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** If you had transported Legolas from [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]] to the Franchise/TrekVerse and turned him into a [[SpaceElves Space Elf]], then you'd get Elnor. Even his name is Sindarin ("Star-Run"); it was showrunner Creator/MichaelChabon's idea to call the character (what is essentially) "Star-Trek" [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RVtel9WIGdg/XmRXuLeO1xI/AAAAAAABATY/o5VCEYrreoc9VsK14j4DWY8KgRV4pTehQCKgBGAsYHg/s1600/Michael%2BChabon%2BStar%2BTrek%2BPicard%2BElnor%2Bname.jpg in Elvish.]]
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** If you had transported Legolas from [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]] to the Franchise/TrekVerse and turned him into a [[SpaceElves Space Elf]], then you'd get Elnor. Even his name is Sindarin ("Star-Run"); it was showrunner Creator/MichaelChabon's idea to call the character (what is essentially) "Star-Trek" [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RVtel9WIGdg/XmRXuLeO1xI/AAAAAAABATY/o5VCEYrreoc9VsK14j4DWY8KgRV4pTehQCKgBGAsYHg/s1600/Michael%2BChabon%2BStar%2BTrek%2BPicard%2BElnor%2Bname.jpg in Elvish.]]]]
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** The creators wanted to bring back Nicholas Locarno, a character from the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E19TheFirstDuty}} The First Duty]]". However, the character had been created by the writer of that episode and not by ''TNG'''s creators or executive producers (as was the case for recurring characters such as O'Brien or Worf, who could be reused). Because of this, the creators of ''Voyager'' thought they'd have to pay royalties to the writer of that episode every time they used the character, and that led them to create a new character similar to Locarno's named Tom Paris with a similar backstory and who would be played by the same actor. To cover the transparent change, the creators said that they decided Locarno was irredeemable due to his actions in the episode, but Tom Paris's actions (which were more like Wesley's in the original episode) were less culpable. [[note]]However, the only difference between Locarno's actions and Paris's, as heard onscreen, is that ''three'' died in the Paris version instead of ''one'' as in the Locarno version! That, and Paris actually regretted what he did while Locarno was smugly unrepentant.[[/note]] Interestingly, many years later a California court ruled that producers in a similar situation didn't have to pay royalties to a writer who created a character; had the producers of ''Voyager'' chosen to take the matter to court, they might have been cleared to use the character Locarno. A similar situation presumably resulted in Taris/Toreth, Macet/Dukat, and a name or two further down this list.
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** The creators wanted to bring back Nicholas Locarno, a character from the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E19TheFirstDuty}} The First Duty]]".Duty]]" who was kicked out of Starfleet Academy for conspiring to cover up a cadet's death he was accidentally responsible for. However, the character had been created by the writer of that episode and not by ''TNG'''s creators or executive producers (as was the case for recurring characters such as O'Brien or Worf, who could be reused). Because of this, the creators of ''Voyager'' thought they'd have to pay royalties to the writer of that episode every time they used the character, and that led them to create a new character similar to Locarno's named Tom Paris with a similar backstory and who would be played by the same actor. To cover the transparent change, the creators said [[note]]Although a key difference that they decided makes Paris a more sympathetic character is that he turned himself in of his own volition whereas Locarno was irredeemable due was content to cover up his actions in for the episode, but Tom Paris's actions (which were more like Wesley's in rest of his life and force two others to do the original episode) were less culpable. [[note]]However, same, and would have had Picard not found out about the only difference between Locarno's actions and Paris's, as heard onscreen, is that ''three'' died in the Paris version instead of ''one'' as in the Locarno version! That, and Paris actually regretted what he did while Locarno was smugly unrepentant.plot.[[/note]] Interestingly, many years later a California court ruled that producers in a similar situation didn't have to pay royalties to a writer who created a character; had the producers of ''Voyager'' chosen to take the matter to court, they might have been cleared to use the character Locarno. A similar situation presumably resulted in Taris/Toreth, Macet/Dukat, and a name or two further down this list.
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Franchise/StarTrek has a longstanding habit of bringing back past guest stars with the same actor and personality but a slightly different name, for reasons we'll get to down the line.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Decker and Ilia from the aborted series Star Trek: Phase II (and then incorporated into ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'') were exported to ''TNG'' and became Riker and Troi, while the Vulcan Lt. Xon became the Android Lt. Cmdr. Data.
** Subcommander Taris of [[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E11Contagion}} Contagion]]" has become Commander Toreth by the time of the much later episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E13FaceOfTheEnemy}} Face of the Enemy]]".
** The official ''Next Generation'' interactive VCR board game had Robert O'Reilly playing a Klingon terrorist named ''Kavok'', an Expy of his usual character ''Gowron''.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** Gul Macet from ''TNG'''s "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded}} The Wounded]]" gets a shave and becomes Gul Dukat. The ExpandedUniverse makes them cousins (and, interestingly, invokes DivergentCharacterEvolution and makes him a very different character.)
** Interestingly, Quark and the previous two Ferengi played by Armin Shimerman are ''not'' a case of this. Letek was a none-too-bright {{Mook}} who's got nothing in common with the later captain named Bractor, a more serious character, and neither is anything like Quark. It's just that Ferengi ears and foreheads are a ''bit'' more complex than a little nose or ear putty, and when you've gone to the trouble of making expensive and detailed alien [[RubberForeheadAliens Rubber Forehead-ness]], it's easier to get the same actor back and put the same stuff back on him again than do it over and over for new actors.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** The creators wanted to bring back Nicholas Locarno, a character from the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E19TheFirstDuty}} The First Duty]]". However, the character had been created by the writer of that episode and not by ''TNG'''s creators or executive producers (as was the case for recurring characters such as O'Brien or Worf, who could be reused). Because of this, the creators of ''Voyager'' thought they'd have to pay royalties to the writer of that episode every time they used the character, and that led them to create a new character similar to Locarno's named Tom Paris with a similar backstory and who would be played by the same actor. To cover the transparent change, the creators said that they decided Locarno was irredeemable due to his actions in the episode, but Tom Paris's actions (which were more like Wesley's in the original episode) were less culpable. [[note]]However, the only difference between Locarno's actions and Paris's, as heard onscreen, is that ''three'' died in the Paris version instead of ''one'' as in the Locarno version! That, and Paris actually regretted what he did while Locarno was smugly unrepentant.[[/note]] Interestingly, many years later a California court ruled that producers in a similar situation didn't have to pay royalties to a writer who created a character; had the producers of ''Voyager'' chosen to take the matter to court, they might have been cleared to use the character Locarno. A similar situation presumably resulted in Taris/Toreth, Macet/Dukat, and a name or two further down this list.
** B'Elanna was supposed to be Ro Laren. Apparently they wanted her to be on ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' (later replaced with Kira) and then tried again with ''Voyager'' (later replaced with B'Elanna) but the actress Michelle Forbes kept saying no, wanting to focus on her film career.
** Also, ''The Next Generation's'' Taurik becomes ''Voyager'''s Vorik, and keeps the same actor. The ExpandedUniverse says they're twins.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Supposedly, T'Pol was going to be T'Pau until the rights issues made that idea expensive (though obviously, the actor changes, as we're talking a decades-younger version of the character.) The actual T'Pau does appear for a three-parter down the line.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** Cristóbal Rios is basically [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] transplanted to the Franchise/TrekVerse, who once served in Starfleet. He even refers to the wide-eyed, sword-wielding young man who's a passenger on his ship as a kid. He seems to have gone over better than ''TNG'''s last attempt at this, Thadiun Okona.
** If you had transported Legolas from [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]] to the Franchise/TrekVerse and turned him into a [[SpaceElves Space Elf]], then you'd get Elnor. Even his name is Sindarin ("Star-Run"); it was showrunner Creator/MichaelChabon's idea to call the character (what is essentially) "Star-Trek" [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RVtel9WIGdg/XmRXuLeO1xI/AAAAAAABATY/o5VCEYrreoc9VsK14j4DWY8KgRV4pTehQCKgBGAsYHg/s1600/Michael%2BChabon%2BStar%2BTrek%2BPicard%2BElnor%2Bname.jpg in Elvish.]]
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Decker and Ilia from the aborted series Star Trek: Phase II (and then incorporated into ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'') were exported to ''TNG'' and became Riker and Troi, while the Vulcan Lt. Xon became the Android Lt. Cmdr. Data.
** Subcommander Taris of [[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E11Contagion}} Contagion]]" has become Commander Toreth by the time of the much later episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E13FaceOfTheEnemy}} Face of the Enemy]]".
** The official ''Next Generation'' interactive VCR board game had Robert O'Reilly playing a Klingon terrorist named ''Kavok'', an Expy of his usual character ''Gowron''.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** Gul Macet from ''TNG'''s "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded}} The Wounded]]" gets a shave and becomes Gul Dukat. The ExpandedUniverse makes them cousins (and, interestingly, invokes DivergentCharacterEvolution and makes him a very different character.)
** Interestingly, Quark and the previous two Ferengi played by Armin Shimerman are ''not'' a case of this. Letek was a none-too-bright {{Mook}} who's got nothing in common with the later captain named Bractor, a more serious character, and neither is anything like Quark. It's just that Ferengi ears and foreheads are a ''bit'' more complex than a little nose or ear putty, and when you've gone to the trouble of making expensive and detailed alien [[RubberForeheadAliens Rubber Forehead-ness]], it's easier to get the same actor back and put the same stuff back on him again than do it over and over for new actors.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** The creators wanted to bring back Nicholas Locarno, a character from the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E19TheFirstDuty}} The First Duty]]". However, the character had been created by the writer of that episode and not by ''TNG'''s creators or executive producers (as was the case for recurring characters such as O'Brien or Worf, who could be reused). Because of this, the creators of ''Voyager'' thought they'd have to pay royalties to the writer of that episode every time they used the character, and that led them to create a new character similar to Locarno's named Tom Paris with a similar backstory and who would be played by the same actor. To cover the transparent change, the creators said that they decided Locarno was irredeemable due to his actions in the episode, but Tom Paris's actions (which were more like Wesley's in the original episode) were less culpable. [[note]]However, the only difference between Locarno's actions and Paris's, as heard onscreen, is that ''three'' died in the Paris version instead of ''one'' as in the Locarno version! That, and Paris actually regretted what he did while Locarno was smugly unrepentant.[[/note]] Interestingly, many years later a California court ruled that producers in a similar situation didn't have to pay royalties to a writer who created a character; had the producers of ''Voyager'' chosen to take the matter to court, they might have been cleared to use the character Locarno. A similar situation presumably resulted in Taris/Toreth, Macet/Dukat, and a name or two further down this list.
** B'Elanna was supposed to be Ro Laren. Apparently they wanted her to be on ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' (later replaced with Kira) and then tried again with ''Voyager'' (later replaced with B'Elanna) but the actress Michelle Forbes kept saying no, wanting to focus on her film career.
** Also, ''The Next Generation's'' Taurik becomes ''Voyager'''s Vorik, and keeps the same actor. The ExpandedUniverse says they're twins.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Supposedly, T'Pol was going to be T'Pau until the rights issues made that idea expensive (though obviously, the actor changes, as we're talking a decades-younger version of the character.) The actual T'Pau does appear for a three-parter down the line.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** Cristóbal Rios is basically [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] transplanted to the Franchise/TrekVerse, who once served in Starfleet. He even refers to the wide-eyed, sword-wielding young man who's a passenger on his ship as a kid. He seems to have gone over better than ''TNG'''s last attempt at this, Thadiun Okona.
** If you had transported Legolas from [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]] to the Franchise/TrekVerse and turned him into a [[SpaceElves Space Elf]], then you'd get Elnor. Even his name is Sindarin ("Star-Run"); it was showrunner Creator/MichaelChabon's idea to call the character (what is essentially) "Star-Trek" [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RVtel9WIGdg/XmRXuLeO1xI/AAAAAAABATY/o5VCEYrreoc9VsK14j4DWY8KgRV4pTehQCKgBGAsYHg/s1600/Michael%2BChabon%2BStar%2BTrek%2BPicard%2BElnor%2Bname.jpg in Elvish.]]
