Sulu's tea cup on the Excelsior

[Gary7]

In "Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country" as well as Voyager's "Flashback", we see Captain Hikaru Sulu sip from an Excelsior accented tea cup. It's only in the Voyager episode that we really get a good look at it:

Does anybody know who made it, and how many were produced? It looks a lot like something that Lenox would make. I've not spotted any remakes of it, so I guess they never tried to offer it as Star Trek merchandise.

 

[Bishop76]

I think they did offer it around when the movie was out, but I was pretty young at the time. Don't remember a lot of detail other than I think this and the blankets with the ship logos were being sold. I think I saw it in a Starlog magazine at the time...

 

[Gary7]

^ Thanks. I tried searching for anything linked between "Star Trek", "Lenox", and "tea cup", but didn't turn up anything.

Here's an example of a more recent Lenox tea cup:

Notice the shape and accents. Looks like Lenox could have been the maker.

 

[Captain Mike]

I hadn't seen any reproductions myself but since this screencap shows it wasn't the original...I would imagine someone owns it...http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tuc/ch1/tuc0013.jpg

 

[Therin of Andor]

http://www.yourprops.com/view_item.php?movie_prop=14486

These were definitely once available commercially. Excelsior and Enterprise-A, IIRC. And Enterprise-D from "Generations":

http://www.yourprops.com/norm-455b00e60047b-Star+Trek:+Generations+(1994).jpeg

 

[Doug Otte]

Yes; I had a coffee cup and saucer w/ the same logo, but obviously a different design. The cup was a standard squat cylndrical shape. They were sold in Macy's (or the old Woodies or Hecht's in DC at that time) around the release of ST VI. I think it was Lenox, but I'm not sure I remember that bit correctly.

Unfortunately, I broke both of them years ago. I'm quite a klutz when it comes to kitchenware.

Doug

 

[Green Shirt]

Unfortunately, I broke both of them years ago. I'm quite a klutz when it comes to kitchenware.

Doug

You and Sulu.

 

[STR]

Heh. I've got the NCC-1701-A coffee mug (some of the detail has come off after almost 20 years of regular use) as well as the bigger stein. I don't have the Enterprise plate and teacup, or the Excelsior teacup and mug. The whole line was made by Pfaltzgraff and included at least 1 DS9 set, though most of the stuff was tied into ST6. A search on eBay tells me the Excelsior stuff is a lot rarer, and an order of magnitude more expensive.

Now that I've looked at it all, I kinda want the 1701-A cookie jar.

 

[Captain Mike]

My question is...Just where the hell is the original?...I can find no mention on Christies auction about it. Maybe Takei has a "momento" he has never talked about?

 

[Marc]

My question is...Just where the hell is the original?...I can find no mention on Christies auction about it. Maybe Takei has a "momento" he has never talked about?

probably destroyed in production of the film.

 

[Tiberius]

Nope. The cup that was smashed was a different cup. Apparently, everyone liked the prop so much they didn't want to smash it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Pfaltzgraff

That's the company I was trying to think of...

 

[aaon80]

I own the 1701-A dinner set from Pfaltzgraf, one of my favorite collectibles. It was a neat idea to produce these for sure. I remember it being hard to find when it came out in '91, I can only i,agine th

 

[aaon80]

I own the 1701-A dinner set from Pfaltzgraf, one of my favorite collectibles. It was a neat idea to produce these for sure. I remember it being hard to find when it came out in '91, I can only imagine that the value has increased, not that I plan on getting rid of it!