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Sounds similar to Benteen on the Lakota... But not as bad as Admiral Ross on his ship. He was just standing in front of a wall with monitors somewhere...
Oh, and then there's Captain Kim on the Rhode Island. Looked like a small set there, too. But, he was sitting down during that little scuffle. I wonder if Ransom would have sat down had he had a chair accessible on the Equinox...? And that scene in "Timeless", it was just LaForge in his ready room, wasn't it?
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No it was that bad... Admirals Ross and Hansen got about the same setup , as did the Lakota and the Odyssey were about equal..
At least the Enterprises alway run into their sister ship so they can use their bridge.. the Lexington in "The Ultimate Computer" (Commodore Wesley got to use the 'easy chair' from the mirror universe to show he was a big shot) and the Yamato in 'Contagion' (which is the first time we saw the panel behind Picards chair was removable for circuitry)
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Well, I would think that the USS Rhode Island would come to a close second to the Melbourne set.
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The Yamoto in "Where Silence has Lease" too used the Enterprise-D set.
The original practise for guest starring Starfleet ship sets was to use the Battle bridge set. That served as the Enterprise-C, and several Mirandas. And that pirate ship from Gambit. And others too that I can't remember. It got used more for other ships than it did for the Battle Bridge.
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Still haven't figured out what Admiral Ross's ship was in "What You leave Behind." You saw him on a little screen with some sort of computer behind him. The Bellerophon, perhaps?
-Ross was standing in front of the Defiant's engineering consoles.
-The original E-D battle bridge set is not seen as many other bridge sets - the Stargazer, and a few other rooms over the early years (most notably the hearing room set in "Measure of a Man". The set used for the E-C, Hathaway, et.al. is a different set altogether.
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My main problem is with the size of some of these bridges. I thought the Equinox's bridge was rediculously big for a ship her size, and the Prometheus's bridge was too big for her purpose.
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It could be that the crew of a surveyor spends all their time on the bridge, keeping watch over whatever the sensors are sensing. This is most efficiently done in a single common room where the specialists for the different instruments can cross-coordinate. Why not make that room be the bridge? It's not as if actual "bridge functions" related to the running of the ship would take much room, not when the mission of the ship is just to go to within sensor range of an interesting planet.
The Prometheus in turn could be super-automated, again making it unnecessary to have much crew in any other room. Let's just gather them all up on the bridge (although I didn't see too many chairs..). The Prometheus is a big ship, though - why *shouldn't* she have a big bridge?
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Maybe the Romulans don't like to sit down on the console Starfleet chairs. It could do horrors on their backs.
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But Vulcans and Romulans are almost exactly the same species...how could the Vulcans serve w/o a problem on Starfleet chairs and not the Romulans...?
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To clarify: The panel behind Picards chair on the railing of the Galaxy bridge (per Captain Mike's post about the Yamato) is not necessarily removeable. The circuitry we saw was a flap of the Tactical console hanging over the railing. They had pulled it away to get at the circuitry underneath.
I've actually been fairly impressed with the bridge sets we've seen...even the one-episoders and on-screen-only bridges. Sure we'd love to see the whole thing...but let's get real.
The worst, IMHO, was LaForge on the Challenger in "Timeless". Not only did he appear to be directing the chase from his ready room, which was fairly obviously an interior set from either the E-E or Voyager, but the camera angle kept changing between takes. That bugged me.
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If you watch "Ties of Blood and Water," when Gul Dukat is talking on the screen, you'll notice the camera angles change in on him during the screen. Weird.