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If the phaser was set on kill, Icheb would've disintegrated and vanished like Bjayzl.


** Bruce Maddox appears in the flesh for the first time since ''The Next Generation'''s "The Measure of a Man" and is killed by Agnes at the end of the episode.

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** Bruce Maddox appears in the flesh for the first time since ''The Next Generation'''s "The Measure of a Man" Man", and is he's killed by Agnes at the end of the episode.



* BookEnds: At the beginning and the end of this episode, two blond women (Seven and Jurati) are crying when they kill a man they love (Icheb and Maddox, respectively) who is lying helplessly on an operating table.



** Seven gives Icheb a MercyKill by way of a point-blank phaser shot. ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' established that a phaser can immediately kill a person at point-blank range, even when set on stun, though in ''VI'' this was accomplished by a headshot. In this instance, Seven shoots him in the chest and presumably has the weapon set to kill.

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** Seven gives Icheb a MercyKill by way of a point-blank phaser shot. ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' established that a phaser can immediately kill a person at point-blank range, even when set on stun, though in ''VI'' this was accomplished by a headshot. In this instance, Seven shoots him in the chest and presumably has the weapon set to kill.stun.



* FamousLastWords: While slowly dying, Icheb pleads to Seven to kill him now and end his suffering.
-->'''Icheb''': ''(struggling to speak because he's in so much pain)'' Now, Seven. ''Please''.



* GunsAkimbo: Seven grabs a pair of phaser rifles to shoot her way out of the bar after beaming back down for revenge.

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* GunsAkimbo: GunsAkimbo:
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Seven grabs a pair of phaser rifles to shoot her way out of the bar after beaming back down for revenge.revenge.
** Elnor takes two phasers and points them at Bjayzl's female bodyguards.



* InterspeciesRomance: Raffi's son, Gabriel Hwang, married a Romulan woman named Pel, and they are expecting a baby girl.



* ParentalSubstitute: In continuation of Seven's surrogate mother-son relationship with Icheb from ''Voyager'', her final words to him are:
-->'''Seven''': ''(tearfully)'' I'm so sorry. ''My child''.
* PluckyComicRelief: Elnor's main role in this episode is to provide levity; all of his lines are light-hearted and they poke fun at his naïvety.



* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Seven offers this to Icheb, but he's in such pain that he begs her to MercyKill him, to which she complies.

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* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Seven offers this to Icheb, but he's in such so much pain that he begs her to MercyKill him, to which she complies.complies.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Icheb is killed simply to fuel Seven's revenge against Bjayzl.
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* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Seven offers this to Icheb, but he's in such pain that he begs her to MercyKill him, to which she complies.
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* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: Raffi's estranged son wants nothing to do with her, saying she was so focused on her "crackpot" theories that she didn't care about him or his father and that she had no idea how hard it was to be her son.


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* LikeASonToMe: Seven tells Bjayzl that Icheb was the closest thing she will ever have to kin, and later expressly refers to Icheb as "a son to me".
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* PunnyName: Bjayzl sounds a lot like "vajazzle" which is appropriate given the revealing outfit she wears in her first scene.
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* OrganTheft: A variation is done by Bjayzl's gang, who peddle Borg technology and don't care if they have to vivisect liberated drones to get it.

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** The doctor working on Icheb can't find his cortical node. He gave that to Seven back in ''Voyager'' when her own failed.
** Seven gives Icheb a MercyKill by way of a point-blank phaser shot. ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' established that a phaser can immediately kill a person at point-blank range, even when set on stun.

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** The doctor working on Icheb can't find his cortical node. He gave that to Seven back in the ''Voyager'' episode "Imperfection" when her own failed.
** Seven gives Icheb a MercyKill by way of a point-blank phaser shot. ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' established that a phaser can immediately kill a person at point-blank range, even when set on stun.stun, though in ''VI'' this was accomplished by a headshot. In this instance, Seven shoots him in the chest and presumably has the weapon set to kill.



* PragmaticVillainy: Picard tries to appeal to Seven's idealism to get her to stand down from killing Bjayzl, that what she wants is vengeful murder. Captain Rios conversely makes an appeal to pragmatism with a topping of empathy: that he quite well understands the desire for revenge, but also notes that murdering a crime lord so brazenly would cause the whole party to get bounties on their heads. He could handle it, but Picard and Elnor wouldn't stand a chance in the lawless region they're traversing.

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* TheNoseKnows: Bjayzl's bodyguard has an extremely heightened sense of smell that allows him to detect the physical cues for lying, among other, more useless facts like the person's last meal. Raffi anticipates this and gives Rios a beta-blocker so he can lie without betraying himself.
* PragmaticVillainy: Picard tries to appeal to Seven's idealism to get her to stand down from killing Bjayzl, that what she wants is vengeful murder. Captain Rios conversely makes an appeal to pragmatism with a topping of empathy: that he quite well understands the desire for revenge, but also notes that murdering a crime lord so brazenly would cause the whole party to get bounties on their heads. He could handle it, but Picard and Elnor wouldn't stand a chance in the lawless region they're traversing. Seven settles for escaping first, then beaming back on her own to kill Bjayzl and lay the heat entirely on herself.



* SlippingAMickey: Bjayzl slips a sedative into Maddox's tranya.

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* SlippingAMickey: Bjayzl slips a sedative into Maddox's tranya.tranya while pretending to be a good friend.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Rios suggests they simply buy Maddox from Bjayzl, but Raffi rejects this because the Tal Shiar has expressed interest and it would take far more than money for Bjayzl to break a contract with them. Seven offers herself as a TrojanPrisoner, instead, as her wide range of implants would be extremely valuable.
* TeleportInterdiction: Bjayzl's bar has a shield which prevents the crew from beaming in or out from orbit. Seven is given a transport enhancer that allows them to bypass the shield once they get her inside.
* TemptingFate: The doctor working on Icheb asks where his cortical node is, then boasts that she'll find it soon enough. It does show up, as does the pissed off MamaBear it's attached to.
* TrojanPrisoner: Seven offers herself as payment for Maddox, for secretly personal reasons but rationalizing that her implants would be a fair trade. Raffi hides a small transport enhancer on her person which will blend in with her implants and rigs the cuffs to come off whenever Seven wants, allowing her to get the drop on Bjayzl.



* WhamShot: The flashback shows a doctor ripping out someone's eye, only for distinct wires to follow it out. Then the camera switches to a shot of his face, which has a ridge and a distinctive L-shaped wound that shows us this poor soul is none other than Icheb from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.

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* WhamShot: The flashback shows a doctor ripping out someone's eye, only for distinct wires to follow it out. Then the camera switches to a shot of his face, which has a ridge going up from the nose and a distinctive L-shaped wound that shows us this poor soul is none other than Icheb from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
* WretchedHive: Freecloud is basically a place where everything the Federation is supposed to be against can be found, from benign things like gambling to far more illicit trades like running stolen Borg tech.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Picard tries to appeal to Seven's idealism to get her to stand down from killing Bjayzl, that what she wants is vengeful murder. Captain Rios conversely makes an appeal to pragmatism with a topping of empathy: that he quite well understands the desire for revenge, but also notes that murdering a crime lord so brazenly would cause the whole party to get bounties on their heads. He could handle it, but Picard and Elnor wouldn't stand a chance in the lawless region they're traversing.
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* MauriceChevalierAccent: Picard's overdone French accent during the op.

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* AdvertOverloadedFuture: When Rios enters orbit of Freecloud, which is essentially Space Vegas, holographic adverts hijack his projection system to spam the crew (except Elnor).



** A second flashback, a mere two weeks earlier at Stardust City on Freecloud, shows us how Bruce Maddox wound up there.

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** A second flashback, a mere two weeks earlier at Stardust City on Freecloud, shows us how Bruce Maddox wound up there. He explains that the Romulans found and destroyed his lab.
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* BilingualBonus: The name of the planet Vergessen, where Icheb dies, is German for "to forget". Could double as an ironic MeaningfulName, as Seven never forgot Icheb, and instead opted for a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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** Seven gives Icheb a MercyKill by way of a point-blank phaser shot. ''Film/StarTrekTheUndiscoveredCountry'' established that a phaser can immediately kill a person at point-blank range, even when set on stun.

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** Seven gives Icheb a MercyKill by way of a point-blank phaser shot. ''Film/StarTrekTheUndiscoveredCountry'' ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' established that a phaser can immediately kill a person at point-blank range, even when set on stun.

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* CallBack: The doctor working on Icheb can't find his cortical node. He gave that to Seven back in ''Voyager'' when her own failed.
* ContinuityNod:
** There is a Quark's Bar on Freecloud, implying it was made into a franchise.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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The doctor working on Icheb can't find his cortical node. He gave that to Seven back in ''Voyager'' when her own failed.
* ContinuityNod:
** Seven gives Icheb a MercyKill by way of a point-blank phaser shot. ''Film/StarTrekTheUndiscoveredCountry'' established that a phaser can immediately kill a person at point-blank range, even when set on stun.
* ContinuityNod:
There is a Quark's Bar on Freecloud, implying that it was made into became a franchise.franchise since the conclusion of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' (of course, it doesn't hurt when one's brother is the Grand Nagus).



* DownerBeginning: The episode opens on a flashback to 13 years ago, where Seven arrives too late to save Icheb from some people harvesting Borg technology from former drones.

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* DownerBeginning: The episode opens on a flashback to 13 years ago, prior, where Seven arrives too late to save Icheb from some people harvesting Borg technology from former drones.



** The episode opens on a flashback to the Seven Domes on the planet Vergessen, which is being used harvest Borg technology from former drones. Icheb is one of their victims, [[EyeScream getting his cybernetic eye ripped out]] before Seven shows up and kills the doctors. Unfortunately, his injuries are too severe and she has to kill him herself to end his suffering.

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** The episode opens on a flashback to the Seven Domes on the planet Vergessen, which plays host to an operation which is being used harvest harvesting Borg technology from former drones. Icheb is one of their victims, [[EyeScream getting his cybernetic eye ripped out]] before Seven shows up and kills the doctors. Unfortunately, his injuries are too severe and she has to kill MercyKill him herself to end his suffering.



* TheMole: Commodore Oh evidently explained the secret of the Zhat Vash to Jurati, who was so horrified by it that she's now joined with their cause.

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* TheMole: Commodore Oh evidently explained the secret of the Zhat Vash ''Zhat Vash'' to Dr. Jurati, who was so horrified by it that she's she has now joined with their cause.cause. Whether or not it is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy voluntary]] is left as TheUnreveal.


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* YouAreTooLate: Seven arrives too late to save Icheb from vivisection, and is left to give him a MercyKill.
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* ContinuityNod:
** There is a Quark's Bar on Freecloud, implying it was made into a franchise.

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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Discussed when Seven asks if Picard got his humanity back after being liberated from the Borg. When she follows with "All of it?", he says no but then insists that they're both working on it.



* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Uike the typical clean disintegrations from phaser kill shots, we clearly see Bjayzl briefly turned to LudicrousGibs before vanishing.

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* EyeScream: Icheb gets his cybernetic eye torn out by a doctor.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Uike Unlike the typical clean disintegrations from phaser kill shots, we clearly see Bjayzl briefly turned to LudicrousGibs before vanishing.



** The episode opens on a flashback to the Seven Domes on the planet Vergessen, which is being used harvest Borg technology from former drones. Icheb is one of their victims, [[EyeScream getting his eye ripped out]] before Seven shows up and kills the doctors. Unfortunately, his injuries are too severe and she has to kill him herself to end his suffering.

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** The episode opens on a flashback to the Seven Domes on the planet Vergessen, which is being used harvest Borg technology from former drones. Icheb is one of their victims, [[EyeScream getting his cybernetic eye ripped out]] before Seven shows up and kills the doctors. Unfortunately, his injuries are too severe and she has to kill him herself to end his suffering.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Uike the typical clean disintegrations from phaser kill shots, we clearly see Bjsyzl briefly turned to LudicrousGibs before vanishing.

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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Uike the typical clean disintegrations from phaser kill shots, we clearly see Bjsyzl Bjayzl briefly turned to LudicrousGibs before vanishing.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Uike the typical clean disintegrations from phaser kill shots, we clearly see Bjsyzl briefly turned to LudicrousGibs before vanishing.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Before Seven kills Bjayzl.
--> "[Icheb] was a son to me, J. [[AndThisIsFor This is for him.]]" ''(shoots Bjayzl)''
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* BackForTheDead:
** Icheb shows up for the first time since ''Voyager'''s series finale "Endgame", only to be vivisected by Bjayzl's gang and given a MercyKill by Seven.
** Bruce Maddox appears in the flesh for the first time since ''The Next Generation'''s "The Measure of a Man" and is killed by Agnes at the end of the episode.

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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Jasil's bodyguard produces a blaster from his sleeve and starts to raise it. A shot is fired, and he drops dead from Rios shooting him in the back.

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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Jasil's Bjayzl's bodyguard produces a blaster from his sleeve and starts to raise it. A shot is fired, and he drops dead from Rios shooting him in the back.



* ItsPersonal: Seven agrees to help Picard rescue Maddox because she has a personal grievance with Jasil, who ran the operation that killed Icheb and learned of him from Seven because she trusted her.I
* LivingLieDetector: Jasil's bodyguard can literally smell lies.

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* ItsPersonal: Seven agrees to help Picard rescue Maddox because she has a personal grievance with Jasil, Bjayzl, who ran the operation that killed Icheb and learned of him from Seven because she trusted her.I
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* LivingLieDetector: Jasil's Bjayzl's bodyguard can literally smell lies.


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* SlippingAMickey: Bjayzl slips a sedative into Maddox's tranya.
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** The episode opens on a flashback to the Seven Domes on the planet Vergessen, which is being used harvest Borg technology from former drones. Icheb is one of their victims, getting his eye ripped out before Seven shows up and kills the doctors. Unfortunately, his injuries are too severe and she has to kill him herself to end his suffering.

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** The episode opens on a flashback to the Seven Domes on the planet Vergessen, which is being used harvest Borg technology from former drones. Icheb is one of their victims, [[EyeScream getting his eye ripped out out]] before Seven shows up and kills the doctors. Unfortunately, his injuries are too severe and she has to kill him herself to end his suffering.

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* GunsAkimbo: Seven grabs a pair of phaser rifles to shoot her way out of the bar after beaming back down for revenge.



* GunsAkimbo: Seven grabs a pair of phaser rifles to shoot her way out of the bar after beaming back down for revenge.



-->'''Seven''': Picard still thinks there's a place in the galaxy for mercy. [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I didn't want to disillusion him]].]]

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-->'''Seven''': Picard still thinks there's a place in the galaxy for mercy. [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I didn't want to disillusion him]].him.]]
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* ShoutOut: One of Rios' attempts to remember Seven of Nine's name is [[Series/StrangerThings Eleven]].
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* WhamLine:
-->'''Seven''': Picard still thinks there's a place in the galaxy for mercy. [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I didn't want to disillusion him]].]]

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* DualWielding: Seven grabs a pair of phaser rifles to shoot her way out of the bar after beaming back down for revenge.

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* DualWielding: GunsAkimbo: Seven grabs a pair of phaser rifles to shoot her way out of the bar after beaming back down for revenge.



* ItsPersonal: Seven agrees to help Picard rescue Maddox because she has a personal grievance with Jasil, who ran the operation that killed Icheb and learned of him from Seven because she trusted her.

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* ItsPersonal: Seven agrees to help Picard rescue Maddox because she has a personal grievance with Jasil, who ran the operation that killed Icheb and learned of him from Seven because she trusted her.I
* LivingLieDetector: Jasil's bodyguard can literally smell lies.
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The crew arrives on Freecloud to rescue Bruce Maddox.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Jasil's bodyguard produces a blaster from his sleeve and starts to raise it. A shot is fired, and he drops dead from Rios shooting him in the back.

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* InternalReveal: Picard learns of Soji's location

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* InternalReveal: Picard learns of Soji's locationlocation from Maddox.


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* TheMole: Commodore Oh evidently explained the secret of the Zhat Vash to Jurati, who was so horrified by it that she's now joined with their cause.
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* DualWielding: Seven grabs a pair of phaser rifles to shoot her way out of the bar after beaming back down for revenge.


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* InternalReveal: Picard learns of Soji's location
* ItsPersonal: Seven agrees to help Picard rescue Maddox because she has a personal grievance with Jasil, who ran the operation that killed Icheb and learned of him from Seven because she trusted her.


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* TheReveal:
** Raffi's business on Freecloud is an attempt to reconnect with her estranged son, Gabriel. Sadly, the same issues which estranged her from her family the first time are still there, so he rejects her overtures and she returns to the crew.
** Confirming earlier hints, Dahj and Soji's mother is an AI designed to watch over them.
** Maddox sent Dahj to Earth and Soji to the Artifact to learn about the conspiracy against them.

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* CallBack: The doctor working on Icheb can't find his cortical node. He gave that to Seven back in ''Voyager'' when her own failed.



* MercyKill: Seven kills Icheb herself after she arrives too late to stop the people harvesting him for Borg tech from doing fatal damage.

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* {{Flashback}}:
** The episode opens on a flashback to the Seven Domes on the planet Vergessen, which is being used harvest Borg technology from former drones. Icheb is one of their victims, getting his eye ripped out before Seven shows up and kills the doctors. Unfortunately, his injuries are too severe and she has to kill him herself to end his suffering.
** A second flashback, a mere two weeks earlier at Stardust City on Freecloud, shows us how Bruce Maddox wound up there.
* MercyKill: Seven kills Icheb herself after she arrives too late to stop the people harvesting him for Borg tech from doing fatal damage.damage.
* WhamShot: The flashback shows a doctor ripping out someone's eye, only for distinct wires to follow it out. Then the camera switches to a shot of his face, which has a ridge and a distinctive L-shaped wound that shows us this poor soul is none other than Icheb from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
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* DownerBeginning: The episode opens on a flashback to 13 years ago, where Seven arrives too late to save Icheb from some people harvesting Borg technology from former drones.
* MercyKill: Seven kills Icheb herself after she arrives too late to stop the people harvesting him for Borg tech from doing fatal damage.

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