Star Trek: Ranking The Main Bridges

This one will be controversial because Star Trek: Voyager is many people's gateway drug to the world of Star Trek, but Voyager's bridge is not great.

Designed by Richard James, Voyager's command center cleverly incorporates motifs and shapes from the ship's filming miniature, linking the exterior and interior of the USS Voyager in a way no other Trek series had quite done. Still, Voyager's bridge is massive and wide, separating the characters and preventing the cast from properly sharing the screen.

Worse, the captain and first officer's chairs are set next to each other, giving equal weight to both positions. Where Captains Kirk, Picard, and Sisko all enjoyed a commanding presence in the center of their bridges, the franchise's first female captain essentially shared her standing with her first officer.

Unintentional politics and dark brown upholstered walls aside, Voyager's bridge did contain some of the best, most intricate Okudagram computer interfaces in the franchise and the use of actual computer monitors gave the set more life than her predecessors.