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* TheReveal: Icheb was the source of the pathogen that disabled his Borg Cube back in "Collective".
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** Averted. Janeway attempts this on Seven, accusing her of letting her own unresolved feelings for her parents cloud her judgement. Instead of being rattled, Seven just rolls with it, freely acknowledges the similarity, and but shoots back that by all outward appearances, the Brunali are just as unfit to raise children as the Hansens. Janeway, tellingly, doesn't really have a retort for this, and passes the burden of decision onto Icheb.
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** Averted.Subverted. Janeway attempts this on Seven, accusing her of letting her own unresolved feelings for her parents cloud her judgement. Instead of being rattled, Seven just rolls with it, freely acknowledges the similarity, and but shoots back that by all outward appearances, the Brunali are just as unfit to raise children as the Hansens. Janeway, tellingly, doesn't really have a retort for this, and passes the burden of decision onto Icheb.
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-->'''Icheb:''' How would your programming respond if you were asked to live with strangers?
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* BioluminescenceIsCool: Janeway seems to like Mezoti's glowing ant colony.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The Brunali point out that due to their limited resources the only strategy they have to combat the Borg is to genetically engineer Icheb into a TykeBomb to keep Borg Cubes from repeatedly harvesting their population for drones. Early in the episode, Seven points out the fact that they can simply ''move to another planet.'' When presented with this option, Icheb's father angrily insists that the Brunali love their home and will defend it no matter what, even though potentially settling on a planet not right outside of a Borg conduit would spare them the inhumanity of turning their children into living weapons.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion.
** Averted. Janeway attempts this on Seven, accusing her of letting her own unresolved feelings for her parents cloud her judgement. Instead of being rattled, Seven just rolls with it, freely acknowledges the similarity, and but shoots back that by all outward appearances, the Brunali are just as unfit to raise children as the Hansens. Janeway, tellingly, doesn't really have a retort for this, and passes the burden of decision onto Icheb.
** Played straight when Icheb comes to the Doctor with extreme anxiety at the idea of leaving Voyager to live with a biological family he has no memory of. The Doctor pontificates about how much he can learn from a family and how much they can give to him that he couldn't get from the Voyager crew and that it's nothing to feel nervous about.
-->'''Icheb:''' How would your programming respond if you were asked to live with strangers?
** Averted. Janeway attempts this on Seven, accusing her of letting her own unresolved feelings for her parents cloud her judgement. Instead of being rattled, Seven just rolls with it, freely acknowledges the similarity, and but shoots back that by all outward appearances, the Brunali are just as unfit to raise children as the Hansens. Janeway, tellingly, doesn't really have a retort for this, and passes the burden of decision onto Icheb.
** Played straight when Icheb comes to the Doctor with extreme anxiety at the idea of leaving Voyager to live with a biological family he has no memory of. The Doctor pontificates about how much he can learn from a family and how much they can give to him that he couldn't get from the Voyager crew and that it's nothing to feel nervous about.
-->'''Icheb:''' How would your programming respond if you were asked to live with strangers?
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* FreudianExcuse: Seven has perhaps the best reason possible for wanting Icheb away from a planet so close to a Borg transwarp conduit. She's also afraid that his parents will screw things up just like hers did.
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* FreudianExcuse: A justified example. Seven has perhaps the best reason possible for wanting Icheb away from a planet so close to a Borg transwarp conduit. She's While her past makes her overly judgemental, it also afraid that his parents will screw things up means she can recognize just like hers did.how neglectful the Brunali are.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Seven is horrified when she sees the flippant attitude Icheb's family has toward staying near Borg territory, which seemingly places them in unjustifiable danger instead of settling elsewhere. At first it looks like Seven is just projecting her frustration at her own criminally-neglectful parents, but it turns out that Icheb's parents are risking his health through more than sheer neglect.
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* ChildProdigy: The ex-drones, naturally. Mezoti [[FriendToBugs likes bugs]] and made a very pleasing-looking habitat for them, while Icheb made a ''whole new sensor array for detecting wormholes''! And he also works on extending the range of Astrometrics sensors!
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* ChildProdigy: The ex-drones, naturally. Azan and Rebi clone potatoes (only because Seven wouldn't let them clone Naomi), Mezoti [[FriendToBugs likes bugs]] and made makes a very pleasing-looking habitat for them, while Icheb made makes a ''whole new sensor array for detecting wormholes''! And he also works on extending the range of Astrometrics sensors!sensors! Naomi's no slouch, either, making a model of Ktaris with programmed weather graphics that impress the senior officers and [[http://reviewboy.com/childsplay.html Jim "Reviewboy" Wright]].
-->Not to put too fine a point on this, but when I was Naomi's age I was making pies out of mud in the back yard. At the age I am now, I feel mighty if I can get my VCR to stop blinking 12:00. And Naomi's mastered planetary weather patterns at the age of . . . lemme think, when was "Deadlock"? . . . the age of four?\\
No wonder the twins want to clone her. Smart, pretty, hair longer than an average DELTA BLUES review . . .
-->Not to put too fine a point on this, but when I was Naomi's age I was making pies out of mud in the back yard. At the age I am now, I feel mighty if I can get my VCR to stop blinking 12:00. And Naomi's mastered planetary weather patterns at the age of . . . lemme think, when was "Deadlock"? . . . the age of four?\\
No wonder the twins want to clone her. Smart, pretty, hair longer than an average DELTA BLUES review . . .
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: We still don't see Ensign Wildman, so when the Doctor asks Icheb if Naomi's mother is irrelevant to ''her'', our first thought is, 'she's definitely irrelevant to the show, all right.'
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: We still don't see Ensign Wildman, so when the Doctor asks Icheb if Naomi's mother is irrelevant to ''her'', our first thought is, 'she's definitely irrelevant to the show, all right.'' [[http://reviewboy.com/childsplay.html Jim "Reviewboy" Wright points this out during the Science Fair.]]
-->A tentative hand in the corner is raised. A certain review boy asks, "You know, this is a big day for Naomi. Where's Momma Wildman?" before Janeway's curt nod sends Security into action, chasing the troublemaker out of the room.
-->A tentative hand in the corner is raised. A certain review boy asks, "You know, this is a big day for Naomi. Where's Momma Wildman?" before Janeway's curt nod sends Security into action, chasing the troublemaker out of the room.
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* ThroughHisStomach: Icheb starts to warm up to his parents after a bite of Mom's home cooking.
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** With a Borg transwarp conduit less than a light year away from the Brunali, guess who shows up near the end.
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** With a Borg transwarp conduit less than a light year light-year away from the Brunali, guess who shows up near the end.
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-->'''Leucon:''' We don't have particle weapons or powerful starships at our disposal. We're forced to use the only resource we have.\\
'''Seven:''' Your children?\\
'''Yifay:''' No. Our genetic expertise.\\
'''Janeway:''' ''([[EurekaMoment with dawning realization]])'' Icheb's not bait. He's a weapon. The first Cube that captured him was infected by a pathogen. Icheb was the carrier, wasn't he?\\
'''Leucon:''' Every time we try to rebuild, begin to make progress, the Borg come and take it away from us.
'''Seven:''' Your children?\\
'''Yifay:''' No. Our genetic expertise.\\
'''Janeway:''' ''([[EurekaMoment with dawning realization]])'' Icheb's not bait. He's a weapon. The first Cube that captured him was infected by a pathogen. Icheb was the carrier, wasn't he?\\
'''Leucon:''' Every time we try to rebuild, begin to make progress, the Borg come and take it away from us.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: With a Borg transwarp conduit less than a light year away from the Brunali, guess who shows up near the end.
** Leucon shows Icheb a genetic resequencing gizmo that they use to help grow crops. It turns out that they don't just use it on plants.
** Leucon shows Icheb a genetic resequencing gizmo that they use to help grow crops. It turns out that they don't just use it on plants.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** With a Borg transwarp conduit less than a light year away from the Brunali, guess who shows up near the end.
** Leucon shows Icheb [[ChekhovsGun a genetic resequencinggizmo gizmo]] that they use to help grow crops. It turns out that they don't just use it on plants.
** With a Borg transwarp conduit less than a light year away from the Brunali, guess who shows up near the end.
** Leucon shows Icheb [[ChekhovsGun a genetic resequencing
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'''Seven:''' Both.
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'''Seven:''' Both.\\
'''Janeway:''' It's not like you to admit to something like that.\\
'''Seven:''' It would be naive for me to claim objectivity in this case. But I'm not prepared to return Icheb to parents who may be as careless as my own.
'''Janeway:''' It's not like you to admit to something like that.\\
'''Seven:''' It would be naive for me to claim objectivity in this case. But I'm not prepared to return Icheb to parents who may be as careless as my own.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: On the ''Voyager'' crew's side, as any responsible parent would tell you, consigning one's own child to a FateWorseThanDeath is crossing a serious line, which is how Janeway and Seven react when Icheb's parents are revealed to have turned him into a TykeBomb against the Borg. On the Brunali's side, their tech level is borderline archaic except for their [[LEGOGenetics genetic sequencing]] and their planet is very close to a Borg transwarp conduit, and the Borg prioritize young and able lifeforms for assimilation, so applying a pathogen to children like Icheb and feeding them to the Borg is their only realistic means of survival. While the show naturally sides with ''Voyager'''s point of view, the Brunali's dire situation is understandable.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: On the ''Voyager'' crew's side, as any responsible parent would tell you, consigning one's own child to a FateWorseThanDeath is crossing a serious line, which is how Janeway and Seven react when Icheb's parents are revealed to have turned him into a TykeBomb against the Borg. On the Brunali's side, their tech level is borderline archaic except for their [[LEGOGenetics genetic sequencing]] and their planet is very close to a Borg transwarp conduit, and the Borg prioritize young and able lifeforms for assimilation, so applying a pathogen to children like Icheb and feeding them to the Borg is their only realistic means of survival. While the show naturally sides with ''Voyager'''s point of view, the Brunali's dire situation is understandable.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: On ''Voyager's''' side, as any responsible parent would tell you, consigning one's own child to a FateWorseThanDeath is crossing a serious line, which is how Janeway and Seven react when Icheb's parents are revealed to have turned him into a TykeBomb against the Borg. On the Brunali's side, their tech level is borderline archaic except for their [[LEGOGenetics genetic sequencing]] and their planet is very close to a Borg transwarp conduit, and the Borg prioritize young and able lifeforms for assimilation, so applying a pathogen to children like Icheb and feeding them to the Borg is their only realistic means of survival. While the show naturally sides with ''Voyager'''s point of view, the Brunali's dire situation is understandable.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: On ''Voyager's''' the ''Voyager'' crew's side, as any responsible parent would tell you, consigning one's own child to a FateWorseThanDeath is crossing a serious line, which is how Janeway and Seven react when Icheb's parents are revealed to have turned him into a TykeBomb against the Borg. On the Brunali's side, their tech level is borderline archaic except for their [[LEGOGenetics genetic sequencing]] and their planet is very close to a Borg transwarp conduit, and the Borg prioritize young and able lifeforms for assimilation, so applying a pathogen to children like Icheb and feeding them to the Borg is their only realistic means of survival. While the show naturally sides with ''Voyager'''s point of view, the Brunali's dire situation is understandable.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: On ''Voyager's''' side, as any responsible parent would tell you, consigning one's own child to a FateWorseThanDeath is crossing a serious line, which is how Janeway and Seven react when Icheb's parents are revealed to have turned him into a TykeBomb against the Borg. On the Brunali's side, their tech level is borderline archaic except for their [[LEGOGenetics genetic sequencing]] and their planet is very close to a Borg transwarp conduit, and the Borg prioritize young and able lifeforms for assimilation, so applying a pathogen to children like Icheb and feeding them to the Borg is their only realistic means of survival. While the show naturally sides with ''Voyager'''s point of view, the Brunali's dire situation is understandable.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Azan and Rebi want to clone Naomi for the science fair or because they each wanted a Naomi of their own?
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