Object
Troi's Expensive-Looking Dinner Glasses
A matched pair of expensive-looking stemmed glasses—fine crystal with thin rims and polished stems—set on a small candlelit table in Mrs. Troi's quarters. The glass bowls catch and fracture the warm candlelight, throwing soft highlights across the tablecloth. One glass rests primly at each place; characters eye and cradle them as tactile anchors for the planned intimate meal, while a servant (Mister Homn) moves around them in a tense, performative manner.
2 appearances
Purpose
To hold and present beverage (wine or a similar drink) for consumption during a formal, two-person candlelit dinner.
Significance
They establish and heighten the romantic/dinner tableau that Lwaxana Troi stages and that Picard invades; as props they mark the boundary of private intimacy and become inadvertent witnesses to Homn's disruptive act, amplifying embarrassment and transforming a ritual of hospitality into a moment of power play and violation.
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