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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] It's been noted recently that Bakula's Captain Archer will spend a lot of time not in his chair, walking to and fro between stations as needed. This got me thinking: just how much have the various Captains used their chairs when they're on the bridge commanding their ships? Let's see: -Kirk is generally in his chair. Usually when he gets out of it, it's to leave, or to go to the railing in front of Spock's station to talk to him. He's rarely seen standing at the forward consoles. -Picard was practically stitched to his chair. During action scenes, he's always there. Rarely is he seen at the tactical console, and never anywhere else. This has left Riker the opportunity to make a leg on Data's Ops console. -Sisko didn't have a chair in DS9's Ops, so he generally stood at the head of the Ops table, and basically never at anyone else's stations. On the Defiant, he started out as nailed to his chair as Picard, but after he got promoted he's very frequently gets out of it to stand at the conn next to whoever was flying it. -Janeway hated her chair. That, or she hated sitting next to Chakotay. I think she spent more time out of it than in it, standing at other peoples' stations, often working the consoles, or standing anywhere she could grab a railing. Given the ergonomic nature of the Voyager bridge, it was pretty easy. Question for all: does this say anything about our Captains' personalities, or is this based on the chairs themselves? Could the efficiency of a ship's IDF figure into this? While we're at it, let's see some other Captains for whom we've seen much less screen time: -Watters (USS Valiant) never got out of his chair. As a cadet being thrust into the position he most desperately sought, that's no surprise. He even had the chair's little headrest out all the time. -Esteban (USS Grissom) was barely ever in his chair - in fact, did he ever sit down again after standing up in his first scene? He was always standing next to the comm station, science, tactical... But his chair was pink, so that's a likely excuse. -Martok (IKS Rotarran et.al.) was constantlly in his chair. Never did he stand up to go somewhere else on the bridge - except for "Way of the Warrior". But that probably wasn't him anyway, so... Any more for thought? Does this mean anything, or are they just keen observations? Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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