Editing Tom Paris (section)

=== Events of ''Voyager'' ===
While serving time, Paris is visited by [[Kathryn Janeway]], captain of the starship [[USS Voyager (Star Trek)|USS ''Voyager'']]. ''Voyager''<nowiki/>'s first mission was to travel to the Badlands and locate a missing Maquis ship commanded by Chakotay, which also has Janeway's chief of security [[Tuvok]] aboard as a spy. Janeway recruits Paris due to his previous experience working with the Maquis, obtaining his temporary release. In return, Paris would serve as an informant during the mission.<ref name=":2" />

Janeway and the crew of ''Voyager'', while searching for the Maquis ship, are thrown into the [[Delta Quadrant]] by a massive energy wave created by an alien known as the Caretaker. Once there, they successfully locate the Maquis ship docked at the Caretaker's array. The survivors of the incident become stranded about 70,000 light-years from Earth. The Maquis ship is destroyed and its crew joins the Federation crew on ''Voyager''.<ref name=":2" /> 

The marooning of ''Voyager'' in the Delta Quadrant provides Paris with a new beginning. Janeway gives Paris a field commission as a Starfleet lieutenant and makes him the chief helmsman of ''Voyager''. He had a rough start, however, as Starfleet and Maquis alike viewed Paris with suspicion due to his previous affiliations with both organizations.<ref name=":2" /> Paris worked hard to earn his crewmates' respect. During this time, he became best friends with Ensign [[Harry Kim (Star Trek)|Harry Kim]], a young officer on his first mission who defied his crewmates to befriend Paris. Eventually Paris is accepted by the crew and becomes one of Janeway's most valued officers.

As ''Voyager'' begins its journey home, Paris is involuntarily selected to be an auxiliary medic on ''Voyager'' as he had previously studied two semesters of [[biochemistry]] at Starfleet Academy.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Parallax|episode-link=Parallax (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Braga, Brannon; Trombetta, Jim|network=UPN|date=January 23, 1995|season=1|number=3|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/102.htm}}</ref> He is initially joined and eventually replaced by [[Kes (Star Trek)|Kes]] after she expresses a desire to learn from the Doctor.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Phage|episode-link=Phage (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Dent, Skye; Braga, Brannon; DeHaas, Timothy|network=UPN|date=February 6, 1995|season=1|number=5|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/104.htm}}</ref> Later, on an away mission, Paris visits the planet Banea with Harry Kim to find a replacement [[collimator]]. Once ''Voyager'' arrives to pick them up however, they learn that Paris is accused of murdering a well-known elderly engineering physicist after allegedly being caught flirting with the latter's wife. As punishment, the Baneans imprint the scientist's final moments leading up to his death in Paris' brain, which Paris has to relive repeatedly, slowly causing permanent [[brain damage]]. Tuvok conducts his own investigation to determine the true culprit, and discovers that Paris had been framed by the Baneans' enemies and is being used as a messenger, with the messages being imprinted in the recollection which Paris initially thought to be random letters and numbers. Upon discovery of Paris' innocence, the imprints are removed.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Ex Post Facto|episode-link=Ex Post Facto (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Carlos Somers, Evan; Piller, Michael|network=UPN|date=February 27, 1995|season=1|number=8|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/107.htm}}</ref>

During ''Voyager''<nowiki/>'s second year in the Delta Quadrant, Paris reconfigures a shuttlecraft with the help of Kim and chief engineer [[B'Elanna Torres]] and breaks the [[transwarp]] barrier, achieving warp 10 and becoming the first known person to do so. However, this later causes Paris to experience an accelerated state of [[evolution]] that would normally take humans millions of years. During this, Paris kidnaps Janeway in a shuttlecraft and brings her on a warp 10 flight. ''Voyager'' later finds the duo on an uninhabited planet and discovers that they had evolved into [[amphibian]]-like beings and had reproduced. The Doctor manages to reverse the evolution process using [[antiproton]] treatments.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Threshold|episode-link=Threshold (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Braga, Brannon; De Luca, Michael|network=UPN|date=January 29, 1996|season=2|number=15|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/212.htm}}</ref> Later that year, Paris also participates in a plot organized by Janeway and Tuvok in order to flush out a possible [[traitor]] aboard ''Voyager'' that had been feeding information to [[Seska]] and the [[Kazon]], one of ''Voyager''<nowiki/>'s enemies. However, this negatively impacts Paris' relations with first officer Chakotay as no one else had known of the plan, all being deceived by Paris' apparent tardiness and attitude. The plot is successful at deceiving the rest of the crew to the point where Neelix, believing that Paris was going to leave ''Voyager'' for good, gives a tribute speech on his own onboard show. Paris later manages to sneak on board a Kazon ship and discover the spy.<ref name=":7">{{Cite episode|title=Investigations|episode-link=Investigations (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Taylor, Jeri; Schnaufer, Jeff; Bond, Ed|network=UPN|date=March 13, 1996|season=2|number=20|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/215.htm}}</ref> In the season 3 premiere, "[[Basics (Star Trek: Voyager)|Basics]]", Paris takes back ''Voyager'' with the assistance of the Doctor, crewman [[Lon Suder]] as well as several [[Talaxian]] ships after ''Voyager'' was taken over by the Kazon.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Basics|episode-link=Basics (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Piller, Michael|network=UPN|date=September 4, 1996|season=3|number=1|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/222.htm#To%20Be%20Continued.....}}</ref>

During ''Voyager''<nowiki/>'s third and fourth years into its journey, Paris is accused of [[Terrorism|bombing]] an alien world along with Kim and is sentenced to jail. Paris becomes gravely injured after being [[stabbed]] during a prison fight. Despite ''Voyager'' later discovering and bringing forward the true perpetrator, Paris and Kim are denied release due to the society's laws. Both men are later saved by Janeway and the others after they break into the prison.<ref name=":8">{{Cite episode|title=The Chute|episode-link=The Chute (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Biller, Kenneth; C. Harris, Clayvon|network=UPN|date=September 18, 1996|season=3|number=3|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/301.htm}}</ref> Relationships-wise, Paris grows closer to B'Elanna Torres. In one instance, Torres experiences symptoms similar to the [[Vulcan (Star Trek)|Vulcan]] ''[[pon farr]]'' and aggressively pursues Paris as a result. Knowing that Torres was in a delirious state, Paris does not engage with her, angering the latter as she knew of Paris' advances.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Blood Fever|episode-link=Blood Fever (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Klink, Lisa|network=UPN|date=February 5, 1997|season=3|number=16|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/310.htm}}</ref> The year after, Paris and Torres are on an away mission which had gone wrong. As the pair float aimlessly in space in their [[Environmental suit|environmental suits]], the duo confesses to each other their true feelings. Fortunately, they are saved by ''Voyager'' in time. As the rest of the crew are unaware of the duo's relationship, they try their best to keep quiet about it.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Day of Honor|episode-link=Day of Honor (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Taylor, Jeri|network=UPN|date=September 17, 1997|season=4|number=3|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/403.htm}}</ref> During that year, Paris also returns to being a field medic after Kes departs ''Voyager'' in "[[The Gift (Star Trek: Voyager)|The Gift]]", serving regular shifts in the sickbay.

The following year, Paris builds his own unique shuttlecraft which he named the ''Delta Flyer''. The construction of the craft was authorized by Janeway as ''Voyager'' had to retrieve a multi-spatial probe that was lost in the atmosphere of a [[gas giant]]. Paris and the ''Delta Flyer'' manage to safely retrieve the probe.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Extreme Risk|episode-link=Extreme Risk (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Biller, Kenneth|network=UPN|date=October 28, 1998|season=5|number=3|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/503.htm}}</ref> Later that year, Paris is demoted to ensign by Janeway and placed in ''Voyager''<nowiki/>'s brig for 30 days after disobeying direct orders [[Prime Directive|to not interfere]] with another society, called the Moneans, who lived on a planet where the entirety of its surface area was covered in water. Paris, who had an affection for the sea, had become concerned with the planet's gradual loss of water. Upon discovery by Paris that the Moneans' own oxygen-mining operations are to blame for the loss of water, he goes in the ''Delta Flyer'' with a Monean in order to target the oxygen refineries so that they could be temporarily taken out of operation and redesigned in a way that reduced the loss of water. The attack is foiled by ''Voyager'' at the last second, preventing a massive catastrophe. As Paris spends 30 days in the brig, he dictates his whole situation in his personal access display device in the form of a letter to his father to pass the time, later instructing the computer to transmit the letter to his father once ''Voyager'' is within range of Earth.<ref name=":3" /> 

During ''Voyager''<nowiki/>'s last few years in the Delta Quadrant, Paris is repromoted to [[Lieutenant (junior grade)|lieutenant junior grade]] in the season 6 finale "[[Unimatrix Zero]]" after a year of exemplary service.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Unimatrix Zero|episode-link=Unimatrix Zero (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Braga, Brannon; Menosky, Joe; Sussman, Mike|network=UPN|date=May 24, 2000|season=6|number=26|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/625.htm}}</ref> As Paris and Torres' relationship grew deeper, they marry during an interstellar race.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Drive|episode-link=Drive (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Taylor, Michael|network=UPN|date=October 18, 2000|season=7|number=3|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/702.htm}}</ref> Later that year, when it is revealed that Torres had become [[Pregnancy|pregnant]], Paris manages to convince Torres to let their baby inherit Torres' [[Klingon]] characteristics when she did not want them.<ref name=":5">{{Cite episode|title=Lineage|episode-link=Lineage (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Kahn, James|network=UPN|date=January 24, 2001|season=7|number=12|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/710.htm}}</ref> As ''Voyager'' makes their return to the Alpha Quadrant and Earth in 2378, Torres gives birth to her and Paris' daughter, Miral Paris.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Endgame|episode-link=Endgame (Star Trek: Voyager)|series=Star Trek: Voyager|series-link=Star Trek: Voyager|credits=Berman, Rick; Biller, Kenneth; Braga, Brannon; Doherty, Robert|network=UPN|date=May 23, 2001|season=7|number=26|transcript=Voyager Episode Transcript|transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/722.htm}}</ref>