And where and when did they go to the bathroom?
What about the cleaning, when did maintenance or housekeeping come in and clean the bridge and bathrooms?
So many questions.
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IIRC Matt Jeffries was against windows and exposed machinery on the outside of the ship, for the obvious in-universe reasons that they’d be vulnerable to impacts from radiation, meteoroids, and enemy action, and that the least a shipbuilder could do was put some metal between the astronauts and their worst nightmares
Unfortunately this made for a boring-looking model, so he was eventually outvoted
Many of the alien ships on the series didn’t have much external detail, though, which both saved money and made Jeffries happy 
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The Franz Josef Designs blueprints of the ship from TOS include an “emergency bridge” on Deck 7 and an “auxiliary bridge” on Deck 10. Not sure if those plans are considered canonical or not.
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Bah, they didn’t have surge protection. All consoles explode in a regular basis.
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straight above center there’s a gigantic window ( transparent aluminum i imagine )
but actually, at least in tos, i always imagined the view screen doubled as a window, with some sort of lensing for “magnify!”
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In the pilot, you can actually see through the dome on the top into the bridge set.
I don’t think that shot was aligned properly in any way shape or form.
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If you’re talking about the various moments when people are inside spaceship hangers with an obvious open view of space on one end it’s generally explained in the extended canon that there is a shield; often called a mag(netic) shield, at the opening keeping the atmosphere in. One of those rule of cool things that most are willing to accept at face value.
The presence of the shield is often denoted by a blue-white glow outline effect as such:
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“Engage Drift Mode, Mr Sulu!”
“Aye, Captain, Drift Mode Engaged!”
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https://gcaptain.com/vacuum-cleaner-sparked-400m-naval/
Preliminary findings indicate the fire started in a vacuum cleaner used to clean worksites at end of shift, and stored in an unoccupied space. Specific details as to the cause and subsequent damage assessment are still being evaluated as part of on-going investigations and will be released at a later date.
still, the navy persists in “cleaning” things (45 minutes per day + occasional “field days”), heedless of the danger.
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2250506/cleaning-up-shop-field-days/
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At least he got all those tubes named after him
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I believe they also implied Data took command of the bridge during the night shift in TNG (an ideal officer for the job given that he doesn’t require sleep).
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The hangers are specifically shown like that in The Orville. Not that The Orville is anything like Star Trek, of course.
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What about that documentary about those poor people stranded on Gilligan’s Island?
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Data often had third watch, presumably because he didn’t need sleep. Beyond that, it was probably the “lower decks” kind of new junior officers that got that rotation.
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Transporters
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A rivalry between the day shift and the night shift is a recurring plot point in Lower Decks. Although, of course this isn’t about the bridge crew.
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I owe you a drink.
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I told them to go with the Kobold over the Hoover. Or at least the Sebo. But nooo…
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Did you never see the spin-off series, Star Trek: Night Crew?
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