SPOILERS BELOW!!!
If you don't want to be spoiled about Star Trek: Picard stop reading now.
Seriously. Stop.
If you don't want to be spoiled about Star Trek: Picard stop reading now.
Seriously. Stop.
With that being said, and because I want to see what other VOY fans think, we got to see the return of another VOY character. Icheb. For about one minute. In that minute we saw him brutally tortured, he had his eyeball ripped out, and Seven was forced to mercy kill him. This actually bothers me.
We're not talking about the actor here. So forget that aspect of the recast and what went into that.
The character Icheb is dead. This wasn't a one off character but one that featured fairly often in the final seasons because of his relationship with Seven. I really liked Icheb when he came on board in Season 6. He was socially awkward, about my age at the time, and was trying to fit into the VOY crew. He was kind of a kindred spirit in a way. But he applied himself, the crew grew to accept him into the family, went to battle for him and saved him when his real family used and abused him, and he chose to pursue a career in Starfleet to help others and give back to the community that adopted him.
This wasn't the end I wanted or expected for him. It's actually really really crappy. I was spoiled before watching the latest episode. To be honest I actually didn't want to to watch his death and was sort of dreading it until tonight when I could watch it. Gore doesn't bother me. This kind of did. The Alpha Quadrant Voyager returned to is quite a bit different than when it left apparently. It's a damn good thing the other Borg children didn't finish the journey home. That pure Delta Quadrant Borg tech would be too much for these poachers to resist.
As I finished the episode, and we found out that Seven actually inadvertently gave Icheb to the scavengers due to the duplicity of that Bedazzle chick (her and Seven appeared to have been an item), and I listened to Picard's speech to Seven about justice and morality I couldn't help but ponder the fact that he was wrong. So wrong in this instance. Bedazzle needed to die and Seven made it happen. I felt better, but empty. Probably the same as Seven. I wonder what Admiral Janeway's take on all of this is? Maybe she's the Fenris Ranger Sheriff and everyone else is her deputy. That would seem about right in my mind.
RIP Icheb.
We're not talking about the actor here. So forget that aspect of the recast and what went into that.
The character Icheb is dead. This wasn't a one off character but one that featured fairly often in the final seasons because of his relationship with Seven. I really liked Icheb when he came on board in Season 6. He was socially awkward, about my age at the time, and was trying to fit into the VOY crew. He was kind of a kindred spirit in a way. But he applied himself, the crew grew to accept him into the family, went to battle for him and saved him when his real family used and abused him, and he chose to pursue a career in Starfleet to help others and give back to the community that adopted him.
This wasn't the end I wanted or expected for him. It's actually really really crappy. I was spoiled before watching the latest episode. To be honest I actually didn't want to to watch his death and was sort of dreading it until tonight when I could watch it. Gore doesn't bother me. This kind of did. The Alpha Quadrant Voyager returned to is quite a bit different than when it left apparently. It's a damn good thing the other Borg children didn't finish the journey home. That pure Delta Quadrant Borg tech would be too much for these poachers to resist.
As I finished the episode, and we found out that Seven actually inadvertently gave Icheb to the scavengers due to the duplicity of that Bedazzle chick (her and Seven appeared to have been an item), and I listened to Picard's speech to Seven about justice and morality I couldn't help but ponder the fact that he was wrong. So wrong in this instance. Bedazzle needed to die and Seven made it happen. I felt better, but empty. Probably the same as Seven. I wonder what Admiral Janeway's take on all of this is? Maybe she's the Fenris Ranger Sheriff and everyone else is her deputy. That would seem about right in my mind.
RIP Icheb.
