Enterprise seatbelts

[George]

My head hurts.

[AndyC]

I think we can forgive Star Blazers, since they were deliberately going for nautical feel. And they at least used windows on the bridge. Didn't they also have two extra bridges, one of them really flimsily attached to the bottom of the ship?

[trekgeezer]

On naval vessels the bridge is in the superstructure (the part that sticks out the top), but all the war making business goes on below decks  in the Combat Information Center.

The real geek appears here:  In the Star Trek Technical manual the bridge on Starships is a module which can be plucked out of the ship and replaced with one of a different configuration.  (This explains why the Enterprise could have different bridges in different movies.)