WARNING: Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episodes 9 & 10.
Summary
- Lt. Tom Paris returns in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, showing that the crew of Voyager has become legendary in the Alpha Quadrant.
- Lt. Tom Paris is likely to appear in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 as Admiral Janeway leads the USS Voyager-A on a mission.
- Nick Locarno is revealed as the big bad in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, raising questions about his plans and a potential face-off with Tom Paris.
Star Trek: Lower Decks has brought back both characters played by Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Duncan McNeill in seasons 2 and 4 respectively. First appearing in Star Trek: The Next Generation as disgraced Starfleet Academy Cadet Nick Locarno, McNeill made enough of an impression that he was considered for a regular appearance in Voyager. However, it was deemed that Nick Locarno was irredeemable following his cover-up of the Nova Squadron disaster and his attempts to besmirch the memory of tragic Cadet Joshua Albert during his TNG episode.
Therefore, a new character was created, Tom Paris, an ex-Starfleet officer who had joined the Maquis before being arrested and sentenced to a New Zealand penal colony. Paris was offered a second chance when Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) recruited him to assist her in piloting the USS Voyager through the treacherous Badlands in pursuit of a missing Maquis ship. Lt. Tom Paris became an integral part of the Star Trek: Voyager cast, and so his return in modern Star Trek was inevitable. What nobody could have predicted, however, was that his previous character, Star Trek: The Next Generation's Nick Locarno would also come back.
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