Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein, the Gothic scientist from Mary Shelley’s novel, endures as a cultural emblem of creative ambition undone by negligence. His biography compresses invention, obsession, and the failure to accept responsibility for a sentient creation. On the Enterprise, his name operates as an ethical shorthand: invoked to compel creators to face the consequences of their experiments rather than hide from them. Guinan summons Frankenstein as a moral lever, transforming literary myth into a prompt for accountability when unintended life and danger escape containment.