10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Picard

2. Eye, Borg

Life was far from child's play for Icheb. Before birth, he had been genetically engineered to become a biological weapon against the Borg. He fulfilled his macabre destiny — almost twice — and was partially assimilated or 'matured' as a result. Deemed 'unworthy' for reassimilation, the Collective abandoned its children.

Rescued by Voyager, Icheb thrived as an individual under Seven's tutelage, even beginning his Starfleet Academy training before the crew arrived home. Kal-toh and no more would have been a much finer ending for the character. 

There is only one way to say it. The manner of Icheb's death at the start of Stardust City Rag was gratuitous in the extreme. Strapped to a table, fully conscious, the adult Icheb, had his left eye ripped out.

"Where's your cortical node, buddy?" his butcher then asked. Was that supposed to be funny? Moments later, Seven has to put him out of his misery with her phaser. Rarely had we witnessed such visceral horror in Star Trek. 'Vergessen,' from German, means, amongst other things, 'to forget'. We certainly won't!