A pen
Revalus' pen
A pen was a writing instrument used on paper. Early pens were made from feathers, called quills. (VOY: "Author, Author")
In 2154, upon returning to Earth following the Xindi incident, Malcolm Reed used a pen to sign his autograph on a piece of paper for two ladies in a bar. (ENT: "Home")
Mistress Beata of Angel I used a pen. (TNG: "Angel One")
In an alternate timeline, when Melanie asked Jake Sisko why he had stopped writing, he quipped that he had lost his favorite pen and couldn't get any work done without it. He had written Anslem in pen and later wrote a collection of new stories in pen, honoring the request of his father. (DS9: "The Visitor")
Onaya gave a pen used by the writer Revalus to Jake Sisko to write Anslem. (DS9: "The Muse")
Caylem used a pen to write letters to his wife. (VOY: "Resistance")
Ancient writing implements
In 2374, Chakotay encountered Kellin, a member of a species which erased both memories and computer records to eliminate references to their existence. In order to produce a permanent record regardless, he wrote down an account by hand, using what Neelix described as ancient writing implements. These consisted of a hard surface with a paper-like substrate, and a metallic and somewhat conical pen that buzzed while he wrote. (VOY: "Unforgettable")
As described by the final draft script of ENT: "Similitude", a pen was to "zip" across the desk in Captain Archer's ready room, magnetically attracted to a sample of nucleonic particles. In the final version of the episode, though, the pen doesn't appear, instead replaced with a metallic mug.
The pen used by Mistress Beata in "Angel One" was later re-used as Caylem's pen in "Resistance".
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- Pen at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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