- Complete Monster: Kivas Fajo is a Collector of the Strange with the attitude of a sociopathic brat, who uses his job as a trader to cover for his thievery of unique and valuable objects. After desiring to add Data, the only known sapient android in the galaxy, to his collection, Fajo poisons an inhabited planet's water supply so he can kidnap Data and cover it up as an accidental death while trading over the antidote. When Data is in his care, Fajo doesn't care about his sapience and degrades and humiliates him into catering to his whims, insistent that he's just another shiny object. When Data refuses to comply, Fajo eventually forces him to obey by threatening to kill his broken, co-dependent slave girlfriend Varria with a Varon-T Disruptor, which is illegal to carry in the Federation due to the agonizingly slow and torturous way it kills its targets from the inside out. When Varria helps Data escape, Fajo murders her with it and pins the blame on Data. He then threatens to continue killing more of his own servants if Data keeps refusing to obey him, and even dismisses Varria's death by stating that he can easily find a replacement. He nearly becomes an Asshole Victim as a result. Among the series's one-shot villains, Kivas Fajo is without a doubt among the worst.
- Fashion-Victim Villain: Fajo and Toff apparently compete to see who wears the gaudiest outfits. Toff's lime-green bathrobe wins that title.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Star Trek: Lower Decks will later reveal that there's an entire guild of collectors like Fajo — and according to Captain Freeman, they've all tried to "collect" Data. How many of them have gone as far as Fajo does — or worse?
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- Saul Rubinek later played another Collector of the Strange in Warehouse 13, albeit a much more heroic one.
- Two years later, the demonic version of TNG would have phases set to "torture".
- Moral Event Horizon: Fajo indisputably crosses it when he shoots and kills Varria with a Varon-T disruptor. Even Fajo himself seems momentarily shaken by that act—he immediately tosses the disruptor away after firing. Unfortunately, he soon recovers and threatens to use the horrific weapon again. He nearly becomes an Asshole Victim as a result.
- Special Effects Failure: The servos on the shuttlecraft's doors are clearly straining under the weight. The doors open with a choppy motion and wobble when fully extended.
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