Is Picard's Chateau French enough?
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So how long have these exact bottle shapes been associated with these areas and do you think it is reasonable that it might change in four centuries?That's not all. The Picard wine bottles are clearly Bordeaux-style whereas they should be Burgundy-style.
I'm really neither surprised nor disappointed though. There are details and then there are details.
There are also budget constraints and practical, logistical considerations.
If anything, I think the bottle shape is a bigger oversight.
As someone reminded us in another thread, nitpicking was once fun and inconsequential.So... nicknames.. and now shapes of bottles...
What will be the next wonderful topic of discussion that will go atleast 50 pages?
Only the nitpicks that I personally approve
Bottle shapes are both a matter of regional identification and legally protected. So, yes.
Unfortunately, World War III happens between now and then. So things could reasonably get shaken up a bit.
Also looks like France must have been depopulated in WWIII followed by extensive English immigration. Old traditions might have been lost.
And for how long this has been so? Like the costume designers in this show, people have hard time grasping how long time four hundred years is and how much things would change.
I think in the aftermath, bottle manufacturing could have been a bit of a problem and lead to some changes that ended up sticking.
Like the so-called medieval beer purity laws of Germany, their origins can be both long and short, depending how you look at it. Conversely, producers can go to extraordinary effort to protect these distinctions.
I'm sure that works in head canon.
Didn't the original Picard home burn down in the Great Patrick Stewart Crying Scene Fire of 2371? Maybe JL rebuilt it in the Nouveau Francais style prevalent at the time, while also maintaining the ancien regime feel of the former a la maison.
As long as Trek is doing a million spin-offs, why not a show about the aftermath of WWIII, a war-ravaged France struggles to rebuild its viniculture, all while threatened by eco-terrorists and the Eastern Coalition. It could be told from the viewpoint of one of Picard's ancestors, a refugee fleeing England for the relative safety of the French countryside.
Given many different characters and their obsession with historical recreation it would not surprise me if details about bottle manufacturing would be recreated.
He's never had a French accent, it's possible nobody really does in 2399. The first season of TNG Data called the French Language "Obscure".
Him not having a 'French accent' has never need weird at all. There must be countless French people today with perfect British accents and with advanced 24th century education there indubitably will be many more. The whole complaint is just a weird America-centrism, as no one ever complains about perfect American accents numerous non-native English speaker characters have.
Largely because even Americans have diversity in accents. It's more a weird detail I notice than anything else.
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