Seven Words in TNG

and needed the martial arts that his

 

mentor taught him, those were French martial

 

arts. Old techniques going back to the

 

twentieth century when a Frenchman could kill

 

with a stale baguette, a beret was

 

considered the height of fashion and the

 

main reason Germany attacked France in WW2.

 

They also used berets in martial arts

 

, filled with razor blades, they could be

 

really deadly. Picard's mentor had taught him

 

all that and many other things like

 

how to distract an aggressor with a

 

smelly Camembert or how do destroy an

 

enemy's confidence by disparaging his taste in

 

cheese.

"Camembert is not stinky," Picard said.

 

Picard hated it when people made fun

 

of the French people in front of

 

him or one of his French guests.

 

"Now, Limburger or Epoisses - those are smelly!"

 

Said Picard, educating his crew on cheeses