Yes, that deleted torture scene from Generations did involve a nanoprobe attached to Geordi's heart and Soran admitted that it was a Borg technique he picked up, despite the fact that the Borg don't torture and the idea that Soran somehow had a container of Borg Nanoprobes sounds a bit silly in retrospect, especially since Nano-assimilation hadn't been introduced in the continuity at that time and wouldn't be for a few more years. In the theatrical, cut Soran makes a cutting remark about torturing Geordi, saying "his heart just wasn't in it", despite the scene being removed. In the novel, Dr. C specifically mentions that it's a "Borg Nanoprobe" when Geordi wakes up in Sickbay, but the take used in the theatrical cut simply refers to the torture device as a nanoprobe. The script was written by Ron Moore and Brannon Braga and Braga went on to work on Voyager, where the Borg Nanoprobe was first introduced, in the same episode as 7 of 9.
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