Family
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 1 October 1990
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- 44012.3
- DIRECTED BY
- Les Landau
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 178
WRITTEN BYWritten by Ronald D. Moore
With the Enterprise docked at Earth for repairs, Picard returns to his family's vineyard in France, Worf's adoptive parents come to visit, and Wesley receives a message from the past.
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The Enterprise is undergoing repairs at Earth Station McKinley after the Borg attack. Picard takes leave at his family home in La Barre, France, where his older brother Robert runs the vineyard with his wife Marie and their son René, who dreams of the stars. Old resentments surface quickly, and Picard toys with leaving Starfleet to join an ocean project on Earth. Aboard ship, Worf is embarrassed by a visit from his human adoptive parents, Sergey and Helena Rozhenko, until he understands how much they love him. Beverly gives Wesley a recorded message his late father Jack made when Wesley was a baby. Robert finally provokes a fight in the vineyard mud, and Picard breaks down, admitting his horror at what the Borg made him do. Reconciled, he returns to the Enterprise, and René looks up at the night sky.
- 01The only TNG episode in which Brent Spiner does not appear. It is also the only one with no bridge scenes.
- 02Gene Roddenberry disliked the premise, believing people of the future would not feel such rivalry between brothers.
- 03Although aired second in season four, it was the fourth episode produced. The vineyard was filmed near Lancaster, California, close to Edwards Air Force Base.