To help Mees finalize the details, Senior Illustrator John Eaves drew some sketches of the chair. It's quite exciting! " The chair's armrests and base were built specially. I recovered it in leathers in our colors and some different things like that, and then the rest of the chair we built from scratch there's a retractable arm and a retractable video screen in it, and the base lights up and it completely swivels. Set Decorator James Mees commented, "I bought the seat itself at a boating and marine supplier. The NX-class command chair was the only chair on the NX-class bridge that was not bought from an Italian showroom. ( ENT: " Home") When Enterprise was refitted following the Xindi mission, one of the additions was a completely redesigned captain's chair, which Commander Tucker joked "came with everything but its own protein resequencer." ( ENT: " Borderland")
Archer suggested the installation of a lumbar support in Columbia's command chair, as Hernandez would probably be spending a lot of time in the chair. In 2154, Captain Hernandez showed Captain Archer the bridge of her ship, the second NX-class starship, Columbia. When Captain Archer first entered the command post, Tucker asked him if he wanted to try the chair out, though Archer replied, " Maybe later." ( ENT: " The Catwalk") In September of that year, a makeshift command chair, a cargo container with netting, was set up in a temporary command area for the crew's evacuation to Enterprise's catwalk. Commander Tucker eventually fixed the problem by lowering the chair one centimeter. Charles "Trip" Tucker, the starship's chief engineer, became obsessed with the command chair which, according to Captain Jonathan Archer, was not comfortable enough. In 2152, while passing a trinary star system that was emitting a dangerous form of radiation, the entire crew of Enterprise – with the exception of T'Pol – became affected and began to obsess over trivial matters. Once he moved to the captain's chair, Mayweather remarked, " The bridge looks a lot different from here." ( ENT: " Cold Front") When Ensign Travis Mayweather assumed temporary command of Enterprise later that year, he was slightly hesitant to accept advice, from Ensign Hoshi Sato, that he occupy the command chair rather than his typical position at the helm. T'Pol later deployed the docking arm by remotely extending it from the chair's right arm. While serving aboard Enterprise in May 2151, Vulcan Sub-Commander T'Pol used a companel on the chair's right arm to contact an away team on board an Axanar starship, and also contacted the armory by using a companel on the chair's left arm. ( ENT: " Fight or Flight", " Cold Front") An adjustable panel built into the chair's left arm had the additional capacity of being able to fire spatial torpedoes from the starship.
Additionally, both arms of the chair included at least one companel. The right arm of the command chair on the bridge of the NX-class Enterprise NX-01 included a control panel that could flip up at the touch of a control.