TOM PARIS

Tom Paris is known by his real name in Fair Haven. The residents tend to call him "Tommy" or "Tommy boy".

Paris is considered to be well-to-do, especially by the poorer Seamus who seems often to seek him out for the gift of a few shillings. In [Spirit Folk], Paris indulges his interest in 20th century transportation by driving, rather recklessly, into Fair Haven in a Ford Model A or Model T. He crashes. Seamus notes that the car indicates Paris has come into some money, and Paris invents a story to explain the car.

Seamus: "Still, she's (the car) a beauty. The world must be treating you well to afford such a thing."
Paris: "Er, just dipping into my inheritance."
Seamus becomes very interested. "Oh, come into some money, did yer? So who's passed on?"
Paris thinks quickly. "Erm, my grandfather on my mother's side, an aristocrat, God rest his soul."
Seamus: "Sounds like he was a fine man." Wheedling, unsubtlely, palm out: "I'd drink a toast to him if I had a shilling to my name."
Paris chuckles. "Here." He places a few coins in the outstretched palm. "It's on me."
Seamus looks at the coins and protests: "It'll take three pints to do a proper job, Tommy boy, and this isn't even enough for two."
Paris hands him more. "There. That's all I've got."

But when Seamus witnesses Paris repairing his crashed car by saying: "Computer, replace damaged tyre." and the wheel is replaced as if by magic, it starts a potentially fatal train of events (the screenshot shows Paris and Kim tied up in the church; they are later threatened with burning alive), and ends up with Janeway having to explain to the superstitious townsfolk that the Voyager crew are not spirit folk. She does not explain (to Michael Sullivan) that the townsfolk are holograms, but allows them to think the Voyager crew are time travellers from the future, who like to spend time in Fair Haven. She informs them that she, Tom Paris, Harry Kim and the others, use technology but it is not magic. The townsfolk forgive the Voyager crewmembers and friendships are resumed, but with the visitors now known as friendly time travellers. These events are described in detail in Holocharacters: Seamus Driscol and the [Spirit Folk] Episode Guide.

To those gathered in Sullivan's pub, Milo remarks: "But that Tom Paris is an odd one, coming and going through town as if he built the place." He never realises that in fact, Tom Paris did build the place because he programmed Fair Haven, and he even obtained permission from Janeway to expand the program onto holodeck 2 so that he could create the sea coast; in [Fair Haven], there was an "open door" policy whereby the program was left running continuously for 24 hours a day.

Milo (right)

In [Fair Haven], Paris visits Fair Haven wearing his Starfleet uniform, with Kim, to assess the damage wrought by shutting down the holoprogram without running through the holodeck shut-down sequence. (Holocharacters are programmed not to see the uniform as anything out of the ordinary.) But otherwise he is able to, and no doubt enjoys, dressing to blend in with the holoscenario. Below are screenshots showing Tom Paris' clothes worn as part of his persona:

above right: Paris goes straight to sickbay without changing, following a brawl in Sullivan's Pub

driving a motor vehicle; he also wears a coat, which gets dirty