From what I read, you dont need to irrigate your vineyards at all, except for droughts or unsuitable lands.
Anyway, its just for the "future" effect.
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From what I read, you dont need to irrigate your vineyards at all, except for droughts or unsuitable lands.
Anyway, its just for the "future" effect.
By Picard's era Earth was building an entirely new continent. I think they might have allowed wiggle room on irrigators (or spraying for beetles or whatever that thing was doing)
And it's not like TNG era Trek is not already guilty of showing us things in establishment shots that have no discernible purpose other than to make the shot look futuristic... like the constant addition of ugly, blocky skyscrapers in historical European city skylines that would remove World Heritage status from the whole place the instant their plans were approved. OK, you can handwave the University of Cambridge in All Good Things away with saying it was an illusion created by Q, but dammit, Paris was apparently rebuilt from the ground up once every decade or so, if we go with only the establishing shots (and don't get me started with the President's huge glass office tower from DS9's Homefront that was apparently built right on top of the Notre Dame).
Notre Dame? weeeell...
Stardates were definitely established as being YEAR.MM, since Kirk's birthdate is in April 2233. So, the 2387.xx establishes the year Also it's explicitly stated that Spock is from 129 years in the future, from the year 2258.
I think that if Picard were a traditional french wine producer, they wouldnt need to use additional irrigation. Since this seems to be something only used to produce more and lower quality wine or in droughts. The important part is that the water has to come from the earth that carries the important nutrients and minerals that give it its distinct taste. Adding artificial irrigation on top adds nothing to the wine except mass. Obviously, you can rationalize this in any way you want.
The only real explanation is that the producers wanted to add something futuristc without really caring/knowing how high quality Bourgogne wine is produced. I dont expect the average american Star Trek Viewer to really care about such things either.
Most of the world's major cities were destroyed during WWIII so presumably, there's been some necessary rebuilding going on.
You're right, it's quite probable. I'd still nitpick the inconsistency of the opening shots though. But Paris as a major population center would've presumably suffered considerable damage indeed.
He'll probably be stealing a shuttle and temporal tech to go back and save Data. And somehow the Borg will get involved.
Nah, Brannon Braga's not involved with this.
Still not seeing it. (a) All-Access is just a platform. If people are given something on it they'll want to watch, they'll be more inclined to get it. (b) A lot of non-American posters here are getting these shows from different platforms anyway.
Only if Picard uncovers another Data head buried in his vineyard.
The first four digits are the year, but it looks like we’re dealing with at least two variants: one where the fraction is that of the year and another where it’s the day of the year from .1 to .365/6. STB screens show 226X.XX in a few places, despite Orci saying that 2230.06 and 2233.04 could’ve been errors in ST (2009).
Paris seems to have escaped fairly unscathed, which isn't impossible if most of the fighting was in East Asia with some nuclear exchanges in North America. I don't think it's ever stated that Europe was directly affected by the fighting.
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Well, it's beloved Picard building of the unknown future of Trek vs bunch of unknowns trampling around beloved Trek past.
I was going to do some snarky comment, but holy D, I see it too!I see the D...
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How is this plot point for you:
E-E is destroyed, lots of people Picard knows are dead but not anyone from the main cast. Picard is going to need a ship as part of his redemption arc (I mean there is definitely going to be at-least some Star Trekking in this show). So he gets an old Galaxy class starship out of mothballs (there’s going to be no shortage of them after the Dominion War in storage space dock around some moon) and the crew re-christens the ship USS Picard.
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Buried Age was a great book, and would be nice if they used some of it for this show 
Maybe after the "Evacuation" that Starfleet promoted Picard to Admiral, and he was like, screw that.. ship or nothing, and resigned, Or.. as what the book series is currently alluding to, is that he has a kid with Beverly, and he doesn't want to raise the kid on a ship.... Him losing his family like Rene did would be kind of shallow writting.. and a low blow..
Maybe after the "Evacuation" that Starfleet promoted Picard to Admiral, and he was like, screw that.. ship or nothing, and resigned, Or.. as what the book series is currently alluding to, is that he has a kid with Beverly, and he doesn't want to raise the kid on a ship.... Him losing his family like Rene did would be kind of shallow writting.. and a low blow..
