Talk:Child's Play (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Disambiguation 3 PNA 4 Possible Timeline Inconsistency I 5 Removed comment

[edit] Disambiguation

From the first line of this article, do we need a disambiguation page for the term "Child's Play"? --Mgg4 23:01, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

If we made another page, it would be "child's play"..

Is "child's play" really a valid topic to have its own article? I'm not so sure -- Captain M.K.B. 23:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

S/he refers to the Gold Key comic "Child's Play" I do believe. -- Sulfur 23:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PNA

The act structure in this summary is wrong as well. Please correct -- Michael Warren | Talk 19:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Timeline Inconsistency I

It does not seem to make sense that Seven accepts Leucon's explanation of how Icheb came to be assimilated. When he is first reunited with his parents, his mother comments that he's grown and Seven notes that he spent several 'months' in a Borg maturation chamber.

First, maybe his folks didn't have their cover stories straight because if Icheb was assimilated 4 years prior, as his father would later contend, then his mother's remark that he'd grown seems out of place. I know, Yifay could have been fumbling for something to say, blurted out something obvious in her awkward attempt to connect with her long lost son but it makes more sense that she was marveling at how he'd grown noticeably in only a few months. Leucon heard this but didn't incorporate it into his detailed cover story to Seven.

Second, the 'several' months that Seven acknowledges Icheb spent in a maturation chamber don't really jibe with her then accepting that he'd been a drone for few 'years' by the time Voyager liberated him, without question. And, remember, we know from the episode "Collective" that he and the other children only emerged from their neonatal alcoves shortly before encountering Voyager. One explanation could be that Seven allowed for the idea that Icheb might not have spent his entire time since assimilation in a maturation chamber but then where would he have spent his time, hanging out around the cube? Doubtful: Seven, herself, spent six or seven years from assimilation to complete maturation in a chamber where the "chaos" and "turmoil" in her mind was replaced with the order which has since come to serve as "a source of strength" to her in regaining her humanity. ("Collective").

I'm new to MA and for various reasons have far too much time on my hands (since I'm starting to worry about things I never noticed before but, fear not, I'll be going over my issues in group...) Anyway, I didn't want to add any types of questions along these lines to the main article without getting some input. Could I add some thing more succinct about this apparent inconsistency to the Background section of the article (succinct is not my forte but I'd work on it)? Are these useful or valid observations? Thx. PogaGirl 19:59, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed comment

Removed the following, as it doesn't really pertain to the episode, though it does to the two actors. Should be on their page, if it isn't already.--31dot 14:15, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• "Eric Ritter and Mark Sheppard worked together before on Martial Law in the second season episode (Thieves Among Thieves)."

I also removed:

• "Seven of Nine mentions in this episode that she has not seen her parents since being assimilated. In the previous season (VOY: "Dark Frontier"), she encountered her father in person. This may indicate that she realizes being a drone robs one of their humanity and that her father was lost to her following his assimilation."
• "In this episode's teaser, Seven of Nine says simply "Naomi" (rather than "Naomi Wildman"). This is the second time in the series she does this. The first being in (VOY: "Infinite Regress") while playing kadis-kot with Naomi in a different personality."

Rather speculative and nittish. --Alan