Design and furniture aficionados may desire say, an Eames lounger (WANT) or the Wassily chair (WANT), but Trekkies covet a chair from another universe, that is Captain Kirk's chair from the original Star Trek series. Many are fulfilling their dream by either building or purchasing replicas of the chair and "making them the centerpiece of their homes, thus conquering what is for them a final frontier of domestic décor."
So they make or buy a ready-made chair. Then what?
Some watch TV in theirs, or simply loll, and some seem to find the chair an empowering place from which to deal with others. “When we have a little family powwow — I have four children — I sit in it to lay down the law,” said Mr. Boyd, the auto parts manager.
And most, of course, indulge their fantasies, imagining doing battle with Klingons and otherwise cruising the cosmos. “Sitting in it,” said Mr. Bradshaw, the graphic designer, “I find myself striking an action pose quite unconsciously.”
I don't care who you are, Trekkie or not, but it'd be impossible to not strike a power pose of all power poses while sitting in that chair.
The original chair from the show was auctioned for $305,000 in 2002. It is currently on display at Seattle's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame of Geeks.
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