Star Trek: 10 Characters Who Got Away With Murder

Stardust City Rag is a twofer for homicide, or a threefer if you count Picard's murdering of the French accent. Poor Icheb didn't fare too well either at the hands of the Borg body snatchers, and a certain Fenris Ranger's phaser, on Vergessen. How the creators of Star Trek: Picard's first season got away with offing one of Voyager's finest in such a perfunctory manner, we don't know, but that was 2386, so hopefully there is still plenty of in-universe time to bring the character back in Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy.

Of course, it was having to put Icheb — the ex-Borg boy she'd nurtured into adulthood in the Delta Quadrant — out of his misery that was the explanation, but by no means the justification, for what Seven of Nine did 13 years later. Picard did try to persuade her not to sacrifice the humanity she had reclaimed, that murder wasn't justice, but to no avail. As soon as she could, Seven beamed back down to Freecloud and vaporised Icheb's butcher, Bjayzl. "He was a son to me, Jay. This is for him."

We understand the rage, but murder is still murder. (Ex-)Borg drones have often been labelled murderers for simply being part of the Collective, when, in reality, they were victims too. This wasn't justice, it was perpetuating the stereotype. Seven never faced any consequences for her actions either. The Fenris Rangers and Freecloud were the absence of a law unto themselves, so there's no real surprise there.