The Roddenberry Archive lets you explore all Star Trek Enterprise ships
The Roddenberry Archive is a great idea that just keeps getting better. It now lets you walk around life-sized bridges of nearly all the various Enterprises, plus bonus locations like Picard’s ready room.
The archive itself is well worth checking out – it’s really well done and has a lot of interesting information. This is a good thing because, at the moment, the walking around the bridge aspect doesn’t always work. Or so I have read. It worked fine for me most of the time. Mostly.
The problem is that websites like Scifiward are sharing this awesomeness, and this has resulted in Trek fans making the Roddenberry site a bit sluggish at times. Apologies.
The way it works is you pick a ship, pick a bridge view, then wait with fingers crossed for a message in the picture reading, ‘Click anywhere to continue’. You click, and you’re in! You can then walk around using WASD keys and can even interact with some things. Which is fun. When this finally gets to VR, it will be awesome.
About the Roddenberry Archive and OTOY
I was going to try and explain more, but there’s a great explanation on the site. So here you go:
The Roddenberry Archive is a multi decade collaboration with The Roddenberry Estate, OTOY, and iconic Star Trek artists Denise and Mike Okuda, Daren Dochterman, and Doug Drexler to collect significant documents and art from Gene Roddenberry’s lifetime of work, beginning with the Starship Enterprise, and to make them accessible through innovative means of presentation. The project aims to preserve this information for those studying his career in the future, for those who appreciate his work, and to provide accurate information for those involved in future productions and other projects based on Roddenberry’s work.
The Roddenberry Archive seeks to honor the work and career of Gene Roddenberry by documenting, preserving, and presenting key aspects of his work, including Star Trek and other productions.
This portal features some of the latest work from the archive team, allowing visitors to virtually explore the complete history and legacy of every bridge of the Starships Enterprise – as 1:1 scale “in-universe” experiences.
Over two dozen USS Enterprise bridges are currently in this archive portal (with more on the way) – from the first 1964 concept artwork for the Star Trek pilot, to the newest ship to be called Enterprise, revealed at the conclusion of Star Trek: Picard Season 3.
Please be sure to visit the archive Youtube’s channel and blog posts for a deep dive on the work being done behind the scenes – and incredible interviews with cast and crew – including William Shatner, Terry Matalas and many more.
The human adventure is just beginning…
The Roddenberry Archive Team
From the Roddenberry Archive
There are also a ton of great videos and blog posts. Those two links have a lot of content. One of my favourites is a new short called 765874 – Regeneration. It is based on a scene from a William Shatner book called The Ashes of Eden. It features Spock and will probably make you sad.
This is pretty interesting too:
I think that is enough praise. There is a lot to check out! Make it so.
(The Shatner book was an affiliate link. It cost you nothing but earns me a couple of pennies. Thanks.)