mystery object

[Roshi]

A bottle opener maybe?

 

[TheSeeker]

Solved,I think.
Did an Ebay search for Star Trek razor and found this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Star-Trek-Millennium-Deodorant-Keyring-Razor-Shaving-Foam-Set-/111342662767?pt=UK_Collectables_SciFi_fantasyCollectables_EH&hash=item19ec8a346f

Cool. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw it.

 

[M'Sharak]

Btw, isn't it interesting that in all Trek there's only one shaving scene (Insurrection) and there they use a shaving-knife that's old-fashioned even by 21st century standards? One should think in the future they'd have something more modern.

^^ Didn't we see Geordi shaving once with an electric-type razor?

Yup. Also sightless Tuvok shaving by touch with a straight razor in "Year of Hell".

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Razor

 

[Trekker4747]

I don't see how anyone could use Tuvox's razor there without killing themselves even WITH the ability to see.

 

[M'Sharak]

I don't see how anyone could use Tuvox's razor there without killing themselves even WITH the ability to see.

Of course you can't, yet for centuries blind people have not only been been shaving with similar implements, some of them earn a living at it. There's a segment in the Michael Palin travelogue Around the World in 80 Days in which he's getting a shave from a street barber in Mumbai, and only halfway through realizes that his barber is blind.

 

[USS Triumphant]

A bottle opener maybe?

A red nose warmer! For a PURPLE nose!

(+1 to anyone who gets that reference. )

 

[Trekker4747]

I don't see how anyone could use Tuvox's razor there without killing themselves even WITH the ability to see.

Of course you can't, yet for centuries blind people have not only been been shaving with similar implements, some of them earn a living at it. There's a segment in the Michael Palin travelogue Around the World in 80 Days in which he's getting a shave from a street barber in Mumbai, and only halfway through realizes that his barber is blind.

You miss my point, it looks like a poorly designed razor. The handle is way off the center-line of the blade. Looks like it'd be very hard to control.

 

[Sector 7]

^Not important. No real Trekkie would ever take it out of the box anyway.

+1... B-I-N-G-O!

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Thanks for the info, Tiberius! (It's much appreciated!)
I never realized that there was so much shaving going on. Gotta pay more attention next time there's a re-run.