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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Time to hijack this thread for the better... As far as I can tell, The Original Series use of the helm and navigation stations was always a mish-mash of stuff. It seemed that either person sitting their could pilot the ship on their own. Of course, I think it was always up to the helmsman to engage the flight. Plus, it seemed that fire control duties were under the helmsman's and navigator's jurisdictions. And again, either person seemed capable of firing the weapons. As far I can tell, it seems that the helm and navigation stations were more like a jack-of-all-trades set of stations. The helm had that pop-up sensor viewer that could mimic some of the science station's duties. Tactical, flight control, and security were routed to the same stations as well. The only stations that haven't really been mimicked there are communications and engineering (at least that I know of). I wonder if this was simply a set of stations used for training command-track officers. After all, most of the time we only saw gold-shirts sitting there (although, in "Errand of Mercy" there was a red-shirt at helm and blue-shirt at navigation). I had hoped that the area at aft on Enterprise's bridge was a navigation area. Considering the limited nature of the ship's navbanks and star charts (hell, even the Vulcan's maps were missing stuff), there has to be a lab onboard where the stellar cartographers are sipping coffee, eating donuts, and making maps. The TNG tech manual made several references to navigation laboratories onboard, an episode of Voyager had Paris altering commands from a navigation center, and I have a vague recollection of something similar being mentioned in TOS (but I may be wrong). The thing that gets me most about the Enterprise's bridges is the problem of the magical disappearing and reappearing weapons console. Enterprise has one. The Original Series does not. Movies 1 through 3 have one. Movies 5 and 6 kinda sorta have one. The Next Generation has one. I give ST5 and ST6 a questionable status since the tactical station(s) (one in ST5 and two small ones in ST6) seem to be unmanned like the Master Situation station. In Star Trek 2, weapons were fired by Sulu at the helm except for one instance when Chekov fired torpedoes from the weapons station. In Star Trek 3, Scotty fires the torpedoes from navigation. In Star Trek 6, Chekov fires the weapons from navigation. I would say that the launch of the Enterprise-B seemed to stabilize the dedicated weapons console, but I can't think of where how weapons were controlled on the Enterprise-C. Another thing about bridges in general is that they seem to be doing a crescendo-decrendo. Enterprise's bridge has five manned stations. TOS Enterprise's bridge had, I believe seven or eight. In the TOS movies, there are about ten stations. In TNG, there are eight stations but only three of which are constantly manned. The Defiant had five stations (as did Voyager) that were always manned. But I think the Enterprise-E ruins this effect by going back to eight stations. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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