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Victorian chair

An elegant 19th century Earth Victorian-style chair

A chair was a piece of furniture which was designed for a humanoid figure to rest upon and therefore relieve pressure of the legs and back. Chairs were of such practical design that this furniture piece evolved in nearly every known humanoid culture across the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

The shapeshifter Odo used to morph into everything his "guests" at the Bajoran Research Center wanted, including a chair and a razorcat. (DS9: "The Forsaken")


Chairs came in a wide variety of size and design. In the 19th century on Earth, upper-class citizens typically had elegant looking plush chairs about their residences. (TNG: "Ship in a Bottle") The term "chair" may also refer to the head of an organization or a position of prestige. The Lucasian Chair is considered a position of some importance at Earth's Cambridge University. (TNG: "All Good Things...")

Worf's chair

The chair of Lieutenant Worf

Constitution class command chair (2293)

The command chair of a Sovereign-class starship


On board most starships, chairs were common for the crews to sit in and perform their duties over long hours of watch. At the center of every starship, there was often a command chair, for the commanding officer of the ship to direct shipboard operations. Command chairs of this nature were seen on starship types of nearly every spacefaring species to include the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Ferengi, Tamarians, and the starships of the Federation Starfleet.





The same year Quark accused Odo of spying and asked him what form he this time had, the chair, the table, or the wine bottle. (DS9: "Q-Less")

The Ferengi Commerce Authority charged three slips of Latinum to sit in the chairs located in their waiting room, though it was possible to negotiate the price down to two slips. (DS9: "Family Business")

Interrogation chair

Dderidex-procedure room

Geordi La Forge in the Romulan's interrogation chair

Chairs also had occasionally been used as instruments of torture.


In 2154 Soval was directly beamed into an interrogation chair on board the Andorian starship Kumari, where he was tortured, including the use of a neuro-synaptic field which lowered his emotional barrier. Commander Shran noted that the device had numerous successes in luring information out of Vulcan operatives. (ENT: "Kir'Shara")

In 2269, former Fleet Captain Garth, while an inmate at the criminal asylum on Elba II, took over the facility including the therapy equipment used to rehabilitate prisoners. Garth modified a rehabilitation chair, which normally was a painless device designed to relax patients, into a torture device that was "exquisitely painful". Both James T. Kirk and Donald Cory were forced to sit in the torture chair while Garth tormented them. (TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy")

Doctor Tristan Adams also was known for turning medical therapy equipment into torture devices. In 2266, Doctor Adams developed the neural neutralizer which was a device designed to empty a person's mind of harmful thoughts while they sat in a chair in a special room. Doctor Adams modified the neutralizer to not only empty a person's mind but fill it with other thoughts of his own design. Simon Van Gelder was an early victim of the neural neutralizer with Captain James Kirk also tortured in the neutralizer chair by Doctor Adams. (TOS: "Dagger of the Mind")

The Romulans also used chairs as a device for torture. In 2367, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge was taken aboard a Romulan warbird, strapped into a torture chair, and his VISOR implants fed several images of "horrors" in an effort to brainwash him. (TNG: "The Mind's Eye")

See also: Rostrum

Memorable quotes involving chairs

"Mr. Spock, what happened?!?"

- Spock (TOS: "That Which Survives")



"Just have your Klingon servant bring us some chairs!"

- DaiMon Goss (TNG: "The Price")

"And you may have...MY chair."


"Captain, is there something wrong with your chair?"


"Get out of my chair!"

- Picard to Q (TNG: "Qpid")

"And get these chairs off the bridge."

- Kudak'Etan (DS9: "One Little Ship")

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