Star Trek: Ranking The Main Bridges

3. USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (Kelvin Timeline)

Star Trek Discovery Bridge
Paramount Pictures

Among the numerous impossible tasks when JJ Abrams rebooted the Star Trek timeline in 2009, production designer Scott Chambliss was able to successfully translate the "cardboard" sets of the original Enterprise into something appealing and believable for a big budget movie audience.

The redesign of the Enterprise's interior for Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond payed homage to Matt Jeffries' classic sets, embracing the 1950s and 60s "Googie" aesthetic, while also feeling believable as far flung futuristic design.

For over a decade, some have derisively referred to the Kelvin Timeline Enterprise's bridge as an Apple Store, but really what Apple Store are they going to?

Like Tamara Deverell's Star Trek: Discovery Enterprise set, the Kelvin Timeline bridge is a reasonable balance between The Original Series' look and something completely new, exactly what the franchise needed for the rebirth that brought us the rich glut of Star Trek currently streaming on TV today.

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I played Shipyard Bar Patron (Uncredited) in Star Trek (2009).