Worst/dumbest TNG props?

[TechnoGoose]

I was watching S6E15 "Tapestry" the other day and that stupid pool table looking thing they play with the Nausicaan, has been living rent free in my head ever since. It got me thinking, what are some other absolutely stupid or terrible props that they use in TNG? Bonus points if it's more obscure/hidden

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[Artoo Atari]

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[Qonundrum]

Does the propping up of hair count? If so,

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surely qualifies as much as anything else?

If not, "Symbiosis", "Evolution", "Power Play", and a few others, had a couple examples of items that, once recognized for what they are in real life, makes it admittedly harder to overlook*. At least, for TOS, some things like bottles and exotic salt shakers could be concealed adequately. But engine parts, 35mm film canisters, camera tripod mounts, and other bits and pieces... not as often as such.

* on the flip side, if the actor makes you overlook it with their performance and sincerity of the scene, that says a LOT. After all, a Necco wafer by any other name is not "Romulan suicide pill".

 

[tomalak301]

That head thing Beverly was wearing in Lonely Among Us and the duster phaser from Conspiracy.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I've seen a picture of Beverly using a pregnancy test as a stylus for a tablet

 

[XCV330]

it wasn't dumb, but Livingston deserved a bigger aquarium.

 

[Lynx]

I don't think that the Dom-Jot table is stupid and neither is the bug in Dexters mouth.
I would like to have a Dom-Jot table at home!

"Play Dom-Jot, Human! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"


Not to mention that Tapestry is a great episode, one of the best of TNG. And so is also Conspiracy.

 

[XCV330]

I don't think that the Dom-Jot table is stupid and neither is the bug in Dexters mouth.
I would like to have a Dom-Jot table at home!

"Play Dom-Jot, Human! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"


Not to mention that Tapestry is a great episode, one of the best of TNG. And so is also Conspiracy.

Dom-Jot just looked like slightly more complicated bumper pool to me. It looked like fun.

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I tried to make the conspiracy scene a little more thrilling a few years ago.. (turn speakers down at work)

 

[carcinoGeneticist]

I don't know what episode it was from, but a weird pink disc of jello was given to Picard to eat by some aliens in an episode. I know it looked like that for a reason but I thought it was pretty silly looking

 

[Artoo Atari]

I don't know what episode it was from, but a weird pink disc of jello was given to Picard to eat by some aliens in an episode. I know it looked like that for a reason but I thought it was pretty silly looking

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"What is it?"
"I don't know. I found it in the urinal."

 

[JoseNoodles]

Riker seems to like it.

 

[Artoo Atari]

Riker seems to like it.

I was actually looking for that one! Nice find!