Hello Kurt,

I apparently did not completely read the original post otherwise I would have included a reply to the line from the post shown below earlier:

Resources Kurt Feltenberger 28 Nov 2019 03:59 UTC

"The Star Trek approach to a bridge is fine if you have
a handful of bridge personnel and are in a rather fantasy setting set in
space. I've much preferred the 2003 Battlestar Galactica approach to a
bridge; large, lots of workstations, lots of displays, etc."

The Star Trek bridge is a sample of how modern ships are being built with fewer watch standers using computer augmented systems. Another item is that the Enterprise is not a purpose built warship like the Galactica from the 1978 television series or the remake.

I've watched a number of documentaries about the USN, a couple about the RN, and non-military ships that show the bridges have more panels and fewer watch standers. They have also shown that the engineering spaces have been automated reducing the numbers of bodies to man the space. The upside is fewer bodies to run the engineering spaces the downside is that there are fewer bodies to do damage control.

Tom Rux