[Star Trek Viewer]

I found an interesting reference to concept art developed for the bridge of the USS Voyager which is reminiscent of the viewscreen for the new Enterprise. The proposed layout is in a drawing which may be seen by navigating to the Forgotten Trek webpage whose URL is provided below and clicking on the first image on the right. Like the design in the proposal, the new Enterprise's viewscreen is curved and almost "wrap-around." It's not clear to me whether the Voyager concept was supposed to be a physical window, but it does look like it.

See:

http://www.ottens.co.uk/forgottentrek/ds9_6.php

[Samuel]

Big window.

[Airborne Stormtrooper]

I like the new viewer. Kind of a window, with projection. That works. Better situational awareness.

Now we can see the shipping coming about before the opposing commander threatens to blow you out of the stars.

[Akula2ssn]

Originally Posted by Airborne Stormtrooper

I like the new viewer. Kind of a window, with projection. That works. Better situational awareness.

Now we can see the shipping coming about before the opposing commander threatens to blow you out of the stars.

Yeah, it's basically a giant head up display. While I understand the reason Matt Jefferies designed the bridge so that the captain could just turn to see each station, but honestly, you'd need to be fairly farsighted to read those those screens from the captain's chair. By turning the main view screen into a giant heads up display, you can put all major information right there for the captain to see.

[Samuel]

Originally Posted by Akula2ssn

Yeah, it's basically a giant head up display. While I understand the reason Matt Jefferies designed the bridge so that the captain could just turn to see each station, but honestly, you'd need to be fairly farsighted to read those those screens from the captain's chair. By turning the main view screen into a giant heads up display, you can put all major information right there for the captain to see.

Dont you know? With technology everyone has perfect vision in the future.

[Akula2ssn]

Originally Posted by Samuel

Dont you know? With technology everyone has perfect vision in the future.

Heh. Laser surgery for everyone.

[Samuel]

Originally Posted by Akula2ssn

Heh. Laser surgery for everyone.

Of course. In the federation there is no money and everything is free.

[Akula2ssn]

Originally Posted by Samuel

Of course. In the federation there is no money and everything is free.

Damn...I should have waited another 2 centuries to have gotten my surgery.

[Futureguy]

Originally Posted by Samuel

Dont you know? With technology everyone has perfect vision in the future.

Remember that Kirk needed glasses in the movies...he was allergic to the treatment for his particular vision problem. Bones got him glasses for a birthday present in TWOK.

[Akula2ssn]

Originally Posted by Futureguy

Remember that Kirk needed glasses in the movies...he was allergic to the treatment for his particular vision problem. Bones got him glasses for a birthday present in TWOK.

Heh, sadly that's part of the aging process. Just as our skin wrinkles as we age, our eyes become less able to focus on nearby objects. You can still have perfect 20/20 vision, but the mechanism that allows the eye to change its focus onto something nearby gets weaker as we grow older. So yeah, even people who have perfect 20/20 vision all their lives are going to probably have reading glasses from their 40's onward or some kind of treatment. It's not that their visual acuity has gotten worse, it's the ability of the eye to change focus.