"I like to sneak little influences of my own into props — things that I like and inspire me personally," the prop master of Star Trek: Picard told the studio's own site in March 2023. "In the case of Ro's earring, there is a subtle homage to a prehistoric sea creature I wonder if anybody else has picked up on."
Jeff Lombardi is talking about a piece of jewelry that carries the plot of an episode. Ro Laren, back after three decades away, slips her Bajoran earring to Picard shortly before she is killed; the earring turns out to be hiding a data chip. It is a hand prop, passed palm to palm, held in close-up.
And it is the one piece of screen jewelry we have found where the thing in the shop and the thing on the actor came out of the same sculpt.
Why there was no old earring to copy
The obvious route would have been to reuse the original. That was not available. StarTrek.com reports that the earrings worn in The Next Generation were no longer in the Star Trek Archive's possession, so the production designed a new one instead.
Lombardi's account of the brief is unusually practical. "Ro's earring changed from season to season," he says. "It was important to the showrunner and I to create a d'ja pagh that was in the spirit of Bajoran art and culture that had evolved in the Star Trek universe since Ro's introduction in The Next Generation."
Then the part that decided the shape: "Ro's earring was more conventional circle shapes with lots of chains dangling interlinking the jewel with the top ear loop connection. The original earrings look good on an ear, but for our story purposes, we needed a simple design that could be handed over in the palm of the hand and instantly read as what it is." The new one is described as drawing on "more typical Bajoran imagery and insignia design and some prehistoric fossil influences."
So the design exists because of a blocking problem. The earring had to read at arm's length, in a fist, to a viewer who might know nothing about Bajor.
The making went to an outside jeweler. RockLove's founder, Allison Cimino, was brought in by the prop master, and the shop's own account says the pieces were "created from Jeffrey's original designs," with her translating his renders into the physical items worn on set. Lombardi's side of it: "I have cherished the working with Allison ever since [Season 1]. She makes remarkable jewelry and is a great collaborator."
The claim that matters to a buyer sits in the product bullets: the retail earring uses "the exact same sculpts as those made for the show." The studio's own article repeats it in the same words. That is a stronger claim than "replica," and a different one from a workshop reissuing a design it once made — this is the same tooling, not the same hands doing the job twice. The One Ring is exactly that other case: the Nelson workshop that made the film prop still makes the ring, and is not allowed to engrave it.
Both shops that carry it charge the same
Every figure in this article was read from the sellers' own product endpoints on 22 August 2026, with the currency pinned to US dollars each time. That pinning is not a formality. Ask the same shop for the same earring in won and it answers 23,300,000; ask in pounds and it answers 132. The number on the page is a function of where the shop thinks you are standing, and we have been one careless request away from printing the wrong one before.
| Where | Product | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|
| RockLove | Picard Bajoran Cuff Earring | $145.00 | In stock |
| Paramount Shop | Star Trek: Picard Bajoran Cuff Earring | $145.00 | In stock |
| RockLove | Kira Nerys Bajoran Cuff Earring | $125.00 | In stock |
No spread. That is worth saying plainly, because the usual finding on this site is a gap between maker and licensee. A24's Materialists ring is the other well-documented commission — a named jewelry house remaking a screen piece, at $160. Here the studio's own store lists the vendor field as RockLove Jewelry and charges the maker's price to the cent. If you were hoping to arbitrage the two, there is nothing to arbitrage.
There is one difference, and it is in the writing. The maker says the earring uses the same sculpts as the show's. The studio shop calls it "a screen-accurate replica" made "with the precision of the original prop makers" — softer, and technically a weaker claim about the same object. Neither page tells you whose ear it was on. The character is named in the studio's news article and in the maker's blog post, but not on either product page.
Physically it is small: 15mm by 18mm at the stud, a 70mm chain to the cuff, three cubic zirconia, three grams of sterling silver under rose gold plating. It is a single earring for a single piercing, with a cuff that grips higher up.
The piece that was on set is not the expensive one
Here is the part we did not expect. Within the Star Trek line, screen provenance costs less than starships.
| Piece | Price |
|---|---|
| IDIC Necklace | $275.00 |
| Phaser Spinner Ring | $250.00 |
| Six starship and station necklaces | $175.00 each |
| Picard Bajoran Cuff Earring | $145.00 |
| Red Crystal Delta Pendant | $145.00 |
| Three Crystal Delta Rings, Kira Nerys earring | $125.00 each |
Fourteen pieces, $2,365.00 if you bought one of each. Eight of them cost more than the earring that came off the show's sculpts. The most expensive thing in the case, at $275.00, is a pendant version of an emblem, and the second most expensive is a ring with a spinning band.
This is the finding we would stake the article on, because it survives every way we tried to break it. Switch the shop to its UK market and the line is still fourteen pieces, the earring is still eighth from the top, and the ordering does not move — only the currency does. Widen to the full United States catalog on 22 August 2026 and the shape is the same: a median of $120.00, with 73 items priced above the earring.
Provenance is not what you are paying for here. Metal, size and mechanism are.
We think that is the right way round, but it is not what a buyer assumes. If you walked in believing the screen-used design would be the premium tier, you would walk past it.
Three of these earrings were on screen. One is for sale
The d'ja pagh is not one object. Lombardi is explicit that it is "a family heirloom; there can be many different kinds stretching back many generations in the same way you might wear some of your grandmother's jewelry or your grandpa's favorite watch."
Season 3 had at least three of them. Ro Laren's, which Lombardi designed. Lieutenant Mura's, which he says "was designed and fabricated with the makeup effects department and Neville Page" — a different department, a different object, and nothing you can buy. And behind both, the Deep Space Nine version worn by Kira Nerys.
Kira's is sold, at $125.00, and the wording on it is a full grade weaker: the shop calls it "accurate to the earring worn on-screen," which is a reproduction of a nineties prop rather than a share of a sculpt. Aurora's Claire's Ring sits at that grade too — a licensed replica of a screen object, designed in-house rather than from the production's tooling. The studio dates it to the 2021 Women of Star Trek collection. That collection page now holds exactly two products, and both of them are Bajoran earrings. Everything else in it has gone.
Lombardi's own reading of why the earring reads so strongly is the best line in the interview, and it has nothing to do with metal: "the fact that some Bajorans ignore the dress code is very punk rock."
The first Picard piece is already gone
The earring is the second collaboration between this show and this jeweler. The first, announced in January 2020, was the Omega necklace worn by Dahj and Soji, and it was made the same way — same sculpts as the pendant on screen.
You cannot buy it. Searching the shop's own product index for "omega," "dahj" and "soji" returns nothing at all, and the As Seen on Star Trek: Picard collection now contains one product: the earring. Not sold out. Not backordered. Absent.
That is the risk with licensed jewelry and it is invisible on the product page. Two pieces were made from a production's own sculpts; six years later, half of them have stopped existing at retail.
Reading the shop's own grading
Because we could pull the whole catalog at once, we sorted it by what the seller claims about each product. The wording is consistent enough to grade. This is the United States catalog as it stood on 22 August 2026 — 268 products.
| What the copy claims | Products |
|---|---|
| Uses the show's own sculpts | 1 |
| Modelled on the original screen-used prop | 1 |
| Replica of, or accurate to, what is worn on screen | 14 |
| "Inspired by" | 87 |
| No on-screen claim at all | 165 |
One product in the entire catalog makes the strongest claim, and it is the earring. The only other piece with a physical prop behind it is the Log Lady Locket at $140.00, "carefully modeled after the original screen-used prop" — a miniature log with a hinged lid and a quote inside, which is either the best or the worst $140.00 in the shop depending entirely on who you are.
The middle tier is mostly animation, and that deserves a caveat the shop does not give you. When an Arcane piece is called "a faithful replica of the one worn by the character on-screen," there was never a physical original. Someone drew it. The jeweler is interpreting a drawing, which is a real skill and a different claim, and the language flattens the two together.
One more piece of price history worth knowing. The Twin Peaks Signet Ring was first made for the 2017 return of the series and has been reissued in two metals — $350.00 in solid sterling silver, $150.00 in brass — with the shop saying plainly that it split the design because of "the steep rise in precious metal value since the original release." Of the eighteen size-and-metal combinations, exactly one is unavailable: sterling in a size 5.
Half this shop does not exist if you are British
Two things are true at once here, and the second one took us by surprise.
The first is on the banner. The shop says its Disney Company collections "return to the vault" and invites you to buy the retiring inventory before it goes. We counted what that means: the retiring collection holds 137 products, priced from $60.00 to $325.00, and every one of them was still in stock on 22 August 2026 — 50 Disney, 35 Star Wars, 26 Marvel, seven Alien, five Pixar, five Rocky Horror, three Predator, one Indiana Jones and five untagged.
The second is that for a large part of our readership those products are already gone, and no banner says so.
Ask the shop for its catalog as a shopper in the United States and it returns 268 products. Ask as a shopper in the United Kingdom and it returns 116. Australia also returns 116, and it is the same 116 — an identical set of handles, not a coincidence of counting. Canada returns 267.
| Where the shop thinks you are | Products offered | The earring |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 268 | $145.00 |
| Canada | 267 | CA$207.00 |
| United Kingdom | 116 | £132.00 |
| Australia | 116 | A$231.00 |
The 152 products a British or Australian shopper cannot see are not random. They are 50 Disney, 35 Star Wars, 26 Marvel, ten Naruto, seven Alien, five Pixar, five Rocky Horror, four Twin Peaks, three Predator, one Indiana Jones, one house-brand piece and five untagged. Every Disney-owned line in that retiring collection is in there, which means the "buy it before it vanishes" invitation is addressed to an American reader whether or not it says so.
This is the shipping policy's territory clause made visible, and it answers a question we assumed we would have to leave open. The good news for anyone who came here for the earring: it is offered in all four markets. The bad news, if you are in the UK or Australia, is that the Log Lady Locket is not — the entire Twin Peaks line disappears. Run the same grading exercise on the British catalog and the tally comes out 1, 0, 14, 28, 73. One product with a screen object behind it, and it is the Bajoran earring.
Across the American catalog, exactly one product of 268 is fully sold out in every variant; across the British one, none are. Almost nothing here leaves because people bought it. Things leave because a contract ends or a territory was never granted — Ghibli is the extreme version: three official shops, screen-accurate replicas from ¥1,540, and no route to North America at all — which is what happened to the Omega necklace, and what will eventually happen to the earring.
What we did not test
We did not run a checkout, so we cannot quote a delivered price, and we will not guess at one. The shipping policy says orders are processed in one to three business days, that Canadian orders typically arrive in six to ten business days and other international orders in ten to twenty, and that both USPS and UPS service guarantees remain suspended.
The policy's territory clause reads: "All RockLove is officially licensed product. According to territory regulations, certain products are only available to be shipped to certain territories." It does not say which products or which territories. Comparing the catalog market by market tells you, which is how we got the counts above — but that shows you what is offered, not what will survive a real address at checkout. We would treat the two as the same thing only after someone has actually ordered.
Duty and VAT are a separate matter and we have no figure for them: the policy says they are calculated and collected at checkout by a third-party app, and that refusing delivery does not get your shipping back.
We also could not find an official video about any of this. There is a shop channel, but nothing on it about the Bajoran earring, and we would rather show you the price ladder we actually measured than attach a trailer that has nothing to do with the subject.
FAQ
Is the Bajoran earring in Star Trek: Picard the same as the one you can buy? It uses the same sculpts. Both the maker and the studio's own site state that the retail piece was made "utilizing the exact same sculpts as those made for the show." The jeweler also made the physical earrings worn during filming, from the prop master's designs.
How much does the Picard Bajoran cuff earring cost? $145.00, checked on 22 August 2026 at both the maker's shop and the studio's Paramount Shop listing. The two prices are identical and both were in stock. The maker's own site quotes £132.00 to a UK shopper, CA$207.00 in Canada and A$231.00 in Australia.
Who designed Ro Laren's earring? Jeff Lombardi, prop master on Star Trek: Picard. He designed it new because the original earrings from The Next Generation were no longer in the Star Trek Archive, and he says he hid a homage to a prehistoric sea creature in it.
What is a d'ja pagh? The Bajoran earring, traditionally worn on the right ear, carrying family symbols. In the show's terms it works like an heirloom, so different Bajorans wear visibly different ones — which is why Ro Laren's, Kira Nerys's and Lieutenant Mura's are three separate designs.
Can I buy Kira Nerys's earring too? Yes, at $125.00. It is described as accurate to the earring worn on screen in Deep Space Nine rather than made from the show's sculpts, which is a weaker claim about a much older prop. It dates from the 2021 Women of Star Trek collection, and that collection is now down to two products.
What happened to the Omega necklace from Season 1? It has been removed from the catalog. Searching the shop for it returns no results, and the Picard collection page now lists one item. It was made from the same sculpts as the on-screen pendant when it launched in January 2020.
Is any other jewelry in this shop made from a real prop? One other piece. The Twin Peaks Log Lady Locket, $140.00, is described as carefully modeled after the original screen-used prop. Of the 268 products in the American catalog, those two are the only ones with a physical screen object behind them — and the locket is not offered to UK or Australian shoppers at all.
Is the earring sold in the UK, Canada and Australia? It is listed in all four markets, at £132.00, CA$207.00 and A$231.00 respectively. That is more than we could say for much of the shop: asked as a British or Australian shopper, the catalog shrinks from 268 products to 116. We have confirmed the earring is offered, not that a specific address will clear checkout, and duties and VAT are added there.