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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Use the cup as a weapon
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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!
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.
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.
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.
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