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** The fate of Armus. He was created [[Made of Evil|out of the darkest aspects]] of the psyches of an entire alien race [[Jerkass Woobie|and then abandoned.]] After he murdered Tasha Yar in a rage, the crew of the Enterprise decided that it was fitting punishment to leave him ''again'' and deploy a warning beacon that meant no-one ever venture near the planet again. Armus' even ends the episode ''screaming''.

** To say nothing of those that the Borg assimilate. As Picard implied shortly after being removed from the Collective in "The Best of Both Worlds", they're privvy to everything the Borg-them is doing, but are helpless to do anything about it. That Picard was able to break through his "Locutus of Borg" personality and tell Data how to defeat the Borg was nothing short of a miracle.

** Moriarty — the self-aware hologram intended to outsmart Data — is still conscious when he is deactivated, and speaks of "Brief, terrifying periods of consciousness... disembodied, without substance." Eventually, he is trapped in a small device running a permanent simulation in which he thinks he has escaped into the real world. Geordi couldn't get him into the real world, but this is still an ignominious and condescending end.

** Moriarty — the self-aware hologram intended to outsmart Data — is still conscious when he is deactivated, and speaks of "Brief, terrifying periods of consciousness... disembodied, without substance."

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: The ''Enterprise'' has received a few of these, including a couple [[Negative Space Wedgie|from themselves]].

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: ''[[Star Trek]]'' runs on this and all the subset variants, justified with heavy heaps of [[Techno Babble]].