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.)

TORRES: Ah, ha. Gotcha. Why don't we reassess those probabilities together, okay? Remember how we used to play hypothetical games?

DREADNOUGHT: Affirmative.

TORRES: Let's play one now. Here's a hypothetical situation for you. Suppose I've been telling you the truth all along, and you really are in the Delta quadrant.

DREADNOUGHT: Probability of being in the Delta quadrant, seventy five thousand light years from last confirmed location, is negligible.

TORRES: Hypothetical, Dreadnought. It's a game, remember? Assume it's true for a moment.

DREADNOUGHT: Assumption entered.

TORRES: And we're heading for the wrong target.

DREADNOUGHT: Assumption entered.

TORRES: Millions of innocent people about to die when you detonate.

DREADNOUGHT: Assumption entered.

TORRES: Now, explain to me how this might happen.

DREADNOUGHT: If key sensor programmes were damaged or deleted, databanks would be compromised.

TORRES: Just for the fun of it, let's have a look at those databanks. See if anythin

[O]ne thing defines [Seska] in contrast to the Cardassians we’d been regularly seeing on Star Trek at that moment in time: she’s just kind of an absolute hot mess.

...

But it’s kind of what makes Seska work as a character: despite all this, villainy or otherwise, nothing ever quite clicks for her. It’s a great mirror to uphold against Janeway’s decision to have the crew take the long way home in the first place, the idea that, if they did ultimately just go Seska’s route and exploit their advantageous power in an unknown quadrant, it would doom them.

u/wil offered to do an AMA with us to promote a new podcast he just announced and of course talk Trek with us on Wednesday March 26th at 4pm ET/1pm PT!
His podcast, It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton, launches that same day. More details on his podcast can be found here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-storytime-with-wil-wheaton/id1803000536
Mark the date on your personal log calendars! 🖖

I don't like linking back to the other site, but figured some people here might appreciate it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/1jkl28z/hey_nerds_im_wil_wheaton_and_i_am_here_to_tell/

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Katee looks like she's going to pop, she's so excited. :)

Posting a few thoughts as a comment to keep things somewhat unassuming.

One of the core tenets of "Star Trek" is an undercurrent of pacifism. The ships we see in any given "Star Trek" series are usually research vessels devoted to missions of exploration and study. Just as often, they do repair work on distant worlds, help planets in severe environmental trouble, or taxi diplomats to important peace talks. And while the U.S.S. Enterprise is equipped with weapons like phasers and photon torpedoes, they are only very rarely assigned a mission of combat. More often, the crew of the Enterprise will threaten a potential battlefield foe while still doing everything they can to avoid war.