Star Trek: Ranking The Main Bridges (2025)

13. USS Dauntless NCC-80816

The bridge of the USS Dauntless NCC-80816 is heavily based on the ship that appeared in Voyager's fourth season finale Hope And Fear. There, the alien Arturis attempted to trick the crew of Voyager with his ship - the USS Dauntless NX-01-A - to lure them into assimilation.

The Starfleet take on this ship wasn't the first time it slipped into the Federation's ranks. The Enterprise episode Azati Prime featured a Dauntless-class, similar to Arturis's ship, zipping past a window of the Enterprise-J. The actual Starfleet ship borrowed many of that alien interloper's features.

The bridge is an almost exact recreation (the Doctor must have had his holoimager handy) down to the tan carpets and walls. The Captain's chair is positioned in the centre of the room, though the railings dividing them from the workstations look more consistent than the changeable forebears. 

Producer and Head Writer for season two Aaron Waltke described the ship as 'heavily inspired' by the original, with most of the crew calling it the 'Dauntless 2' unofficially.