That is a misconception! Star Trek is, in fact, a show about the weirdest chairs you’ve ever seen.
Personal Note: Why oh why can’t we have better microblogging interaction and I have to keep making the crossposts manually 🥲
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
- Stokke Globe Garden, designed by Peter Opsvik
- Organic Chair, designed by Luca and Paolo Giacomuzzi
- Artifort F582 Ribbon Chair
- Modesty Veiled Armchair, designed by Italo Rota for Driade
Some of these I wish I could buy today.
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.
Every so often I continue to be impressed with some of the unexpectedly specific sites that someone took the time to make.
Right?! This is why the internet doesn’t totally suck yet!
The cups too; a lot of the glassware in TNG was made by Bodum, and in DS9 by Highwave.
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This TNG Engineering chair came with the toy version of the warp core. I have never been able to get any action figure to sit in it without tape, glue, or something to support it.
I love to imagine that meeting
- These movable chairs are not safe on a starship which undergoes various dangerous maneuvers
- They seem to be designed like bus stop chairs i.e. they encourage you to NOT sit there for long periods.
- They were probably nicked from the canteen for quick props
It’s a saddle!
There have been many ways, both formal and informal, to try and measure human progress towards a proper, humanist utopia. In the 20th century, the Human Development Index was created as a measurement. Karl Marx famously pointed out as a rule of thumb: “Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex”. But all of those were, in fact, wrong.
It was only centuries after, when without a doubt, the true measurement of progress was found: The Chair Weirdness Index.
We are so freaking developed…
TIL that this is what I needed to feel better today, thank you! 💝
In Odos defense he could be the chair
You know all those scenes where Kira was sitting on a chair but Odo was nowhere to be seen?
He was there.
I’ve always loved the idea of non-human chairs that confirm to other body structures.
The Snakeellian diplomat greeted the Captain with a solemn but kind face. Despite their opposing objectives, both sides knew an alience must be formed or both parties would be destroyed. “Please, have a seat,” he said, gesturing to a horizontal spike poking through a ring held together with a thin vertical pole
When you see how Riker sits down, you have to concede that so-called “normal” chairs just don’t cut it.
List of chairs for sale that were featured on Star Trek:
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htmoh crap, someone beat me to this one
Worf: I don’t want to go to school today!
What I love about this is the set builders all assumed alien cultures all had a form of chair.
Some people do like to just stand
SITTING IS IRRELEVANT
Omg I didn’t even think about the Borg when I made that comment
They have evolved beyond the need for money, competition or comfort for both buttcheeks. They are truly free.
I am pretty sure that Ive seen that scene on the next generation. Haven’t watch DS9 yet though so can’t tell.
That is impossible. Odo is not in TNG.
I think they meant the first photo but can’t remember if Worf is on the Enterprise or DS9 there when his parents arrive.
Yeah I didn’t even notice the other pictures until later 🤦
