Kresty's Starship

[kresty]

Huh.  I wouldn't have thought you could see that choice from the outside.
Looks like fun, though.

The bridge is round with a smaller round bump on the aft of it - apparently the turbolift shaft top.  So the turbolift bump is always aft of the bridge in the exterior picture.

A quick web search found this diagram.  The turbolift bump on the right is the aft of the ship, so this diagram has the offset viewscreen:



I read somewhere that there was a production reason for the offset, that it'd originally been intended to be in the rear, but for camera angles or space on the soundstage or something it ended up being offset. (Having trouble finding the reference now).

Apparently in the cage/menagerie it is shown with the viewscreen "straight" (which means they couldn't leave the bridge as there's no turbolift).... I didn't remember that it's been shown anywhere.