Lieutenant Tom Paris

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Robert Duncan McNeill
Robert Duncan McNeill was born on November 9, 1964 in North Carolina, but raised in Washington, D.C. ...

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Lieutenant Tom Paris Quotes

	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Lieutenant Tom Paris: [on the mysterious author of the holo-novel] Remember the good old days when it was impossible to keep a secret on a ship this small?
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Ensign Harry Kim: So what's this, Ayala tells me about a new holo-novel? Lieutenant Tom Paris: [laughs embarrassed] Get in line, Harry.
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: There is room in every good story for a little bit of passion. Lieutenant Tom Paris: You know, maybe you're on to something. I could add a steamy love scene between the Starfleet conn officer and the Maquis engineer. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Oh, that's realistic!
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Lieutenant Tom Paris: [on Seska] You should never have crossed her, Tuvok. Lieutenant Tuvok: She has been dead for over a year now. There would have been no way to predict this turn of events. Lieutenant Tom Paris: I guess we should've known Seska wouldn't let a little thing like death stop her from getting even.
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Lieutenant Tom Paris: It's been over an hour already, I'm getting bored! Lieutenant Tuvok: I am not concerned with your amusement, Ensign. We are in a crisis situation and we will follow procedure; and procedure dictates that we wait for the right opportunity to attempt an escape, whether it takes an hour or a week. Lieutenant Tom Paris: A week? Who wrote this stuff?
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Lieutenant Tom Paris: [after being tortured by the holographic holo-Doctor] Just great! Maybe we could go to the mess hall now and let the holographic Neelix burn my arm with a frying pan.
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Lieutenant Tom Paris: So, Tuvok - anything of the Dictates of Poetics? About how to escape from a ship full of insane holograms?
	Season 3 / Episode 24: - Displaced Lieutenant Tom Paris: On your feet now, Torres, that's an order! Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: You can't give me orders, we're the same rank. Lieutenant Tom Paris: I am a bridge officer, and I have seniority. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Oh yeah, by about two days! Lieutenant Tom Paris: On your feet, now! Come on, you've been wanting to take a swing at me for days. Now is your chance. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: You're just trying to get me moving. Lieutenant Tom Paris: You will keep moving; or do I have to throw you over my shoulder and carry you out? Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Don't even try it.
	Season 3 / Episode 24: - Displaced Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: My hands are completely numb! Lieutenant Tom Paris: Here. Lieutenant Tom Paris: I would have thought all that hot Klingon blood would have kept you warm. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: [shivering] Shows how much you know about Klingons. They have much less tolerance for the cold than humans do. Lieutenant Tom Paris: Really? I thought that was Cardassians. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: No, they just complain about it more.
	Season 3 / Episode 23: - Distant Origin Lieutenant Tom Paris: I'll see you tonight. BYOB. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: What? Lieutenant Tom Paris: Bring your own bat'leth.
	Season 3 / Episode 23: - Distant Origin Lieutenant Tom Paris: Tuvok, I hope that's your stomach.
	Season 3 / Episode 21: - Before and After Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: [about Kes's experiences of the future ] I bet you found out some pretty interesting things? Lieutenant Tom Paris: Yeah, Kes, tell us what you know. Commander Chakotay: Careful, Tom. You may find out that you'll leave Voyager only to join a monastery.
	Season 3 / Episode 21: - Before and After Ensign Harry Kim: So how does it feel to be a grandfather? Lieutenant Tom Paris: A lot better than it does to have you for a son-in-law.
	Season 3 / Episode 21: - Before and After Lieutenant Tom Paris: Let me get one thing straight, Doc - is it possible, if this keeps happening to Kes, that she might actually jump back into a time before she knew any of us? The Doctor: Worse than that, Mr. Paris: it is possible she may eventually jump back to a time... before she even existed.
	Season 3 / Episode 20: - Favorite Son Lieutenant Tom Paris: I don't see what's so bad about being you. You're good at your job, everybody likes you... Ensign Harry Kim: Being likable is fine, but sometimes I wish I could be more... bold, confident with women, more like you. Lieutenant Tom Paris: Like me? You might want to reconsider that, Harry; there could be prison time involved. Actually, since I've been on Voyager, I've tried to be more like you. Ensign Harry Kim: That'll be the day!
	Season 3 / Episode 18: - The Darkling Lieutenant Tom Paris: So what are you up to, Doctor? The Doctor-Darkling: [curtly] Work. Lieutenant Tom Paris: Yeah - never ends, does it? I guess that mobile emitter turned out to be something of a mixed blessing, huh?
	Season 3 / Episode 17: - Unity Lieutenant Tom Paris: You know, they ought to rename this place the 'Negative Expanse'. We haven't run across anything interesting for days. Captain Kathryn Janeway: If you're bored, Mr. Paris, I'm sure I can find something else for you to do. The warp plasma filters are due for a thorough cleaning. Lieutenant Tom Paris: Now that you mention it, Captain, I find this region of space a real navigational challenge.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Blood Fever Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: You don't know how strong... how hard it is... to fight this... urge! Lieutenant Tom Paris: Are you telling me that I'm impossible to resist? Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: I wouldn't go that far.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Blood Fever Lieutenant Tom Paris: So - this is the part where you throw heavy objects at me? Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Maybe later.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Blood Fever Lieutenant Tom Paris: I know you were afraid that your big scary Klingon side might have been showing. Well, I saw it up close. And you know, it wasn't so terrible. In fact, I wouldn't mind seeing it again some day. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Careful what you wish for, Lieutenant.
	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Alter Ego Lieutenant Tom Paris: Lieutenant! You look absolutely... Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Tropical? Lieutenant Tom Paris: More along the lines of smashing.
	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Alter Ego Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: She's locked us out of the program. We'll be lucky if we can open the doors. Lieutenant Tom Paris: We're lucky.
	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Alter Ego Lieutenant Tom Paris: You really know how to pick 'em, Tuvok.
	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Alter Ego Ensign Harry Kim: [trying to get his mind off Marayna with Tuvok's help] Logically, the best course is retreat. Meditation helps. Lieutenant Tom Paris: Retreat! A classic case of Vulcan denial, if you ask me.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Fair Trade Neelix: I've heard you were in some trouble in the past. Spent some time in prison. Lieutenant Tom Paris: That's right. Neelix: Would you... Would you... tell me how you got in trouble? Lieutenant Tom Paris: I've thought a lot about that. And it comes down to one simple fact: I didn't tell the truth. I made a mistake, which happens to people. But if I'd admitted that mistake it would have been a lot better. But I lied about it - and it nearly ruined my life.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Fair Trade Lieutenant Tom Paris: [about station manager Bahrat] Pleasant fella.
	Season 3 / Episode 10: - Warlord Lieutenant Tom Paris: [after Tuvok has applied the Vulcan nerve pinch on one of Tieran's guards] Someday you're gonna have to show me how to do that.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - Future's End, Part II Lieutenant Tom Paris: So - why'd you become an astronomer? Rain Robinson: My brother... had a telescope, a little refractor. You could barely see in the tree house next door actually, but... it was enough. It was enough to see the rings of Saturn. I remember... I remember I used to think that they look like... jewels from a pirate's treasure. All I ever wanted since then was to... reach up and touch 'em.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - Future's End, Part II Rain Robinson: Tuvok - what a freak-o-saurus! Has the guy ever cracked a smile? Lieutenant Tom Paris: Not that I can recall.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - Future's End, Part II Rain Robinson: Sometimes I think you're... the smartest man I've ever met. All this running around you do, your mission... You're so dedicated, you know, like you care about something more than just your own... little life. Lieutenant Tom Paris: Is that so unusual? Rain Robinson: Yeah.

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