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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe the last bit is disgusting, much like certain earth beverages, and the cup is to protect you from the dregs?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

They've thought of everything in the future

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn what the actual fuck that is a good idea why don't they serve Turkish and Israeli coffee out of these racktaccino mugs?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hooleeeshit

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

And you don't even have to worry about cleaning that part. Just stick it back in the replicator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, might have s strong concentrate or sludge in the bottom like kahvessi.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My theory is that the cup is regular on the inside and the bottom is weighted to provide stability. It's raktajino. It's Klingon. So if a spontaneous heroic fight erupts around you, you want to

  1. Use the cup as a weapon
  2. Swipe the cup out of the way for the battle without it toppling over so you can then use it to toast on your glorious victory in the battle of the breakfast.
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fun fact: these were actually real cups you could buy (they picked them because of how weird they were), so there are likely unsuspecting people out there using them still today. They don't know that they're prepared for a battle at any moment.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah they're basic, over-the-counter no-spill mugs, generally for use on boats.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm currently googling where to buy one that looks close to theirs. Lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I said "no spill," but I think "no tip" will actually yield better results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Search for Feltman Langer mug, should get you there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IIRC people had laughs in Picard S2 seeing lamps from Ikea on that synths refuge planet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Like so many others, synths have become slaves to the IKEA nesting instinct."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only I could find one that is the right shade of blue now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@The_Picard_Maneuver I already tried looking, lol, and while there are some lovely ceramic travel cups out there, I think you'd have to go to a ceramics studio and make your own!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Man, I have to learn a skill for this?

It might be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@The_Picard_Maneuver ceramics is sooooo fun!! Do it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Apparently they're made by a company called "Feltman Langer." (Source: http://www.trekprops.de/raktajino-mug-replimat)

There are a bunch of them on Ebay for fairly reasonable prices, but generally with nautical designs on them instead of the solid blue used in the show.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. I laughed when one of those showed up like it was the cup of the future when I literally used one every day during my morning commute in the 20th century.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I thought the same when I saw that episode with the humans in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a good head cannon for this is that a mug is such a basic thing that you don't really need to keep re-inventing a new design from scratch. So when a new replicator system/technology comes out, you just port stuff over from the old one. Like maybe it's one of those patterns in the replicator database that just goes back eons to united earth or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think my "battle of the breakfast"-theory is the better explanation. Less "kept for backwards compatibility purposes", more "Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I bought one and have it at my office. It's a fine mug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good point, the Peeky Blinders would line the bottom with a razor wheel.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

My friend has one of these mugs! We call it the troll mug because the last sip is always bigger than you think and ends up all over you

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The cup is bottom-heavy and usually has a high friction substance on the bottom so that it's less likely to spill when you take an unexpected wave on Earth, or an unexpected photon torpedo on DS9.

E2a: You can google Feltman Langer or no-spill mug.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah I always thought it was kinda funny that this became "the raktajino cup" when I always took the cup's shape to be a symbol of how DS9 was this ramshackle station "on the frontier". I mean it makes sense that Klingons would want a mug that can resist spillage but when DS9 first aired I never thought it was anything beyond just a robust mug.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

On DS9 you always expect photon torpedos.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe it's for a drink that has a lot of sediment or something, there are beers that do that. That's my headcanon

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's a nautical design. The wide base keeps it steady on ships. Hence why it's used in Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That style of mug became popular in the 80s, when corporate commuting and cubicle culture exploded, and cars didn't all come standard with cupholders yet. A mug like this could sit on the dash or console with stability, and it was also good for a crowded desk because you couldn't knock it over and spill it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which makes it extra funny because they're on a space station not a ship like the other treks. I choose to believe it was foreshadowing that they were going to move the space station to the wormhole and there would be sloshing and turbulence when that happened. It's just solid planning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're all just throwing back mugs of beer in the mornings while running the space station.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I'd have thought that the cylinder part was hallow. But the bottom part was solid. Thus. Seperate your hot beverage from your surface - be it table, hand, lap. No need to hold on to it if it's not hot on the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

put your whole mouth around the top and invert it. just like drinking a water bottle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is how I drink all beverages from all cups.

I'm great fun at a tiki bar.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You don't. It's probably got grounds or something settled into the bottom and the cup is shaped like that on purpose to prevent you from drinking them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a crush on her as a kid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

She's still smoking hot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You laugh, but you'll wish you had one of these when you lose your inertial stabilizers! You'll go flying through the bridge viewscreen, but that mug will sit there watching it happen.