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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?
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)