Tom Paris?

[Hermiod]

And she worked on TNG for a long time before that as well. She joined as a producer in season four, I believe.

 

[Oso Blanco]

Scatta said:
^Well, obviously not biologically...

Why would it be obvious? Did I miss something?

 

[InklingStar]

She's human and he's Vulcan. Duh!

 

[nx1701g]

Tighs Eye said:
I thought she helped develop the series?

She did. Up until her departure as Exec Producer her novels (Mosaic - Janeway's life story and Pathways - stories of Voyager's crew's history) were even considered series canon.

Spoiler: In pathways

Taylor wrote that Tom was put in prison because during a patrol duty in an asteroid field he was bored and began testing the shuttles weapons. He miscalculated and an asteroid was destroyed. This destroyed asteroid threw debris that struck several of the shuttles and killed everyone but him. He falsified the data and made it look like their sensors had malfunctioned and it was pilot error. Tom became an alcoholic and, while serving on the Essex, believed he saw the three officers. Feeling guilty he turned himself in to the vessel's Captain and was dismissed from Starfleet.

 

[Scatta]

Oso Blanco, et. al. Iggy me. I misread the post I was responding to and thought it said "Jeri Ryan" not "Jeri Taylor." I knew that Ryan wasn't old enough to be Endberg's mother. That's also where the comment about him being on the series before him came from. However, since that said "Jeri Taylor," just iggy me!

I pay no attention to who is married to whom, so...

 

[Therin of Andor]

nx1701g said:
Up until her departure as Exec Producer her novels (Mosaic - Janeway's life story and Pathways - stories of Voyager's crew's history) were even considered series canon.

Not quite. She wrote the "Unification" novelization while on the staff of TNG and "Mosaic" while on staff with VOY. For "Mosaic", Taylor made full use of Janeway backstory she (and Kate Mulgrew?) had developed over the first few years of VOY. Thus, Taylor offered "Mosaic" to the VOY staff as definitive material they could use in episodes, and several aspects (eg. Dad, sister, tennis) did make it into episodes.

IIRC, "Pathways" had to get some last-minute tweaking to include Seven of Nine in its framing story, and also to have Neelix "channel" the Kes background story, since Kes had left the series. Taylor was about to leave VOY and again offered this novel as material the writers could use if they so desired, but many of its aspects about certain characters were quickly ignored by later episodes.

For a time, then-Viacom Licensing considered Taylor's books as "quasi-canonical" whenever novel and comic writers had questions about VOY characters.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Therin of Andor said:

Kira Nerys instead of Ro Laren in DS9

I think that was because Michelle Forbes backed out.

 

[Therin of Andor]

A beaker full of death said:
I think that was because Michelle Forbes backed out.

Exactly, but they have stated in interviews that they are pleased to have created a whole new character that had no connection to Starfleet. So Michelle Forbes resisting a longterm contract forced them into a rethink. Sisko vs Ro Laren, whether she was to have been disgruntled Starfleet, newly ex-Starfleet or ex-Maquis, didn't offer as interesting a situation as Sisko vs Kira.

 

[Harvey]

Have any of the more recent Trek novels tried to ret-con Nick Locarno and Tom Paris together somehow, or perhaps made them related like Dukat and his cousin in Demons of Air and Darkness?

 

[Jack Bauer]

Hirogen Alpha said:
Have any of the more recent Trek novels tried to ret-con Nick Locarno and Tom Paris together somehow, or perhaps made them related like Dukat and his cousin in Demons of Air and Darkness?

Not that I'm aware of. But I am a bit behind regarding Trek novels so maybe I'm wrong.