10 Star Trek Deleted Scenes You Must See

Before Picard resigned from Starfleet and escaped to the Château, he clearly kept a few cases of his family wine aboard ship. In one delightful deleted scene from Star Trek: Nemesis, this allows him to share a glass of the 2267 vintage with Data.

2267 may be a reference to the imposition of the Organian Peace Treaty between the Federation and the Klingons of that year, and the subsequent co-founding of the Nimbus III colony by the Federation, the Romulans, and the Klingons. At first named 'the planet of Galactic peace,' Nimbus III turned into a notorious failure. Given that the deleted scene takes place close to the start of Nemesis, just after the Troi-Riker wedding, the wine’s vintage could have been a clue, therefore, that peace between Shinzon/the Remans, the Romulans, and the Federation was doomed to failure. This is also the year that Khan was discovered aboard the SS Botany Bay, so there may be a link there with genetically-engineered despots.

The rest of the scene is avowedly prophetic. As Patrick Stewart himself states in a piece to camera for the Nemesis DVD extras, "[The moment between Picard and Data] is one that will resonate through the movie and become very potent in the last 10 or 15 minutes". As the pair sip on the wine, the conversation turns to the passage of time, transitions for the crew, the past and the future, mortality, duty, and family. Picard then rather noddingly comments, "Oh, Data! You never know what’s over the horizon". Truer words were never spoken.

It is this same Château Picard vintage that is served as a toast to Data after his death at the end of the film, making the deleted scene ever more poignant. "To absent friends! To family!"

Two EMPTY bottles of Château Picard from that memorial scene were auctioned by Christie’s as part of the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection. They sold for a whopping $6,600.