I stopped worrying about the new movie when I saw how Kirk sat in the Captain’s Chair

Thomas Vinciguerra profiles men who have built their own replicas of Star Trek captains’ chairs for the Times:

For Mike Paugh, 42, a financial planner in Cranbrook, British Columbia, the appeal goes back to childhood. “I loved the show,” he said. “I had all the model kits and all that stuff, but when I moved I had to get rid of them. Now I’ve started to build again.” He spent about $1,000 on his chair, which he finished in October 2007 and put in his family’s rec room.

Mr. Paugh is one of many Trekkies who are not particularly impressed with what they have seen, in trailers and on the Internet, of the Enterprise from the new “Star Trek” movie, directed by J. J. Abrams and coming out in May. “A lot of guys are saying, ‘They’re wrecking this show, they’re not doing it the way they used to do it,’ ” he said.

“The chair, in particular, looks like some weird office chair,” he added. “But then, that’s what the original was.”

You can buy your own for $2,720 from Skymall.

1. [TJ S]

   Forget the Star Trek Captain’s chair. I need a BSG CIC coffee table, complete with plastic models on stilts for planning battles.

2. [Hanglyman]

   It’s a little late to say they’re “wrecking the show”… what about the last two movies, or Enterprise? They’re just wrecking it a different way.

3. [Enochrewt]

   #2: Exactly. A movie that wrecks the original is still a huge step up from those “things” you mentioned.

4. [arkizzle]

   “they’re not doing it the way they used to do it”

   Good!