Star Trek: Ranking The Main Bridges (2025)

2. USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (TOS)

Matt Jefferies original 1960s bridge for Star Trek is the quintessential starship bridge – there's a reason its configuration has been copied by everything from Stargate to The Orville.

Yes the set used computer controls that look like Jolly Ranchers to us today, but as Jeffries himself attested, the Enterprise bridge was functional:

"We had some talks with the U.S. Navy during the third year of Star Trek and they wanted to know the theory behind the bridge – the slopes and various angles... We explained it to them and I gave them a full-sized vertical section. There is a letter in the file stating that the Navy did use that as a basis for one of their major communications centers."

Quaint by current television and movie standards, you could sometimes see the frayed carpeting and plywood slats, but the clean, simplistic, colourful design holds up today as logical and (best of all) memorable.