Star Trek: Ranking The Main Bridges

13. USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (Movie Era)

Star Trek Discovery Bridge
Paramount Pictures

Matt Jefferies and Joe Jennings refit the iconic bridge of the USS Enterprise for the ultimately aborted spin-off series, Star Trek Phase II, opting not to radically redesign the set. As Phase II gave way to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, production designer Harold Michaelson was brought in to oversee the sets, swapping out the chairs and rotating Chekov's station toward the camera, but otherwise retaining the Phase II bridge as-is.

The bridge of the refit 1701 was tweaked over the course of its use in The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock (and for its brief appearance as the Enterprise-A in The Voyage Home), with enough variations and modifications to make a list unto itself. Regardless, throughout the first four movies, the Phase II / TMP bridge maintained its basic configuration.

Unfortunately, the motion pictures era bridge of the Enterprise was devoid of most of the color from The Original Series, painted dull gray and never quite popping on screen as the heart and soul of the ship like its 1960s counterpart.

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