Tom Paris was a pseudonym. His real name was Nick Lacarno and he got kicked out of the academy while Westley Crusher was there.

Yeah it's like they were going to give him a strong character arc by showing him growing up side by side with Harry Kim... But then the writers forgot to actually grow their characters. So they're just children the whole time.

He's also responsible for all the awful Captain Proton episodes that I always skip.

The thing i do like about tom, is that hes a pilot, and wants to be a pilot. Making a hot rod shuttle, building old muscle cars on the holodeck. Wanting to enter a star race... just wants to go fast.

"if" doing a lot of heavy lifting there

tom paris is imo easily the most forgettable character amongst the main cast

"Yes mam."

Only near the end of the Voyager game did I realise there was a tab for tom paris logs, I'd gone the whole game missing them. What a pleasant discovery that was.

Wesley Crush is already really shallow character like the rest of tng