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* [[The Captain]]'s chairs on [[The Bridge]] in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' series and movies, starting with Captain Kirk's. Best described in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocTeNGrT5r8 this awful fanfic].

** It's [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], as well: a Federation chair is done in soothing shades of beige, whereas Klingon furniture is all made from black leather and bolted-together slabs of iron. But the Klingons like it that way.

** There's a delicious source of [[Narm]] in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'', where the [[Big Bad]]'s Cool Chair is a ''literal'' Couch Of Villainy. A big comfy red one. On a ultra-high-tech, stainless-steel Bridge. It ''really'' doesn't work, as seen [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050818051109/memoryalpha/en/images/3/34/Sona_bridge.jpg here]. (Perhaps the problem is that he isn't doing a a [[Slouch of Villainy]] on it...)

** There's a delicious source of [[Narm]] in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'', where the [[Big Bad]]'s Cool Chair is a ''literal'' Couch Of Villainy. A big comfy red one. On a ultra-high-tech, stainless-steel Bridge. It ''really'' doesn't work, as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20120509074144/http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050818051109/memoryalpha/en/images/3/34/Sona_bridge.jpg here]. (Perhaps the problem is that he isn't doing a a [[Slouch of Villainy]] on it...)

* In the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' episode "Singularity", the crew become obsessed with trivial nonsense due to [[Space Madness]], and engineer Trip Tucker went all nuts trying to design the Ultimate Captain's Chair with interactive status displays, secondary helm control, inertial micro-dampers and cup holder (but apparently [[No Seat Belts]]).

{{quote|"I know you don't think this chair is important, but you're wrong. What's the most critical component on this ship? The main computer? The warp reactor? Uh-uh, it's the crew. And the most important member of the crew is the Captain. He makes life and death decisions every day and the last thing he needs to be thinking in a critical situation is, 'Gee, I wish this chair wasn't such a pain in the ass.'"}}