haha.. wife? yeah right. more like 'get your dog to lick peanut butter off your nuts as captain kirk'

DMF

Order your wife around for $1000-ish; get your ass kicked for free.

Curves

@clandestiny: Perhaps you'd be happier at Cnet.com or ArsTechnica?

EBone

But will those buttons actually do nothing? Like the chair buttons on the original set? Must have authenticity.

Barcard

@Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish: Apparently the same goes for most of the commenters...

clandestiny

@clandestiny: Would Kirk-derived detritus help?

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Fart remnants and other juices.

That's really charming.

Tell me, does Gawker Media have anyone working for them whose sense of humor has matured past age 12?

clandestiny

@Lev_Astov: To paraphrase Triumph, I'm sure one of those buttons could be wired to call your mom to come pick you up.

/Just kidding, long time Trekker

EBone

Make those arm chair buttons a universal remote and this bad boy is going in my living room.

sharmanova

I want to know if those buttons are wired into any microcontrollers or anything useful like that. It would be pretty sweet to wire this into your home automation system.

Lev_Astov

@mhlaxp: Considering he's whored himself out to Priceline for a few years now, he could probably use some extra cash.

Geisrud

@Hectorvex: And Worf's Klingon ointment of grace, Guinan's many bath oils and Picard's scalp cream. She's a slut. Bonnngggggggg

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

"Where's those burritos half-time's almost over!! Set on high for 3 minutes!"

"I can-notta dew it Cap'm! The setting, she tawps oot at 10!"

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

I don't need a chair to boss my wife around. However, the chair might make her listen.

And Counselor Troi probably smelled like Riker's beard dye.

Hectorvex

"Microwave, warm nachos - engage!"

i_prefer_sasquatch

ensign red shirt, set a course for want. warp factor now.

malvones

$1000 sounds like a bargain... even w/o shatner juices

Weihovah

"fart remnants and other juices"

Gizmodo officially makes my week at 9:55 AM PDT on Monday!

EBone

Wife? I've seen female trekkies.

FrankenPC

How much would it cost to hire the Shat man himself for a day to order her around instead? Sure, this one has the long-term reusability value but if Bill's prices are reasonable I think he's the obvious choice.

mhlaxp

@Mr.SithNinja:
with the chair, all things are possible......

godwhacker

@Hectorvex: @godwhacker: Can we use it to stop ManBearPig?

Mr.SithNinja

Still no seatbelt...

Blue Oyster Cultist

totally super serial!

godwhacker

@godwhacker: Super serial?

Hectorvex

Nice, now all you gotta do is mod in a universal remote and speaker phone in the control pannel and you are all set.

Mr.SithNinja

@JYHASH:

so where would you get a dimensional drawing?

i am totally serial about this.

godwhacker

the modding potential is unlimited. auto-deploy ottoman would be a piece of cake.

@Curves:
with no wife around, getting my ass-kicked quotient is zero.

@Jason Chen

represent!!!!!

godwhacker

I'm all for props like this getting made, but any self respecting Uber-Trek Geek, would go through the hard task of making one themselves. And you know that the only people who are gonna be buying this are either people who have cash to throw around or the Uber-Trek Geeks.

As far as Trek Furniture goes, this is one of the easiest to fabricate (even if you can't find the 1960's bench chair it was cannibalized from). I hope this "takes off" in some way that makes a TNG chair available, because THAT ONE i'd plunk down the cash for. Let me tell you, as an Uber-Trekker: That chair is a BITCH to make. The angles, the leather, the internal LED paneling with LCARS displays...*shudder* I get nightmares from that thing.

~JYH

JYHASH

Now I just need to get Mrs. Monkey a micro-miniskirt/baremidriff top/thigh dagger ensemble from the "Mirror, Mirror" episode.

monkeyrotica

i am thinking the wood armrests are gonna have to go.

oh god, i am starting to plan the construction already!!!

godwhacker

I'm pretty sure I can make a version myself for 100 bucks or less.

SinAmos

Make sure you already have a wife to order around before you order one of these. The odds of getting the wife AFTER go down dramatically.

tinyhands

here is a link for the home constructors among us. more than likely as close as we will get to a set of plans.

[startrekpropauthority.blogspot.com]

godwhacker

@Geisrud: I doubt it. He jumped onboard in the early days in return for Priceline stock, which he later sold at a huge profit. He's not hurting for money. And there were others that wanted that job, including Bill Cosby. You don't think he'd be doing it for free, do you?

yelraf

yeah Star Trek totally kick Stars Wars ass!!

Picard's Chair would be awesome!!!

mrpedenman

Great job on this article guys - I am sending this link to a buncha peeps that will appreciate the write up. Very funny...

NagChampa

Or I could build one out of plywood.

Crowbot

But would you get the original 60s sound effects from pushing the little buttons on the armrests? MInd you, integrating your iPhone or TV remote in them would be nice as well.

Thrubeingcool

The chair needs to smell like naugahyde, old sweat and Aqua Velva to be authentic..

Jrsy

Order your wife around? Order your boyfriend around more like it. Pop this baby in front of the tv to match my phaser remote control .... "Harcourt Fenton Mudd!! Where are my Doritos?! So help me if you've eaten them again its the agony booth!! "

zayden

Is the upholstery at least Nappa?

Abledart