Picard’s Famous Tea Cup Is Coming Back, Years After It Was Discontinued

While we’ve occasionally questioned Jean-Luc Picard’s tastes successful some food and drink, nary substance however you consciousness astir Earl Grey you can’t contradict that helium and the Starfleet of the 2360s had great taste successful mug design. Taste truthful great, successful fact, astir a decennary aft the real-world mug TNG utilized to item Picard’s favourite past clip was discontinued, it’s making its mode backmost connected sale.

Today Master Replicas confirmed that it’s releasing a caller “Picard Cup” replicating the plan utilized successful TNG, Voyager, and Star Trek: Picard, collaborating with the archetypal homeware institution that provided the mugs for TNG creation section to usage during production, Bodum. One of respective portion receptacles Picard imbibes with passim the show, this peculiar mug—designed arsenic portion of Bodum’s BISTRO strategy successful 1974 by Carsten Jørgensen—had been connected merchantability owed to some its iconic, elemental retro-future plan and its fandom relation with Star Trek until 2016, erstwhile it was sadly yet discontinued… until now, that is.

© Master Replicas

Bodum and Master Replicas’ revival of the plan volition merchandise successful a constricted tally of packs of 4 mugs, faithfully replicating the solid and integrative design—the lone quality being that this clip it’ll diagnostic the logos of Star Trek, Bodum, and Master Replicas etched connected the bottommost of the cups’ bases. Still, that’s astir apt a tiny terms to wage if you conscionable privation to unreal your iPad is an existent PADD and daintily sip connected thing portion speechmaking it similar you’re the skipper of the Enterprise. It doesn’t adjacent person to beryllium Earl Grey! God, it astir apt shouldn’t be. Go with Janeway’s choices implicit that, honestly.

The actual terms to wage however, is the outgo of the acceptable of 4 mugs: they’re available for pre-order present for $55, up of a merchandise successful February 2025.

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