On The Bridge

The Star Fox, IX.

"Heim stood on the bridge..." (p. 66)

How many spaceship bridges have we read about or seen on screen?

James Blish's Earthman, Come Home opens with Mayor John Amalfi reflecting that the belfry of City Hall has become a bridge because the city has become a spaceship. (Cities In Flight was to have been filmed but that did not happen and Blish adapted Star Trek episodes as prose short stories.)

From his bridge, Heim views the Terrestrial continents and reflects that mankind:

came from Africa;

became civilized in Asia;

"...outgrew myth and measured the stars..." (p. 67) in Europe;

sought Australia;

was heroic in Antarctica;

wrote the law that all men are free in America.

Not everyone is going to agree with this assessment of the continents (!) but I think that it is ok as far as it goes.