Star Trek: Lower Decks' USS Cerritos is the quintessential TNG -era starship, and so is its bridge. A pretty straightforward reinterpretation of the Enterprise-D and Voyager bridges at first glance, ...

This is a design quirk that has remained wholly consistent throughout "Star Trek." No ship has a hidden bridge, nor a bridge on its ventral side. The decks on a starship descend from the top.