Saurian brandy Saurian brandy was an alcohol ic beverage manufactured by the s . Flint possessed a bottle of Saurian brandy dating back to 2169 . ( ) " In 2255 of the alternate reality , used a bottle of Saurian brandy against a Starfleet Academy cadet at the Shipyard Bar in Riverside , Iowa . " ( ) " By 2263 , in the alternate reality , Saurian brandy was outlawed by the Federation . In that year , James T . Kirk celebrated his thirtieth birthday with the last of some Saurian brandy which had been picked up on Thasus . Upon Kirk telling him what he was drinking , asked him if he was trying to go blind . " ( ) In 2266 , when an M - 113 creature impersonating Crewman Green acted strangely , Janice Rand asked him if he ' d been nipping some Saurian brandy . ( ) The same year , an aggressive transporter duplicate of Captain Kirk demanded a whole bottle of Saurian brandy . ( ) Also in 2266 , Kirk offered Saurian brandy to the crew members of the " Antares " ; it was declined by the ship ' s captain . ( ) In 2268 , Montgomery Scott began a mission to get Tomar drunk by sharing a bottle of Saurian brandy with him . ( ) In 2269 , females of planet two of the Taurean system served a nectar that caused the crewmembers of the " Enterprise " to faint . Doctor McCoy stated , on their way to the slumber chamber , that their nectar was as potent as Saurian brandy . ( ) In 2270 , a bottle of Saurian brandy was on a table during a senior staff dinner . ( ) A Klingon officer stationed on Morska drank from a bottle of Saurian brandy while the was posing as a Klingon ship in order to reach Rura Penthe . ( ) Guinan prepared | a concoction containing mostly Saurian brandy , along with Targ milk and Denevian mead , after hearing about it on Prakal II . Data observed that the drink contained a high concentration of fructose and monosaccharide s ( which is to say , it was sweet ) . ( ) Quark kept bottles of Saurian brandy in his bar aboard Deep Space 9 . ( ) Quark often had bottles resembling Saurian brandy on his shelves in his bar on Deep Space 9 . ( ) When trying to distract Doctor Bashir from his dealings with Elim Garak in 2370 , Quark asked Bashir if he wanted " a little Saurian brandy to go , or maybe a late night in a holosuite . " ( ) An old bottle of this very alcoholic liquor was used by Captain Picard as trade for a Gorlan prayer stick , in or before 2370 . ( ) In 2371 , Quark ordered some Saurian brandy to have delivered to his quarters while he was conducting a negotiation with Emi . Rom , who was to deliver the brandy , instead warned Quark to leave immediately , as Grand Nagus Zek had arrived . ( ) Later that year , while Odo was lending his body for Curzon Dax to take it over for Jadzia Dax ' s " zhian ' tara " , he opened a bottle of Saurian brandy in Odo ' s security office . He said Odo had confiscated it from a Yridian smuggler . ( ) In 2373 , Quark received a shipment of Saurian brandy . Hidden inside the shipment was a PADD , which contained a message from Silaran Prin to Kira Nerys . ( ) In early 2374 , Nog managed to acquire some Saurian brandy for the crew despite the Dominion War going on . ( ) Later that year , Quark received a shipment of Saurian brandy . ( ) In 2375 , a Ferengi named Gant had ten cases of Saurian brandy for sale , and according to Nog , it was Benjamin Sisko ' s favorite . Later the same year , Hector Ilario experienced his first taste of Saurian brandy ; he also stated it was Captain Sisko ' s favorite . When walking Hector Ilario back to his quarters , drunk on Saurian brandy , Ezri Dax remarked , " " It kind of sneaks up on you , doesn ' t it ? " " ( ) Norvo Tigan offered a glass of Saurian brandy to his sister , Ezri , while he sulked about having been denied entry into the Andorian Academy in mid - 2375 . ( ) Appendices . Background information . This drink was referred to as simply " brandy " in the final draft script of . The beverage received its full name in the revised final draft of that teleplay . The " powder horn " bottles used in TOS and DS9 were originally commemorative whiskey bottles from the George Dickel Distillery in Tennessee , produced in . ( ; " " , p . 45 ) In a line cut from , Vice Admiral Toddman noted to Julian Bashir that he was " in trouble " , because the Admiral had bet two cases of Saurian brandy that he was going to win the Carrington Award that year . Toddman told Bashir , " " You lost , which means I lost . And I don ' t like to lose . " " ( " " ) The same Saurian brandy bottle that appeared on TOS later resurfaced in a 1971 episode of the Desilu / Paramount series " Mission : Impossible " entitled " The Missile " . In a move that had to be an intentional homage to " Star Trek " , the director prominently placed it in frame next to Leonard Nimoy .