Wrong Answers Only: What do these metal desk boob things do?

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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DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 148d (2 replies)

Obviously...

IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 10 pts · 148d

LOL, yes.

ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 148d

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

homes@piefed.world · 26 pts · 148d (1 reply)

For those wondering:

::: spoiler Spoiler Correct 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 · 21 pts · 148d

mods this guy is breaking the rules

Steve@communick.news · 26 pts · 148d (2 replies)

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 · 29 pts · 148d (1 reply)

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 · 11 pts · 148d

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

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

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 148d (1 reply)

Salt & peppers shakers

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 12 pts · 148d

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 · 22 pts · 148d

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

billwashere@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 148d

It’s an E‑Meter for Scientology

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 148d

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

django@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 148d

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 · 11 pts · 148d

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

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

_NetNomad@fedia.io · 10 pts · 148d

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

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 147d

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

Tmiwi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 148d (1 reply)
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anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 147d

Or a pair of Van de Graaff generators.

Holding them makes your hair stand up.

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 148d (1 reply)

Pop out of the desk and scream "exterminate!"

haverholm@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 147d

You found the etheric beam locators!

Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 148d

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.

orb360@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 147d

Theremins were in vogue during the occupation

RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 148d

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)

radix@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 148d

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

Kirk@startrek.website · 6 pts · 148d

they are the larval form of the blinking tubes

charonn0@startrek.website · 5 pts · 148d

Wifi access point.

fartographer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 147d

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

GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 147d

You use those if the seashells are busy

ApeNo1@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d

Tune in USS Tokyo.

BlueMageBartz@startrek.website · 2 pts · 145d

Torture usage. She can claim there are three of them.

Widdershins@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d

If you touch both at the same time it closes the portal to the mining planet they're sending the squished down people to slave on.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d (1 reply)

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

IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d

no true cardassian would lower themselves to such superstitions

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 147d

Wrong answer?

... they lactate.

Sometimes you just get thirsty.