Presented below are several photos providing approximate dimensional data on one of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Ops Chairs that was formerly on display in the full scale Enterprise D Bridge recreation at the Star Trek: The Experience attraction in Nevada; which completed an 11 year run at the Las Vegas Hilton in September, 2008. While this chair was not screen used in the production of the television series; it was constructed by the Paramount studios prop department and likely is an accurate representation of the size of the screen used chairs. This replica stands approximately 39.5" in height, is 21.5" wide (based on the measure of it's widest cushion section; ignoring the irregularly shaped wood base which protrudes several inches from one side beneath the upholstered sections), and is approx. 41.5" in length from the back of the headrest to the furthest leading edge of the frontmost pillow section.
Unlike the previous ST:TE furniture measurement studies presented on this website, which contained many images where a ruler is shown to verify the dimension each time, I thought it best to display multiple measurements taken on the Ops Chair simultaneously as annotations on a smaller set of selected photos in this presentation. That is due to the fact that the Ops Chair is almost entirely designed as a collection of curved surfaces - all of its light beige pillows have rounded ends along all four sides and the top of each pillow is rounded, so it was necessary in many cases when measuring to extrapolate where an imaginary line extended from the center of the pillow (the highest point) would hit the tape measure positioned along the edge of the chair geometry. And given that there is built in perspective from an imperfect camera angle - the measures one would conclude just by looking at a photo of the ruler against the chair in many cases for this study would be deceiving and incorrect - and read perhaps up to an inch or more off the true value achieved by looking straight on from close beside the correctly positioned tape measure. I initially attempted to photograph every individual measurement, and some of the better (less affected by perspective) examples are presented after the annotated images for curiosity sake, but it is suggested that the reader just rely on the annotated dimensions presented in the initial photos.
Below then are the detailed measurements for the Next Generation Ops Chair ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Star Trek: The Experience TNG Ops Chair Measurement Study
Below are some of the individual measurement photography attempts. The first four suffer worst from camera angle, while the remaining ones tend to confirm the earlier annotations.