As fans of the Star Trek fandom I can imagine that we’ve all wondered what it would be like to be on the bridge of one of the hero ships that we’ve seen throughout the years. There have been some games and software such as Star Trek Bridge Crew, Bridge Commander, Starfleet Academy or the software Captains Chair.

While most of those experiences gave a similar viewpoint of commanding a starship either from the captains chair or taking over the individual stations, the center chair was a far more unique experience as it was more of a simulation of the bridge which you could go around and view specific parts of the bridge to interact with them and learn more.

Recently the Roddenberry Archive have been working on something similar to this which you can view here. The archive contains a timeline of all the ships to bear the name Enterprise from the XCV-330 to the 1701-G. As part of this, you can view the bridges of these ships and move the camera around to view it from a wide variety of angles.

This is a unique free archive that contains not only the ships that we know and love, but it also has some of the design concepts which have come about throughout the years such as the Phase II bridge and as mentioned earlier, the XCV-330 which up till now, we’ve only seen pictures of.

Each of the pages for the ships does contain additional information for you to view such as the history of the ship, the concepts and information about the sets. You can also explore each of the bridge sets by rotating the images and exploring like never before!
There is also a fantastic render of the NX-01 Refit which was finally made canon in the third season of Star Trek: Picard where we saw it docked at the Fleet Museum.

This is part of a larger piece of work and it does say on the site they do plan to add more to this, as they do have Voyager as an available option to view as well. This is part of decades of work to bring these pieces of work to future generations so we don’t lose them to history as has been done with so many other shows.

Hopefully we’ll see more inclusions for this moving forward and it would be nice to hear what each of you would like to see added to this archive of classic Trek bridges.

What do you think of the video released by the Roddenberry Archives? Let us know in the comments below!

WRITTEN BY Chris Wilkinson
EDITED BY Solace
IMAGES SOURCED FROM www.za.ign.com - https://roddenberry.x.io