The Enterprise-D Bridge has DATED BADLY

I still prefer the original Enterprise bridge from 1966. Especially with Lt. Uhura sitting at her station in her tight mini-skirt uniform and go-go boots. The "Next Generation" bridge has the beige, plasic look of a 1980s indoor shopping mall.

I eventually came to really like the D, but when the show started the bridge reminded me of a bank lobby and I would joke that I expected to see one of the crew members taking money out of an ATM.

It's a ship designed for families and science.

Comparing Voyager and Defiant is dumb.

Here is the max crew sizes

Defiant - 50
Voyager - 150
Enterprise D - 15,000

The other thing is different technology and production time (Defiant for example is designed for war)

Nonsense. It looks great. However I think it's funny that the window also doubles as a screen.

Explain.

Why would something being brightly lit be bad or wrong? You just state this as if it's some kind of automatic fact. It isn't.

I have always hated the gloomy, dark crap they turned everything into, when the nature and reality IS brightly lit, so what exactly would be the problem of a high-tech spaceship that CAN be brightly lit, not be brightly lit? It's best to have more light to push away depression and make things easier to see.

It's definitely not TOO brightly lit whatsoever.

As far as the aesthetics go, you are making statements without explanations, without backing up anything you are saying. Why would empty space be bad? Have you ever heard of Feng Shui or human psychology? Ever heard of something called 'claustrophobia'? Open space elevates your happiness, it makes you feel like things are majestic, and if everything was 'busy' and cramped, it would make you feel like you are in a confined prison, work cubicle or some other really depressing place.

Think about anxiety, stress levels, etc. Think about how LONG you have to endure the same spaces, you damn BETTER well have as much empty space as you can!

Would you rather make a years-long journey on a ship where everything is cramped in an 'utilitarian' (for some reason, you seem to worship anything utilitarian in your post), way, or a cozy, livingroom-like, comfortable place with lots of open space to breathe, walk around, or just be?

Open space is psychologycally elevating, it makes you feel better than a cramped space. Basic psychology.

What's bad about the 'wooden structure', and why do you call it 'stupid', as if structures can have any kind of intelligence, let alone varying levels of it?

Why don't you think 'it doesn't fit in with what the ship is'? What do you mean by 'what the ship is'? Your post is very confusing, full of claims without backing up anything, and thus useless. Anyone can just spew opinionated statements and then use them to say something has 'aged' 'badly'..

A TV show can't age, it stays exactly as it ever was.

So could you please elaborate and explain, or at least back up your completely detached opinions written as some kind of factual statements (which they are not)? Thank you.

Matt Jeffries, the designer of the original starship Enterprise and its bridge certainly didn't like it. He once said in an interview "Gene asked me how I liked the show, and I said that he had taken the bridge of my ship and turned it into the lobby of the Hilton. And I have just never watched any of them since. I’m lost."

I'm with Jeffries. I never much cared for it either. I don't mind the bright light, but I do agree there is way much empty space. I get that the TNG bridge is a set and needs to work for drama purposes, but the original series bridge worked as a set too, and it looked a lot more functional. I also get that they wanted to show that technology was much more advanced a century on from Kirk's era, but efficiency should still matter. And if future engineers are able to design larger spaces that work with life support systems, they won't use that ability to create vast, cathedral-like interiors, they'll use it to cram in more equipment or other functional items.

Too bright? I hate darkly lit shows.

I never watched Deep Space 9 because the damned ship is so dark and depressing. They can't afford light bulbs in the 24rd century??