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Just noticed they're used by both Bajorans and Cardassians.

Text in the first panel is irrelevant - it was just the best quality picture I could find for that scene.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

That's her pooping face and the third seashell is currently in use.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since it's Kai Winn? Torture device on loan from Delores Umbridge. The activation phrase is set to "My Child."

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hi-tech... praying things, that the Cardassians for some reason adopted in the occupation? Maybe the Cardassians were trying to contact the prophets.

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Except, you use it to make Odo turn into different shapes.

You use those if the seashells are busy

[–] orb360@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Theremins were in vogue during the occupation

[–] Steve@communick.news 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a security feature. They don't actually do anything. But nobody who's not supposed to sit there knows that. When you touch both of them to see what they do, you're instantly disintegrated.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't actually do anything

you're instantly disintegrated

My friend, you and I have astonishingly different definitions of "don't actually do anything"

[–] Steve@communick.news 12 points 2 days ago

I did see that myself while writing.
Decided to go with it.

I mean, from the users point of view, nothing happened.

[–] homes@piefed.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For those wondering:

SpoilerCorrect answer: they’re inkwells. The round domes are the lids. In between them are pens/stylii. They may be decorative or they may be functional. It’s hard to tell.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 22 points 2 days ago

mods this guy is breaking the rules

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago

Do you know the TOS salt shaker story?

In 'The Man Trap' there's a scene where two members chat. There's a salt shaker prominent in the scene. The props department sent someone out to buy a bunch of exotic salt shakers. When they looked at the 'modern' shakers they realized that no one at home would know what they were supposed to be.

In the end they shot the scene with a salt shaker from the commissary and used the exotic ones to fill Dr. McCoy's medical bag.

[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Hostile architecture, to prevent people from sleeping on the desk...

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

It’s an E‑Meter for Scientology

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 2 days ago

You gotta have a place to put your orbs so you can ponder them as needed.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Wrong answer?

... they lactate.

Sometimes you just get thirsty.

[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago

track balls, she has a dedicated holo emitter for playing katamari

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago

It's a metal which their physiology requires, but is low in their food supply, so they lick the metal orbs once in a while.

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Nuclear cores. Pick them up and slam them together for an instant atomic explosion.

Also ensures politicians don't stay in office too long....

[–] Tmiwi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Scientology E-Meter (electropsychometer) is a religious artifact used in "auditing" to detect emotional reactions, spiritual distress, or "engrams" by measuring electrical resistance in the body.

First thing I thought of for some reason.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Or a pair of Van de Graaff generators.

Holding them makes your hair stand up.

[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

Sometimes you just need a pair of cold, steel balls to fondle. Maybe they remind you of home, maybe it's just stress relief, maybe you miss your father, nobody is going to judge.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pop out of the desk and scream "exterminate!"

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

You found the etheric beam locators!

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

Wifi access point.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

they are the larval form of the blinking tubes

[–] radix@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Pain play with their version of Baghdad Batteries. No kink shaming.

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Squeeze really tight and say, 'yes, I can.' Say it again. 'Yes, I can!'

Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, Cletus Klump, Mama Anna Klump, Grandma Klump, Ernie Klump Sr., Lance Perkins in The Nutty Professor (1996)

[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Tune in USS Tokyo.