This new Star Trek website lets you explore the bridge of every major iteration of the Enterprise

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First reported by the Smithsonian Magazine(opens in new tab), the Roddenberry Estate and Archive have collaborated with tech company OTOY to create a website with interactable, Google maps-style recreations of the various starships Enterprise from over the years(opens in new tab), with some more obscure or one-off iterations just getting an external view and brief history summary.

Loading in, I immediately loved how the entire site is mocked up to look like an in-universe computer with that distinctive, midcentury Trek look of swooping, colorful blocks on a black background. Down below, you get a scrolling timeline of the starships Enterprise, beginning with the XCV-330 and ending with the unseen, but apparently canon «32nd Century» Enterprise briefly hinted at in an episode of Discovery.

The historical blurbs for each ship include in-universe notes, but I'm especially digging the real-life production background. The section on Next Gen's Enterprise D, for example, explains how the series initially had a set amount of footage of larger models built by the legendary special effects house, Industrial Light & Magic. That footage was used for establishing shots throughout the early seasons of Next Gen, before a smaller model was later commissioned for new footage later on.

The real showstopper though is those digital recreations of the various bridges. It's honestly a thrill to see the evolution of Star Trek's visual language in such a condensed form, but the sleek, sparse sets of the early seasons and movies are still the winners in my book. For a single favorite, I gotta go with the Enterprise XCV-330, an early production concept for The Original Series later repurposed as a «historical» Enterprise in Star Trek's lore. Its