Picard’s Well-known Tea Cup Is Coming Again, Years After It Was Discontinued

Whereas we’ve often questioned Jean-Luc Picard’s tastes in each food and drink, irrespective of how you’re feeling about Earl Gray you may’t deny that he and the Starfleet of the 2360s had great taste in mug design. Style so nice, in truth, virtually a decade after the real-world mug TNG used to spotlight Picard’s favourite previous time was discontinued, it’s making its manner again on sale.

At present Grasp Replicas confirmed that it’s releasing a brand new “Picard Cup” replicating the design utilized in TNG, Voyager, and Star Trek: Picard, collaborating with the unique homeware firm that offered the mugs for TNG artwork division to make use of throughout manufacturing, Bodum. Certainly one of a number of drink receptacles Picard imbibes with all through the present, this explicit mug—designed as a part of Bodum’s BISTRO system in 1974 by Carsten Jørgensen—had been on sale as a result of each its iconic, easy retro-future design and its fandom affiliation with Star Trek till 2016, when it was sadly lastly discontinued… till now, that’s.

Bodum and Grasp Replicas’ revival of the design will launch in a restricted run of packs of 4 mugs, faithfully replicating the glass and plastic design—the one distinction being that this time it’ll characteristic the logos of Star Trek, Bodum, and Grasp Replicas etched on the underside of the cups’ bases. Nonetheless, that’s in all probability a small value to pay should you simply need to faux your iPad is an precise PADD and daintily sip on one thing whereas studying it such as you’re the captain of the Enterprise. It doesn’t even need to be Earl Gray! God, it in all probability shouldn’t be. Go with Janeway’s choices over that, actually.

The precise value to pay nonetheless, is the price of the set of 4 mugs: they’re available for pre-order now for $55, forward of a launch in February 2025.

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