Whatever happened to...

[Rat Boy]

...the Akira-class bridge retexture that used the Excelsior-bridge as a base?  Always liked that one and can't find the screenshots from it anymore.

[Rat Boy]

Never mind, I made my own design.  Here's my take on it.



All original credit to Commander T. Weimann, who's previous works I heavily Photoshopped into this.  The basic premise is that since the Akira is a vessel that dates back to around the Nebula-class period, the bridge should look reasonably more primitive than later designs, hence the older-style consoles and chairs.  Like most Starfleet designs, it's clean rather than cluttered.  The other dictate to the design are the few close-up shots of the actual CG model's bridge module, there are two sets of a pair of windows on the forward side of deck one, more than likely the windows into the conference room and ready room.  Thus there is no aft observation lounge as in the Sovereign.  The door at the port rear of the bridge leads to the main bridge head and a second turbolift, but trying to add them in along with the remaining rooms would have consumed a lot more time than I was willing to spend with it.  I also believe that a ship the size of the Akira would have the helm and ops stations together on the forward side of the bridge rather than the one by itself like on smaller ships such as Voyager and the Defiant.  The railing I added for aesthetics.  It's rough, for sure, since it's nothing more than a bunch of cutting and pasting of elements from T. Weimann's existing work, which weren't all scaled with each other.

If one we're to model this into BC, it'd be a simple matter of using existing model elements from ships like the Nebula, Generations Galaxy, Enterprise-A, Prometheus, etc.  Like the schematic, it could be made from "spare parts."

[Rat Boy]

I made a revised version:



I've moved the science officer and chief engineer's stations (now labeled Science I and Engineering I) towards the front of the bridge.  Strangely enough, last night I dreamt I was on this bridge and was struggling to see the science officer's post through tactical, so I decided relocate both posts.  I've also renamed two auxiliary stations to Communications and Flight Operations (which manages all auxiliary spacecraft in flight) and changed the name of the third chair to "Second Officer," which aboard a ship of this sort would likely be someone in security or strategic operations.  Counselors generally don't spend a lot of time on the bridge, anyway, in my opinion unless they're empathic/telepathic or serve some other function on the ship.

[cpthooker]

can i make a suggestion, since this is a different ship, make the helm and science/tactical (which ever it is at the front into one station so that its newer and different from the previous bridge

[Rat Boy]

That boat sailed a while ago.  Totally different bridge now.

[Mark]

i sent the bridge to glenn today for new FC era lcars, it will most likely be released as a lakota refit

[cpthooker]

ok