Comment on Why do I get the feeling Tom Paris' unspecified crime might have been storming the Federation capital?

DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All I’m saying is that we never see Nick and Tom in the sane room

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • UlfKirsten@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Mysterio bros?

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• Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Paying royalties to a scriptwriter for writing a very minor character is dumb in this case. The same reason we have a Kira Nerys and not Ro Laren.

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  • grozzle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A myth. The episode with Locarno was by staff writers, wouldn’t have needed any extra fee to re-use the same character.

    I think Ron Moore, one of the staff writer’s for that season of TNG, mentioned this in a recent interview.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So then why get the same actor to play the identical role with a different name, instead of using a character that was planned?

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      • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Per Memory Alpha,

        In interviews the producers of Voyager have said they felt Locarno’s actions in that episode made him “irredeemable”. (TNG Season 5 DVD-special feature, Memorable Missions Year Five: “The First Duty”)

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      • grozzle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ask the writers. (I guess they didn’t want actual blood on Paris’ hands, or decided it didn’t make sense for him to be back in the fleet, which is what Lower Decks have done with Locarno)

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      • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        According to Robert Duncan McNeal, Larcarno gave the impression of being a good guy who made a mistake when in reality deep down he was a bad guy, whereas Paris was the other way around.

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  • mercano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The story I heard with Ro on DS9 was Michelle Forbes didn’t want to commit to a full-time TV gig, wanting to pick up more movie roles.

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They even witness protectioned his identity.

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  • oKtosiTe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pretty cool of his admiral dad to go along with the name change.

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