This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it’ll be beyond words.
There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.
Here’s the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations (“The Cage”, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.
This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode “In Thy Image” was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it’s legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!
The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there’s even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.
Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in “Broken Bow”
Recognise this? It’s the briefing room of Discovery season 2’s version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the “real” ship, here it’s off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.
I wasn’t expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike’s Ready Room located just off the bridge.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They’ve even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.
The Enterprise-C bridge from “Yesterday’s Enterprise”. This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set’s back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG’s immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set’s real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.
You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don’t have their screens lit (hopefully this’ll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it’s shiny and amazing.
The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it’s here. And the lights are on.
Other bridges available to explore which I’m out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series “Starship”), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the “launch” U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!
Take a bow lads, you’ve done good. Now just add VR support!
There is good news and 2 bits of bad news. First bit of bad news: The site is down for now while they overhaul it and add new content.
The good news is…
THE DS9 PROMENADE IS COMING!!!! Along with the season 4 NX-01, the TNG battle bridge and lots more of the TMP Enterprise, as well as more concept art.
Now the second bit of bad news. The Roddenberry Archive will return “later in the year” with no fixed date, and no confirmation of VR support😣
But when it’s back, it will be awesome.
IT’S BACK EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND GO TO RODDENBERRY.X.IO
Now featuring explorable environments of…
DS9 (the promenade)
The Defiant
Voyager
Cerritos (cell shaded!)
Saratoga
Excelsior
Bozeman (which is a weird layout indeed!)
Grissom
Reliant
Enterprise from Star Trek Beyond (not the -A, though)
Variations of the Enterprise-D, as well as multiple decks including engineering, Ten Forward and the transporter room!
The Strange New Worlds Enterprise bridge, along with transporter room, Pike’s quarters, Spock’s quarters (they live next door!) and the transporter room
The TOS Enterprise has almost all the sets from the TV show too!
…available to see🥺
The bad news is that VR support isn’t coming. Apparently even on the highest-end systems they couldn’t get it to work with a decent framerate. But otherwise, this is amazing. Enjoy it before it vanishes again!!!
Thank you, Roddenberry Archive for making me feel like a kid again🖖
