Gorlan prayer stick
A Gorlan prayer stick
A Gorlan prayer stick was an extremely rare artifact. It had no real value as an antique except to students of archaeology.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard was in the possession of a Gorlan prayer stick and kept it in his quarters aboard the USS Enterprise-D. He traded a bottle of very old Saurian brandy for the artifact. He later gave the prayer stick to Jason Vigo as a parting gift. (TNG: "Bloodlines")
According to the script, his name was pronounced as "GORE-lun". [1]
According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, 2nd ed., p. 295, René Echevarria claimed that there was no intentional connection to the mirror universe Gorlan.