I would guess that like flip-up cellphones followed communicators, and smartphones perhaps followed tricorders, and tablets definitely followed… ah, tablets:-), people saw Star Trek and then built those things that looked so damn cool. Life imitates art, or something.
Okay I see your outside, and raise you a beige and black bridge:-)
Edit: oh, I missed “exterior”, but even there…:
Interior is more like:
I would guess that like flip-up cellphones followed communicators, and smartphones perhaps followed tricorders, and tablets definitely followed… ah, tablets:-), people saw Star Trek and then built those things that looked so damn cool. Life imitates art, or something.
The design influence goes in the other direction.