The Star Trek: The Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, New York has long been the home to a loving recreation of the classic USS Enterprise studio sets, crafted by James Cawley and his team to keep Captain Kirk’s starship alive for fans to experience first-hand.

Now, more than four years after the news that the Set Tour experience was planning to expand into the 24th century, Cawley and team have revealed the first builds from the planned Enterprise-D set recreation efforts underway in upstate New York.

On public display for the first time during the annual Trekconderoga convention weekend, the Star Trek Set Tour how holds a full recreation of the Enterprise-D bridge computer stations, along with the Ops and Conn stations set at the front of the command center — plus a full-sized holodeck arch to welcome visitors to the exhibit.

Built with contributions from Star Trek: The Next Generation vet Michael Okuda, the four builds are the first nearly-completed replications from the forthcoming Enterprise-D bridge set replica which Cawley projects to be completed for public visitation in the fall of 2023.

The LCARS interface panels on the first Next Gen console replicas were designed by Okuda himself, Cawley told us this weekend, with live video consoles featuring animated versions of familiar TNG-era display screen graphics recreated by the Set Tour design team — during our inspection, we caught graphics from “Descent,” “Night Terrors,” “A Matter of Perspective,” “Redemption II,” “Ménage à Troi,” and more on the different bridge stations.

Because modern builds use LED lighting which backlights the interface panels very evenly, we learned that Mike Okuda engineered dark gradient ‘falloff’ coloring into the panels to emulate the 1980s-era incandescent internal lighting which lived in the original TNG sets.

The Ops and Conn stations this weekend are missing their upholstered seats, as they are currently being reworked to be more accurate to the Season 7-era looks featured on the series.

Star Trek Set Tour — 'Next Generation' Conn and Ops Stations

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A 28,000-square-foot, two-story building adjacent to the Original Series tour complex is set to be the home to the Galaxy-class expansion, which along with the bridge is expected to eventually house an Enterprise-D corridor replica, a recreation of the two-story Main Engineering set, and more as time, space, and budget allows.

If you’re in the upstate New York area, you can head to the official Star Trek: The Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, NY, which operates tours six days a week during their main season. The Star Trek: The Next Generation expansion is projected for a Fall 2023 opening.