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I love how someone on ST: Enterprise set crew loved Finnish glass design. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, when the centre of civilization was in Rome or Athens or so... those people would've thought Finland as far away as we now consider Pluto or something.

I think we could interact with Kuiper Belt. IF we stand unified against the capitalist shitbags. Sorry. Unrelated. But. Also not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJAe3usECs&list=RDcnBV1FgfRuY&index=5

"Our security is only as strong as our unity."

[–] lemming 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 😍.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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 — "rather than question it", "let's deem it relevant"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some of them may be just copying the style, but if they are actual Tapio Wirkkala's Ultima Thule, and cheap, I'd suggest considering picking them up.

Just for money, really. The larger glasses like the one featured and the beer glasses go for like 15-25, def at least 10 even to resellers (like collector shops etc) and shot glasses and flutes like 5-15.

https://www.touchoffinland.com/collections/iittala-ultima-thule?srsltid=AfmBOorrzRr1CKtlZehk6IujUx9vGzrTV1DsfY9AhyQz1bLlOA19iPdH

But as I said there's tons of limitations. And I don't know what to check to know whether they're "real". I think I'd know by seeing but.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I know that there are knock-offs, and other cheap facsimiles out there. In fact, I can remember a specific style of plastic drinking glass that copied that pattern exactly in the early 90's, although I only saw them a few times. Thinking about it, I couldn't really tell the difference between the genuine article anymore than I could with most crystalware unless it were really obvious like the cheap pinwheel dishes/glasses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fk me, that picture from last night is the last picture of it whole. Managed to be so twatted last night I must have hit it on something / hit it with a bottle. Can't recall.

Rip cognac glass. I still have a dozen of them beer glasses but should've kept the lot when I had more of these. They're just really good resale value, like 5-20€ a piece, each, and I sold like half a dozen cognag glasses, shot glasses and champagne flutes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Andorians are like super racist though.

If you're younger you may not understand, but people who weren't actively racist but used racist slurs in their active.... wait what the fuck am I saying — that was 10 years ago — today fascism is coming back and kids prolly know more about it than I do. Fk.