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…
Except, you use it to make Odo turn into different shapes.
LOL, yes.
Salt & peppers shakers
Hostile architecture, to prevent people from sleeping on the desk…
It’s an E‑Meter for Scientology
You gotta have a place to put your orbs so you can ponder them as needed.
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.
Since it’s Kai Winn? Torture device on loan from Delores Umbridge. The activation phrase is set to “My Child.”
Nuclear cores. Pick them up and slam them together for an instant atomic explosion.
Also ensures politicians don’t stay in office too long…
Theremins were in vogue during the occupation
The Scientology E-Meter (electropsychometer) is a religious artifact used in “auditing” to detect emotional reactions, spiritual distress, or “engrams” by measuring electrical resistance in the body.
First thing I thought of for some reason.
Or a pair of Van de Graaff generators.
Holding them makes your hair stand up.
they are the larval form of the blinking tubes
Pop out of the desk and scream “exterminate!”
Wifi access point.
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)
You use those if the seashells are busy







