That is a misconception! Star Trek is, in fact, a show about the weirdest chairs you’ve ever seen.

A screencap from Star Trek: Deep Space 9, depicting Constable Odo walking in front of a desk with spindly bulbous chairs.

A screencap from Star Trek: The Original Series, depicting Spock sitting on an orange chair which resembles a folded ribbon.

A screencap from Star Trek: Discovery, depicting Saru sitting on a white couch that resembles a lot of layers of white cushions, near white chairs which look somehow wrinkled.

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  • grue@lemmy.world
    55·
    3 days ago

    Fun fact: Star Trek set designers don’t typically build weird alien chairs. They just go buy them. Those are real products for humans!

    https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htm

    1. Stokke Globe Garden, designed by Peter Opsvik
    2. Organic Chair, designed by Luca and Paolo Giacomuzzi
    3. Artifort F582 Ribbon Chair
    4. Modesty Veiled Armchair, designed by Italo Rota for Driade
      • grue@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I’m sure you can; some might just be harder to find than others because they’re discontinued and you have to buy them used off eBay or whatever.

        I’m also very sure that some of the more famous ones, like the van der Rohe Barcelona Chair, are readily available new in reproduction/knock-off versions.

        I need some new dining room chairs. I might very well go for the shell chair, Emeco navy chair, or Knoll toledo. Two of those I had been considering before even seeing them on that page and finding out they were used in Star Trek.