Just noticed they're used by both Bajorans and Cardassians.

Text in the first panel is irrelevant - it was just the best quality picture I could find for that scene.

Obviously...

LOL, yes.

Squeeze really tight and say, 'yes, I can.' Say it again. 'Yes, I can!'

Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, Cletus Klump, Mama Anna Klump, Grandma Klump, Ernie Klump Sr., Lance Perkins in The Nutty Professor (1996)

It's a security feature. They don't actually do anything. But nobody who's not supposed to sit there knows that. When you touch both of them to see what they do, you're instantly disintegrated.

Hostile architecture, to prevent people from sleeping on the desk...

For those wondering:

Pain play with their version of Baghdad Batteries. No kink shaming.

Nuclear cores. Pick them up and slam them together for an instant atomic explosion.

Also ensures politicians don't stay in office too long....

Salt & peppers shakers

Sometimes you just need a pair of cold, steel balls to fondle. Maybe they remind you of home, maybe it's just stress relief, maybe you miss your father, nobody is going to judge.

It's a metal which their physiology requires, but is low in their food supply, so they lick the metal orbs once in a while.

mods this guy is breaking the rules

they are the larval form of the blinking tubes

They don't actually do anything

you're instantly disintegrated

My friend, you and I have astonishingly different definitions of "don't actually do anything"

Pop out of the desk and scream "exterminate!"

I did see that myself while writing.
Decided to go with it.

I mean, from the users point of view, nothing happened.

You gotta have a place to put your orbs so you can ponder them as needed.

Except, you use it to make Odo turn into different shapes.

It’s an E‑Meter for Scientology

Do you know the TOS salt shaker story?

In 'The Man Trap' there's a scene where two members chat. There's a salt shaker prominent in the scene. The props department sent someone out to buy a bunch of exotic salt shakers. When they looked at the 'modern' shakers they realized that no one at home would know what they were supposed to be.

In the end they shot the scene with a salt shaker from the commissary and used the exotic ones to fill Dr. McCoy's medical bag.

Wifi access point.

Tune in USS Tokyo.

track balls, she has a dedicated holo emitter for playing katamari

Theremins were in vogue during the occupation

Or a pair of Van de Graaff generators.

Holding them makes your hair stand up.

Wrong answer?

... they lactate.

Sometimes you just get thirsty.

You use those if the seashells are busy

Since it's Kai Winn? Torture device on loan from Delores Umbridge. The activation phrase is set to "My Child."

You found the etheric beam locators!

Hi-tech... praying things, that the Cardassians for some reason adopted in the occupation? Maybe the Cardassians were trying to contact the prophets.

That's her pooping face and the third seashell is currently in use.

Torture usage. She can claim there are three of them.