Robert Duncan McNeill is best known as Star Trek: Voyager’s Lt. Tom Paris, but his 3 Star Trek characters finally meet. Do they all look identical?
Summary
- Robert Duncan McNeill’s three Star Trek characters meet in a hilarious meme, prompting whether they all look alike.
- The meme highlights the fact that Lt. Tom Paris was once turned into a salamander in a Star Trek: Voyager episode.
- Fans can stream Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Lower Decks on Paramount+.
Robert Duncan McNeill is best known as Star Trek: Voyager‘s Lieutenant Tom Paris, but when his 3 Star Trek characters finally meet in a hilarious meme, it begs the question: Do they all look alike? McNeill reprised Tom Paris in the Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 episode, “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris,” but Robert returned as his previous character from Star Trek: The Next Generation, disgraced ex-Starfleet Cadet Nicholas Locarno. Lieutenant Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and the USS Cerritos stopped Locarno from threatening the galaxy in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4’s finale.
On Twitter/X, illustrator Chris Fenoglio (@ChrisFenoglio) shared his very funny artwork of Robert Duncan McNeill’s three Star Trek characters, reminding fans that Lt. Tom Paris was once turned into a salamander in the Star Trek: Voyager season 2 episode, “Threshold.” Check Fenoglio’s meme of Robert Duncan McNeill’s Star Trek characters pointing at each other below:
Chris Fenoglio’s art follows up on the funny joke about Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno being identical in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4’s finale and he ingeniously one-ups it by adding the Tom Paris salamander.
Do Robert Duncan McNeill’s Star Trek Characters Look Alike?
Are they identical or do you just not see it?
The joke about Tom Paris and Nick Locarno looking identical was one of the best gags in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 finale. Lt. Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) arguing that Paris and Locarno “have the same face” and Lt. Brad Boimler insisting, “I just don’t see it” was brilliant, and it addressed how both of Robert Duncan McNeill’s (human) Star Trek characters have crossed paths with the crew of the USS Cerritos. Given Tom and Nick’s presumably similar ages and matching backstories, it also begs the question whether Paris and Locarno attended Starfleet Academy at the same time.
Tom Paris’ salamander was one of the Star Trek: Voyager jokes in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4’s premiere, “Twovix.”
Over 20 years after Star Trek: Voyager ended, Star Trek: Lower Decks made Lt. Tom Paris relevant again, while McNeill’s cast mates like Jeri Ryan and Kate Mulgrew have made their Voyager icons, Seven of Nine and Admiral Kathryn Janeway, prominent in Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Prodigy, respectively. Lower Decks bringing back Nicholas Locarno as season 4’s big bad was a masterstroke that finished Nick’s story from Star Trek: The Next Generation. As for Robert Duncan McNeill’s third character, Star Trek fans will always have Tom Paris as a salamander.
