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Tom Paris is the worst character on Voyager, fight me.
If you took a spoiled 6 year old from the 1950's and suddenly turned him into an adult, that child would be Tom Paris. He's overly childish, and not in a cute way. He character has practically zero depth. He's like Wesley Crusher if Wesley was an idiot.
Tom Paris was a pseudonym. His real name was Nick Lacarno and he got kicked out of the academy while Westley Crusher was there.
A pseudonym cleverly concocted to avoid paying royalties to Naren Shankar, the writer of TNG 5x19: The First Duty, who was let go after TNG finished its run.
Like Boimler, I don't see the resemblance between the two.
EDIT: Posted too soon as I see someone else made basically this same joke below. Leaving it here as both a testament to my unoriginality and to save everyone from thinking that God deleted my comment
Lower decks squashed that theory.
That's like saying Brunt of the FCA and Weayun are the same person.
Look, Lower Decks might have featured another person with the same name as Nick Lacarno, but that guy looked completely different, so it was obviously a new character.
…new headcanon unlocked.
Lower decks is barely canon, much like Clerks was barely a movie.
/s
Yeah it's like they were going to give him a strong character arc by showing him growing up side by side with Harry Kim... But then the writers forgot to actually grow their characters. So they're just children the whole time.
He's also responsible for all the awful Captain Proton episodes that I always skip.
Yep, that's one of the main reasons I compare him to a 6 year old from the 1950's.
Tom Paris is the kind of character that would sleep in a racecar bed and think it made him cool.
"Your bed is a car..."
"Yeah, but it's a fucking sweet car.
The thing i do like about tom, is that hes a pilot, and wants to be a pilot. Making a hot rod shuttle, building old muscle cars on the holodeck. Wanting to enter a star race... just wants to go fast.
"if" doing a lot of heavy lifting there
tom paris is imo easily the most forgettable character amongst the main cast
Not while Chakotay exists.
Chakotay is memorable because the "Native American" advisor they hired to help write the character was a total fraud, just some honky from LA pretending to be Cherokee and making everything up, That's why Chakotay sucked so hard, he was made of some loser's stereotypes.
Only because Neelix and Harry are so fucking annoying, they're impossible to forget.
Only near the end of the Voyager game did I realise there was a tab for tom paris logs, I'd gone the whole game missing them. What a pleasant discovery that was.
"Yes mam."
Wesley Crush is already really shallow character like the rest of tng