Move Over, Picard’s Tea Cup, This DS9-Inspired Coffee Mug Is All I Need

The Star Trek replica drink receptacle arms race is heating up faster than a phaser set to “whatever the hell was necessary at the end of ‘Conspiracy’.” Late last year, we got news that, after almost a decade of hiatus, an official recreation of the glass cup Picard famously drank tea from across The Next Generation would be making it back to shelves. Now, for the coffee drinkers, there’s an alternative: this wonderful take on the funky mugs DS9‘s Replimat offered for the far superior drink of choice on the show. TrekCore reports that CherryTree–best known to Trek fans for their line of licensed PC cases, notably various hulking Borg Cubes–has started selling a line of “no spill” style mugs inspired by the famously sci-fi looking mugs the stars of Deep Space Nine regularly drunk Klingon raktajino out of across the series. Two varieties of raktajino mug were common on the show: the blue-hued cup commonly served at the Replimat restaurant on DS9’s promenade, and an alternative, indented ... Read full article.