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Originally Posted by Locke
I agree with most of this, you've gotta be hardcore to get most of it.
"Teach me to dance Dr. Crusher?" From Data's Day? That joke is from 1991!
Granted, I'm guessing you jumped to Locarno sooner than I did, it took my brain a bit on this one, the only reason I even really remembered Locarno is because he actually came up in a conversation not too long ago when some friends and I were discussing the Writer's Strike.
Star Trek: Voyager, pulling Hollywood shenanigans before it was cool!!
Quick and Dirty Coles notes for some of the less hardcore: Locarno = Tom Paris.
Pre-production started on Voyager, they had this all mapped out and then realized that to use the Locarno Character they'd have to pay residuals to the writers who created him each time they used him and they planned on using him a lot.
So they changed his name, dabbled with his backstory (barely) and kept right on truckin'!
If I was one of those writers I'd have been PISSED.
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Yup - one of those "what couldda been" stories. Although I guess he would have been written and acted exactly the same way, so maybe no difference except the original writer could have sent his kids to college.
(happy BTW that that writer is now getting SOMETHING all these years later).
The other one was that Ro Laren was originally envisioned as the Bajoran second in command for DS9. Michelle Forbes turned it down. I was always a fan, so would have been nice to have her in that role, although perhaps it was the lack of connection with TNG that ultimately made it so successful.