Saltah'na
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One thing that has always bugged me since the start of Voyager is the character of Tom Paris.
For those who may not remember, Robert Duncan McNeil (Paris) also played a Cadet in ST:TNG- "The First Duty". In it, McNeil plays Cadet Nicholas Locarno, leader of Nova Squadron in which Wesley took part. He was expelled after a coverup involving a death of another crew member.
Seeing that they would be using an actor who previously played another character in another series, why not use that same character in the NEW series, instead of creating a completely different character?
Look at it this way: both Locarno and Paris were involved in the deaths of fellow members of Starfleet, and both were disgraced from Starfleet itself. It would be a simple matter of transposing one character to another. What's the use of a completely new character?
Beats me. Comments?
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As I recall, this was considered. The Locarno character was felt to be "too irredeemable", and perhaps too much of a smug git. Paris committed a perhaps similar crime, but in his case it made him impulsive, foolhardy and cynical.
The use of the Locarno character also would have involved a very, very grave risk....
Flashbacks involving Wesley "The boy!" Crusher. :-O
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IIRC, the original intention was in fact to use Locarno, but they decided not to, probably for the reasons Monty mentioned.
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I once read somewhere that the reason they didn't use Locarno was because they didn't like the name. However, this person may have just been saying this sarcastically.
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They never intended to use Locarno. They originally described the character that would become Paris as "Locarno-like ('The First Duty')" but nothing more (source: A Vision of the Future: Star Trek: Voyager). Incidentally, they ended up casting Robert McNeill, but he had to audition and had some competition.
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Orion Syndicate
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I remember reading somewhere that they were going to use Locarno, but for some reason they pulled back at the last minute. It probably was the fact that what he did was irredeemable. Locarno was an excellent pilot, so is Paris so the character is basically the same. If Nick Locarno had been used, the character development would probably have been the same - his relationship with Harry, B'Elanna especially and with the rest of the crew.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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Orion: That is exactly my idea. Had they used Locarno's Character, it would have made for some nice continuity and stuff. His character as of "The First Duty" is still too underdeveloped to be considered as "irredeemable" IMHO.
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Did your information come from official source material and interviews?
It would have been interesting but rather similar to having Miles O'Brien on DS9. I like how Voyager didn't reuse characters from TNG, except in guest spots.
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I don't think they could reuse any of the characters because the mission was far too different to anything the others were doing. There was talk of Jonathan Frakes getting the job thus having Riker as captain, but they decided to be politically correct and give Genevieve Bujold the job and then Kate Mulgrew once Ms Bujold decided it wasn't for her.
With regards to O'Brien being on DS9, I would have liked to see more storylines regarding him and the Cardassians. There were some, but I don't think they developed it as much as they could have done. He made constant references to Setlik 3 and he was charged with treason against the Cardassian empire, but that was about it. It would have been interesting to see what they could have done, just like Worf and his standing in the Klingon empire.
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Erm... How could he be charged w/ treason against the Cardassians? He's not a Cardassian, nor even a citizen of the Cardassian Union.
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Kosh: My point is that a person can only commit treason, by definition, against someone to whom they owe allegiance. If O'Brien did something to the Cardassians, it might be espionage, or something, but it couldn't possibly be treason.
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