Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan explains why Tom Paris and Nick Locarno are very different despite their identical faces.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Star Trek: Lower Decks creator and showrunner Mike McMahan explains the differences between Robert Duncan McNeill's two Star Trek characters, Nicholas Locarno and Lieutenant Tom Paris of Star Trek: Voyager. Locarno, a disgraced ex-Starfleet Cadet, was revealed as the big bad of Lower Decks season 4.
In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Mike McMahan was asked about how Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4's finale cleverly joked about Tom Paris and Nick Locarno's resemblance. McMahan talks about his perspective on Paris and Locarno and why Nick turned into a villain. Read his quote below: They're super different. Super different guys. Totally different. No resemblance... Calling it out too was helpful to me because Locarno is kind of our con, you know? He's an episodic character who we bring back decades later for a bigger cinematic heel turn... But we have Tom Paris. From a storytelling and structural point of view, he's got the redemption arc.
An early idea to use Nicholas Locarno in Star Trek: Voyager was scrapped in favor of creating a new character played by Robert Duncan McNeill, Lt. Tom Paris. Nick Locarno didn't get the redemption arc Tom Paris did on Star Trek: Voyager. Instead, 13 years after he was kicked out of Starfleet Academy for covering up the death of his Nova Squadron teammate, Joshua Albert, Locarno wanted revenge on Starfleet. Nick talked a big game about liberating other Lower Deckers from their superiors and standing up to Starfleet, but in the end, Locarno was just another madman who planned to use a doomsday device to get what he wanted.
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