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I haven't seen much Star Trek TOS in quite a long time, but I am pretty sure I remember consoles on the bridge exploding - or at least throwing sparks, making noise and injuring crew. See this question and answer for reference.

For this question let's limit to consoles on the Enterprise's or other Starfleet vessels' bridge, and maybe at the navigation station of a shuttlecraft. It seems I'm assuming here that on the bridge at least those were controls the actual power being activated, shunted, etc was elsewhere.

Are there any episodes of TOS where a bridge console explodes? Bonus points if it injured someone.

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  • Oh, I see. You're asking "in which episode/s of TOS did a bridge console explode? ". Right. Gotcha.
    – Valorum
    Apr 25, 2016 at 8:38
  • @Richard that would be a bonus for sure - if it happened, which I don't know yet. An answer in the positive would probably bring at least one example, but if I ask "which episodes" I'm scared that it will be considered asking for a list and I got called on that once already :) so I'm trying to be really careful by simply asking for a boolean.
    – uhoh
    Apr 25, 2016 at 8:39
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    Nah, if it's a question of something being notably rare, asking in which episodes it happened is perfectly acceptable.
    – Valorum
    Apr 25, 2016 at 8:45
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    "Bonus points if it injured someone." Hehehe
    – Lightness Races in Orbit
    Apr 25, 2016 at 10:27
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    Console/firework storage lockers, I assume you mean.
    – brunns
    Jun 30, 2021 at 12:07

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As you can see, the consoles did indeed explode in TOS

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TOS: Where No Man Has Gone Before

And for the bonus point (which I'll have to share with Hypnosifl) we have someone getting injured by an exploding console...

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TOS: City on the Edge of Forever

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  • Aha, the pilot! (I mean pilot episode, not the person). Wow, I want that GIF as my desktop!
    – uhoh
    Apr 25, 2016 at 9:20
  • Technically Charlie gets zapped a few seconds afterwards, but that's not really a console effect.
    – Valorum
    Apr 25, 2016 at 9:23
  • Oh - Charlie! It's not the pilot-pilot, got it. It's the "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" episode.
    – uhoh
    Apr 25, 2016 at 9:31
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    I guess the technology to make optical isolators was lost during WWIII.
    – Joe L.
    Apr 25, 2016 at 11:57
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    Just to show this wasn't the sole example in TOS, here's a shot from City on the Edge of Forever.
    – Hypnosifl
    Apr 25, 2016 at 15:20
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They caught fire as well:

@blobbymcblobby's comment links to the YouTube video clip Star Trek III The Search For Spock - The Enterprise's Encounter With The Klingon Bird Of Prey and after the Enterprise is hit by a Kingon Bird of Prey we can see smoke between Scotty and Sulu followed by Bunsen burner-like flames between them.

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screen shot from Star Trek III The Search For Spock - The Enterprise's Encounter With The Klingon Bird Of Prey screen shot from Star Trek III The Search For Spock - The Enterprise's Encounter With The Klingon Bird Of Prey

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