Details

Release year: 1990

Storyline

After defeating the Borg, the crew of the Enterprise experiences shore leave in various ways. Captain Picard's return to his family's vineyard in France has some extraordinary repercussions.

Top credits

Directors

Les Landau

Writers

Cast

Patrick Stewart — Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes — Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker
LeVar Burton — Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn — Lieutenant Worf

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Did you know

• Gene Roddenberry was apparently not happy at the commissioning of this episode, as he thought it was too much like an episode of a soap opera and lacked any science fiction element. However, show-runner Michael Piller received the backing of producer Rick Berman to go ahead and film it, because he liked the way it would humanize Picard and give him some backstory after his traumatizing experience of being turned into a Borg before being rescued. Roddenberry protested to Paramount who, at this stage, were already losing patience with Roddenberry and his constant interference in the show's production. (He had already been banned from the sets of the film franchise some years earlier, after constantly complaining to the studio.) After his complaints about this episode, the Paramount board decided to force the already-ill Roddenberry to take a back seat and take no further part in the production process. He died just over a year after this episode's broadcast.

• "Family" not only revealed personal information about the series regulars, but Chief O'Brien also gained a full name, Miles Edward O'Brien, as well as a more defined rank, Chief Petty Officer, though his rank insignia would continue to change throughout the series. In this one he wears two irregularly-shaped pips.

• This is the only episode in which Brent Spiner (Data) does not appear.