Bridges

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:53 pm

*checks outside for the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and checks hell to see if its still warm*

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:56 pm

*Wonders why DC just got so cold?*

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:56 pm

I can't think of a better place for it to be!

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:58 pm

Maybe we should keep a record of this thread.
Just in case anyone ever says that us two are always arguing, and we can prove them wrong.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:01 pm

You think thats bad? Me and Teaos have such high post counts for a reason; nearly every thread we're both in we start arguing about something!

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:01 pm

*Throws hat at the ground*
"Damnit, i had four horses over here just a min ago, who's the joker!"

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:39 am

Teaos wrote:
Maybe it is because of tradition. Look at modern navies. All their ships have their bridges up top rather than in the ship. Maybe ship building designs just carried through. Your idea about transporters and sensors is plausable aswell.

The bridge on a modern naval vessel is in an exposed location for a reason, ease of navigation. That is not where the Captain and the combat staff are in action however, they are in the CIC. Which is in the best protected location in the ship.

*Edit: If Trek wanted to copy modern naval combat then they should have the staff remove to the battle bridge in the E-D which wouldn't be capable of seperation or the Aux Control Room in TOS.

Captain Peabody · Post by **Captain Peabody** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:50 am

Maybe it is because of tradition. Look at modern navies. All their ships have their bridges up top rather than in the ship. Maybe ship building designs just carried through. Your idea about transporters and sensors is plausable aswell.

You want the real reason? 'Cause Gene Roddenberry said so!

Beyond that, though, your guess is as good as mine...

Post by **Teaos** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:05 am

Yes it would make sense to move to a battle bridge during combat but having the normal one were it is shouldnt be a problem most of the time.

Tiberius · Post by **Tiberius** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:23 am

Having the bridge where it is makes for easy changing of the bridge module. Look at the D in generations, it got a new bridge module. And we've seen other Galaxies that have different bridge modules again.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:38 am

You wouldn't need that ease of installing a new bridge all the time if it were better protected!

Tiberius · Post by **Tiberius** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:22 am

Damage isn't the only reason for replacing a bridge. Mission specific bridges (What's the point of having lots of science stations if you are going into a big war?), or simply upgrading technogoly.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:03 am

Tiberius wrote:Damage isn't the only reason for replacing a bridge. Mission specific bridges (What's the point of having lots of science stations if you are going into a big war?), or simply upgrading technogoly.

Upgrading the technology I agree with, but not the mission specific bit - one advantage of the flat-panel consoles is that they can b reconfigured to whatever you want, as they demonstrated in DS9's "Starship Down" and Voyager's "Deadlock" when they turned engineering into a secondary bridge after the main bridge was badly damaged. You could do the same to the main bridge in wartime.

Tiberius · Post by **Tiberius** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:45 am

The bridge's interface with the rest of the ship isn't just the panels, it's the hardware behind them. And certain missions may require additional stations (such as a scientific mission requiring additional science stations) or fewer stations (such as diplomatic missions). Far better to be able to quickly and easily swap bridges instead of going off with stations doing nothing but taking up space/drawing power or needing additional stations and not needing them.

Post by **Teaos** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:57 am

At most a ship might need a new bridge once or twice in its life. You may as well go to a star base and gut the old on rather than build it on top so you can do it faster.