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I am throwing a birthday party for my boyfriend and making a star trek cake. His friends enjoy cigars and poker, which started me on a goody bag idea. His favorite series are TNG and VOY, but he also likes TOS too. What are some of the "vices" of the characters from these series that I could include besides playing cards and a cigar (I believe Q gives them to the crew in one episode and he LOVES Q) for gifts for the people coming?

Good question - we've been throwing around some ideas on IRC, and these are our immediate suggestions:

• The cake should look like a blue TNG uniform, and have mint frosting (Reference: Cellular peptide)
• Serve prune juice ("a warrior's drink!"), Earl Grey tea and something green (Aldebaran whiskey). Avoid Bloodwine, because no one likes to drink fermented blood on a birthday party!
• Have Jazz music playing
• Offer a dartboard (and a Dabo table, although we're unsure about the rules right now; both are DS9, though)
• As for gifts: Poker cards and chips, Cigars, Baseballs (DS9!), some of Shakespeare's works

Other than that, we just found out that most of their vices are somewhat hard to pull of as gifts, like science-for-fun, or model building, or reliving the Battle of Britain on a holodeck. Perhaps you can find more here: Category:Recreation

Good luck with the party, and all the best wishes from Memory Alpha! :) -- Cid Highwind 16:18, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

Smirnoff Ice and blue food coloring (not too much, just enough to make it bright) makes a good DS9 version of Romulan ale, with the added benefit of actually being alcoholic. You can probably do this with any cloudy colored beverage. Grapefruit juice makes a stand in for tranya. If you want to be really adventurous, meal worms and super worms are safe for human consumption, and look just like Ferengi tube grubs. Somewhere around I have a list of other recipes I've invented for Star Trek themed foods and drinks, I'll try to find it. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 18:29, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

Maybe you could find a Three-dimensional chess board or even a regular chess board for gifts. Good luck with your party!--31dot 22:22, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

By far the best thing one could give, at least cost and time consuming wise, would be a Riker head mug. I for one have never figured out why this product was never made. At the very least, reenacting this shot should be a hoot. Of course, I acknowledge that I wouldn't take my advice myself. :) - Archduk3 23:00, March 10, 2010 (UTC)