The ship's scale also fluctuated, which meant the designers had to adjust the window sizes and patterns. Budge kept the designers in check with ensuring details and features added to the "Enterprise" were consistent with the design of other ships on "Discovery". One such feature was whether the bridge would have a window: most "Discovery" ship bridges have a front-facing window, but the "Enterprise" had never been depicted like that. The solution was to depict the "Enterprise" bridge as having a large piece of transparent aluminum at its front that can become either transparent or opaque as needed. Eaves sent the design team's model to the visual effects team, which made further design changes. "Discovery" producer Gretchen J. Berg said she hoped fans see the appearance of the "Enterprise" in "Discovery" as a blending of old and new "Star Trek". Another "Discovery" producer, Aaron Harberts wasn't worried whether fans were satisfied with the ship's redesign; while many of the staff who developed the new appearance are "Star Trek" fans, Harberts stated fans rarely agree on anything. The "Enterprise" bridge appears in the second season's finale. Production designer Tamara Deverell and her team wanted to honor the original bridge but needed to create the set using modern techniques and to meet modern audience expectations. The production's widescreen format, as opposed to the original series' 4:3 aspect ratio, required the set design to be more "stretched out" horizontally; designers referenced "Star Trek" film bridges – also recorded in widescreen – to assist with designing for the different ratio. Ultimately, the bridge was a fully constructed set, save for greenscreen for the main viewer. The set maintained the original's layout and included references and details from "Star Trek", such as Sulu's and Spock's console scanners, red bridge railings, and turbolift handles. They also created new elements, such as a corridor running behind the bridge. According to Deverell, choosing the set's color palette was the hardest part of designing the bridge. The bridge chairs were nearly identical to those used in "Star Trek", and the new captain's chair was heavily influenced by Captain Kirk's original. Starfleet commissioned the "Enterprise" in 2245. Robert April is the "Enterprise"s first captain, succeeded by Christopher Pike. Pike leads the "Enterprise" for about a decade, and he is the commanding officer in the original pilot "The Cage" and in the second season of "Star Trek: Discovery".