I have copies of the original production used VOY bridge set blueprints - it took 29 sheets to describe the bridge fully. I have them up on my online archive "Set Blueprint Archive"
@Bruh-zx2mc Unfortunately not at the moment - the server provider has a max limit on how large a single file can be. I've tried zipping single folders, but that too also breaches the limits.
I vaguely remember something from years (decades) ago there was supposed to be a second con chair tucked away on the port most side of the con station ( the rail it rode one wrapping around instead of a simple arc , but it either got left out in the pilot, or was removed because it looked odd in pre production
Voyager was the last Federation ship before the revolution in internal bridge lighting. Which allowed the crew to apparently not sprain their ankles on steps they didn't see. Starfleet had developed advanced rote muscle memory training, so that every member would instinctully know the details of the complicated teir design, and thus not put a foot wrong.
Except for the first officer in the pilot, who, when told to brace, immediately forgot he was standing right next to a railing and decided now was the right time to leap across the entire room to grab onto the far end of the helm console.
I've ALWAYS loved the Intrepid class bridge and of course the Equinox bridge. However yeah the Intrepid class honestly has been my favorite 24th Century Starfleet bridge. The only thing I did find it annoying was how small the view screen was compared to the size of the bridge itself. I also did find it odd that the Conn station was so huge. Poor Tom having to slide back and forth to operate the station himself lol. I honestly was wondering what those blue areas on the sides of the Tactical and Operations stations were. Nice to hear/see what they really were. Yeah I agree Harry should have been promoted to Lieutenant around season 5 maybe 6 of the series.
My first Star Trek and my favorite ship with the moving nacelles like modern day, aircraft carrier planes, and the fact that she is atmosphere rated and can actually land on a planet is always a cool feature
The underutilized science station also could be for guest scientists and such. The class being designed for zipping to and from the edges of the Federations ever growing space. As you stated Voyager not in the habit of picking up guest scientists for long missions adding more time to their journey.
In re: point 2, the out-of-universe reason for two seats is that it reflects the tense equality between Janeway and Chakotay in his capacity as leader of the Maquis crew, especially early in the run.
I’d also say that the relative lack of bridge science stations is indicative of the idea that Janeway is functionally her own science officer up until season 4, when that role largely shifts to Seven. Which is when the astrometrics lab gets built!
They converted an ops station that already existed within voyager, upgraded its capabilities. The sensors were designed by seven and harry not the room and its purpose.
The Voyager Bridge overall was by far the most cinematic of any of the TV bridges. There's just one serious flaw, the stairs. For the captain to get off the elevator into her chair, she has to go down two or three steps and then go back up one or two steps to get to her chair. There is a railing right in front of the elevator that blocks her from walking directly from the elevator going down one or two steps and being right next to her chair, those railings don't do anything they just block access and force people to go down two or three stops and then back up a step for absolutely no reason. It was kind of funny in the first couple of seasons to watch her stomping in her little boots with her hair bun bouncing up and down the steps every time she had to go on the bridge. And of course to get to her ready room, down a step or two and then down a few more to get to her ready room level. And poor Tom paris, he has to come off the elevator go down two or three steps, go back up one step, walk to the front of that platform and then walk back down two or three steps to finally get into his pit. I know why this was done, to stagger the actors in a way that they all are facing forward and can be seen from a front-facing shot which ended up almost never was used, but really that command platform should have been all on one level so that once the captain went down a couple of stairs she was on the same level as her chair, like when Picard went down that ramp he was on the level of his chair. To have her go back up a step just is a silly design flaw and like I said, those two little railings that don't really do anything and aren't even connected to the main railing would have been the first thing that I ripped out if I was the captain. Since they are separate pieces and not connected to that main railing, I've often wondered if they were a late addition since they really seem random, added on and in the way. They're literally are a couple of scenes where she places or hand on it that she goes down a stepping them back up a couple of steps practically pointing to them being in the way and uselessness. But I love the color scheme, I love the lighting they used, I like the Cubbies that everybody has to work in but it is too bad that even though they built those expensive side Cubbies for engineering and whatever that they almost never got used, once in a blue moon you would see B'lanna over there in her workspace but it seems like once they established a shot that showed the captain with Tuvok behind her and the other direction with Harry Kim behind her that they locked those positions down and very rarely ever showed any other angle of the bridge, showing those hidden workspaces that I just referenced and often completely eliminating Tom Paris from the picture, but all of that aside, this bridge is far superior than the one they built for the Enterprise E which is even worse, it is a random Maze of useless railings and pointy consoles sticking out in the pathways to walk between them, not ideal when a ship is getting rocked by photon torpedoes. And on a ship supposedly made specifically for battle. I even think the Voyager bridge is superior to the Enterprise D Bridge also, although it is beautifully architectural, turn out to be an awful lot of open space that was never used, they never had enough people back at the science stations and for a ship that was primarily built for scientific exploration, they're almost never were any blue shirts on the bridge, even data who probably should have been in a blue shirt. The only one we ever got was counselor Troi when they finally started making her wear a uniform, other than that there were no other blue shirts on the bridge hardly ever unless doctor Crusher came to visit.
They're called Cordry rocks, which were pebble-like objects installed in Starfleet vessels, essential since their non-centrosymmetry disrupted the charge leptons in the isolinear pathways of the main deflector. (Memory Alpha)
Every Federation ship apparently is a "science and exploration" vessel which gets annoying after a while. Where are the freighters, warships, transports`?
@Rudeljaegerthe federation officially doesn't believe in war ships. Also episodes have featured freighters and transports but why would anyone want to make a series focused about that?
The more you think about it, the one reason the Intrepid Class was never mass produced was not just because of the Dominion War (it contributed) but it required the best and brightest to bring the most out of the ship class (best Chief Engineer, best Security officer, best Ops, and HOLY CRAP do you need the best pilot you can to run that one station). Voyaget crew is unexpectedly the GOAT of Starfleet to pull off their successes.
I think the coolest thing about Voyager is that you could access most any station from any station to be always made sense that this way any bridge officer/crew could ascertain anything at a glance
Actually my first choice of a class of ship to serve on. It's nice, capable, about the size of crew where you can know everyone but not too quickly or too much, mission variety, all that. Always did think the captain's chair should be at least somewhat more centered, though: kind of a big distance from the XO there.
On the original show, there was a two-person console because it was held in navigation that worked hand-in-hand. It was strange in Next Generation that they had the Ops station in that place instead of on the back wall where it belongs, and also strange on Enterprise that even early in its history while they still are sharting space that they didn't have that dedicated navigation position alongside the helm. In Voyager it would have made for better TV to have Tom and Harry sitting side-by-side in a navigation Ops configuration where they could have discussions and plot happen between them, and where opiates used to be should really be the science station, which should occupy a prominent place on a ship which was built primarily and specifically for deep space scientific research, but this show always had a shocking lack of blue shirts considering its scientific mission. And also being lost in unknown and Uncharted space, scientists on the bridge would be pretty important.
My reason as to why Harry Kim never got promoted - He kept getting killed, switched or infected every month or so, and each time that happens, Janeway restarts a timer. If the timer reaches zero, Harry gets a promotion, but with Borg, Kazon, Species 8472 and the like floating about, he just never catches a break xD
You'd think being a science vessel the science station would be larger and have more crew assigned to it each shift, or at least the potential to have more crew operating it. Ditto with the engineering station opposite, which in many ways, should have been used for more sciencey stuff for the most part, until an engineer was needed to use one of its consoles
I love that the helm is so long it needs a chair on a rail to operate. Meaning during a battle when the ship is at red alert, the pilot, who has no seatbelt, is likely to be thrown out of their seat and have to spend the rest of the fight flying the ship on the floor in the dark while their chair is hitting them every time it slides back and forth.
We hear from Alpha Quadrant Janeway in the fractured time episode (I forgot the actual name) when built, the ship didn't have an Astrometric Lab. That space became equipped once mapping home became a priority. I Imagine other science tasks also got offloaded from the general purpose bridge station into dedicated labs when their constant use distracted from standard bridge activity
I wonder what happened to the Stellar Cartography department once they had Astrometrics and Seven took it over? We know Voyager had one as the Delaney Sisters were part of it, but we never seen any blueshirts working with Seven.
it was revealed that in TNG, Picard was unique in having his ships counselor on the bridge but he did so because she was a Betazoid and her deeply empathic sensing of emotions made it easier to help deal with aliens on a first contact situation such as the Tamarian race in the famous "Darmok" Season 5 episode 2. Despite being unable to understand the Tamarians, Diana helped by sensing some of their intent via emotions. Usually only One seat was alone on most ships but in smaller ships there was usually two, one for the captain and one for the first officer unless like Mr Spock, the first officer had a secondary role on the bridge i.e. science officer or weapons or even pilot such as Commander Pike has done with his "Number One" on both "Discovery" and "Strange New World"
Tom and Harry had the hardest jobs on the bridge. Harry had to handle almost all aspects of ship operations, and Tom's station was so huge he needed a sliding chair to reach everything. If Voyager hadn't been so heavily automated, the crew would have had real problems being so few in number.
The science console would have seen more use in a standard Intrepid class ship, one with a full crew compliment and dedicated science officer. Much of Voyager's bridge consoles were rerouted to different stations to make it easier for limited crew to still complete all necessary tasks. Additionally, dedicated science facilities such as the Astrometrics Lab were not in the original designs and were built later by the crew to facilitate their journey home.
Imagine if that time fractured Voyager somehow returned to Starfleet and they started developing a technology that kept different sections of the ship in different time streams, and only the crew could cross thru them.
That science station was not a design flaw. They lost a huge amount of crew when caretaker happened, so they were under-manned even with Chakotay's crew. The main design flaw of the bridge was literally putting a schematic of the friggin' ship behind the captain, so anyone they were chatting with, friend or foe, had full info on the placement of critical systems.
If memory serves there was a pc program that allowed you to walk around all the Star Trek ships and press butting etc I think it was called captains chair I had it was brilliant. The number of times I had done self destruct and fired torpedos etc Star Trek: Captain's Chair" is a vintage, interactive PC CD-ROM program released in 1995/1997 that provides a 360-degree virtual tour of five different Federation starship bridges. Key Features of the Software: Virtual Tours: Covers the bridges from The Original Series (USS Enterprise), The Next Generation (Enterprise-D, Enterprise-E), Deep Space Nine (USS Defiant), and Voyager (USS Voyager). Interactive Elements: Users can click on various consoles, phasers, and PADDs to view them in detail. Guided Tours: Includes commentary from bridge officers such as Captain Sulu, Lt. Commander Worf, Commander Riker, Captain Sisko, and Captain Janeway. Compatibility: Designed for Windows 95/98 and Mac, it is often run on modern machines using emulation software like DOSBox-X.
I always imagined that the larger stations were partly due to the smaller crew complement, so more central control and oversight would be needed. I did see a version with three chairs, and always quite liked the idea of the ship's counselor being a standard fixture.
Honestly I never understood why the counselor was needed on the bridge at all. Especially as the TNG one wasn't even qualified for bridge command until years into their mission. I've always felt the three chairs are best used for XO, Captain, Science Officer then vary as needed since they're generally not going to be on the bridge at the same time. XO's chair can be used for anyone acting as a secondary aid to the officer of the day and the third chair can cycle out to important visitors like commodore's or admirals if you don't have a dedicated admirals quarters or short term advisors e.g. a local dignitary. Then again I also feel any position intended to be manned on most shifts should have a chair, and somewhere for crew to eat without leaving the bridge. Its why with a little modification the star trek online Yorktown bridge would be my ideal one for a larger ship. In the center is the command chairs (3) and in front of them you have conn and tactical 1 with the viewscreen. On an arch behind the command chairs is tactical 2 with a weapons locker under it. Behind tactical 2 are two seated stations facing away from the viewscreen which I would have as operations (focused on internal affairs and near the XO's chair) and engineering 1 (focused on the ship rather than what's happening outside). On the other side of the arch for operations and engineering 1 are four more configurable consoles. I'd add chairs and have them a engineering 2, science 1 and 2, communications (communications on the right, science 1 and 2 centrally located either side of an aisle and engineering 2 on the left. This allows the communciations and operations officers to talk easily same with engineering 1 and 2 while science 1 and 2 have a clear view of the main viewscreen). Starting at the front left of the ring around the command area and moving clockwise you have the head, an open area where I'd put a table and chairs for bridge crew to eat their lunch at so they're ready to dash back to stations if needed and have a nice view out the forward viewport then the emergency turbolift to the battlebridge. Numerous lockers with various emergency supplies. Two configurable consoles. A turbolift, captain's ready room, bridge replicator and dinning equipment. More storage lockers. The access to the auxillary area. A configurable console probably normally set to mission operations. Two more configurable consoles and the master system display, one would probably be set to life support and the other to propulsion. Another configurable console probably security. Door to the auxillary area opposite the other one. Storage lockers. Doorway to a short corridor leading to the conference/briefing room, a turbolift and two more configurable consoles probably computer core access, the ships library and emergency control. Lockers and back to the head. The auxillary area located behind the main bridge would have a bridge teleporter, emergency escape pods, aft airlock, the conference room turbolift to access the conference room without going through the bridge and of course jeffries tubes and other ship related systems.
I agree that its a small ship but has all the bells and whistles of a large ship. I think Voyager must have lost a lot of trained people int the transition to the Delta Quadrant. There just arent going to be people at every station during every shift Voyagers bridge might actually be busier that the average ship.
Voyager was is my favourite ship thank you for this walk around. I never knew the blue panels were for bioneural network. Also I don’t think I appreciated just how much Tom and Harry did from their stations. I think it was mentioned once that Harry was lucky to get such a position straight out the academy which makes more sense now considering how much was managed from that station and poor Tom needed a sliding chair just to view all the panels.
The most unbelievable aspect of Star Trek is the size of the ship's bridges. As far as I know there is no bridge of a major vessel in existence anywhere near those sizes of the federation ships. I get it, they made all the room so the camera crew can move around to get more different angle shots and somehow nobody ever questions the complete waste of unused space on a federation ships bridge. A more believable control bridge of a vessel would be the Nostromo from Alien. Most all the space is cramped.
The two chairs thing is definitely an old thing from the Apollo/shuttle programs where the pilot sat in the left chair and the Commander sat in the right chair
It was the coziest bridge somewhere you just wanted to stay all day. Thats the problem with modern trek they havent got the design logic of wanting a space like that where it feels cozy and lovable rather than stark with loads of lights and colours.
Don't forget the astrometrics lab did not exist when the ship was originally built. The science station would have become redundant after they added that on but there were still times when they had to shut it down due to how much power it uses.
I live that on TNG from the screens POV shot you can see everyone, its kind of like a band with worf being the drummer on a rising platform. On voyager people Janeway is blocked by paris, tuvok and kim are half of screen (standard def) with a lot of railing and consoles in front of them, and B'Lana is completly off screen. Infact you dont get a sense of where B'Lana is in the room.
I always liked the bridge for Voyager as it just felt more practical than something like the Galaxy bridge. The MSD being a backdrop for any visual comms always seemed less than ideal and the dual command chairs never quite sat right with me, but they were small nitpicks.
The MSD is always an issue, especially given the shield frequency codes are displayed on it. I've always felt there should be some treknobabble science invention that has the viewscreen pick ups and the MSD on opposite frequencies (or something) so what the camera (or sci-fi equivalent) picks up and beams to the other ship is basically hardwired to only show a black screen rather than the MSD. Same way some modern cars have directional diodes on the central display screen so the person in the passenger seat can watch a movie on it while the driver doesn't see anything to distract them. Basically you can see the car controls from both seats but if you put on a movie only the person in the passenger seat can see it. There are genuine reasons for the bridge crew to be able to see the overall ship information at a glance. You could also wire it up so the viewscreen doesn't project till the MSD is switched to a screen saver equivalent I suppose.
To be fair, Voyager did not use the science station because they massive upgraded. The standard equipment was not enough so they build an entire astrometric lab. And that lab was manned about every day
If im not mistaken the guy who designed the LCARS interface Michael Okuda, once said in an interview with the TNG crew that the computer system access points can be configured in whatever way that the operator wanted it to be done so. while there may be standardized layouts. each operator can configure their post to whatever layout they want. also meaning that even the computer in the lunch room could be handed helm control and so on. Starfleet ships like Voyager is not only smart but quite redundant in interface flexibility and layouts. Even tactical can take helm control and has taken it in the show. much of these points were entirely missed unless I missed it.
I have to agree that the science station was a victim of Voyager's circumstances more than anything else. If it had remained in the Alpha Quadrant, I could see that particular science missions would require a dedicated specialist supervising the mission, and that would also in turn require ready access to the Operations officer and likely the command staff as well. However, with Voyager's primary (self-assigned) mission to simply get home and take notes on the way there, they didn't have the luxury of conducting weeks or months long science missions requiring a specialist and a dedicated bridge station.
Let us see you have the captains chair and the first officers chair and that's why you have two command chairs on the bridge of Voyager , the other stations possibly had seat /stools for the Star Fleet officers to lean against or to sit on during their shifts on the bridge but they may have been damaged in the first two episodes of Star Trek Voyages during the first battles or when the caretaker brought them to the Delta section of space .
This video cleared up something for me I have wondered since the show was on the air, on the premiere episode Tom Paris and Harry Kim are in the captain's ready room they have a conversation and then they go on the bridge and Harry gapes around in awe as if he's never seen it, which made me wonder, didn't he have to get off the elevator on the bridge in order to get to the captain's ready room so he would have already have seen it? Apparently according to this video, they could have taken turbo lift 2 and then taken the hallway around the bridge in order to get to the captain's ready room through her personal secret mystery door, which I assumed led to her bathroom. But if it's a door that leads around the bridge to another elevator, that explains why Harry Kim never saw the bridge! Even though they never showed her using that door again in 7 years, which would have been awfully convenient in lots of circumstances rather than going up a flight of stairs to the bridge and then another flight to get to the elevator leve, it seems to me it would have been easier just to take her mystery door and take the hallway around the bridge and take turbolift 2. Also there may have been times that she wanted to get to her ready room without walking through the middle of the bridge. So many wonderful parts of this bridge like this mystery door, and the stations on the sides were never used and that's a shame. Extras on TV shows get paid nearly nothing, they should have thrown a few blue shirts at those stations since this is supposedly a science dedicated vessel.
I like the idea of a large central console at helm as to be a primary station when others are not in use. I don't like seeing multiple functions funneled into small consoles. Conceptually, I have a problem when important positions are staffed by low ranking officers; however I have also a problem with division of labor. When cruising along, Tactical has few responsibilities to running the ship. I know communications are often split between Tactical and Ops in the TNG era, but I prefer there to be a separate Communications officer. Voyager may not have needed one given its circumstances but most ships really do. And it's not like Voyager didn't have blueshirts that could have functioned as science officers (Samantha Wildman). I know, budgets and what not.
Thank you for going into so much detail! This really was interesting, since Voyager was a ship I didn't get the layout of too well. Also, yes, Harry deserves a promotion. I'm sure they had an extra pip lying around for him too. :D
I like that on the thumbnail, you have the arrow pointing to the doorway on the left side that we never see anyone use or come out of in all 7 seasons but because I've built this ship in 1 to 1 on Minecraft, I know that the doorway leads to a few escape pods, a small crew lounge and an airlock.
Watching this kinda makes me wanna see a short Star Trek adventure in the style of Down Periscope. Your average "hero ship" Chief Engineering Officers are already as crazy as the Stingray's crew...
I have this bridge on my main characters ship the kitbash vesta U.S.S. Capitoline. Also a nice nod also, I swear i hear some Mass Effect music in there, reminds me of the galaxy map music, i could be mistaken but well, it brought a smile to my face, from one exploring franchise to another
It follows in the footsteps of Galaxy class having a very spacious bridge. What surprised me is that as small as Voyager is, it has a dedicated XO. A galaxy class sure.the second in command job is huge on that ship. There are only 150 or so crew members. That's 50 crew members on the whole ship per workshift.
Great video. I'm lucky enough to have a piece of the voyager bridge LCARS panels that were sold as part of the Okuda collection a while back. Great to get a better idea of what it actually did. It was to the left of the MSD on the lower panels. Referred to as an engineering panel in the auction information if I remember correctly.
Tjere really aren't any in TOS, But 24th century Fed ships innovated the Standing Desk. I suppose the Transporter Controlls in TOS is a Standing Desk. But half of the Bridge Posts are on the Enterprise D, and even more on Voyager.
An awesome breakdown of the Intrepid-class bridge pal! I'm utilising this class of ship in a Star Trek Adventures campaign writing / planning at the minute, as it's my favourite ship type, so I'm soaking up absolutely everything I can about the Intrepid-class 😁
Cosmetically I like the Galaxy the best. Simpler, cleaner lines, with a rounded and organic feel. Not as harsh and angular as most bridges. Another thing I would change is to steal the area at the back of the bridge from the Defiant. I would still have a dedicated briefing room, but it would be nice to have a medium sized meeting area at the back. I would not make it a sit-down table like a standard briefing room, but it would have a display table in the center and several terminals on the walls. Other than those two changes, I think Voyager is the best design. I like the 3 (or 4) level system of voyager, where the captains chair is mid-way between the front pilot station and the rear operations and security stations. I also like how Voyager has the stations wrap around so the occupants can face toward the center/front of the bridge (unlike the Galaxy where the rear stations all looked at a wall). And while CIG didn't like the science station, I would still include something like it.
I suppose the science station still exists for specialised tasks (in non-Voyager circumstances), so not to overwhelm the Ops station which is more concerned with 'daily operations' aboard the Intrepid class? I would've guessed there to be more coffee mugs though.
For a ship that was built primarily and specifically for scientific exploration and research, you would think that the Science Station would have been one of the primary stations, with Ops or tactical being in one of the Cubbies on the side of the bridge, like B'Lanna's, rarely used or seen, or Chekhov's was in the motion picture. Also, for a ship primarily built for science, there was always a shocking lack of blue shirts on the bridge, or on the show in general. Other than the doctor, you saw almost no blue shirt anywhere on the ship which is pretty surprising. Being lost in an unknown and uncharted part of space, you'd think having scientists on the bridge would be important.
@Jack_Stafford1 Good points, though I would like to note that captain Janeway herself had a scientific background, so maybe that might explain the lack of a scientific officer?
@AberrantChibi I suppose you could do double duty as a science officer like Spock was both a science officer and first officer, I wish they had specifically explained that on the show, and still think there should be blue shirts roaming around more often but that is an interesting idea.
Not to take away from this otherwise awesomely informative video, I love all the tidbits of info otherwise not explained, but DanielBrainbox has an awesome self built (WIP) build of USS Voyager, including interpretations of unseen areas of the ship
The only problem I have with this bridge is that the captain's chair isn't adjustable at all. I'd need to fix that. But even with that, it's my favorite ship.
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Tuvok had to stand at his station for seven years because his station chair broke down in the first Caretaker episode, and no one ever told him.
they have unlimited torpedo, and built a hotrod roundabout from scratch.. but a chair? 😂
@lemonte9807 It would be illogical to complain about a "Comfort" device missing from the station.
@marcrasmexactly.. tuvok be like.. I have two leg's so it would be illogical to sit. 😂
The tactical station on the Galaxy class doesn't have a chair either.
Probably because he went from Lt commander to lieutenant, back to Lt commander.
I have copies of the original production used VOY bridge set blueprints - it took 29 sheets to describe the bridge fully. I have them up on my online archive "Set Blueprint Archive"
A treasure trove! SO many great things I've never seen.
❤. I'm also a datahoarder & archiver of Star Trek material, to hopefully preserve it for current and future fans.
Do you provide an option to save the archive as a single download?
@Bruh-zx2mc Unfortunately not at the moment - the server provider has a max limit on how large a single file can be. I've tried zipping single folders, but that too also breaches the limits.
So you could say: “I have all the specs and diagrams at home.”
Bonus for having such a long helm station. You can break a second chair out of the storage locker and split the work load across two officers.
I vaguely remember something from years (decades) ago there was supposed to be a second con chair tucked away on the port most side of the con station ( the rail it rode one wrapping around instead of a simple arc , but it either got left out in the pilot, or was removed because it looked odd in pre production
But then Tom cant slide to the other side in a cool way :(
I didn't know the blue pillars were gel pack status before. Please can you do the Sovereign class bridge next?
And it only took how many years to get that answer. 😂
Voyager was the last Federation ship before the revolution in internal bridge lighting. Which allowed the crew to apparently not sprain their ankles on steps they didn't see.
Starfleet had developed advanced rote muscle memory training, so that every member would instinctully know the details of the complicated teir design, and thus not put a foot wrong.
Except for the first officer in the pilot, who, when told to brace, immediately forgot he was standing right next to a railing and decided now was the right time to leap across the entire room to grab onto the far end of the helm console.
The crew are handling more stations per person because there are far fewer crew on the smaller ship but the same number of systems.
That why voyager had neural gel packs integrated into the computer systems, lots of things are automated.. I mean this video even says that.
I've ALWAYS loved the Intrepid class bridge and of course the Equinox bridge. However yeah the Intrepid class honestly has been my favorite 24th Century Starfleet bridge.
The only thing I did find it annoying was how small the view screen was compared to the size of the bridge itself. I also did find it odd that the Conn station was so huge. Poor Tom having to slide back and forth to operate the station himself lol.
I honestly was wondering what those blue areas on the sides of the Tactical and Operations stations were. Nice to hear/see what they really were.
Yeah I agree Harry should have been promoted to Lieutenant around season 5 maybe 6 of the series.
I absolutely love the Intrepid/Voyager bridge, which is why I've used it on so many of my various starships on STO.
same
My first Star Trek and my favorite ship with the moving nacelles like modern day, aircraft carrier planes, and the fact that she is atmosphere rated and can actually land on a planet is always a cool feature
The underutilized science station also could be for guest scientists and such. The class being designed for zipping to and from the edges of the Federations ever growing space. As you stated Voyager not in the habit of picking up guest scientists for long missions adding more time to their journey.
Always one of my favorite Bridges probably in the favorite bridge of mine.
In re: point 2, the out-of-universe reason for two seats is that it reflects the tense equality between Janeway and Chakotay in his capacity as leader of the Maquis crew, especially early in the run.
I’d also say that the relative lack of bridge science stations is indicative of the idea that Janeway is functionally her own science officer up until season 4, when that role largely shifts to Seven. Which is when the astrometrics lab gets built!
5:35 keep in mind when the ship was built, Astrometric’s wasn’t a thing until Seven showed up.
That's a good point
They converted an ops station that already existed within voyager, upgraded its capabilities. The sensors were designed by seven and harry not the room and its purpose.
The Voyager Bridge overall was by far the most cinematic of any of the TV bridges. There's just one serious flaw, the stairs.
For the captain to get off the elevator into her chair, she has to go down two or three steps and then go back up one or two steps to get to her chair. There is a railing right in front of the elevator that blocks her from walking directly from the elevator going down one or two steps and being right next to her chair, those railings don't do anything they just block access and force people to go down two or three stops and then back up a step for absolutely no reason.
It was kind of funny in the first couple of seasons to watch her stomping in her little boots with her hair bun bouncing up and down the steps every time she had to go on the bridge.
And of course to get to her ready room, down a step or two and then down a few more to get to her ready room level.
And poor Tom paris, he has to come off the elevator go down two or three steps, go back up one step, walk to the front of that platform and then walk back down two or three steps to finally get into his pit.
I know why this was done, to stagger the actors in a way that they all are facing forward and can be seen from a front-facing shot which ended up almost never was used, but really that command platform should have been all on one level so that once the captain went down a couple of stairs she was on the same level as her chair, like when Picard went down that ramp he was on the level of his chair.
To have her go back up a step just is a silly design flaw and like I said, those two little railings that don't really do anything and aren't even connected to the main railing would have been the first thing that I ripped out if I was the captain.
Since they are separate pieces and not connected to that main railing, I've often wondered if they were a late addition since they really seem random, added on and in the way.
They're literally are a couple of scenes where she places or hand on it that she goes down a stepping them back up a couple of steps practically pointing to them being in the way and uselessness.
But I love the color scheme, I love the lighting they used, I like the Cubbies that everybody has to work in but it is too bad that even though they built those expensive side Cubbies for engineering and whatever that they almost never got used, once in a blue moon you would see B'lanna over there in her workspace but it seems like once they established a shot that showed the captain with Tuvok behind her and the other direction with Harry Kim behind her that they locked those positions down and very rarely ever showed any other angle of the bridge, showing those hidden workspaces that I just referenced and often completely eliminating Tom Paris from the picture, but all of that aside, this bridge is far superior than the one they built for the Enterprise E which is even worse, it is a random Maze of useless railings and pointy consoles sticking out in the pathways to walk between them, not ideal when a ship is getting rocked by photon torpedoes.
And on a ship supposedly made specifically for battle.
I even think the Voyager bridge is superior to the Enterprise D Bridge also, although it is beautifully architectural, turn out to be an awful lot of open space that was never used, they never had enough people back at the science stations and for a ship that was primarily built for scientific exploration, they're almost never were any blue shirts on the bridge, even data who probably should have been in a blue shirt. The only one we ever got was counselor Troi when they finally started making her wear a uniform, other than that there were no other blue shirts on the bridge hardly ever unless doctor Crusher came to visit.
Now, explain why when the ship takes damage rocks fall...
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They're called Cordry rocks, which were pebble-like objects installed in Starfleet vessels, essential since their non-centrosymmetry disrupted the charge leptons in the isolinear pathways of the main deflector. (Memory Alpha)
@antarfodoh So far deep in Trek lore that I have no idea whether this is a bit or if this is actual lore
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@Aragorn7884Memory Alpha is considered the official Star Trek canon, and it was referenced directly in an episode.
I just learned about the Across the Unknown game yesterday. It looks really cool and I have seen no advertising for it.
Voyager, a "science" ship without a Science Officer and a bridge science station that was used in exactly two episodes.
Every Federation ship apparently is a "science and exploration" vessel which gets annoying after a while. Where are the freighters, warships, transports`?
@Rudeljaegeroffscreen, it's a boring life for them I guess
@Rudeljaegerthe federation officially doesn't believe in war ships. Also episodes have featured freighters and transports but why would anyone want to make a series focused about that?
the promotion of Kim is always worth to mention
At least we now know he made Admiral eventually.
What promotion? 😂
Harry never got promoted because he never found his groove. He would have had to specialize in something but never did.
I prefer Harry as a Forever Ensign.
In lower decks, there was a Kim from another universe who got promoted. He nearly destroyed the entire multiverse.
The more you think about it, the one reason the Intrepid Class was never mass produced was not just because of the Dominion War (it contributed) but it required the best and brightest to bring the most out of the ship class (best Chief Engineer, best Security officer, best Ops, and HOLY CRAP do you need the best pilot you can to run that one station).
Voyaget crew is unexpectedly the GOAT of Starfleet to pull off their successes.
I think the coolest thing about Voyager is that you could access most any station from any station to be always made sense that this way any bridge officer/crew could ascertain anything at a glance
Actually my first choice of a class of ship to serve on. It's nice, capable, about the size of crew where you can know everyone but not too quickly or too much, mission variety, all that. Always did think the captain's chair should be at least somewhat more centered, though: kind of a big distance from the XO there.
3:52 not for Captain proton
On the original show, there was a two-person console because it was held in navigation that worked hand-in-hand. It was strange in Next Generation that they had the Ops station in that place instead of on the back wall where it belongs, and also strange on Enterprise that even early in its history while they still are sharting space that they didn't have that dedicated navigation position alongside the helm.
In Voyager it would have made for better TV to have Tom and Harry sitting side-by-side in a navigation Ops configuration where they could have discussions and plot happen between them, and where opiates used to be should really be the science station, which should occupy a prominent place on a ship which was built primarily and specifically for deep space scientific research, but this show always had a shocking lack of blue shirts considering its scientific mission. And also being lost in unknown and Uncharted space, scientists on the bridge would be pretty important.
My reason as to why Harry Kim never got promoted - He kept getting killed, switched or infected every month or so, and each time that happens, Janeway restarts a timer. If the timer reaches zero, Harry gets a promotion, but with Borg, Kazon, Species 8472 and the like floating about, he just never catches a break xD
You'd think being a science vessel the science station would be larger and have more crew assigned to it each shift, or at least the potential to have more crew operating it. Ditto with the engineering station opposite, which in many ways, should have been used for more sciencey stuff for the most part, until an engineer was needed to use one of its consoles
I love that the helm is so long it needs a chair on a rail to operate. Meaning during a battle when the ship is at red alert, the pilot, who has no seatbelt, is likely to be thrown out of their seat and have to spend the rest of the fight flying the ship on the floor in the dark while their chair is hitting them every time it slides back and forth.
I love all the sharp corners. Safety was obviously a priority in this bridge design 🤨
Finally a ship that needs a navigator and a counsellor and a school and an aberitum and they left all that stuff behind
4:10 I never realized how much the blue lights on the pillar looked like a diagram of Annorak’s time ship. Pretty cool
I'm almost surprised Harry ever got promoted. "Acting Captain Kim" has a nice ring to it.
Star Trek online made bridges huge, it always felt super weird
The con on at least Constitution class ships were Pilot on the left and Navigator on the right.
Voyagers bridge is one of the best Star Trek is so clean and modern. I love it.
You know, I don't recall ever seeing them use that science station on the side of the bridge even once throughout the whole show.
I belive B'Elanna worked there in the episode One Small Step
We hear from Alpha Quadrant Janeway in the fractured time episode (I forgot the actual name) when built, the ship didn't have an Astrometric Lab. That space became equipped once mapping home became a priority. I Imagine other science tasks also got offloaded from the general purpose bridge station into dedicated labs when their constant use distracted from standard bridge activity
I wonder what happened to the Stellar Cartography department once they had Astrometrics and Seven took it over? We know Voyager had one as the Delaney Sisters were part of it, but we never seen any blueshirts working with Seven.
@mb2000 also they (janeway and chakotay) mention Quinn joining the department just before Q helps him kill himself
it was revealed that in TNG, Picard was unique in having his ships counselor on the bridge but he did so because she was a Betazoid and her deeply empathic sensing of emotions made it easier to help deal with aliens on a first contact situation such as the Tamarian race in the famous "Darmok" Season 5 episode 2. Despite being unable to understand the Tamarians, Diana helped by sensing some of their intent via emotions. Usually only One seat was alone on most ships but in smaller ships there was usually two, one for the captain and one for the first officer unless like Mr Spock, the first officer had a secondary role on the bridge i.e. science officer or weapons or even pilot such as Commander Pike has done with his "Number One" on both "Discovery" and "Strange New World"
Remember when the Captain says
" Brace for impact "
don't run half way around the bridge.
Tom and Harry had the hardest jobs on the bridge. Harry had to handle almost all aspects of ship operations, and Tom's station was so huge he needed a sliding chair to reach everything. If Voyager hadn't been so heavily automated, the crew would have had real problems being so few in number.
The science console would have seen more use in a standard Intrepid class ship, one with a full crew compliment and dedicated science officer. Much of Voyager's bridge consoles were rerouted to different stations to make it easier for limited crew to still complete all necessary tasks. Additionally, dedicated science facilities such as the Astrometrics Lab were not in the original designs and were built later by the crew to facilitate their journey home.
According to early references, the position to the right of the helm was the ship's navigator. The Ops position wasn't a thing until TNG.
Imagine if that time fractured Voyager somehow returned to Starfleet and they started developing a technology that kept different sections of the ship in different time streams, and only the crew could cross thru them.
That science station was not a design flaw. They lost a huge amount of crew when caretaker happened, so they were under-manned even with Chakotay's crew.
The main design flaw of the bridge was literally putting a schematic of the friggin' ship behind the captain, so anyone they were chatting with, friend or foe, had full info on the placement of critical systems.
Voyagers is my favorite bridge while i liked the enterprise D, E and the defiant bridges, voyagers just always stood out to me
If memory serves there was a pc program that allowed you to walk around all the Star Trek ships and press butting etc I think it was called captains chair I had it was brilliant.
The number of times I had done self destruct and fired torpedos etc
Star Trek: Captain's Chair" is a vintage, interactive PC CD-ROM program released in 1995/1997 that provides a 360-degree virtual tour of five different Federation starship bridges.
Key Features of the Software:
Virtual Tours: Covers the bridges from The Original Series (USS Enterprise), The Next Generation (Enterprise-D, Enterprise-E), Deep Space Nine (USS Defiant), and Voyager (USS Voyager).
Interactive Elements: Users can click on various consoles, phasers, and PADDs to view them in detail.
Guided Tours: Includes commentary from bridge officers such as Captain Sulu, Lt. Commander Worf, Commander Riker, Captain Sisko, and Captain Janeway.
Compatibility: Designed for Windows 95/98 and Mac, it is often run on modern machines using emulation software like DOSBox-X.
I always imagined that the larger stations were partly due to the smaller crew complement, so more central control and oversight would be needed.
I did see a version with three chairs, and always quite liked the idea of the ship's counselor being a standard fixture.
Honestly I never understood why the counselor was needed on the bridge at all. Especially as the TNG one wasn't even qualified for bridge command until years into their mission. I've always felt the three chairs are best used for XO, Captain, Science Officer then vary as needed since they're generally not going to be on the bridge at the same time. XO's chair can be used for anyone acting as a secondary aid to the officer of the day and the third chair can cycle out to important visitors like commodore's or admirals if you don't have a dedicated admirals quarters or short term advisors e.g. a local dignitary. Then again I also feel any position intended to be manned on most shifts should have a chair, and somewhere for crew to eat without leaving the bridge.
Its why with a little modification the star trek online Yorktown bridge would be my ideal one for a larger ship. In the center is the command chairs (3) and in front of them you have conn and tactical 1 with the viewscreen. On an arch behind the command chairs is tactical 2 with a weapons locker under it. Behind tactical 2 are two seated stations facing away from the viewscreen which I would have as operations (focused on internal affairs and near the XO's chair) and engineering 1 (focused on the ship rather than what's happening outside). On the other side of the arch for operations and engineering 1 are four more configurable consoles. I'd add chairs and have them a engineering 2, science 1 and 2, communications (communications on the right, science 1 and 2 centrally located either side of an aisle and engineering 2 on the left. This allows the communciations and operations officers to talk easily same with engineering 1 and 2 while science 1 and 2 have a clear view of the main viewscreen).
Starting at the front left of the ring around the command area and moving clockwise you have the head, an open area where I'd put a table and chairs for bridge crew to eat their lunch at so they're ready to dash back to stations if needed and have a nice view out the forward viewport then the emergency turbolift to the battlebridge. Numerous lockers with various emergency supplies. Two configurable consoles. A turbolift, captain's ready room, bridge replicator and dinning equipment. More storage lockers. The access to the auxillary area. A configurable console probably normally set to mission operations. Two more configurable consoles and the master system display, one would probably be set to life support and the other to propulsion. Another configurable console probably security. Door to the auxillary area opposite the other one. Storage lockers. Doorway to a short corridor leading to the conference/briefing room, a turbolift and two more configurable consoles probably computer core access, the ships library and emergency control. Lockers and back to the head.
The auxillary area located behind the main bridge would have a bridge teleporter, emergency escape pods, aft airlock, the conference room turbolift to access the conference room without going through the bridge and of course jeffries tubes and other ship related systems.
I agree that its a small ship but has all the bells and whistles of a large ship. I think Voyager must have lost a lot of trained people int the transition to the Delta Quadrant. There just arent going to be people at every station during every shift Voyagers bridge might actually be busier that the average ship.
@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh It is cannon that the CMO, XO, Chief Engineer at least all died along with a lot more general crew.
Janeway already knew that she was insane, so she didn't want a counselor anywhere near her. She barely even listened to Chakotay!
I built a model of Voyager. It had 165 decals. I used about 150 of them. It was a good build.
I have to admit myself that voyagers bridge is my fav ! Imagine how it would look with the modern view screen 😎
7 of 9 used the science station almost exclusively during the third half of voyager's adventure. she accessed Stellar cartography by extension.
Voyager was is my favourite ship thank you for this walk around. I never knew the blue panels were for bioneural network. Also I don’t think I appreciated just how much Tom and Harry did from their stations. I think it was mentioned once that Harry was lucky to get such a position straight out the academy which makes more sense now considering how much was managed from that station and poor Tom needed a sliding chair just to view all the panels.
My favorite (and IMHO) best bridge design. I'd follow it closely with ENTs one, as a early functional & utilitarian form.
The most unbelievable aspect of Star Trek is the size of the ship's bridges. As far as I know there is no bridge of a major vessel in existence anywhere near those sizes of the federation ships. I get it, they made all the room so the camera crew can move around to get more different angle shots and somehow nobody ever questions the complete waste of unused space on a federation ships bridge. A more believable control bridge of a vessel would be the Nostromo from Alien. Most all the space is cramped.
The two chairs thing is definitely an old thing from the Apollo/shuttle programs where the pilot sat in the left chair and the Commander sat in the right chair
It was the coziest bridge somewhere you just wanted to stay all day. Thats the problem with modern trek they havent got the design logic of wanting a space like that where it feels cozy and lovable rather than stark with loads of lights and colours.
2:12 the center console was placed too far back so they both have to twist themselves around to use it.
Don't forget the astrometrics lab did not exist when the ship was originally built. The science station would have become redundant after they added that on but there were still times when they had to shut it down due to how much power it uses.
I live that on TNG from the screens POV shot you can see everyone, its kind of like a band with worf being the drummer on a rising platform. On voyager people Janeway is blocked by paris, tuvok and kim are half of screen (standard def) with a lot of railing and consoles in front of them, and B'Lana is completly off screen. Infact you dont get a sense of where B'Lana is in the room.
I always liked the bridge for Voyager as it just felt more practical than something like the Galaxy bridge. The MSD being a backdrop for any visual comms always seemed less than ideal and the dual command chairs never quite sat right with me, but they were small nitpicks.
The MSD is always an issue, especially given the shield frequency codes are displayed on it. I've always felt there should be some treknobabble science invention that has the viewscreen pick ups and the MSD on opposite frequencies (or something) so what the camera (or sci-fi equivalent) picks up and beams to the other ship is basically hardwired to only show a black screen rather than the MSD. Same way some modern cars have directional diodes on the central display screen so the person in the passenger seat can watch a movie on it while the driver doesn't see anything to distract them. Basically you can see the car controls from both seats but if you put on a movie only the person in the passenger seat can see it. There are genuine reasons for the bridge crew to be able to see the overall ship information at a glance. You could also wire it up so the viewscreen doesn't project till the MSD is switched to a screen saver equivalent I suppose.
To be fair, Voyager did not use the science station because they massive upgraded.
The standard equipment was not enough so they build an entire astrometric lab. And that lab was manned about every day
Voy's my favorite ship. Could use a few line revisions for sleekness and an Ent-D color scheme, but I love this ship.
If im not mistaken the guy who designed the LCARS interface Michael Okuda, once said in an interview with the TNG crew that the computer system access points can be configured in whatever way that the operator wanted it to be done so. while there may be standardized layouts. each operator can configure their post to whatever layout they want.
also meaning that even the computer in the lunch room could be handed helm control and so on. Starfleet ships like Voyager is not only smart but quite redundant in interface flexibility and layouts. Even tactical can take helm control and has taken it in the show. much of these points were entirely missed unless I missed it.
Man I wish we could get another Bridge crew game, but with a full campaign and free mode.
I have to agree that the science station was a victim of Voyager's circumstances more than anything else. If it had remained in the Alpha Quadrant, I could see that particular science missions would require a dedicated specialist supervising the mission, and that would also in turn require ready access to the Operations officer and likely the command staff as well. However, with Voyager's primary (self-assigned) mission to simply get home and take notes on the way there, they didn't have the luxury of conducting weeks or months long science missions requiring a specialist and a dedicated bridge station.
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The science station always felt like a long term deep analysis station to relay information to the bridge
Let us see you have the captains chair and the first officers chair and that's why you have two command chairs on the bridge of Voyager , the other stations possibly had seat /stools for the Star Fleet officers to lean against or to sit on during their shifts on the bridge but they may have been damaged in the first two episodes of Star Trek Voyages during the first battles or when the caretaker brought them to the Delta section of space .
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This video cleared up something for me I have wondered since the show was on the air, on the premiere episode Tom Paris and Harry Kim are in the captain's ready room they have a conversation and then they go on the bridge and Harry gapes around in awe as if he's never seen it, which made me wonder, didn't he have to get off the elevator on the bridge in order to get to the captain's ready room so he would have already have seen it?
Apparently according to this video, they could have taken turbo lift 2 and then taken the hallway around the bridge in order to get to the captain's ready room through her personal secret mystery door, which I assumed led to her bathroom.
But if it's a door that leads around the bridge to another elevator, that explains why Harry Kim never saw the bridge!
Even though they never showed her using that door again in 7 years, which would have been awfully convenient in lots of circumstances rather than going up a flight of stairs to the bridge and then another flight to get to the elevator leve, it seems to me it would have been easier just to take her mystery door and take the hallway around the bridge and take turbolift 2.
Also there may have been times that she wanted to get to her ready room without walking through the middle of the bridge.
So many wonderful parts of this bridge like this mystery door, and the stations on the sides were never used and that's a shame.
Extras on TV shows get paid nearly nothing, they should have thrown a few blue shirts at those stations since this is supposedly a science dedicated vessel.
There was a Third Seat, but since Neelix kept sitting there and not leaving... they quietly made the chair disappear!
I like the idea of a large central console at helm as to be a primary station when others are not in use. I don't like seeing multiple functions funneled into small consoles. Conceptually, I have a problem when important positions are staffed by low ranking officers; however I have also a problem with division of labor. When cruising along, Tactical has few responsibilities to running the ship. I know communications are often split between Tactical and Ops in the TNG era, but I prefer there to be a separate Communications officer. Voyager may not have needed one given its circumstances but most ships really do. And it's not like Voyager didn't have blueshirts that could have functioned as science officers (Samantha Wildman). I know, budgets and what not.
Thank you for going into so much detail! This really was interesting, since Voyager was a ship I didn't get the layout of too well. Also, yes, Harry deserves a promotion. I'm sure they had an extra pip lying around for him too. :D
I like that on the thumbnail, you have the arrow pointing to the doorway on the left side that we never see anyone use or come out of in all 7 seasons but because I've built this ship in 1 to 1 on Minecraft, I know that the doorway leads to a few escape pods, a small crew lounge and an airlock.
Watching this kinda makes me wanna see a short Star Trek adventure in the style of Down Periscope. Your average "hero ship" Chief Engineering Officers are already as crazy as the Stingray's crew...
I have this bridge on my main characters ship the kitbash vesta U.S.S. Capitoline.
Also a nice nod also, I swear i hear some Mass Effect music in there, reminds me of the galaxy map music, i could be mistaken but well, it brought a smile to my face, from one exploring franchise to another
It follows in the footsteps of Galaxy class having a very spacious bridge. What surprised me is that as small as Voyager is, it has a dedicated XO. A galaxy class sure.the second in command job is huge on that ship. There are only 150 or so crew members. That's 50 crew members on the whole ship per workshift.
Great video. I'm lucky enough to have a piece of the voyager bridge LCARS panels that were sold as part of the Okuda collection a while back. Great to get a better idea of what it actually did. It was to the left of the MSD on the lower panels. Referred to as an engineering panel in the auction information if I remember correctly.
Tjere really aren't any in TOS, But 24th century Fed ships innovated the Standing Desk.
I suppose the Transporter Controlls in TOS is a Standing Desk.
But half of the Bridge Posts are on the Enterprise D, and even more on Voyager.
My favorite Trek TV series bridge the engineering department is my favorite too.
It’s so saddening that even the small details make more sense than anything in starfleed academy
Towards the rear of the bridge is the duty station of the Eternal Ensign
An awesome breakdown of the Intrepid-class bridge pal!
I'm utilising this class of ship in a Star Trek Adventures campaign writing / planning at the minute, as it's my favourite ship type, so I'm soaking up absolutely everything I can about the Intrepid-class 😁
Cosmetically I like the Galaxy the best. Simpler, cleaner lines, with a rounded and organic feel. Not as harsh and angular as most bridges.
Another thing I would change is to steal the area at the back of the bridge from the Defiant. I would still have a dedicated briefing room, but it would be nice to have a medium sized meeting area at the back. I would not make it a sit-down table like a standard briefing room, but it would have a display table in the center and several terminals on the walls.
Other than those two changes, I think Voyager is the best design. I like the 3 (or 4) level system of voyager, where the captains chair is mid-way between the front pilot station and the rear operations and security stations. I also like how Voyager has the stations wrap around so the occupants can face toward the center/front of the bridge (unlike the Galaxy where the rear stations all looked at a wall). And while CIG didn't like the science station, I would still include something like it.
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I suppose the science station still exists for specialised tasks (in non-Voyager circumstances), so not to overwhelm the Ops station which is more concerned with 'daily operations' aboard the Intrepid class?
I would've guessed there to be more coffee mugs though.
For a ship that was built primarily and specifically for scientific exploration and research, you would think that the Science Station would have been one of the primary stations, with Ops or tactical being in one of the Cubbies on the side of the bridge, like B'Lanna's, rarely used or seen, or Chekhov's was in the motion picture.
Also, for a ship primarily built for science, there was always a shocking lack of blue shirts on the bridge, or on the show in general.
Other than the doctor, you saw almost no blue shirt anywhere on the ship which is pretty surprising.
Being lost in an unknown and uncharted part of space, you'd think having scientists on the bridge would be important.
@Jack_Stafford1 Good points, though I would like to note that captain Janeway herself had a scientific background, so maybe that might explain the lack of a scientific officer?
@AberrantChibi I suppose you could do double duty as a science officer like Spock was both a science officer and first officer, I wish they had specifically explained that on the show, and still think there should be blue shirts roaming around more often but that is an interesting idea.
Operations officer did most of the work, got none of the promotions.
That was awesome! Very detailed and makes me want to go watch Voyager again :) Thanks for the great video.
Rick thank you for making this.
Very comprehensive tour. Thanks. Always look forward to your videos.🖖👍
Voyager is my fav star trek tv show and i like the ships layout and the bridge. Its all so difrent and the color scheme is a lot more difrent.
Those office chairs. Not bolted down, no lumbar support.
Not to take away from this otherwise awesomely informative video, I love all the tidbits of info otherwise not explained, but DanielBrainbox has an awesome self built (WIP) build of USS Voyager, including interpretations of unseen areas of the ship
The only problem I have with this bridge is that the captain's chair isn't adjustable at all. I'd need to fix that. But even with that, it's my favorite ship.
I really enjoyed this! Would definitely like to see more bridge breakdowns in the future.
In Star Trek Online, we see that Harry Kim did eventually get promoted. This is a subtle nod to the fact that STO is not canon
I am now prepared to play the new Voyager game.
Always a favourite bridge of mine
I LOVE THE DETAILED SHIP VIDEOS LIKE THIS A TRUE voyager walkthrough an enjoyable experience
If I had to spend years and years trapped on a starship it would be this one, or Enterprise D. Imagine if it had been Defiant.
Voyager's bridge is my favorite.
Cool! More bridge lore!