the series and consider it a fitting homage. It is one of the few things I am in total agreement with. If the control center of the ship is going to sit exposed on the top level of the ship, then it only makes sense to have a real portal to space. Otherwise, the only logical choice would be to put the bridge in the most shielded and heavily protected part of the ship, which also would have the shortest wiring trunks to controls. But that would make the bridge about as exciting as the auxiliary control room on the TOS Enterprise.

13—I always preferred the darker lighting of the bridge, for example in II and VI, as apposed to I and V. So I’d like to see them turn the rheostat down a bit on the bridge.

Other than that, my only other gripe about the bridge was the glass wall things, that Chekov ended up using at one point. I’d like to see those go.

The giant window/viewscreen, although illogical, is pretty cool. But with the materials available in the future, like transparent aluminium, it is probably just as strong as the hull itself. Speaking of logic, we all know it’s illogical to have the bridge exposed on the top of the saucer anyway. But it’s always been there, and we (us ST fans) just sort of go with it….