Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting focuses in on something that’s not always noticed in movies but is incredibly important in how we view a film: chairs. Yep, the things we sit on. By focusing on chairs, he’s making a larger point about production design but it’s really interesting to see how something as simple as a chair can affect so much.
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DISCUSSION
As much as “the chair” is a thing in Trek, they’ve never looked terribly comfortable. Either they have a bloody big hole in the back to look more future-y, or the padding looks really thin, or the proportions are off, or something. The nicest ones are probably the chairs from the later TOS films.