Star Trek’s Robert Duncan McNeill Hilariously Explains Getting Cast As Voyager’s Tom Paris

Robert Duncan McNeill recounts the hilarious story of how he was cast as Star Trek: Voyager‘s Lieutenant Tom Paris after he played Nicholas Locarno years earlier on Star Trek: The Next Generation. McNeill’s turn as Locarno in the TNG season 5 episode, “The First Duty,” was very well-received. There was even an early idea for Nick Locarno to join the cast of Voyager before the character was reconceived as Tom Paris. Yet Star Trek: Voyager’s producers still wanted “a Robert Duncan McNeill type” for the role.