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Why do I get the feeling Tom Paris' unspecified crime might have been storming the Federation capital?
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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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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.
A myth. The episode with Locarno was by staff writers, wouldn't have needed any extra fee to re-use the same character. Ro was already semi-regular character too, same deal.
I think Ron Moore, one of the staff writers for that season of TNG, mentioned this in a recent interview.
So then why get the same actor to play the identical role with a different name, instead of using a character that was planned?
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.