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

• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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