U.S.S. Enterprise-E Main Bridge (Star Trek: First Contact)

We never got a good, sweeping look at the Enterprise-E bridge in any of the three films it was featured in, so I've endeavored to re-create the bridge in full detail as seen in Star Trek: First Contact, and finally give us Star Trek fans a good look at it.I started crafting this virtual set in early February 2021 and finished it up on May 3rd, 2021.


Already proficient in modeling and texturing, this project required me to learn After Effects to create the many animated displays that adorn the consoles. I also had to learn about cinematic video production in Unreal Engine. This project pushed my skills to create an end product which is among the most polished and presentable I've ever created.


I have to give thanks to Doug Drexler, who graciously provided me with his raw Illustrator file of the Sovereign-class Master Systems Display, which I then took and modified and animated to match its on-screen appearance. Although this graphic is known to fans to be shaped slightly different than the Enterprise-E exterior filming model, I have chosen to retain the original shape to maintain screen accuracy and to respect Doug's work.

Tim Davies also helped out a bit by offering to create a clean vector graphic of the early top-down Sovereign schematic used on the animated displays, as I was previously using a very pixelated screen-grab.

One area where I did indeed deviate from screen accuracy was the monitor displays. It is my belief that these were intended to be perceived as flat displays and part of the surrounding console bulkheads, but the technological limitations of the time of the film dictated they be displayed on CRT monitors which have a slight curve. I tried both ways, but the flat, integrated look proved to be superior, and felt more "in-universe" intended.

Special thanks to Thomas Marrone, Tadeo D'Oria, Matt Boardman, and my followers at TrekBBS who are always there to cheer me on, give constructive criticism and feedback, and talk to no end about our beloved franchise.