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Robert Duncan McNeill reminisces about his gratifying expertise enjoying Nicholas Locarno on Star Trek: The Subsequent Era, forming an actual bond with the solid. Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 4 portrays Nova Squadron, together with Locarno, in a brand new mild, showcasing their friendship and the occasions main as much as their ill-fated mistake. The inclusion of McNeill, Wil Wheaton, and Shannon Fill in Decrease Decks season 4 supplies a way of authenticity and nostalgia for followers, together with the return of Joshua Albert and a short look by Jean Hajar.
Star Trek: Voyager star Robert Duncan McNeill appears again fondly on his guest-starring function in Star Trek: The Subsequent Era. Earlier than McNeill’s 7-season run as Lt. Tom Paris on Voyager, he performed Nicholas Locarno within the TNG season 5 episode, “The First Obligation.” Robbie made a shock return as Locarno in Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 4; the disgraced ex-Starfleet Cadet was now a villain who threatened the United Federation of Planets till he was stopped by Lt. Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and the USS Cerritos.
Showing on The Shuttlepod Present, Robert Duncan McNeill advised hosts Connor Trinneer, Erica LaRose, and Mark Cartier in regards to the nice time he had enjoying Nick Locarno on Star Trek: The Subsequent Era. Locarno was the chief of an elite corps of cadets referred to as Nova Squadron, and McNeill says the camaraderie seen on display was actual when the cameras had been off. Try his quote and watch The Shuttlepod Present video beneath:
I bought the function [of Nicholas Locarno] and I had a blast. It actually shocked me… Wil Wheaton and I hit it off. We stayed in contact after that. He was nice. The entire gang of the cadets… Often, whenever you break for lunch, everyone goes to their trailer and takes their go well with off, and will get snug, and disappears. Not on that episode. Shannon Fill… Wil Wheaton, myself, they broke us for lunch and we had been like, “Let’s go to the commissary collectively!” We frolicked. Yeah, it was actually nice. It was a extremely enjoyable shoot. I had a blast.
Associated: Star Trek: The Subsequent Era Solid & Character Information
Star Trek: Decrease Decks Confirmed A New Facet To TNG’s Nova Squadron
We noticed them proper earlier than they made their greatest mistake.
Nova Squadron is notorious in Star Trek: The Subsequent Era’s “The First Obligation” as a result of Locarno’s hubris ended up getting their classmate, Joshua Albert, killed, and Nick led the group in a cover-up. However Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 4’s finale opens with Nova Squadron at Starfleet Academy proper earlier than they made essential mistake of trying the forbidden Kolvoord Starburst maneuver that resulted in tragedy. Decrease Decks does present Nova Squadron underneath the sway of the charismatic Locarno, however they had been additionally clearly a tight-knit group of mates.
Star Trek: Decrease Decks reveals Lt. Beckett Mariner knew Nova Squadron at Starfleet Academy, and Locarno thought-about the younger Beckett an “honorary member.”
It is heartening to study from Robert Duncan McNeill on The Shuttlepod Present that the actors who performed Nova Squadron in Star Trek: The Subsequent Era additionally bought alongside famously whereas filming the episode. It provides an additional stage of verisimiltude when one rewatches “The First Obligation.” Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 4’s finale not solely introduced again McNeill, Wil Wheaton, and Shannon Fill to voice their characters, nevertheless it additionally confirmed Joshua Albert alive, and the fifth member of Nova Squadron, Jean Hajar (performed by Walker Brandt in TNG), is briefly seen at first of the episode as properly.
Star Trek: The Subsequent Era is obtainable to stream on Paramount+.
Supply: The Shuttlepod Present
Star Trek: The Subsequent Era
Launch Date: 1987-09-28
Solid: Patrick Stewart, michael dorn, Marina Sirtis
Genres: Sci-Fi, Superhero, Drama, Motion
Seasons: 7
Story By: Gene Roddenberry
Writers: Gene Roddenberry
Community: CBS
Streaming Service(s): Amazon Prime Video
Franchise(s): Star Trek
Administrators: David Carson
Showrunner: Gene Roddenberry