History Main / ExposedStarshipBridge

** Averted with the Geth since their ships don't have bridges. Instead, the Geth download themselves into the various subsystems of the ship to operate it directly.

*** When Scotty reads off the list of damage to the Constellation in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]", he mentions that the bridge has been destroyed and they have to run the ship from auxiliary control.

* ''Film/TheBlackHole'': The bridge of the ''USS Cygnus'' is perched upon a high tower. While it can be justified as her not being a warship but an exploratory vessel instead, such placement means it's nearly hit when the Cygnus is pounded by meteorites [[spoiler: and torn off together with the command tower when the ship begins to disintegrate at the very end of the movie]].

*** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': The modified photon torpedo launched by ''Enterprise'' seems to hit the viewscreen of Gen. Chang's Bird of Prey's bridge, and actually hits the ship almost directly on the "nose". The bridge is implied to be destroyed by the explosion that envelops Chang, although the vessel is only shown decloaking, and it takes multiple torpedoes from both ''Enterprise'' and ''Excelsior'' to finish it off. This is also a bit of RuleOfCool, as the torpedo was tracking the Bird of Prey's exhaust from its impulse engines and thus should've actually hit the very back of the ship.
*** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': {{Subverted|Trope}} by the torpedo from ''Enterprise'' that destroys the Bird of Prey. Like in TUC, it's shown appearing to approach the Klingon viewscreen directly, but it travels below it and hits the body of the ship based on Riker's order to Worf to target the primary reactor and the internal explosions that are shown before the Bird of Prey blows up.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Many examples appear throughout the franchise, normally justified with the bridges located in such prominent positions to assist with command-and-control on occasions where the ships are engaged in battle in comparatively close quarters (e.g. in orbit when it's useful for the commander to be able to physically see out the various viewports). These bridges are almost always heavily armoured and protected with DeflectorShields, since they're obviously tempting targets.

* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'': CORE spaceships [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20190502.html don't have a bridge]], preferring to turn over most functions to the ship's AI and scattering the crew's consoles throughout the ship. But the Anarchists, with their preference for style over brutalist function, prefer to have a centralized bridge.