Submitted 9 months ago by USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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I always assumed it had more to do with him smuggling goods into federation colonies or some such. He's a very good pilot because he knows how to slip between the cracks of sensor fields and how to use unconventional maneuvers to throw off anyone chasing him. Sounds like the behaviour of a smuggler to me.
Also, I'm pretty sure the pitch for Tom Paris was basically "Han Solo but Star Trek".
That was also the pitch for Neelix though 😅
lol yeah I never really understood why they tried to sell Neelix as this tough, no-nonsense scrapper when they hired this guy to play the role. Star Trek has some very questionable casting sometimes. Not that Neelix isn't great, but he definitely isn't a "tough guy".
Nah if he did he wouldnt have tried blowing up the oxygen extraction plants on that water bubble colony to protect their environment. The types to storm the federation capitol would have been the type to want people like paris thrown out of hover copters for being too woke
I don’t think one good thing offsets the entire rest of Tom’s personality. He says some racist shit to Chakotay in the pilot.
He’s definitely the kind of guy who is recording a podcast in the Delta Flyer with his wraparound sunglasses on.
“I’m in a mixed marriage myself”
Truly Voyager was the scratched liberal/bleeding fascist Trek series.
They even have a season where Janeway orders the doctor to forcibly detransition a nonbinary person
Wasnt it obviously Maquis related? I imagine smuggling people(Bajorans) out of Cardassia or smuggling weapons to Maquis supporters
DmMacniel@feddit.de 9 months ago
My guess would be, that he did something in Starfleet Academy that lead to someone dead. But to keep it on the down low they made a cover up story.
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 9 months ago
All I’m saying is that we never see Nick and Tom in the sane room
Etterra@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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UlfKirsten@feddit.de 9 months ago
The Mysterio bros?
Maalus@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
grozzle@lemm.ee 9 months 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.
mercano@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
T156@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They even witness protectioned his identity.
oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pretty cool of his admiral dad to go along with the name change.