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I love how someone on ST: Enterprise set crew loved Finnish glass design. (lemmy.world)
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Shran uses a set from a Finnish designer, called "Ultima Thule". It's also featured as a world on the show, iirc. (I'm midway through rewatch, but Ultima Thule is definitely a world in the ST universe.)

The name come from ancient times, meaning roughly "Ultimate North", and referring to various places that no-one can really agree on.

Anyways, the other glass is also Finnish, and also used in ST: Enterprise. Whenever Archer has dinner in his quarters or they're having cake at Malcolm's bday, therr these glasses are: https://star-trek.design/glassware/tapio-goblets-by-tapio-wirkkala-for-iittala

(I wonder if this is related to my alcoholism flaring up anytime the episodes with the glasses come up.)

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[-] Davel23@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

Ultima Thule is a real Kuiper Belt object. The New Horizons probe did a flyby of it a few years ago.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Not any more. It was never an official name. Now it is Arrokoth.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was thrilled when DS9 featured my knives and forks back in the day.

https://star-trek.design/tableware/treble-clef-flatware-by-gourmet-settings

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It was only through recognising these glasses I got into the whole world of Star Trek design.

Never paid any attention before, really, but once I recognised these, I started paying attention to set design quite a lot, in all shows.

That's nice flatware.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's not the exact same glass btw. (So as not to manipulate how you perceive Shran's size.)

It's just the same series. The one in the picture is like for cognac etc, but the one Shran is using is more like, beer sized.

But I have actual beer glasses from that series, and they have a stem.

Like ite definitely the same series of glasses, I just don't know what glass it specifically is.

I had like champagne flutes of this series as well, but I sold them because I needed money and no-one ever visits me anyway, so they'd have just been sitting on the shelves, taunting me.

I saved this cognac glass and like a dozen of these beer pints.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Odd, I had no idea. I've seen glasses with this exact patterning a few times at second-hand stores over the years but passed them over.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

So let me add a comment. I had never heard of Tappio Wirkkala. I can't decide if I love the Thule series or not. But the chanterelle vase is gorgeous ๐Ÿ˜.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It's with one "P", but I like the enthusiasism. I'm sure I wrote that wrong. I don't care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPkb0vKLQbo&list=RDcnBV1FgfRuY&index=4

That's a complicated URL that I don't know how much info it gves away from me.

"Connect to your truth โ€” "rather than question it", "let's deem it relevant"?

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