Did you ever have a Kirk chair?

[Warped9]

I was recently sorting some old family pics to load them into a digital photo frame when I came across something that brought back memories. I could see an old blocky black leather chair we used to have in the rec room of the house I grew up in in the '70s.

It really wasn't that reminiscent of Kirk's command chair but there was something about it's shape that made it close enough. I remember cutting out pieces of cardboard and drawing and colouring controls on them to tape to the arms of the chair in order to complete the feel. I loved sitting in that chair to watch TOS reruns in the early to mid '70s and played Star Trek in that chair for hours on end with an AMT Enterprise and Klingon battle cruiser models to complete the scenario.

Man that was fun.

Anyone else ever have a Kirk chair?

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Anyone else ever have a Kirk chair?

Well, technically the chair I'm sitting on right now is a 'Kirk chair'...and technically any other chair I choose to sit on...

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but...

 

[SheliakBob]

Well. Yeah! I thought I was the only geeky kid who did that.
Seriously.
Dark secret sort of thing.
Even had a plate of clear plastic with the Klingon D-7 model and black construction paper set up as the "viewscreen".
Practiced rocking from side to side when the "ship" was hit.

Remember those big plastic balls with the bright swirls of color--popular during the '60's and early '70's at least-? Used several of those for alien planets.
Kept a Captain's Log, first on notebook paper and later on a casette tape recorder.

I was just a little kid, man! Don't judge!

 

[bbailey861]

No, but I wish I did.

 

[Green Shirt]

Reminds me of the scene in WRRP where Les' girlfriend rearranges his living room furniture, and he complains "It looks like Star Trek" while sitting in the center seat.

 

[22 Stars]

I did the exact same thing! Even connecting the carboard sides to the chair under the padded arms, and built a wood platform for it. Fun times! Used the FJ Tech Manual for the shape etc.

SheliakBob, that is awesome!

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I used to pretend the back of the couch was my viewscreen.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Pretty much any swivel chair with armrests becomes a Kirk Chair when I sit in it.

 

[sbk1234]

I do tend to put the tv remotes on the armrests a lot, in a command chair sort of way.

 

[Orac]

^ Me too, in fact I even have velcro on the back of my tv remotes to affix them to my command chair.

 

[seigezunt]

No, but I've had a Season Two Gut on and off again...

 

[ncc-1017-e]

I was recently sorting some old family pics to load them into a digital photo frame when I came across something that brought back memories. I could see an old blocky black leather chair we used to have in the rec room of the house I grew up in in the '70s.

It really wasn't that reminiscent of Kirk's command chair but there was something about it's shape that made it close enough. I remember cutting out pieces of cardboard and drawing and colouring controls on them to tape to the arms of the chair in order to complete the feel. I loved sitting in that chair to watch TOS reruns in the early to mid '70s and played Star Trek in that chair for hours on end with an AMT Enterprise and Klingon battle cruiser models to complete the scenario.

Man that was fun.

Anyone else ever have a Kirk chair?

I thought I was the only little kid that need help. My grandmother had a chair I played Trek in with my mego figures and amt models too! I have a real one now and still play!

 

[Redfern]

Didn't have a "Kirk chair", but I did and still do have a "Spock chair". It's an unlabeled "off brand" tulip styled chair with 4 brass plated legs instead of a center column.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[22 Stars]

^ In that same vein, I just bought a set of 5 Burke 115 chairs (trek bridge chairs) as my dinette set. It's awesome to see that design form every morning.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

No, but I've had a Season Two Gut on and off again...

 

[Green Shirt]

Reminds me of the scene in WRRP where Les' girlfriend rearranges his living room furniture, and he complains "It looks like Star Trek" while sitting in the center seat.

Oops, meant WKRP.

 

[scotpens]

Reminds me of the scene in WRRP where Les' girlfriend rearranges his living room furniture, and he complains "It looks like Star Trek" while sitting in the center seat.

Oops, meant WKRP.

You can go back and edit your own posts, you know!

Does anyone know if those Madison office chairs, on which Kirk's command chair was based, are still being manufactured and sold?

 

[Nathan_Heller]

Not as such, but my cushy chair I'm sitting in along with the remotes have become my command chair.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

When I was a kid I had a green child-sized chair with arms that I used to park in front of the TV and pretend that our living room was the bridge of the Enterprise.

Heck, I even made TOS-style intercom panels out of paper and taped them to the walls all over the house.

 

[buckeyenation]

Thank you all for making me feel less geeky about similar things i did when i was 8 years old.