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| - Bottles were labeled "interstellar import". During the 24th century, the label on a Wee Bairns bottle showed an image of a Constitution-class engine room and the legend "...now there's a drink for a man,". This is a phrase used by Montgomery Scott to describe Scotch in "The Trouble with Tribbles" , which is set in 2268. However, the phrase was on the bottle as early as 2256. During the Federation-Klingon War of 2256, Captain Lorca shared a bottle with Admiral Katrina Cornwell. Cornwell described it as "straight from the motherland." (DIS: "Lethe")
- Wee Bairns was a brand of alcoholic beverage, an Earth-style scotch whisky. This drink was a favorite of Irishman Miles O'Brien. The Wee Bairns bottle is labeled with an image of a starship engine room. In the year 2373, O'Brien received a bottle of Wee Bairns from Jadzia Dax for his 45th birthday. (DS9 episode: "The Assignment") Mister O'Brien shared a bottle of Wee Bairns with his friends in Benjamin Sisko's quarters during a dinner party. (DS9 episode: "In the Cards")
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| - Bottles were labeled "interstellar import". During the 24th century, the label on a Wee Bairns bottle showed an image of a Constitution-class engine room and the legend "...now there's a drink for a man,". This is a phrase used by Montgomery Scott to describe Scotch in "The Trouble with Tribbles" , which is set in 2268. However, the phrase was on the bottle as early as 2256. During the Federation-Klingon War of 2256, Captain Lorca shared a bottle with Admiral Katrina Cornwell. Cornwell described it as "straight from the motherland." (DIS: "Lethe") Jadzia Dax gifted O'Brien a bottle of Wee Bairns for his forty-fifth birthday, in 2373. (DS9: "The Assignment") Later that year, O'Brien shared a bottle of Wee Bairns with his friends, during a dinner party at Benjamin Sisko's quarters. (DS9: "In the Cards") In the Scots language, "Bairn" is an affectionate word for "child," so that "Wee bairns" is another way of saying "little children." It was a term Scott used to describe the engines of the USS Enterprise in TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome" . (The Art of Star Trek) In the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 137) , there was a picture of a brand of Scottish whiskey gum called "Wee Bairns".
- Wee Bairns was a brand of alcoholic beverage, an Earth-style scotch whisky. This drink was a favorite of Irishman Miles O'Brien. The Wee Bairns bottle is labeled with an image of a starship engine room. In the year 2373, O'Brien received a bottle of Wee Bairns from Jadzia Dax for his 45th birthday. (DS9 episode: "The Assignment") Mister O'Brien shared a bottle of Wee Bairns with his friends in Benjamin Sisko's quarters during a dinner party. (DS9 episode: "In the Cards") In 2375, O'Brien used the replicator to create a chewing gum infused with the flavor of Wee Bairns scotch. He offered a stick to Julian Bashir. (DS9 episode: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")
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