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🖖 In my head canon Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno are one and the same.
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Well, they were played by the same person. Maybe, there is a connection.
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@DegasElite It was initially supposed to be the same character, similar to how Major Kira was originally conceived as Ensign Ro Laren. In "The First Duty" Locarno was of course expelled from Starfleet Academy for the incident with Red Squadron, and similarly Tom Paris was serving time in the Federation Penal Settlement in New Zealand at the beginning of Voyager. You can find reasons for this given over the years, but it's pretty clear that they wanted to avoid having to credit and pay writers Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar - who had written "The First Duty" and created Tom Paris - for every episode of Voyager that Locarno/Paris appeared in. Jeri Taylor will say that Locarno was "irredeemable", yet another Red Squadron character Sito Jaxa was redeemable in the TNG episode "Lower Decks". In my view this has more to do with Hollywood baloney than with anything to do with canonical Star Trek 🖖
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True.
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