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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking of the same scene! He was great at getaways and evading.

It’s not official canon but since the actor appeared in TNG as a different cadet who engaged in risky shuttle maneuvers to show off, it’s assumed that Paris was generally the same.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the two characters have different names (Nick Lacarno vs Tom Paris), but I always assumed the TNG character was the inspiration for Paris.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc he was supposed to be the same character, but then voyager would need to pay royalties to the tng writers every episode he was in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol, that sounds about right. I’d be pissed if I were the writers. “Hey we used the same actor and the same back story, but we used a different character name so go fuck yourself.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least it cost the studio a nice bit of story continuity from its hugely popular TNG property. Im sure more trek fans would have been more gripped by voyager with that bit in there. It certainly has a bit more chemistry to me after learning it just now.

I would have preferred the writers got paid, but being cheap cost the stuido too.