Star Trek: Picard
Summary
Even before its manyStar Trek : Picardappearances , Château Picard has been shipping bottle of Bordeaux across the galax throughoutStar Trek ’s chronicle . Now that he ’s - mostly - strike out from Starfleet , Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) keeps the family business of winemaking running , a persona that his begetter had always require for him . Jean - Luc Picard ’s issue with his father are well - document , most notably inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 when the tampering of Q ( John de Lancie ) allowed Jean - Luc to get to the heart of the puerility trauma at the source of their disaffection .
ThePicard family linecan be hunt back to the 8th 100 , but it ’s unclear exactly when , or for how long the Picards have been winemaker . Maurice Picard ( James Callis ) , Jean - Luc ’s Fatherhood , was a traditionalist , who continued to go thePicard family vinery in La Barre , France , without the assistance of forward-looking technology . This tradition was continued by Jean - Luc ’s blood brother Robert Picard ( Jeremy Kemp ) , but it ’s clear from what ’s examine of the Château , and the vineyards , that Jean - Luc has considerably raise Château Picard since take on over fall out his retreat from Starfleet in 2385 . Here ’s the account of the Picard family wine , and why Jean - Luc eventually settle to fulfill his founder ’s wish to abandon the Galax urceolata for the grapevine of the Le Barre area .
Star Trek : Picard time of year 3 was a Brobdingnagian strike as it reunite the crew of TNG , but is it possible Jean - Luc and friends could return for time of year 4 ?
The History of Chateau Picard Family Wine In Star Trek
Picard winemaking goes back many generations
While Château Picard has a chronicle that pre - dates the Nazi line of work of France during World War II , it ’s harder to date the get-go of the Picard kin ’s winemaking business concern . Captain Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) has a bottleful of Chateau Picard in her quick room aboard the USS Shenzou inStar Trek : Discovery ’s season 1 premiere , " The Vulcan Hello " . This means that thePicard kinsperson ’s wine has been readily uncommitted in theStar Trekuniverse since as far back as 2256.This was over 100 eld before Maurice Picard died , suggesting that the wine business predated him , and peradventure even Jean - Luc Picard ’s granddaddy .
Maurice Picard want Jean - Luc to carry on the kinsfolk business , a job that fall to Jean - Luc ’s sure-enough brother Robert .
It ’s revealed inStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s episode , " Family " , that Maurice Picard wanted Jean - Luc to carry on the sept line of work , a business that fell to Jean - Luc ’s older brother Robert . Robert resented Jean - Luc for result the kinsperson vineyard and becoming a legendary Starfleet captain , but the two men reconciled before his tragical death in 2371 . It ’s unclear what happened to the track of the vineyard in the time between Robert ’s destruction in 2371 , which Captain Picard larn about inStar Trek Generations , and Jean - Luc ’s retirement from Starfleet in 2385 .
Captain Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise - atomic number 99 drink to the memory of Lieutenant Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) with Chateau Picard after his death inStar Trek : Nemesisand the USS Protostar ’s first voyage was baptize by a feeding bottle of Chateau Picard inStar Trek : Prodigy .
Why Jean-Luc Picard Makes His Family Wine
Jean-Luc lived a somewhat happy retirement at Chateau Picard
The tragical expiry ofPicard ’s family inStar Trek Generationswas , no dubiety , part of the impulsion for Jean - Luc pickings over the patronage during his retreat . InStar Trek Generations , Picard reflected on being the last of the kin line . At the time , Captain Picard had no children of his own . Jean - Luc in all likelihood decided he could insure the family name would live on via the vino line of work . InStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , episode 1 , " The Next Generation , " Jean - Luc suppose that he was never concerned in a legacy , but he does desire to honor the many generations of Picards that came before him by secure the future of the family clientele .
Chateau Picard became a resort for Jean - Luc when he angrily quit Starfleet in 2385.Picard was promoted to Admiral and post in burster of the United Federation of Planets ' travail to relocate the Romulan people as their sun move supernova . However , when the Federation abandoned the saving mission , Admiral Picard resigned in protest . For almost 15 years , Picard retrograde to his family vineyards in La Barre , France , and made vino while writing Koran in a ungratified and fitful retirement .
Now that Jean - Luc does have a Word , Jack Crusher , he desire him to follow in his footsteps with a career in Starfleet , rather than making Chateau Picard wine .
Chateau Picard ’s vineyards have modern technology and a numeral of staff to tend them , which , for a time , included RomulansLaris ( Orla Brady)and her husband Zhaban ( Jamie McShane ) . This suggests that the wine will live on long after Jean - Luc . Interestingly , now that Picard does have a son , Jack Crusher ( Ed Speelers ) inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , he want Jack to keep up in his footstep with a career in Starfleet rather than pretend Chateau Picard wine . It indicates that thewine - making is a way for Jean - Luc to make peace with the ghosts of both his father Maurice , and his honest-to-god brother Robert , and not a legacy he wish to hand down to someone else .
Picard’s Wine Is Hated In A Star Trek Running Joke
Although Chateau Picard is enjoyed on Strange New Worlds
Star Trek : Picardseason 3 brought Chateau Picard back to prominence with an strange track jape that many masses - including Admiral Picard ’s formercrew mate from the USS Enterprise - Dlike Commodore Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) and Lieutenant Worf ( Michael Dorn ) - dislike Chateau Picard vino . Picardseason 3 showrunner Terry Matalas confirmed the laugh toTrekMovie :
We ran a gag that Chateau Picard is n’t the practiced wine . It does n’t smack the respectable . I did n’t suppose anybody would really pick up on it and people really , really pluck up on it .
Indeed , audiences first note the rejection of Chateau Picard by Captain Liam Shaw ( Todd Stashwick ) inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 ’s premiere , and sports fan tracked each character reference mocking the taste and quality of Picard ’s Bordeaux , as well as Jean - Luc ’s offence . However , Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) drinks Chateau Picardwith his girlfriend , Captain Marie Batel ( Melanie Scrofano ) , on the USS Enterprise inStar Trek : Strange New Worlds , suggestingChateau Picard vino may have been a better vintage 250 age before Admiral Jean - Luc Picard get going making it himself .
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