Star Trek: Ranking The Main Bridges (2025)

6. USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (Discovery And Strange New Worlds)

The "pre-fit" bridge of Pike's Enterprise from Star Trek: Discovery is one of the most faithful and stylish sets in the franchise and certainly one of the best in the CBS All Access era.

Designed by Tamara Deverell, the new-old 1701 bridge is one of the franchise's most advanced in terms of set design, using powder-coated metal in its construction instead of the usual painted wood. The bridge's dramatic glossy black floors and blue lighting scheme create fantastic visual interest, which allows the traditional orange-red accents to pop. Deverell's ingenious use of an outer corridor surrounding the bridge allows it to be larger than its 1960s predecessor, matching the USS Discovery's grandeur without fundamentally altering the source material.

For Strange New Worlds, this design was inherited by the new production crew, led by Production Designer Jonathan Lee. Though he liked the set that was created for Discovery, he felt that for the new series, it needed to be warmer. He did away with some of the cooler blues and included browns, reds, and more motion graphics on the screens. 

Greenlighting a series required the construction of a new viewscreen, as the one depicted in Such Sweet Sorrow had been achieved with visual effects. The redesign was to evoke the feeling of control, but exploration. It was, after all, the brain of the star of the show.