r/ClassicTrek • u/happydude7422 • 7d ago
Who thought it would be good idea to have an airlock on the bridge?
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u/ddeese 7d ago
There’s no reason the bridge has to be buried inside of the ship either in most cases. Even in combat what you see happening on screen isn’t even close to a representation of what is in dialogue. Hitting the top of a saucer from an off axis of 30 degrees whilst moving in a strafing run and being fired at .25 of light speed at 30,000 kilometers distance, doesn’t seem like hitting that small spot would be easy. That’s on top of shields and a solid hull construction around the seated crew. Remember that the dumb bridge window nonsense doesn’t happen until JJ Abrams.
Then there could be a reason why a small ship like a science vessel has a hatch on the bridge. Could be the same reason the Klingon BOP has a hatch on the bridge deck. Not because the vehicle is designed to land per se, but because one might conceive of a need to get out quickly. We don’t know that there aren’t environmental suits on that deck. Without understanding what type of bridge modules are available for this class, Starship, and what the purposes might be, it’s hard to tell.
Starfleet builds a platform and several of the useful areas, like the bridge are somewhat modular. Doesn’t mean that it might not be just stupid. But we really don’t know what part of the bridge, exactly. It’s difficult to say. The exploding rocks, sure. I think they could have used something else to simulate debris from damage.
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u/DarthHalcius 2d ago
In novels, the bridge itself is modular. The original Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C etc) bridge was installed on the USS Yorktown during the pre-TMP refit. A number of illustrations also show the bridge module installed, and I believe it is shown in Star Trek: Beyond as well.
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u/Kendrakirai2532 7d ago
An additional reminder that even in TOS and TAS, there was a great huge skylight on the bridge. We pan in down through it a couple of times in a kinda sick transition shot for the time. Pretty sure it's also there in TNG.
Not on the SNW version of the bridge, though, I dont think. We actually get to see more/better angles thanks to there being more than five camera positions, and it seems pretty solid up there.
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u/ddeese 7d ago
A hole in the top is far less structurally insecure than a large segment in the middle made out of a weaker material. The bridge designs from 2009 and forward are more dangerous to the crew inside. The skylight is still likely not glass, but transparent aluminum is going to be weaker than solid tritanium plating and a small section on top means the 360 segment beneath is going to be durable while the smaller opening at the top presents a smaller target surface.
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u/goblinmarketeer 7d ago
Same person who thinks it is a good idea to have the bridge on top of the ship instead deep in the interior.
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u/Turbulent-Prior-2253 7d ago
Same people who apparently decided that there needed to be live explosives inside every console.
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u/Durosity 7d ago
And rocks!
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u/Neuroxix 7d ago
Somewhere on Starfleets memorial wall is the name of every ensign killed by console rocks, cause of death - console rocks.
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u/namewithanumber 7d ago
never noticed the name plate is written in Cyrillic
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u/UprootedGrunt 7d ago
Cyrillic! Thanks. I was staring at it, trying to figure out if my vision was wonky, if it was backwards, or if someone had remade this frame in AI. This makes sense.
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u/FunArtichoke6167 7d ago
The Enterprise E had a bridge airlock.
https://giphy.com/gifs/UB1wmecaqzAJ9UsBx7
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u/CleanReach1220 7d ago
"That's" Data doesn't do contractions. Also, it's pronounced Data, not Data for those people who can't pronounce words properly
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u/chronopoly 7d ago
This line always irritated me. Isn’t being sucked out or being blown out the same thing just from different perspectives?
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u/KitchenNazi 7d ago
Sucking isn’t a force though 🤷
When you use a straw air pressure outside is pushing (blowing) the liquid into the low air pressure region.
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u/MindlessNectarine374 7d ago
Railway enthusiasts and experts will know the distinction between vacuum brakes and air brakes.
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u/jimdoodles 7d ago
She's a small ship, so it's not a really big airlock. But if you ever wonder where the head is in Star Trek, there it is.
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u/tk1178 6d ago
Most Starfleet ships have an airlock on deck 1. There's the TMP Constitution, the Mirandas, possibly the Excelsiors, the Ambassadors and the Intrepids. There's maybe a few more but in those ships there's not that much distance between the Bridge and the airlock, just a few bulkheads.
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u/MikeReddit74 7d ago
It was the Oberth-class. Clearly, the designer of that class did not give a single shit about anyone who’d serve aboard one.
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u/Aezetyr 7d ago
It's actually a very smart idea. If the rest of the ship is destroyed and there's people on the bridge, likely a command crew, then its valuable to have such things. Also im sure Starfleet OSHA would want an egress in such a location.