If you can see past the fact that Voyager does a one-eighty again (last episode Seven didn't want to teach the children and now she's so attached to Icheb that she has difficulties letting him go) you find a very personal story. Both, Jeri and Manu make this work despite the fact that we've seen not much of them together. I had forgotten Icheb's background but the small part concerning him and Seven in Picard now makes more sense to me. Such a shame they wasted him there for a mere shocking effect. Since I did remember the character was in that show, there was no suspense on my behalf because I knew he'd stay. The morality about the parents using there child as a weapon is only touched lightly but it's also not what the episode's all about.
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If you can see past the fact that Voyager does a one-eighty again (last episode Seven didn't want to teach the children and now she's so attached to Icheb that she has difficulties letting him go) you find a very personal story.
Both, Jeri and Manu make this work despite the fact that we've seen not much of them together. I had forgotten Icheb's background but the small part concerning him and Seven in Picard now makes more sense to me. Such a shame they wasted him there for a mere shocking effect.
Since I did remember the character was in that show, there was no suspense on my behalf because I knew he'd stay. The morality about the parents using there child as a weapon is only touched lightly but it's also not what the episode's all about.