I love Tom Paris but in the early days of this show its like someone managed to bottle roguish-yet-likable young hotshot white dude protagonist who everyone hates because he fucked up something while trying to be good enough for his strict father and now has to redeem himself, y’know?
I mean he gets better but all they had to do was change one thing, man. One thing. Imagine. Tom Paris but asexual instead of a wannabe lady killer. Tom Paris but he’s a hotshot xenolinguist instead of a pilot. Tom Paris but Admiral Paris is actually his mom. Tom Paris but he’s lost his ability to fake cheerful bravado while in prison and is mostly just really quiet and sullen. Tom Paris but he’s Andorian instead of human, which would as a bonus make him also not male because no one I care to associate with would turn down an extra-canonical novel’s perfectly good alien gender worldbuilding. Anything. ONE THING.
Admiral Paris being his mom would be so fucking good.
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