It turns out he'd actually have been better off in the alternate future where he grew to adulthood on Voyager and married Naomi Wildman, at least then no one would've been around to betray him and scrap him for parts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hober
Wait, was he the little kid Seven was watching? Ouch
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @hober
The *little* kid was Naomi, Icheb was already like 14 when he joined the Voyager crew, but he had an absurdly traumatic past
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He was the eldest of a bunch of Borg children from an abandoned cube where all the Borg adults had died of a mysterious illness The Borg kids tried to hijack Voyager to try to rejoin the Collective only to learn the Collective considered them damaged and didn't want them back
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So Voyager tried to rehabilitate them and find a way to reunite them with their original species and parents And they actually did find Icheb's parents living in a post-apocalyptic world that had been ravaged by the Borg and they took him back
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Only for Voyager to find out that as soon as they left his parents put him on a ship and sent him back into Borg space with a distress beacon to intentionally get him caught and assimilated again
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Because it turned out his parents created him as a genetically engineered anti-Borg bioweapon as the last spiteful vengeance of a dying race His sole purpose in life was to get assimilated and spread the malware they put in his brain to kill as many Borg as possible
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The fact that he survived their first attempt because the virus petered out too early and didn't infect the main Collective was a failure on his parents' part They just tweaked him to be more deadly and tried again The Collective didn't take him back because they suspected this
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So since both sets of parents turned out to be hilariously monstrous and to see him as a tool rather than a person Voyager had no choice but to keep him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hober
Ah yes, USS Voyager, the ship known for its consistent use of empathy and respect for common humanity
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Icheb basically hits all those angsty YA novel beats His whole deal was being the painfully awkward gifted kid who escaped an abusive community and now has no family or culture or identity
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