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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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 15 hours agoTom Paris was a pseudonym. His real name was Nick Lacarno and he got kicked out of the academy while Westley Crusher was there.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
milkisklim@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Lower decks squashed that theory.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 11 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.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Lower decks is barely canon, much like Clerks was barely a movie.
/s
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
Like Boimler, I don’t see the resemblance between the two.