To celebrate the release of Star Trek Into Darkness at the movies on May 9 — Kotaku has a killer prize pack up for grabs. One reader will win a custom-made Star Trek-themed leather gaming chair (with built in speakers and sub woofer!) plus an XBox 360 and Star Trek The Video Game (in stores April 26 on PC, 360 and PS3). Play as two of the greatest sci-fi heroes ever — Kirk and Spock — in a completely original co-op that expands the Trek universe even further. Here’s how to enter…
On May 9, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew. Find out more at StarTrekMovie.com.au…
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How To Enter:
To win Kotaku’s special Star Trek gaming chair pack… Design your own Captain’s Chair and submit your image/photo via the form below. Be sure to drop a link to your image in the comments as well so other Kotaku readers can check it out!
What chair features would you include to captain the bridge? Your drawing can be super-simple MS Paint line art to a detailed pencil sketch — or anything in between. We’re looking for you to call out chair features that would help a captain traverse the Star Trek universe.
Maybe you’ll add wireless Borg networking to release viruses, a holodeck projector, or even an after shave dispenser for when you hit the town, Kirk style.
Competition closes at 10am AEST Monday 29th April. Full terms and conditions.
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I have no artistic skills so I’ll just describe mine for poops and giggles. It’s a chair made from every captain in all the Star Trek series. A “Captains Chair,” if you will.
And, we have a winner! Gets my vote.
Mine would be made of the skull and bones of my enemies. Klingon Bastard killed my son
I too lack artisan skills. But I think the best captain’s chair would be a real throne. As in *flushing sound*.
“Captain’s log…”
“We have to wipe out those Klingons around Uranus.” ?
One of these: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nvMoRsuJjsc/TwC-b4ngcrI/AAAAAAAAA84/MlWgX_isBQ8/s1600/office_chair.jpg
Take that Star Trek nerds! *ducks away*
I aim to destroy this competition. It will be terrible. But I will try.
Unless someone with programming skills makes a goddamn game for their answer or something again. 😛
The thought had crossed my mind… 😛 (but I won’t)
Am I correct in thinking that the chair’s base has been photoshopped out or does it just sit straight on the floor like that?
Most gaming chairs just rest on the floor like that. Kind of bean-bag meets office chair, but with speakers etc. Easier to hide away when not in use that way.
http://goo.gl/fOQgb
My quick little mockup:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2q1xeh0&s=4
3D graphics. Nice one.
Oh Kinect has one ‘n’. Sorry to be pedantic 🙂
One day, these honest answers I give, will pay off.
Or not.
I hate these kotaku competitions they always pander to the creative who can draw, photograph or write. I can do none of these things. Never ever going to win loot ='(
They say you can MS Paint it.. if it’s funny enough, don’t see why you can’t win
Maybe it is possible and I’m not as retarded as I thought =)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/826/linkchair.jpg/
I’d go something like the chairs in Mass Effect – lying back with the monitor overhead, controls in the armrest. No more getting thrown around the bridge everytime some Romulan takes a potshot.
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Can we have another Bioshock Infinite contest instead? That Songbird statue…
Not technically an image but had fun animating up the captain’s chair.
http://www.fastswf.com/PtMYDGE
Well … grats on winning! What program did you make that in?
Haha. I worked on it in Illustrator for the illustrations aspect and then put it into Flash to animate.
Nice animation, well done.
Oh man, that was great!
Congrats! 😀
I can’t draw, but use your imagination! It would be… a chair. It would be black, or maybe charcoal, or slate. It would have excellent ergonomic properties, encouraging good posture and greatly reducing RSI. Maybe one with an inbuilt massaging feature for those particularly stressful days where the captain needs to unwind. Maybe also an inbuilt cupholder, so the captain can always have a refreshing beverage on hand to reduce the chances of dehydration. Yes. Yes, this is perfect.
This took me half my Sunday morning!
http://s1366.photobucket.com/user/Lohengrin1/media/Captainschair_zpsbb4f8941.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0#/user/Lohengrin1/media/Captainschair_zpsbb4f8941.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0&_suid=136711000506407204894260658319
ok mines not an epic animation but here goes.
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2150/chairyd.jpg
Just a quick before bed last night,
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/nvfdm3/TheChair.jpg