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I had never heard about any of that before, it's scary how big of an impact residuals can have on shows. I know we got Paris instead of Locarno in Star Trek: Voyager because of residuals, and I think they might have also the reason we got Kira instead of Ro in Deep Space Nine.

Kira instead of Ro on DS9 was because Michelle Forbes turned down the offer. (And one of DS9's producers wrote the episode that introduced her in TNG so if he wanted he could have forgone the residuals.

You mentioned what happened with the Locarno/Paris situation (and in that case both characters were played by the same actor.)

The other Trek related instance was Enterprise as T'Pol was originally going to be 'T'Pau (from TOS S2 Amok Time) - and yes they eventually did show T'Pau in two episodes but they paid the royalties for those two episodes instead of the full run of 98.

But yeah, studios are always looking to keep what they consider unnecessary production costs down.

 

[Tuskin38]

I know we got Paris instead of Locarno in Star Trek: Voyager because of residuals

That's not why, the producers of Voyager thought Locarno was irredeemable according to the TNG Season 5 special features. Yet Paris, according to Caretaker, did nearly the same thing, except it was 3 officers that died instead of one cadet lmao

Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar were staff writers on TNG at the time they wrote 'The First Duty', so residuals shouldn't be an issue.

 

[Noname Given]

That's not why, the producers of Voyager thought Locarno was irredeemable according to the TNG Season 5 special features. Yet Paris, according to Caretaker, did nearly the same thing, except it was 3 officers that died instead of one cadet lmao

Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar were staff writers on TNG at the time they wrote 'The First Duty', so residuals shouldn't be an issue.

'Too irredeemable', eh?

Interesting given what was written for Benjamin Sisko who poisoned two planetary ecosystems to get Human and Cardassian colonists to move and was involved in an outright scam that cost multiple lives (one a Criminal and the others a Romulan Senator and his aides/bodyguards) to trick the Romulan Empire into joining the Dominion War on the Federation side. (And he tells us himself he can live with it...)

Yes, Lacarno convinced some cadets to lie about an accident - and also they ALL used peer pressure to get the Cadet who cused the accident killed - but yeah, sorry, if that's the Bar set - EVERYONE in that group of Cadets should be irredeemable. (And yeah, they killed off one of them too in TNG S7 Lower Decks - and I think the other dies at the Voyager helm when it got swept into the Gamma Quadrant in the show's Pilot...

But hell, both Wesley and Sisko achieve effective Godhood (and Sisko near sainthood to the Bajoran people); so yeah, gotta love the hypocrisy of the writing staff in the Berman 24th century Trek era, eh?

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