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Behind-the-scenes Note :
MOUTON ROTHSCHILD WINE BOTTLE LABEL IN [#119 WARHEAD]
In 2375, in [#119 Warhead], Tom Paris asks Neelix to replicate the 2342 vintage of Chateau Mouton Rothschild, a fine wine which he took to the romantic dinner he arranged for himself and Torres on the second anniversary of their starting to court each other.
above: Tom Paris with the wine [#119 Warhead]
The bottle label is similar to the label for Chateau Picard. That label is seen briefly in [TNG: Family], (TNG Companion says [TNG: Legacy] but I have just watched that episode, parts of it several times, and must have missed it although the bottles of synth-ale, which are definitely seen, did make me feel thirsty), [TNG: First Contact], and in the Picard family album of which one of the original props is on display in the Star Trek Experience exhibition in Las Vegas (see also below, the last sentence).
above: Robert and Jean-Luc Picard and a bottle of Chateau LaBarre, possibly the 2347 vintage as a bottle of that vintage is drunk at a previous supper (picture picture; the bottle label is not seen from the front at the supper), [TNG: Family]
above: Picard and Chancellor Durken share a glass of wine [TNG: First Contact]
The Picard family album is looked at in the films [Star Trek VII: Generations] and [Star Trek X: Nemesis] (an irrelevant but interesting fact: Admiral Kathryn Janeway appears briefly in the latter film, and gives Picard his Starfleet orders). It is a leather-bound photograph album and scrapbook owned by Jean-Luc Picard for whom it is a cherished possession. It has the Picard family coat of arms on the front cover. Not seen but in the prop book: the inside: of the front cover of the album has two pictures of the joiners of the Picard and La Barre family line, namely Madame de La Barre and François de Picard. It is established in [TNG: Tapestry], [TNG: Chain Of Command] and [TNG: Family] that Picard was born on Earth in 2305 to Maurice Picard and Yvette Gessard-Picard, with the former a tradition-bound French vintner who discouraged young Jean-Luc's ambitions of voyaging among the stars. Jean-Luc was raised on a family farm in Labarre, France, along with his older brother, Robert Picard who disapproved of modern convenience technology such as replicators. On the front of the first page of the album is an ancient family tree, L'arbore de Famille des Familles, Picard et La Barre Ville de Saumur, which features various family crests as they married into the family going several generations back. The album contains pictures of his ancestors and contemporary relatives, and records famous events and other information from his own personal family history. Picard is proud of his illustrious ancestors: one fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, a Picard won a Nobel Prize for chemistry, and Picards were among those who settled the first Martian Colonies, all of these being mentioned by Picard in [Star Trek VII: Generations]. On the other hand, Picard felt guilt over the role of another ancestor, Javier Maribona-Picard, in the infamous crushing of the Pueblo Revolt on Earth in 1692, [TNG: Journey's End]. In 2371, following the news that his brother Robert (pronounced in the French manner) and nephew René had died in a fire at the Picard family home, Jean-Luc Picard, with Deanna Troi, looks through the album in his quarters aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D (Troi appears in several [Voyager] episodes). The album is in his captain's ready room, from where he recovers after the crashlanding of the starship's saucer section on the planet Veridian III. Picard keeps the album with him when he is assigned to the successor starship, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E.
For [Star Trek X: Nemesis], new actors were cast to play Picard's family Robert and his nephew young René, for their photos to appear (albeit it very briefly on screen) in the Picard family album. David Tristen Birkin plays René Picard in the much earlier television episode [TNG: Family] (he also played the young Jean-Luc Picard in [TNG: Rascals]), but the part was played by Christopher James Miller in Picard's Nexus sequence in [Star Trek VII: Generations]. (Incidentally, in that Nexus sequence, one of Jean-Luc's children is played by Thomas Alexander Dekker, who plays Henry Burleigh in Janeway's gothic holonovel, but credited as Thomas Dekker in his [Voyager] appearances, first seen in [#13 Cathexis].) Picard realises that Shinzon strongly resembled him at a younger age and picks out from the family album a picture of himself as a Cadet at Starfleet Academy, and it looks just like Shinzon. Justifiably in my view, the film's staff received many direct complaints along with general dissatisfaction among fans at this, because the [TNG] series clearly establishes that Captain Picard had hair when he was at the Academy, but the film's director Stuart Baird said that he thought this would be more dramatic, thereby adding arrogance to his riding roughshod over the well-established facts. The moment singularly failed to be dramatic because fans watching it knew immediately that it was a gross lack of continuity.
Picard's album contains other personal mementos not seen in the films. These include an award certificate for having won the Starfleet Academy marathon of 2323, a Starfleet Academy graduation announcement for Jean-Luc Picard (ceremony held on 20 July 2327, in Gagarin Hall in San Francisco), Starfleet orders giving him command of the U.S.S. Stargazer, an award presented to Maurice Picard for an outstanding vintage, the Grankite order of Tactics (an award also won by Captain James T. Kirk), various news clippings, wine bottle labels from Chateau Picard, personal correspondence, and an invitation to the wedding of Jack and Beverly Crusher. These items were designed by Geoff Mandel, Alan Kobayashi and Penny Juday. Pictures of certain USA war veterans were included. Many of the Star Trek production staff put in pictures of themselves and their ancestors, including Herman Zimmerman's father, and Herman Zimmerman himself (who also worked on [Voyager] and who, in the show, gave his name to Dr Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH Mark 1). Also included in the album are several "in-jokes" from Star Trek history, such as a photo of actor (as Spock; Spock is mentioned in [#171 and #172 Endgame]) and director Leonard Nimoy. Of the three copies of the Picard family album, the master is kept at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas, where Penny Juday flips the pages whenever she can so visitors can see something a little different every time.
| In 2378, in [Star Trek X: Nemesis], at the wedding of Deanna Troi and Will Riker the wedding guests are served a red wine of the Chateau Picard label, a Grand Cru classic of the year 2267. |  click to enlarge, 326Kb |
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