Nicholas Locarno, previously a hotly tipped member of Starfleet Academy’s command division training program, was disgraced in 2368 when it came to light that his leadership of the Nova Squadron stunt flight team led to the death of another student. Since then, Locarno, after another abortive attempt to join the organisation, had been avoiding Starfleet authorities under the pseudonym of “Tom Paris”, living job to job and eventually offering up his piloting skills to the extremist Maquis group in The Badlands before accidentally getting captured and sent to a Federation prison after his first mission anyway.

“I did it! And you all had no idea!” Locarno declared to his crew who had all heard of the Nova Squadron incident years ago and had just been awkwardly avoiding the subject for the last 7 years. “And now I’m finally a Starfleet officer! I piloted a starship, I attended senior officer training classes, I married a gorgeous woman and had a demi-Klingon baby. I lived the full life of a Starfleet Officer without a single qualification to my name. I’m going to go and celebrate the only way I know how,” Locarno added, before the viewscreen turned to monochrome and the sound of sci-fi lasers and maniacal laughter echoed throughout the ship’s speakers.

This completely unshocking reveal aboard the Starship Voyager has raised further questions about the true identity of a number of other officials, both Starfleet and otherwise. Was Gul Macet secretly the Cardassian dictator Gul Dukat wearing a moustache? Did Lt. Cmdr Tuvok once involve himself in an attempt to hijack the USS Enterprise-D? And is Captain Benjamin Sisko secretly the son of disgraced traitor to the Federation, Admiral Cartwright?

Starfleet Intelligence expert on disguise and identity, Mr J. Combs, told us “Of course not – isn’t it obvious that they’re all completely separate people?