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I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Tom Paris is the worst character on Voyager, fight me.

If you took a spoiled 6 year old from the 1950’s and suddenly turned him into an adult, that child would be Tom Paris. He’s overly childish, and not in a cute way. He character has practically zero depth. He’s like Wesley Crusher if Wesley was an idiot.

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HatchetHaro@pawb.social ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
tom paris is imo easily the most forgettable character amongst the main cast

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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Tom Paris was a pseudonym. His real name was Nick Lacarno and he got kicked out of the academy while Westley Crusher was there.

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- chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A pseudonym cleverly concocted to avoid paying royalties to Naren Shankar, the writer of TNG 5x19: The First Duty, who was let go after TNG finished its run.
  
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- milkisklim@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Lower decks squashed that theory.
  
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  - tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    …new headcanon unlocked.
    
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  - usernamefactory@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Look, Lower Decks might have featured another person with the same name as Nick Lacarno, but that guy looked completely different, so it was obviously a new character.
    
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  - AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Lower decks is barely canon, much like Clerks was barely a movie.
    
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- FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Like Boimler, I don’t see the resemblance between the two.
  
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Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
He’s also responsible for all the awful Captain Proton episodes that I always skip.

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- I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yep, that’s one of the main reasons I compare him to a 6 year old from the 1950’s.
  
  Tom Paris is the kind of character that would sleep in a racecar bed and think it made him cool.
  
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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“if” doing a lot of heavy lifting there

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InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wesley Crush is already really shallow character like the rest of tng

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