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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Gundam pilots average 15-17 years old, actually. The youngest known pilot on record was 13. But ship captains tended to be older (Ra Caillum's captain was in his late thirties), and we're talking about the ships. ;) What I'm discussing is the feasibility of such a setup in the Trek universe. If not a fully-functional separate bridge, then a separate CIC-type thing. So this time, instead of all three centre chairs descending to a combat bridge, just the Captain's chair would go down one deck. The two other chairs would be for the XO and another officer to drive the ship, and the Captain would direct fire and operations from a room with lots of tactical consoles. Another Gundam-based idea is the [i]Archangel[/i] class from the current show, Gundam SEED. This time, we have a [URL=http://pictures.gundamw.net/seed/epnine07.jpg]Main Bridge[/URL] from which the Captain commands ths ship overall. The dark spot behind the captain's chair is an opening to the [URL=http://pictures.gundamw.net/seed/eptwentyfive11.jpg]Gunnery Bridge[/URL] a half deck below and underneath the aft consoles. There, the ship's XO and gunnery crew direct fire. The gap is such that the XO and CO can still communicate directly. I guess what I'm getting at here is how to design Trek bridges more along the lines of real-life pardigms while still maintaining the Trek "look". Gundam is a franchise whose designs often emulate that, so I'm examining ways of incorporating some of their ideas into the trek universe. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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