"Ultimate retro spaceship bridge and interior Look?" Topic

If you were designing a series of Sci-Fi gaming rooms to serve as the inside of a space ship what film, artwork or TV series had that ultimate retro-cool look?

More interested in the Bright, and a bit korny, Raygun Gothic era from about 1920s-1985; not the more recent dark, realistic era.

These suggestions are for the good guys but evil space ship interiors can be added for extra credit.

Look at Pre-WW-II Aircraft cockpits and Small vessel bridges.

Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon too

Perhaps 50-60s movie spaceship interiors? Or Japanese spaceships from the similar time frame. They were big on flashing lights

A mix of Quark & Red Dwarf… ;-)

1930s Flash Gordon with door handles on the outside of the space ships!

Tally Ho!

You mean other than this one?

How about the C57-D Cruiser from Forbidden Planet?

Or, from Flash Gordon 1980:

Or the original Flash Gordon series:

Depends on the size of ship. For a small one--say up to half a dozen crew--I'd look at Fireball XL-5 and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. For a serious warship, go with Classic Enterprise, with maybe a touch of BSG 1978.

But how exactly did you decide that badly-lit, grimy and poorly-maintained is "more realistic?"

Here's a good one for controls, from the Star Trek Voyager episodes featuring the retro-rip-off Holodeck series "The Adventures of Captain Proton!"

And this one is from an early Buck Rogers comic book:

Didn't they make a Star Trek Bridge model at one time? That would be a good start for conversation work.

There are Star Trek STL bridge files available from RavenX.

Thanks

John

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I second the Forbidden Planet C-57D cruiser look.

And remember to, never, ever, under any circumstances, label any of the controls!