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scout Thomas Eugene Paris

Star Trek: Voyager

Robert Duncan
McNeill
9 November 1964 -

scout Thomas Eugene Paris
[Season 1 - 7]

About the character:
In the family of Thomas Eugene Paris the tradition has been a long way of acknowledged officers in the Starfleet. He himself is the son of a father, who is an admiral in the Starfleet and his attempts to live up to the expectations of the family is too great a strain for him. Therefore, after his graduation from the Starfleet Academy he enters the rebel group the Marquis, with whom he do not stay with for long, when he during his first mission is caught by the Starfleet and locked up.

Captain Kathryn Janeway gives him a fresh chance in life aboard the USS Voyager, which though shortly after its departure from the space station Deep Space Nine vanishes without a trace. On the USS Voyager Thomas Paris is the scout.

About the actor:
Robert Duncan McNeill is born in North Carolina but grew up in the capital Washington. Since then the family moves to Atlanta Georgia. After high school he decides to move to New York City to become an actor, an art he studies the next two years.

He has throughout his career appeared in TV series and movies, though it does not come up to his appearance in "Star Trek: Voyager" from 1995 to 2001. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his wife Carol, their sons Kyle and Carter and the daughter Taylor.

Has directed the following episodes:
Star Trek: Voyager
"Sacred Ground" (49)
"Unity" (59)
"Someone to Watch over Me" (116)
"Body and Soul" (153)

Star Trek: Enterprise
"Cold Front" (11)
"The Breach" (47)
"Twilight" (60)
"Countdown" (75)


Has appeared in:
1987:           "Masters of the Universe" - movie

1991:           "L.A. Law" - tv series
                      episode "TV or Not TV" (107)

1992:           "Star Trek: The Next Generation" - tv series
                      episode "The First Duty" (119) as first cadet Nicholas Locarno

1994:           "Murder, She Wrote" - tv series
                      episode "Death in Hawaii" (223)

1995 - 2001: "Star Trek: Voyager" - tv series

 

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