I honestly don’t think Paramount would have a case there. You can’t own a trademark on the words “deep space” and they didn’t write “Deep Space 9.”
There used to be tons of “the Next Generation” jokes all over the place back in the 80s and 90s. Nothing they can do about it as long as you avoid “Star Trek” or other such things. You could probably even argue that a spa called “Spa Trek: The Bath of Khan” would fall under legal parody. Mad Magazine got closer than that.
Edit: Also, Highwave has apparently been making the mugs since the early 1980s according to their website, so Paramount would have even less of a case.
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I honestly don’t think Paramount would have a case there. You can’t own a trademark on the words “deep space” and they didn’t write “Deep Space 9.”
There used to be tons of “the Next Generation” jokes all over the place back in the 80s and 90s. Nothing they can do about it as long as you avoid “Star Trek” or other such things. You could probably even argue that a spa called “Spa Trek: The Bath of Khan” would fall under legal parody. Mad Magazine got closer than that.
Edit: Also, Highwave has apparently been making the mugs since the early 1980s according to their website, so Paramount would have even less of a case.