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.

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    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.

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      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”

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

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