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B'Elanna Torres

B'Elanna Torres was a Klingon - Human hybrid who lived during the mid- 24th century . Torres was a former Starfleet Academy dropout-turned- Maquis , who, after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant in 2371 , served for seven years as the chief engineer aboard the Federation starship USS Voyager under Captain Kathryn Janeway . She would later serve as chief engineer on the USS Dauntless , under the command of Admiral Janeway. ( VOY : " Caretaker " thru " Endgame "; PRO : " Supernova, Part 1 ")

• 1 Early life
• 2 Starfleet Academy
• 3 In the Maquis
• 4.1 The first year (2371)
• 4.2 The second year (2372)
• 4.3 The third year (2373)
• 4.4 The fourth year (2374)
• 4.5 The fifth and sixth years (2375-2376)
• 4.6 The last year and the return home (2377-2378)
• 5 Later career
• 6.1 The Borg
• 7.1.1 Miral
• 7.1.2 John Torres
• 7.2.1 Chakotay
• 7.2.2 Kathryn Janeway
• 7.2.3 The Doctor
• 7.2.4 Seven of Nine
• 7.2.5 Harry Kim
• 7.3.1 Maxwell Burke
• 7.3.2 Tom Paris
• 7.3.3 Kelis
• 8.1 Holograms
• 8.2 Alternate realities and timelines
• 9 Chronology
• 10.1 Appearances
• 10.2 Background information
• 10.3 Apocrypha
• 10.4 External links

Early life [ ]

B'Elanna was born in 2346 on the Federation colony Kessik IV to John Torres , a Human father and Miral , a Klingon mother . Her mother called her "Lanna". ( VOY : " Barge of the Dead ")

She spent much of her early life on Kessik IV, but because relations between the Klingon Empire and the Federation were not "too cordial" at that time, B'Elanna and her mother were the only Klingons on the planet. Although none of the other colonists voiced any negative opinions of B'Elanna, she felt that she and her mother were perceived differently; a feeling that made her uneasy and which she found hard to shake. ( VOY : " Faces ")

B'Elanna's alienation and the roots of her insecurities had their foundations at an early age in her life where she was teased for her appearance as a result of her Klingon heritage. When she attended grammar school she was tormented by a boy named Daniel Byrd , who would point at her cranial ridges and tease her about being half-Klingon, calling her " Miss Turtlehead ". This insult angered Torres so much until one day during recess she attacked Byrd while he was on the gyro-swing . Torres disengaged the centrifugal governor , which caused Byrd to spin so fast that he almost flew apart. Torres then yanked Byrd off the swing and "started pounding his little face" until their teacher , Miss Malvin , separated them. ( VOY : " Juggernaut ")

Young B'Elanna on a camping trip

The alienation continued when her own father began distancing himself from them. At one time, when B'Elanna was on a camping trip with her father, her uncle Carl , and her cousins Elizabeth , Dean , and Michael , she overheard her father complaining about her, likening her moody and angry behavior to that of her mother, Miral, and that he had a hard time living with two Klingons. ( VOY : " Lineage ")

John Torres finally left the Federation colony and traveled back to Earth in 2351 , when B'Elanna was five years old, never to return to his family again. For months after, B'Elanna cried herself to sleep every night, wondering what had made her father leave and if it was her fault. However, she never talked about her feelings of guilt and shame to anyone and eventually decided for herself that her father had left because she looked and acted Klingon. These kinds of setbacks resulted in B'Elanna developing a thin skin, often punching her way through life. She often blamed her Klingon temper having gotten her in trouble all the time. She even attempted to change her appearance to look more Human; an insecurity that remained with her for most of her life, culminating in her trying to genetically alter all of her unborn child's Klingon features when she was pregnant with her daughter in 2377 . ( VOY : " Faces ", " Lineage ")

According to " Lineage ", John left his family when B'Elanna was around eleven or twelve years old, which contradicts information from " Eye of the Needle ", " Faces ", and " Extreme Risk ", stating he left when B'Elanna was around five or six.

After her father left, B'Elanna and her mother lived on Qo'noS , the Klingon homeworld , for some time. Eventually her mother pulled B'Elanna out of the Federation school she was attending and took her to a Klingon monastery in order to teach her honor and discipline. ( VOY : " Barge of the Dead ")

According to a deleted line from the episode, the Klingon monastery B'Elanna was sent to was on Boreth .

One time Miral took her to visit the Sea of Gatan , where she almost drowned . After her mother resuscitated her, she told B'Elanna about the Klingon beliefs of the afterlife, Sto-vo-kor , and Gre'thor . ( VOY : " Barge of the Dead ")

B'Elanna did not speak to her father again after he had left them in 2354 , until he initiated contact with her in 2377 , after she had been stranded for nearly seven years in the Delta Quadrant. John tried to make amends and even though it was not easy for B'Elanna she tried to reestablish a relationship with her father. ( VOY : " Eye of the Needle ", " Author, Author ")

A plate of banana pancakes

One of Torres' favorite foods as a child was banana pancakes with maple syrup , which her grandmother would make for her. That beloved meal always put a smile on B'Elanna's face. ( VOY : " Extreme Risk ") Her other favorite foods included potato salad with paprika and fried chicken . ( VOY : " Renaissance Man ")

Starfleet Academy [ ]

Beginning in 2366 , Torres attended Starfleet Academy , where she participated on the Academy decathlon team. She later admitted that after quitting " The track and field coach was furious with me " ( VOY : " Basics, Part II ")

She also had to dodge several punches in the lab, which Chakotay later joked about, saying, " Only you, B'Elanna, could start a brawl in Astrotheory 101 . " ( VOY : " Future's End, Part II ")

Interstellar history was, according to Torres, " the one subject I almost failed at the Academy. " ( VOY : " Year of Hell ")

Also among her Academy training was EV suit simulations . She thought "they felt peaceful, like floating in the womb ," but years later, in actual practice, she said she felt "a little sick to [her] stomach." ( VOY : " Day of Honor ")

During her time at the Academy, B'Elanna dated Maxwell Burke ; however, their relationship did not last long. ( VOY : " Equinox ")

Ultimately, B'Elanna had a hard time fitting in, often getting into trouble with instructors and faculty. Within two years at the Academy, she was suspended once and had four disciplinary hearings against her. Even though quite a brilliant student and promising engineer, she eventually dropped out of the Academy in 2368 , at the age of nineteen. ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Eye of the Needle ", " Parallax ", " Extreme Risk ")

One of Torres' teachers at the Academy was Commander Zakarian , who taught Survival Strategies ( VOY : " Caretaker "); another was Professor Chapman . Torres and Chapman argued constantly; she even later admitted that " I was always questioning his, his methods, his assumptions, and he was always slapping me down like some upstart kid. " She was later surprised to learn that Chapman thought she was one of the most promising students he had ever taught and was disappointed when she dropped out. He had placed a note in her permanent record saying he would support her if she ever reapplied. ( VOY : " Parallax ")

In the Maquis [ ]

Torres serving aboard a Maquis cruiser

After leaving the Academy, an angry young Torres eventually joined the Maquis in 2370 , after former Starfleet officer Chakotay saved her life. From then on, she formed a close friendship with Chakotay, and she became one of his most trusted friends. At that point in her life, the Maquis became the closest thing to family she had ever had. Fighting Cardassians gave her the outlet she needed in dealing with her violent emotions. ( VOY : " Dreadnought ", " One ", " Eye of the Needle ", " Extreme Risk ", " Nothing Human ")

To help deal with her explosive and often violent temper, Chakotay taught her many Native American and spiritual techniques to help calm her emotions; he even trained her to speak to her " animal guide ". To his surprise, she was the only person he'd ever known who had tried to kill her animal guide. ( VOY : " The Cloud ")

Torres also formed a close friendship with Seska , a Bajoran crew member in Chakotay's Maquis cell. She considered Seska to be her best friend, long before finding out that Seska was really a Cardassian agent. ( VOY : " Maneuvers ")

The first time Torres took a leadership role in the Maquis, she led her people into a cave that she thought was a Cardassian military installation, but she mistook unstable mineral deposits for weapons signatures. There was a rockslide and she and her team were stuck there for three days. They finally dug themselves out with their bare hands before being rescued. ( VOY : " Warhead ")

In late 2370 , the Cardassians deployed a sophisticated automated missile called the " ATR-4107 " to destroy a Maquis munitions base. However, the missile failed to detonate and Torres, who nicknamed it Dreadnought , managed to board the weapon, spending nearly a month to completely reprogram the computer to work for the Maquis and changing its vocal subroutines so that the computer sounded like her. Without authorization from Chakotay, she sent Dreadnought to attack the Cardassian fuel station on Aschelan V , but an evasive attack route took it through the Badlands , where it inexplicably disappeared. Two years later, Torres eventually found out that, like Voyager , the missile had been brought to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker entity. ( VOY : " Dreadnought ")

In 2371 , when their ship, the Val Jean , was being chased into the Badlands by Gul Evek 's flagship , the Vetar , it was mysteriously transported to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. After the crew was subjected to a painful examination, the crews of Voyager and the Maquis vessel were returned to their ships, with the exception of Torres and Starfleet ensign Harry Kim . Those two were sent by the Caretaker to an Ocampan settlement beneath the surface of a planet, where they were told that they were dying and needed medical care. Torres refused to cooperate and attempted to escape. Both Torres and Kim were rescued by the crews of Voyager and the Maquis. The Val Jean was later destroyed, and its crew, including Torres, joined the Federation starship USS Voyager . ( VOY : " Caretaker ")

USS Voyager [ ]

The first year (2371) [ ].

Since the two crews were stranded together in the Delta Quadrant , they were forced to work together as a single crew. Torres was initially assigned the provisional rank of lieutenant junior grade . Torres had difficulty getting along with the temporary chief engineer , Joe Carey , to the point of breaking his nose over plasma conduits . She was recommended as a replacement chief engineer by Chakotay, as the original chief engineer was killed by the damage caused by the Caretaker's displacement wave. However, Kathryn Janeway was ambivalent about his suggestion. After Voyager became trapped in a quantum singularity , Torres proved her skills to Janeway and earned her respect. Janeway then made her chief engineer over Carey. ( VOY : " Parallax ")

At the end of this episode, Torres was also given the insignia for the provisional rank of full lieutenant , giving her rank parity with Carey. However, later episodes returned her rank to lieutenant junior grade, and she mentions to Tom Paris (also a lieutenant junior grade) in " Displaced " that they hold the same rank. As with the rank costuming changes of Tuvok and Paris, it is not clear whether she was demoted, if the full lieutenant rank was simply an error, or the lieutenant jg rank was an error.

Torres' quarters were on Deck 9 , Section 12. ( VOY : " Someone to Watch Over Me ")

While exploring a nebula, Torres discovered that it was actually a living creature and that by entering the cloud-like being, Voyager had wounded it. Torres modified a nucleogenic beam and was able to heal the wounded creature. ( VOY : " The Cloud ")

B'Elanna's Human and Klingon sides, completely separated from each other

While visiting the Sikarians , she learned that they possessed the ability to fold space and travel great distances. This would have greatly reduced the length of Voyager 's journey, but the aliens refused to share their technology because of their prime directive. She wanted to steal the technology or make an illegal trade for it, but Janeway ordered her not to do so. She ignored Janeway's order and arranged a meeting with one of the aliens. She was shocked when Tuvok assisted her, but the technology was not compatible with Voyager . ( VOY : " Prime Factors ")

B'Elanna's full Klingon self.

Later that same year, Torres was captured by Vidiians , who experimented on her. A Vidiian named Sulan , who had learned that Klingon DNA was resistant to the Phage , separated Torres' Klingon and Human DNA, creating two separate individuals, one of each species. Initially both were unaware of each other, the Klingon Torres being tested by Sulan while the Human Torres was in the labor camp with Paris, but they eventually became aware of each other when each attempted to escape at the same time. Although initially hostile towards each other as they resented the other's raw aggression and frailty respectively, the two pooled together to infiltrate the main control room and shut down the force field protecting the facility. The Klingon Torres gave her life to save the Human Torres and, once aboard Voyager , The Doctor was able to recombine both elements of Torres' DNA, as the procedure to separate them had compromised the Human Torres' ability to process key proteins. ( VOY : " Faces ")

The second year (2372) [ ]

Torres with an automated personnel unit

The following year she was imprisoned by the Mokra Order while trying to secure tellerium . She was subsequently rescued by Janeway. Torres was also kidnapped by automated personnel units created by an extinct race to fight their wars. The units wanted Torres to help create new units because they had been unable to stabilize their power units. Torres was able to create a prototype from which they could create more units, but she learned that their former creators had called off the war and the units refused to stop fighting, killing their creators in the process. As different units arrived from the other side of the war, a battle ensued. The new prototype that Torres had created would have allowed the Pralor robots to win the war against the Cravic robots. Torres destroyed the prototype and was beamed aboard Voyager while the units continued their civil war . ( VOY : " Resistance ", " Prototype ")

Torres, injured after destroying Dreadnought

Later, Voyager encountered the Cardassian automated missile called Dreadnought that Torres had reprogrammed while she was still in the Maquis. They found that it had been brought into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker and was headed towards the inhabited planet Rakosa V , which it thought to be Aschelan V , the site of a Cardassian fuel depot. Torres was able to beam aboard it and, with some difficulty, destroy the missile by firing her phaser at its antimatter containment casing. ( VOY : " Dreadnought ")

At first she refused to let The Doctor harvest some of her brain tissue to find a cure for the Phage when Danara Pel , a Vidiian scientist for whom The Doctor developed romantic feelings, was beamed aboard Voyager . Klingon DNA was resistant to the Phage and The Doctor believed this was the only way to help Pel. She later consented and it helped The Doctor retard the Phage in Pel. ( VOY : " Lifesigns ")

Torres and Kim had their consciousnesses captured in a hibernation status control by an evil entity known as The Clown . She was released to inform Janeway that if they tried to disable the program, the Clown would kill the Kohl captives and Kim. ( VOY : " The Thaw ")

During a physical encounter with the Kazon she accidentally projected The Doctor into outer space. ( VOY : " Basics, Part I ")

While stranded on a hostile planet when the Kazon took over Voyager , she helped rescue Neelix and Kes from a primitive tribe on the planet. ( VOY : " Basics, Part II ")

The third year (2373) [ ]

While Voyager was transporting a group of Enarans , Torres began having dreams of genocide against members of their race known as "the Regressives". In her dreams, Torres was reliving the experiences of an Enaran named Jora Mirell . The real Mirell was transmitting her memories to Torres. After Mirell died, Torres confronted the Enarans who denied any knowledge of the event; they left, but not before Torres was able to transfer the memories to another Enaran. ( VOY : " Remember ")

In another encounter, Torres and Paris were attacked by unknown aliens. She was able to recover and get Paris back to Voyager for medical care. ( VOY : " The Swarm ")

Later that year, Torres was affected by the pon farr when Vorik , a Vulcan crewmate, tried to mate with her. This spurred her Klingon mating instincts which caused many problems. This also led to the first obvious hints of a relationship with Tom Paris . While under the influence of the pon farr , Torres and Paris shared a passionate kiss and intimate revelations about their feelings toward each other. But after fighting with Vorik in the ritual challenge which purged her of the fever, she only vaguely acknowledged what happened. ( VOY : " Blood Fever ")

Torres reprogrammed The Doctor's perfect holo-family into a more realistic example of family life, which caused him distress but ultimately gave him a better understanding of family life and its problems. She helped end the crew's imprisonment by the Nyrians when the crew was imprisoned on a bio-sphere ship. Torres reconfigured The Doctor's optical sensors so that he could detect passages that led to different biospheres. This enabled them to access a translocation system that allowed the crew to escape. ( VOY : " Real Life ", " Displaced ")

She also took part in a holoprogram about a mutiny on Voyager that Tuvok had programmed as a training exercise for his security detail. The program turned deadly after being tampered with by Seska when she had been on the ship two years earlier. ( VOY : " Worst Case Scenario ")

The fourth year (2374) [ ]

Torres had difficulty controlling her anger. She verbally attacked Seven of Nine, finding it hard to believe she had no "sense of guilt" for her past as a Borg. While trying to modify the warp core, it became critical and had to be dumped. Paris and Torres left in a shuttle to retrieve it. Upon finding it, they discovered a Caatati trying to salvage it and, after a brief fight, the shuttle was destroyed with the two left in space in their spacesuits. As their air dwindled, Torres was forced to confront her true feelings and told Paris she loved him, just as Voyager , which retrieved the core from the Caatati, arrived to rescue them. ( VOY : " Day of Honor ")

She accompanied The Doctor on an away mission to save another sentient hologram stranded on a disabled ship. Torres discovered that the hologram had killed the organics on the ship and had gone mad. She was able to deactivate him before he killed her. ( VOY : " Revulsion ")

Torres was used as a pawn in an illegal trade of violent thoughts on the planet Mari . She was imprisoned for transferring violent thought to the citizens, but Tuvok proved her innocence. During the Hirogen takeover of Voyager , when they used the crew in various hunting scenarios, she was a pregnant resistance fighter carrying the baby of one of the German officers who had taken advantage of her. ( VOY : " Random Thoughts ", " The Killing Game, Part II ")

An alien switched bodies with Paris and claimed his life aboard Voyager . For a time, he even fooled Torres. ( VOY : " Vis à Vis ")

After examining a substance that she had discovered on a toxic planet , Torres found that the substance was sentient and could duplicate lifeforms. She was one of the crew who allowed her DNA to be duplicated by the aliens so that they could experience consciousness. ( VOY : " Demon ")

The fifth and sixth years (2375-2376) [ ]

Torres in 2376

Torres battled an alien space craft with a bio-neural interface in order to save Paris. Alice attempted to kill Torres by sealing a hatch in the shuttle and shutting off life support systems. Paris saved her. She fought the Vaadwaur , who, after reviving from stasis, tried to capture Voyager . Torres crashed on a planet where, in exchange for parts to repair the shuttle, she told Kelis , a poet, stories he later used to amuse the head of his planet. ( VOY : " Alice ", " Dragon's Teeth ", " Muse ")

In 2375, Voyager , using a Hirogen communication system, made contact with Starfleet . Torres became extremely depressed when she learned that most of her Maquis friends had been killed by the Dominion . She began taking unnecessary risks, such as using the holodeck with its safety protocols turned off. Along with Paris and Kim, she launched a new shuttle called the Delta Flyer in which they encountered the Malon species. During a battle with them, she devised a way to contain a gas leak and save the crew and the shuttle. This made Torres feel needed again, and her depression subsided. ( VOY : " Extreme Risk ")

The last year and the return home (2377-2378) [ ]

Icheb became infatuated with Torres after he thought she was giving him signals that she was interested in him. Before that, Seven recommended Torres to help him study for the warp mechanics section in the Starfleet Academy entrance exam . ( VOY : " Nightingale ", " Imperfection ")

Torres was in an accident and when in a coma she found herself in Klingon Hell, Gre'thor . There she met her mother, Miral, who told her that Torres' rejection of Klingon ways had doomed them both. When Torres woke up, she asked to be put into a coma again so she could save her mother. The Doctor did as she asked. Her mother is saved not by Torres dying for her or by performing Klingon rituals, but rather by Torres living a good life and being true to herself. ( VOY : " Barge of the Dead ")

She wed Paris after an interstellar starship race that Irina , one of the participants, tried to sabotage and thereby destroy the peace in the area. She had joined Paris in the race because she wished to share his interests. A bomb was planted on their ship, but they were able to eject it in time. They married after the race. ( VOY : " Drive ")

She again confronted her Klingon side when she became pregnant. She was afraid to have a baby because she thought that the baby would suffer as she had during her childhood. She found out that the child had a deformed spine that The Doctor could correct genetically in the womb. When she saw a projection of the child and discovered it had Klingon ridges, she questioned whether she wanted the child. She asked The Doctor to make further genetic changes so that the child would not have Klingon features. She falsely altered a diagnostic test that convinced The Doctor that the changes were necessary.

Paris found out about the false report and stopped The Doctor from performing the procedure. He discovered that she blamed herself for her father having left her because she was Klingon. Paris convinced her that he would never do that and wanted a child just like her. She believed him and accepted the pregnancy. ( VOY : " Lineage ")

Voyager encountered a Klingon generational ship. They were on a quest to find the savior of the Klingon race, the kuvah'magh . The captain of the Klingon ship, Kohlar , believed her child to be the kuvah'magh . They initiated the self-destruct sequence, which in turn caused a warp core breach, and Janeway transported their entire crew on board to save them. Kohlar wanted Torres to help him convince his crew that her child really was their savior. When she was insulted by a Klingon warrior, Tom Paris accepted a challenge from the warrior to defend her honor. The warrior collapsed in the battle and The Doctor discovered the Nehret , a fatal disease, caused the collapse. Because the Nehret was only contagious to Klingons, she and the baby became infected. Because of this, Kohlar's group no longer believed the child could be their savior and they tried to take over Voyager but failed. The Doctor discovered a cure to the Nehret using the baby's immune system. The Klingons finally came to believe that the baby was their savior and Janeway dropped them off on an uninhabited M-class planet. Torres and Paris considered the name Kuvah'Magh for their baby. ( VOY : " Prophecy ")

After holograms used by the Hirogen became self-aware, they rebelled and killed many Hirogen. The holograms were led by Iden , who believed that all organics should be destroyed. After their holoprograms became unstable during a battle with the Hirogen and Voyager , Torres, an expert on holo-emitters, was kidnapped. At first believing that they only wanted to be left alone, Torres helped enhance their technology. Once she realized that Iden was bent on destroying organics, she stopped him with the aid of The Doctor and the Cardassian hologram Kejal , their engineer. Torres asked Janeway to let the other holograms go and Janeway agreed. ( VOY : " Flesh and Blood ")

Torres built a polaron modulator that helped Voyager escape a void in space that trapped ships. ( VOY : " The Void ")

During the final battle with the Borg which led to Voyager 's return home, Torres gave birth to her daughter Miral . ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Later career [ ]

By 2384 , B'Elanna Torres had accepted a pardon by Starfleet and was given a commission with the rank of full lieutenant. She was serving aboard the USS Dauntless as a Chief Engineer. She was one of three Chief Engineers assigned to this ship. Her name was listed with other crew members on an information panel in the ship's transporter room . ( PRO : " Supernova, Part 1 ")

A clear view of the information panel was provided by Dominique Rossier of Wardenlight Studio. [1]

Alien race encounters [ ]

In 2375 , Torres was attacked by a cytoplasmic lifeform that attached itself to her and used her organs to stay alive. The Doctor saved her using a hologram of a Cardassian doctor named Crell Moset . Torres refused to allow Moset to operate on her because he was Cardassian (albeit a holographic one). Moset was in fact a war criminal who had experimented on Bajoran prisoners. When Torres' condition became critical, Captain Janeway decided to let Moset operate on her, despite Torres' wishes. ( VOY : " Nothing Human ")

The previous year she had allowed her DNA to be duplicated by a biomimetic lifeform on a Demon class planet . In 2375, her counterpart married the Paris duplicate and, as Chief Engineer on the duplicate Voyager , managed to make an enhanced warp drive that would get the ship home in two years. Soon after, she died, along with the rest of the duplicate crew, from subspace radiation. ( VOY : " Course: Oblivion ")

Torres encountered the Malon again when she was part of an away team that entered a Malon vessel to shut it down before it exploded and contaminated space with theta radiation . She discovered that the rupture was made by a Malon named Dremk who wished to show the danger of transporting theta radiation. When he refused to let her seal the ruptured tanks, he attacked her, and she killed him to save herself and Voyager . ( VOY : " Juggernaut ")

Maxwell Burke

Toward the end of that year, B'Elanna met up with an old flame from Starfleet Academy, Maxwell Burke , who was stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the USS Equinox . The two ships came in conflict when it was discovered that the Equinox was killing sentient nucleogenic lifeforms for an energy source. The Equinox was finally destroyed, and Burke was killed by the creatures. ( VOY : " Equinox ", " Equinox, Part II ")

The Borg [ ]

Torres, assimilated in body but not in mind

During Voyager 's first contact with the Borg , she helped to engineer nanoprobes that were used as weapons against Species 8472 , who had become a threat not only to Voyager , but to the Borg as well. When Seven, on board Voyager , attempted to assimilate the vessel after the Species 8472 threat had been eliminated, Torres created a power surge through Seven that disabled her. This severed Seven's link to the Collective. ( VOY : " Scorpion, Part II ")

She took part in the attempt to steal a Borg transwarp coil that would shorten Voyager 's journey home. When Seven had been lured back to the collective in the heist, Torres manned the weapons systems allowing the Delta Flyer to rescue Seven. ( VOY : " Dark Frontier ")

During the last year of Voyager 's trip home, Torres helped to deal another blow to the Borg. She, along with Janeway and Tuvok, allowed themselves to be assimilated by the Borg. But the assimilation was only of her body. She utilized an inoculation administered by The Doctor before the mission that kept her mind from being assimilated, and thus kept her from becoming a Borg drone. She implanted a pathogen into the collective which slowly brought various Borg drones out of the collective consciousness. This led to a Borg civil war . ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ")

Personal relationships [ ]

B'Elanna was an only child of mixed heritage. Her father John Torres was Human, and her mother Miral was a Klingon, which has caused many trials and tribulations in her life.

Her grandmother on her mother's side, L'Naan , died when she was young, so she was taught to say the prayer of remembrance for her, and her great-grandmother (mother of L'Naan) Krelik . ( VOY : " Eye of the Needle ", " Prophecy ")

On her father's side, her Human grandmother, who had liked Miral, could always put a smile on B'Elanna's face, even when she was very depressed, by cooking banana pancakes. ( VOY : " Extreme Risk ")

Also on her father's side was her father's brother, her Uncle Carl . On a few occasions when she was young, her Uncle Carl took her and her father, and his children (her three cousins: Elizabeth , Dean , and Michael ) to go camping and fishing . It was twelve days after the last of these camping trips that her father left her and her mother. ( VOY : " Lineage ")

B'Elanna and Miral on the Barge of the Dead

Miral and B'Elanna had a large fight in early 2366 , and this was the last time she spoke with her mother until a decade later.

In 2376 , while trapped in the Delta Quadrant, on the ten-year anniversary of their not speaking, B'Elanna was in a shuttle accident, putting her into a coma . While in the coma, she was sent to the Barge of the Dead , where she found out that her mother had died in the Alpha Quadrant and was being sent to Gre'thor. After discovering this, her crewmates were able to resuscitate her. She read several ancient Klingon texts, including the Eleventh Tome of Klavek from the paq'batlh , and concluded that she had to go back, as it was her fault her mother was being sent to the Klingon hell , for her not following Klingon traditions as her mother was supposed to teach her to do.

After working hard to persuade Captain Janeway to allow her to, and telling Tom that she would, she returned to the Barge by simulating her death. She asked to perform the transference ritual, so that her mother would go to Sto-vo-kor , for the honored dead, and B'Elanna would go to Gre'thor for her. When she found out that once in Gre'thor, even her crewmates couldn't bring her back from death, and despite the fact that her mother forbade it, she decided to do so.

Once in Gre'thor, which was a representation of Voyager , she argued with her former crew as well as her mother, demanding to know what they want from her. After begging and pleading, they finally made her understand that they didn't want anything from her – just her. She would be sent back to Voyager as "it wasn't her time." Her mother said goodbye, and that she'd see her again, whether it be in Sto-vo-kor , or when she came home, in the Alpha Quadrant. ( VOY : " Barge of the Dead ")

John Torres [ ]

John Torres contacts B'Elanna ( 2378 )

When B'Elanna was young, she was very close to her father. She said she "worshipped him", and their family was very close, if fragile, for a time. But after a couple years, B'Elanna's mother's Klingon attitude was wearing him down. When he began to be unable to take it, he scheduled a camping trip with his brother, and brought B'Elanna along.

On the camping trip, he confessed that it was getting harder and harder to live with Miral, and that his mother never thought he had what it took to love a Klingon woman, "and now he [had] two." When B'Elanna overheard this in her tent , she got angry, and later yelled at him for saying such things about her mother. But what she also said, which would haunt her for more than twenty years, was " If you can't handle it anymore, why don't you just leave! " Twelve days later, that was exactly what he did, abandoning his family. For years, she believed she had planted the seed in his mind to divorce, and blamed herself, when in actuality it was a combination of multiple factors. ( VOY : " Lineage ")

Years later in 2378 , when Starfleet Command was able to establish consistent contact with Voyager using the MIDAS array , John sent a message to B'Elanna asking to speak with her. Although they would only have three minutes, he wanted to re-establish their relationship. During their brief conversation, they were able to catch up on her new family, and she was able to tell her father about her marriage to Tom and the fact that she was pregnant. ( VOY : " Author, Author ")

Relationships on board Voyager [ ]

Chakotay [ ].

Chakotay was always a true mentor to Torres and was perhaps the only person on the ship who truly understood her nature. ( VOY : " Parallax ", " Dreadnought ", " Remember ", " Extreme Risk ", " Barge of the Dead ")

In 2370 , Chakotay saved B'Elanna's life, and she later joined the Maquis in its early stages. Chakotay soon realized B'Elanna's exceptional engineering abilities and the two became close friends. He even once tried to help her find her animal guide to help her deal with her emotional difficulties, but was shocked when she became the only person he knew ever to try to kill it. ( VOY : " Dreadnought ", " The Cloud ")

When Chakotay's Maquis crew became stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Chakotay backed Torres for the position of chief engineer, knowing her abilities would make her perfect for the position. ( VOY : " Parallax ")

Although she never acted on her feelings, she was initially attracted to Chakotay. When the Botha came aboard Voyager and affected everybody's senses, she hallucinated about him, although B'Elanna was more 'attracted' to Chakotay as a mentor figure and the hallucination just combined that desire with her Human desire for affection and love. ( VOY : " Persistence of Vision ")

In 2374 , Chakotay was forced to tell his Maquis crew, including Torres, that the Maquis had been wiped out by the Dominion . A year later , he would find out Torres had been suffering from a deep depression because of the loss and made Torres finally face her demons, helping her cope with her inner conflicts and emotions. ( VOY : " Hunters ", " Extreme Risk ")

In 2377 , Chakotay jokingly asked Torres if she had checked the warp core for cracks, as he noticed she had a certain "glow" about her, after finding out about her pregnancy . Later, Chakotay helped to bring Torres and her husband, Tom Paris, back together after they argued vociferously over their unborn daughter 's Klingon heritage. ( VOY : " Lineage ")

Kathryn Janeway [ ]

B'Elanna with Captain Janeway

At first, she and Janeway did not see eye to eye. Torres thought Janeway was too stiff and set in her ways, while Janeway believed Torres to be a loose cannon. In the beginning, Torres felt like Janeway had set her up to fail and had no intention of making her chief engineer. ( VOY : " Parallax ")

But later, Torres realized she couldn't have been more wrong. Deep down Janeway reminded Torres of her mother; she was as dedicated to Starfleet principles as her mother was to Klingon traditions. Janeway even, in a dream, employed B'Elanna's mother's pet name for her, "Lanna", suggesting she subconsciously regarded Janeway as a maternal figure. Despite their differences, Torres always remained loyal to Janeway. Eventually they would earn each other's respect and trust. ( VOY : " Barge of the Dead ")

The Doctor [ ]

Although their doctor/patient relationship could be difficult at times, such as when The Doctor attempted to remove a cytoplasmic lifeform from B'Elanna using knowledge acquired from the hologram of Crell Moset , a Cardassian doctor who had committed various war crimes, The Doctor and B'Elanna went on to develop a surprising friendship and working relationship, such as when the two brainstormed possible solutions to help reactivate Automated Unit 3947 when he was recovered and his power was running out. B'Elanna also helped The Doctor gain a better understanding of his new mobile emitter after he acquired it, clearly expressing her fascination with the new technology. Although B'Elanna's feelings were hurt when The Doctor dismissed her musical opinions while preparing to give a concert for the Qomar , she later convinced him not to reprogram himself to reach the high notes achievable by the Qomar's new hologram because he would be sacrificing his identity for others if he tried to reprogram himself in that manner. Their relationship became so close that, when B'Elanna learned that she was pregnant, she asked The Doctor to be the child 's godfather, to the point that, even when faced with the possibility that she could give birth to the child on Earth in Starfleet Medical, she made it clear that she wanted The Doctor to be the supervising physician rather than some stranger. ( VOY : " Prototype ", " Future's End, Part II ", " Nothing Human ", " Virtuoso ", " Lineage ", " Endgame ")

Seven of Nine [ ]

Torres and Seven discuss "race fever"

Although their initial confrontation didn't end well, and the two often agitated each other over the four years they were together on Voyager , they did respect each other's technical skills and had high standards and respect for each other when it mattered most. ( VOY : " Imperfection ")

Early in Seven's brushes with the rules on Voyager , Torres shared some lessons on teamwork and procedure with Seven that Captain Janeway had imparted on her years earlier. ( VOY : " Scientific Method ")

Despite their prickly working relationship, Torres occasionally found Seven's perspective valuable on personal as well as technical matters, such as discussing the crew's Antarian Trans-stellar Rally "race fever" and shared interests with Tom Paris. ( VOY : " Drive ")

When Seven was dying because her cortical node was malfunctioning, to get away from The Doctor, she hid in main engineering. When Torres found her, she related that she also hid from The Doctor in engineering, hating to be cooped up in sickbay. The Doctor then came in and found her, and said " I should've known she'd be the one to harbor a fugitive. " Torres responded with " We 'difficult' patients need to stick together. " The two also discussed the concept of the afterlife , Seven stating the Borg had no such concept but that the memories of deactivated drones remained within the collective consciousness . She expressed that having been severed from this, nothing of her accomplishments would remain if she were to die. Torres replied that she was more memorable than she was giving herself credit for and that she had made an impact on every one of Voyager 's crew. ( VOY : " Imperfection ")

Harry Kim [ ]

Torres shortly after meeting Harry Kim on Ocampa in 2371

B'Elanna developed a special friendship with Harry Kim. She referred to him as "Starfleet" upon their first meeting and had continued to do so off and on over the seven-year journey. ( VOY : " Caretaker ")

The two would often work together on projects and often socialized together when off duty. ( VOY : " Prototype ", " Future's End, Part II ", " Nothing Human ", " Lineage ", " Endgame ")

B'Elanna was also keen to give Kim a letter from his parents and waited somewhat anxiously for the letter to be extracted from an alien transmission array . She comforted Harry when he thought he would not be receiving one. When a letter for Harry did arrive, she took personal charge of delivering it to him. ( VOY : " Hunters ")

Romance [ ]

Maxwell burke [ ].

While at Starfleet Academy she dated Maxwell Burke , who referred to her affectionately as " BLT " and loaned her a blue sweater that she never returned. B'Elanna used to call him petaQ occasionally and their relationship broke off with Maxwell's intention to leave Starfleet being the last B'Elanna heard of him. ( VOY : " Equinox ")

Tom Paris [ ]

Tom and B'Elanna toast to their marriage

Torres had her first romantic flirtation with Tom Paris in 2373 during an away mission on a shuttlecraft . Paris asked her out on a date in the holodeck once he found out that she was not interested in the advances of Ensign Freddy Bristow . B'Elanna, aware of Tom's reputation as a ladies' man, turned him down flat. ( VOY : " The Swarm ")

When Ensign Vorik , struck with the pon farr , asked Torres to become his mate, she turned him down. Vorik took her face in his hands and unintentionally initiated a telepathic mating bond, giving her the "blood fever", inducing something similar to the pon farr in her. On the subsequent away mission and overcome by the intense urges accompanying the pon farr , she wanted to have sex with Paris, but he resisted her because he realized that she was not in control of her actions. He only became willing to follow through on his own attraction to her after Tuvok rescued them and informed him that unless he had sex with B'Elanna, she would die from the symptoms of the blood fever. When Vorik arrived and challenged Tom, B'Elanna took over and fought Vorik to end the pon farr . Later on the ship, Paris told her that he had seen her scary Klingon side but was still interested and wouldn't mind seeing it again. Her last words as she left the turbolift were that he should be careful what he wishes for. ( VOY : " Blood Fever ")

She admitted her love for Paris when they both faced death during the incident with the Caatati. ( VOY : " Day of Honor ")

Tom and B'Elanna kissing in B'Elanna's private workstation

Torres and Paris often changed shifts so they could be close to each other. Their relationship was passionate, but they were not sure if their relationship would have a future. When it was discovered that a race known as the Srivani were performing experiments on the crew, Torres thought that their feelings for each other might have been caused by the experiments. Despite this, she responded playfully to Paris's suggestion that they should perhaps just call off the relationship and did not resist when Paris kissed her and stated that he was curious to see how the aliens' experiment turned out. ( VOY : " Scientific Method ")

In 2377 , Torres married Tom Paris. She initially thought he proposed because the Delta Flyer was about to blow up, but he replied that he was "still alive and still asking." Soon thereafter, they had their first child, Miral , as they arrived in the Alpha Quadrant in 2378 . ( VOY : " Drive ", " Endgame ")

While never physical, Torres and Kelis developed a strong, near-romantic relationship while Torres was stranded on his planet for two weeks after an away mission went wrong. Their relationship was somewhat unequal: Kelis, a poet , was from a pre-industrial civilization (similar to Earth's ancient Greece ) and believed Torries to be an Eternal , a demigod of some sort - and he had also restrained her in the wreckage of the Delta Flyer to prevent her from escaping because she was his muse , inspiring him to write plays . The two began to trust each other out of necessity and helped each other: Torres helping Kelis with his stories, and Kelis procured things for Torres so she should try to fix the Flyer and contact Voyager . Their closeness made an actress in Kelis' troupe jealous because she thought Kelis' relationship with Torres was threatening her romance with him. Torres was very moved by Kelis' regard for her as his inspiration, and their parting words were filled with emotion. ( VOY : " Muse ")

Alternate B'Elanna Torres' [ ]

Holograms [ ].

B'Elanna Torres was holographically duplicated on a number of occasions.

• Recreations of crew members from Voyager and the Jupiter Station Holoprogramming Center were seen by The Doctor during a holographic malfunction in 2371 . This simulation, or daydream, included B'Elanna. ( VOY : " Projections ")
• The entire crew of Voyager was recreated by Tuvok for his Insurrection Alpha program. ( VOY : " Worst Case Scenario ")

While a hologram of B'Elanna wasn't actually seen in the episode, based on the plot, it's safe to assume that there was one somewhere in the program.

• The Kyrian Museum of Heritage in the 31st century used the program The Voyager Encounter to detail their encounter with the warship Voyager , as an aid to a history lesson. ( VOY : " Living Witness ")
• Lt. Barclay 's recreated most of the crew of USS Voyager at the Communications Research Center on Earth for the Pathfinder Project in 2376 . The Maquis crew members, including B'Elanna, were not wearing Starfleet uniforms . ( VOY : " Pathfinder ")
• In 2378 , Seven recreated the crew of Voyager to perfect her social skills, including B'Elanna. ( VOY : " Human Error ")
• The Doctor's holonovel Photons Be Free was set aboard the USS Vortex and crewed by characters based on the crew of USS Voyager , albeit the names were change to protect the innocent. The character of Torrey was based on B'Elanna. ( VOY : " Author, Author ")
• The Doctor was forced to impersonate members of Voyager 's crew during a crisis in 2378 . One was B'Elanna. ( VOY : " Renaissance Man ")

Alternate realities and timelines [ ]

B'Elanna Torres in an alternate 25th century timeline

In an alternate timeline created when Kes traveled back in time from 2376 to 2371, Torres was killed by an energy beam from the warp core. ( VOY : " Fury ")

In an alternate reality experienced by Kes, Torres was killed alongside Captain Janeway during the first confrontation between Voyager and the Krenim in 2374 when the console they were standing beside exploded. Tom Paris noted that he felt like dying after losing B'Elanna before Kes helped him move on. ( VOY : " Before and After ")

In 2374, after suffering devastating attacks from the Krenim , she stayed on board Voyager as part of a skeleton crew. ( VOY : " Year of Hell ")

In 2375, Torres was killed when Voyager crash-landed on an class L planet in an attempt to get home via slipstream. Events in this timeline were changed, however, when Harry Kim , Chakotay , and The Doctor stopped the slipstream mid-flight. ( VOY : " Timeless ")

When an anomaly shattered Voyager into different time frames, a version of Torres who had just arrived on Voyager discovered from a Chakotay seven years in her future that she would become part of the Voyager crew, something she found "pretty hard to believe." ( VOY : " Shattered ")

In an alternate 25th century timeline , after Voyager 's return to the Alpha Quadrant in 2394, Torres became Federation Liaison to the Klingon Empire and was responsible for arranging Admiral Janeway's meeting with Korath . ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Chronology [ ]

Appendices [ ], appearances [ ].

• " Caretaker "
• " Parallax "
• " Time and Again "
• " The Cloud "
• " Eye of the Needle "
• " Ex Post Facto "
• " Emanations "
• " Prime Factors "
• " State of Flux "
• " Heroes and Demons "
• " Cathexis "
• " Learning Curve "
• " The 37's "
• " Initiations "
• " Projections "
• " Elogium "
• " Non Sequitur "
• " Twisted "
• " Parturition "
• " Persistence of Vision "
• " Cold Fire "
• " Maneuvers "
• " Resistance "
• " Prototype "
• " Alliances "
• " Threshold "
• " Dreadnought "
• " Death Wish "
• " Lifesigns "
• " Investigations "
• " Deadlock "
• " Innocence "
• " The Thaw "
• " Resolutions "
• " Basics, Part I "
• " Basics, Part II "
• " Flashback "
• " The Chute "
• " The Swarm "
• " False Profits "
• " Remember "
• " Sacred Ground "
• " Future's End "
• " Future's End, Part II "
• " Warlord "
• " The Q and the Grey "
• " Macrocosm "
• " Fair Trade "
• " Alter Ego "
• " Blood Fever "
• " Darkling "
• " Favorite Son "
• " Before and After "
• " Real Life "
• " Distant Origin "
• " Displaced "
• " Worst Case Scenario "
• " Scorpion "
• " Scorpion, Part II "
• " The Gift "
• " Day of Honor "
• " Nemesis "
• " Revulsion "
• " The Raven "
• " Scientific Method "
• " Year of Hell "
• " Year of Hell, Part II "
• " Random Thoughts "
• " Concerning Flight "
• " Mortal Coil "
• " Waking Moments "
• " Message in a Bottle "
• " Hunters "
• " Retrospect "
• " The Killing Game "
• " The Killing Game, Part II "
• " Vis à Vis "
• " The Omega Directive "
• " Unforgettable "
• " Living Witness " ( hologram )
• " Hope and Fear "
• " Extreme Risk "
• " In the Flesh "
• " Once Upon a Time "
• " Timeless "
• " Infinite Regress "
• " Nothing Human "
• " Thirty Days "
• " Counterpoint "
• " Latent Image "
• " Bride of Chaotica! "
• " Gravity "
• " Dark Frontier "
• " The Disease "
• " Course: Oblivion "
• " The Fight "
• " Think Tank "
• " Juggernaut "
• " Someone to Watch Over Me "
• " Relativity "
• " Warhead "
• " Equinox "
• " Equinox, Part II "
• " Survival Instinct "
• " Barge of the Dead "
• " Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy "
• " Riddles "
• " Dragon's Teeth "
• " One Small Step "
• " The Voyager Conspiracy "
• " Pathfinder "
• " Fair Haven "
• " Blink of an Eye "
• " Virtuoso "
• " Memorial "
• " Tsunkatse "
• " Collective "
• " Spirit Folk "
• " Ashes to Ashes "
• " Child's Play "
• " Good Shepherd "
• " Live Fast and Prosper "
• " Life Line "
• " The Haunting of Deck Twelve "
• " Unimatrix Zero "
• " Unimatrix Zero, Part II "
• " Imperfection "
• " Repression "
• " Critical Care "
• " Inside Man "
• " Body and Soul "
• " Flesh and Blood "
• " Nightingale "
• " Shattered "
• " Lineage "
• " Repentance "
• " Prophecy "
• " The Void "
• " Workforce "
• " Workforce, Part II "
• " Human Error "
• " Author, Author "
• " Friendship One "
• " Natural Law "
• " Homestead "
• " Renaissance Man "
• " Endgame "

Background information [ ]

B'Elanna Torres was played by Roxann Dawson throughout the entire run of Star Trek: Voyager . A young B'Elanna was played by Jessica Gaona in VOY : " Lineage ".

The notion of a hybrid among Star Trek: Voyager 's principal characters was thought up in July 1993 , before the series even had a name. The term "half-breed" was included in a short list of characters for the series handwritten by Jeri Taylor and dated 30 July 1993, a document which was one of multiple summaries of many developmental meetings Taylor was having with fellow Executive Producers and series co-creators Rick Berman and Michael Piller . The initial character concept of a "half-breed" was developed into an outline of the character in a later compilation of Taylor's notes, dated 3 August 1993 . In that document, the outline was part of a section called "The Crew" and not only regarded the character as a hybrid but also as one of three "misfits", or rebels, who joined the Starfleet crew. The outline stated, " Conn Officer – an alien female (or male), […] the 'moderate' of the group [of 'misfits'] on a sliding scale of recalcitrance. Originally thought of as the same species as the First Officer, a conflictual relationship because the misfit has disappointed the F.O. (There was also mention of their having a telepathic ability between themselves.) Latest thinking is of a half-breed, possibly Bajoran / Cardassian . " The character's racial identity was later altered, as Taylor reported in one of her summaries of the meetings, this compilation of notes dated 6 August 1993. The document reckoned, " The Conn officer might be a Human/Klingon combination. " ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , pp. 175, 176 & 182)

The character of B'Elanna Torres was created as an "outsider" character, representing the struggle for self-acceptance in Human nature. The summary of notes from 6 August 1993 continued, " She would be a metaphor for those who are trying to suppress or ignore some aspect of themselves (anger, hatred, lack of control, etc.) that actually can't be ignored. She wants to eschew her Klingon nature, finding it primitive, violent, savage, unattractive. " Jeri Taylor later recalled, " We wanted to make her a person somewhat at war with herself. Representing those of us… and there are probably many of us… who have some aspect of our personalities that we really, really wish we could shed. You know, 'If only I didn't do 'X,' I'd be a terrific person. " The executive producers envisioned Torres undergoing a character arc in the series which would entail her, in Taylor's words, " learning to accept herself as a whole person, and to learn to live with what she is and accept what she is and find worth in all the parts of her, rather than wanting to shun an important part of herself. " ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , pp. 168, 182 & 184)

The same compilation of notes, from 6 August 1993, additionally suggested a relationship between this character and The Doctor. " When we're on our mission, " wrote Jeri Taylor, " the Conn officer decides to play around with the programming and 'tailors' his personality... maybe injecting some quirks and oddities... maybe changing it from time to time (to fit her moods). " ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , p. 182)

B'Elanna's nickname of "BLT" was said to have derived from her initials; however, it is unclear if B'Elanna has a middle name, or if this just reflects the L sound in the second syllable of the first name "B'E l anna".

Torres has the distinction of being the first female chief engineer as a series regular. The first female chief engineer shown on-screen was MacDougal of the USS Enterprise -D in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Naked Now ".

Regarding Torres' birthdate , she says in " Extreme Risk " that she was nineteen when she quit Starfleet Academy and, by 2376 , it was ten years since she entered the Academy and ten years since she last spoke with her mother. ( VOY : " Equinox, Part II ", " Barge of the Dead ") Torres quit the Academy in her second year, at age nineteen in 2368 , which puts her birth year at 2349 . The script of " Caretaker " gave further indication as to Torres' age, referring to her as " a half-Klingon, half-Human woman in her twenties. " A press release issued by Paramount on the launch of the series stated, " B'Elanna is a beautiful 25 year old woman who is half Human, half Klingon. " This information would then place B'Elanna's birthdate at 2346, but this was not stated in the series itself. [2]

At the Voyager wrap party, held in 2001, Roxann Dawson described Torres' character journey on the show, stating, " She was an unruly teenager who grew into a woman, over the course of seven years. " [3]

Early character photos of Torres showed her wearing the Starfleet provisional enlisted / noncom rank insignia. When she was promoted to chief engineer, she initially wore the provisional rank of lieutenant. This costume gaffe was corrected as of " Faces ", and thereafter, Torres wore the rank of provisional lieutenant junior grade.

The bathing suit worn by Torres in the third season episode " Warlord " was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [4] (X)

In a log from the " Star Trek Logs" Instagram account [5] released after the premiere of the Star Trek: Prodigy episode " Asylum ", Janeway established that Torres was the project lead in designing the USS Dauntless and also suggested the name. [6]

Apocrypha [ ]

In the Voyager relaunch book series, Torres traveled to Boreth and found her mother Miral alive. Miral then died and Torres decided to stay on Boreth and immerse herself in Klingon tradition.

In A Singular Destiny set in 2381, Torres and Miral Paris' names were appended to a casualty list sent to Starfleet, listing confirmed dead in Sector 22093 as a result of the Borg attacks in the Alpha Quadrant.

In Full Circle and Unworthy , B'Elanna and and her daughter Miral were revealed to be alive, after their "deaths" were faked to throw off the pursuing Warriors of Gre'thor. B'Elanna and Miral then reunite with Voyager 's first officer, Lieutenant Commander Tom Paris.

In Unworthy , B'Elanna recreates the slipstream drive from memory and reunites with Voyager in the Delta Quadrant under Project Full Circle. She is then given the rank of Fleet Chief Engineer and returns to active duty. She is revealed to be pregnant in The Eternal Tide , and gives birth to her and Tom's son, Michael Owen Paris, in A Pocket Full of Lies .

In the alternate future in the Deep Space Nine Millennium book trilogy, Torres, along with Voyager and her crew, returned to the Alpha Quadrant at an unspecified time. As in the "real" timeline, she married Tom Paris . Sometime after returning to the Alpha Quadrant, Torres and Paris were both assigned to the USS Enterprise -F under Captain William T. Riker . However, Torres was killed along with the rest of the Enterprise 's crew when she was lost with all hands during the destruction of Earth .

The epithet "turtle head" is also found in non-canon novels such as A Flag Full of Stars , used by xenophobic Humans on Earth against Klingons to make fun of their forehead ridges.

Her mirror universe counterpart ( β ) appeared in the novel The Mirror-Scaled Serpent as the Supervisor of Ardana in 2371 . She was previously the Intendant of Cestus III .

According to The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway , Tom and B'Elanna had a second child named Eugene Owen Paris.

External links [ ]

• B'Elanna Torres at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• B'Elanna Torres at the Star Trek Online Wiki
• B'Elanna Torres at Wikipedia
• 2 Daniels (Crewman)

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Grew Up... the only child of a Klingon mother and human father, on Kessik IV in the Alpha Quadrant. B’Elanna often wished that she looked more than half-human, a desire brought about by her difficult childhood. B’Elanna often found it hard to control her emotions, and blamed the Klingon side of herself for her troubles.

Living... aboard U.S.S. Voyager, 70,000 light years away from home. After getting kicked out of Starfleet Academy, B’Elanna joined the Maquis resistance and met Commander Chakotay, who taught her some meditation techniques that his people used. These helped troubled B’Elanna somewhat, though she is still quick to anger, and it is best to stay on her good side.

Profession... chief engineer of Voyager. While breaking the nose of a superior officer would not usually get one promoted in Starfleet, B’Elanna lucked out. With Chakotay’s strong support of her, and Captain Janeway’s own close assessment, her talent proved exceptional… and it didn’t hurt that B’Elanna had just gotten the ship safely out of a black hole. All in a day’s work!

Interests... proving that she is right. B’Elanna is exceptionally gifted at her job, though she often faces the scrutiny that comes with the weight of the decisions being made. B’Elanna often brainstorms ways of improving existing equipment aboard Voyager to assist in their travels or missions. And she never shies away from inventing new techniques on her own.

Relationship Status... single. You could try dating her, but be prepared to pay a visit to the Emergency Medical Hologram if something goes wrong.

Challenge.... balancing the survivalist, hot-headed B’Elanna with the smart, caring and cautious one. While her genetic structure doesn’t make it easy on her, B’Elanna finds both acceptance and adventure in journeying with Voyager, keeping both sides of herself engaged. 

Personality... loyal, fierce, and intelligent. The support of Chakotay, Janeway and the rest of her crew allows B’Elanna to thrive in her position as chief engineer, and she is always competent on dangerous away missions, too. As she has stated, “It’s going to take more than an infection to kill me!” B’Elanna possesses the talent to be a great Starfleet officer, and Voyager’s journey through the Delta Quadrant will require her to be nothing less. 

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From the moment she debuted on Star Trek: Voyager , B’Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ) became a unique addition to the franchise. The half-Klingon-half-human former Maquis rebel was serving as the chief engineer aboard the Maquis ship Val Jean when the ship was pulled into the Badlands and stranded in the Delta Quadrant. After the Val Jean was destroyed, B’Elanna, along with the rest of the Maquis, were absorbed into the crew of the USS Voyager.

With her quick temper and no-nonsense attitude, B'Elanna chafed against Starfleet's rules even while performing her duties as an exemplary Chief Engineer. Over the course of seven seasons, she struggled with the anger that stemmed from how she was treated because of her mixed heritage, her insecurities about her relationships, and her place in Starfleet. B’Elanna’s journey to self-acceptance has resonated with many fans and is one of the best parts of the show. It’s been 20 years since Star Trek: Voyager ended, and this is a great time to appreciate one of the more nuanced characters in the franchise.

To celebrate B’Elanna Torres, we present one episode from each season of Star Trek: Voyager that showcases the many facets of her character.

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Season 1, Episode 14: “Faces”

This is the B’Elanna Torres episode that introduces the layers and characterization we’ve come to love about the character. While on an away mission, B’Elanna and her team are captured by an alien species called the Vidiians. This species suffers from the devastating Phage and has developed superior medical skills that they use to split B’Elanna into two people – one fully human and one fully Klingon. B’Elanna’s life-long identity struggle becomes a literal battle when she’s facing herself.

"Faces" was the fourteenth episode in the first season, and it didn’t pull any punches. This was a poignant look at the struggles faced by many people from minority communities. Whether you’re of mixed race, part of the diaspora, or as in my case, struggling to belong in your own home country, B’Elanna’s sense of self, as well as her self-loathing brought on by years of bullying and racism, remains a relevant topic over two decades later.

Season 2, Episode 13: “Prototype”

Star Trek: Voyager is often criticized for its poor writing , and there are some valid arguments to back that claim. However, the show never shied away from being thought-provoking. In "Prototype," we see B’Elanna Torres work her engineering magic to bring a sentient robot to life. However, this exciting new discovery turns sour when the robot’s ulterior motives prove deadly.

B’Elanna is faced with a difficult decision in this episode, and it echoes society's ongoing conversation around the militarization of technology. She is captured by the robot who wants her to build his army. To protect Voyager, B’Elanna creates a prototype that she is proud of, but its existence not only goes against the Prime Directive, but could tip the scales in a devastating war. The episode leaves us wondering, "What would we do in B’Elanna’s shoes?"

Season 3, Episode 16: “Blood Fever”

A Vulcan ensign Vorik ( Alexander Enberg ) undergoes pon farr (the Vulcan mating cycle that happens every seven years) and decides B’Elanna must be his partner. When a mind-meld goes wrong, B’Elanna starts experiencing the same chemical imbalances as Vorik, except she’s got her eyes on someone else.

If you were ever a hormonal teenager, "Blood Fever" got you hot under the collar. This episode subverts some of the gendered romantic tropes we’re used to seeing in pop culture, as B’Elanna is the romantic aggressor in this episode, while her object of desire, Lieutenant Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), has to fend off her advances. The episode manages to balance the subject of latent feelings and consent while creating the foundation for one of Star Trek ’s greatest, underappreciated romances. You also have to hand it to the Star Trek: Voyager writers, who resolved the tense situation by letting B’Elanna herself, instead of any of the male characters, participate in the ritual fight against Vorik herself.

Season 4, Episode 3: “Day of Honor”

Klingon fever is in the air as it’s the Day of Honor, a Klingon tradition involving self-reflection, and this year, B’Elanna has promised to observe it. Except, she has the worst day ever. Everything goes wrong: She oversleeps, has to work with her archnemesis Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ), ends up dumping the warp core, and then her and Tom’s shuttle is destroyed, leaving the two of them adrift in space with punctured space suits and fast-diminishing oxygen supplies. Some Day of Honor B’Elanna’s having!

This is a quintessential Star Trek episode, but also a character study. How many characters can face so many figurative beatdowns and still get back up? B’Elanna is resilient, and you feel for her with every defeat. Yet, there’s a win in the end. B’Elanna finally reveals to Tom how she feels about him, which sets her on the path to accepting that she’s worthy of love and friendship.

Season 5, Episode 20: “Juggernaut”

B’Elanna and Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) join a Malon crew to repair their toxic ship before it explodes and takes Voyager with it. Tensions are high, as the Malon homeworld creates masses of radioactive waste which they dump in unsuspecting areas of the quadrant. On top of that, there are whispers of a boogeyman haunting the Malon ship. B’Elanna’s temper is short; she’s been dealing with personal losses, the ship is disgusting and they’re on a deadline before the radiation affects them. More than that, B’Elanna can’t abide this species’ ignorant policies.

This episode is a tough watch; while the horror aspect is entertaining, B’Elanna’s choice near the end of the episode is hard to digest. She’s left with a Catch-22 situation of either losing her life or her soul — which one should she choose? Even after numerous rewatches, you’ll still find yourself wanting to console B’Elanna and wishing she’d forgive herself for her actions. I definitely do.

Season 6, Episode 3: “Barge of the Dead”

And speaking of souls, in “Barge of the Dead,” B’Elanna must contend with how she’s "dishonored" her heritage during a near-death experience. B’Elanna is certain that because of her ignorance and hatred of her Klingon beliefs, she has damned her mother, Miral ( Karen Austin ), to Gre'thor , the Klingon Hell. She enters a comatose state to revisit the Barge of the Dead and complete several Klingon rituals in an effort to save her mother.

The core message of the episode is to stop fighting who you are, and it’s an essential step in B’Elanna’s journey to self-acceptance. Her attitude towards her heritage changes from this point forward, and she definitely embraces her Klingon side more, if not wholeheartedly. This episode also includes this epic line of dialogue that can’t be missed: "You! Kahless! The tooth fairy! Anybody who will tell me what I am supposed to do!"

Season 7, Episode 3: “Drive”

By Season 7, Tom and B’Elanna are a well-established couple, but their relationship isn’t without its pitfalls, many of which come to the fore in "Drive." Tom is head over heels in love with B’Elanna, but she is still unsure of being in a committed relationship, and finds it challenging to put herself and her happiness first. When Tom gets the opportunity to represent Voyager in a space race, he scuppers B’Elanna’s plans for a romantic holodeck getaway in favor of the race.

In this episode, we get the chance to view this science-fiction romance through a realistic lens. Are Tom and B’Elanna just too different to belong together? And do those differences mean they’re a mok'tah – a bad match? The key to their success is simple: they just need to communicate.

Selecting just seven episodes to represent the complex and compelling character that is B’Elanna Torres was not an easy task. But this is an essential highlight reel to understand why B’Elanna still endures as a favorite Star Trek character.

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Lieutenant Junior Grade B'Elanna Torres (also known as B'Elanna Paris ) is a hybrid Human / Klingon . She is best known for her tenure as the Chief Engineer of the U.S.S. Voyager when the ship was lost in the Delta Quadrant during the 24th Century . She is also the wife of Captain Tom Paris and mother of the U.S.S. Kirk 's head of security Miral Paris .

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B'Elanna was born in 2349 on the planet Kessik IV to a Klingon mother ( Miral ), and Human father ( John Torres ); her parents' relationship did not last however and B'Elanna was raised mainly by her mother from the age of five years.

In 2366, B'Elanna attended Starfleet Academy , but dropped out two years later.

In 2371, B'Elanna was a member of a Maquis cell under Chakotay , operating out of the Badlands . That same year, members of Chakotay's Maquis group along with the Federation starship U.S.S. Voyager were stranded 70,000 light years in the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker . In order to survive, both groups agreed to join together as part of Voyager' s crew, with Torres becoming the ship's Chief Engineer.

In 2377, B'Elanna marries fellow Voyager crewmember Tom Paris ; the two give birth to Miral Paris the following year just as they manage to return home to Earth .

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• The cutscene where B'Elanna appears is based on a scene from the Star Trek: Voyager episode Deadlock .
• In Episode #207 of the Priority One Podcast, Lead Designer Al Rivera confirmed that veteran STO voice actress Lani Minella, not Roxann Dawson , provided the voice for B'Elanna Torres in the cutscene.
• The consumable item Banana Pancakes is based on B'Elanna's favorite childhood food.

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Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres went on a turbulent journey of self-discovery during her time on the Voyager, the lost Federation ship that spent seven years adrift in Star Trek ’s Delta Quadrant. Not only did she have issues controlling her anger, but she also suffered from a crisis of identity, struggling to reconcile her Klingon heritage with her human socialization. She also had a romance with Lieutenant Tom Paris, a relationship which proved to be worthwhile after many emotional ups and downs.

Star Trek has had a few central Klingon characters, like Worf, and some inter-species hybrids, like Spock. B’Elanna was both, in addition to being formerly Maquis on a Starfleet ship. She began as a defensive, mistrustful character who eventually grew to appreciate the crew of the Voyager , especially after years of being each other’s only family. Over seven seasons, B’Elanna’s development can be charted over episodes in which she takes the center stage.

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S1 E14: Faces

Horror both psychological and physiological lurks in every moment of this episode, which sees Torres, Paris and a Lieutenant Durst kidnapped by the Vidiian Sodality. The government has been abducting people from other races in the hope of finding a cure to the phage, a plague that has been destroying their society for generations.

One of their scientists discovers that Torres’ Klingon ancestry gives her a form of immunity to the phage, and he hopes to harvest it by bringing out that side of her. Torres gets split into a human version of herself and a Klingon version, which results in conflict between them. Both versions eventually work together to escape, learning some tolerance in the process.

S2 E13: Prototype

Torres’ engineering acumen is put to the test when a lost robot is brought aboard the Voyager. However, it soon becomes a test of her morals. The Voyager crew finds a broken robot body, which Torres fixes, bonding with him as she does so. She learns that he wants her help in building more robots like him , an experiment to which Captain Janeway objects, on the grounds of adhering to the Prime Directive.

When Torres refuses to help the robot, he abducts her, taking her back to his original ship in order to force her to comply. The robot tells her that his people were created to be soldiers in a war between two other races, until the robots rebelled and killed their ‘owners.’ Torres manages to build a new version of the robot, but destroys it just as she’s rescued, leaving the original model to the same fate when an enemy ship arrives. Torres is upset by her last-ditch effort to stymie the robots’ war , especially as it goes against everything that makes her an engineer and a Starfleet officer.

S4 E03: Day of Honor

This episode revolves around Torres’ heritage, and a Klingon holiday that makes her re-evaluate her values. Torres spends most of this story unbalanced, as she fails to celebrate the Day of Honor in the traditional way of sparring and eating Klingon cuisine. She later has a hard time connecting with Paris, feeling uncertain about the blurred lines of their friendship. She finds herself reluctant to work with Seven of Nine , whose history is still a point of contention for her.

An ejected warp core, a recovery mission and a demolished shuttle results in Torres and Paris being stranded in space, which in turn leads to expressions of genuine feeling. Torres realizes where she truly finds her honor, and strengthens her relationship with Paris.

S7 E12: Lineage

Torres goes through severe emotional turmoil in this episode, in which she and Paris discover that she is pregnant. Torres has a fraught history with her identity, mostly due to how she grew up. She spent her childhood in a human-centric colony, with the only other Klingon there being her mother . Her family suffered ostracization, especially after her father abandoned them, and this has haunted Torres well into adulthood. She wants to erase her child’s Klingon genetics, making her fully human, but Paris objects on ethical grounds.

The couple disagree strongly on whether to alter their child to fit societal norms, and Paris insists things will be different on Voyager. He’s able to reassure Torres of his commitment, and Torres accepts that her mixed race won’t be an obstacle for her child’s happiness.

S6 E03: Barge of the Dead

There are elements of the spiritual and the supernatural in this episode, a story that details Torres’ religious beliefs and family trauma. After an ion storm leaves Torres in a coma, she starts seeing the crew of the Voyager acting like Klingons, celebrating the culture in a way she never has. She also sees her mother in these visions, being transported to Gre’thor (the Klingon hell) for being dishonorable. When Torres awakes, she demands to be placed back in a coma so she can find her mother, since she believed the visions to have a grain of truth. Torres surrenders herself to judgment in the place of her mother, proving that despite reservations, she does have some belief in Klingon spirituality. She shares a moment of reconciliation with her mother before coming out of the coma, and promises to find her again.

Much like other Star Trek characters who struggle with their identity, B’Elanna Torres has a tough time figuring out which side of herself to show to others. Spock tried to live as a pure Vulcan for a long time, and Data attempted to mimic human behavior in the hope of being more than an android; neither found easy answers to their dilemma. Torres has the advantage of coming to terms with her racial identity among friends, on a ship where the crew turns into a family. Many of the episodes that focus on her have this process as a central theme, showing Torres become more trusting and tolerant, and less self-deprecating. She is a strong, brave character who lives up to her full potential in Star Trek: Voyager , and it is done through hard personal work.

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B'Elanna Torres is half-human, half-Klingon. She is Chief Engineer, responsible for the maintenance of the USS Voyager spacecraft. She was originally a member of the dissident group, the Maquis, where she developed a tenacious hatred of Cardassians. After being transported to the Delta Quadrant, her Maquis ship is destroyed and she integrates, constrained and forced, the Voyager crew.

During the trip, she has a relationship with Tom Paris, the pilot of the ship, then the wife and gives birth to her daughter Miral (who bears the name of his mother) the day they return to the Alpha Quadrant. B'Elanna is occasionally worth some problems adapting to the rules that prevail on Voyager. Her new captain, Kathryn Janeway, and her former Maquis captain, Chakotay, help her repeatedly as she goes through difficult times.

B'Elanna is basically a character struggling with himself because of his dual Klingon and human heritage. She hates her own violence and admires the calm and absolute control of Vulcan Tuvok.

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• Trivia The violent images from Tuvok's mind include shots from Star Trek: Generations (1994) , Star Trek: First Contact (1996) , Fair Trade (1997) , Unity (1997) , Nemesis (1997) and Event Horizon (1997) .
• Goofs When Tuvok shows Nimira the brig, she comments on how barbaric it is. He even has to explain to her that they use it to hold individuals until they can be handed over to the proper authorities; yet, when Torres commits a crime, they arrest her and detain her until her sentence can be carried out.

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Neelix : B'Elanna's not used to being around telepaths. That doesn't make her guilty.

Seven of Nine : Then her crime was ignorance - a common affliction among your crew.

Neelix : What's that supposed to mean?

Seven of Nine : You make contact with alien species without sufficient understanding of their nature. As a result, Voyager's directive to "seek out new civilizations" often ends in conflict.

Neelix : What you call ignorance, we call exploration, and... sometimes it means taking a few risks, but it's-it's certainly better than assimilating everything in your path.

Seven of Nine : Your goal is to share knowledge. Assimilation is the perfect means of attaining that goal.

Neelix : "Perfect."

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Star Trek has just gotten its own version of the “Infinity Snap,” turning a classic villain into an even deadlier version of Thanos . In the MCU, Thanos’ snap was a chilling moment, and was proof of his villainy. Now, in the story “The Final Masterpiece,” appearing in Star Trek #500, Lore, who has been on a crusade to achieve godhood, unveils his own, deadlier version of the Infinity Snap.

“The Final Masterpiece,” is the central story in Star Trek #500, is written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Davide Tinto. Lore, who used the Orb of Destruction to unmake the universe, is trying to create the perfect model, one made in his image. He has enlisted Data to help him, but Data continues to frustrate his efforts. As the story draws to a conclusion, Lore gives Data one more chance to create the perfect universe. Lore snaps his fingers—and the universe changes . The story is a prelude to next year’s Lore War.

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Lore has been front and center in IDW’s Star Trek comics line since the earliest days of the “God War.” Lore had previously been dismantled and stored at a Section 31 facility . He was freed, rebuilt and drafted to fight Kahless, who was slaughtering the gods of the universe. Lore, while helpful in stopping Kahless, seized on his technology. Recruiting Kahless’ former followers in the Red Path, Lore will not stop until he is a god, and the universe lies in waste before him. Lore sought out the Pleroma, the gathering place of the gods, but for nefarious reasons.

As seen in “The Final Masterpiece”, destroying all creation was not enough for Lore: he needed to remake it in his image.

Upon reaching the Pleroma, Lore unveils his final, destructive gambit. Using the Orb of Destruction, created by the Bajoran Prophets, Lore finishes what Kahless started, killing gods such as Trelane and Charlie Evans, before destroying the universe. As seen in “The Final Masterpiece”, destroying all creation was not enough for Lore: he needed to remake it in his image. Fans see the various attempts Lore and Data made, and none of them are to Lore’s liking. Lore grows exasperated with Data’s “boring” creations, giving the impression it is do or die for Data.

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Lore’s final attempt at recreating the universe is followed by Star Trek’s version of the “Infinity Snap.” The Mad Titan Thanos, seeking to bring balance to the universe, assembles the Infinity Gauntlet. Composed of the six Infinity Stones, the Gauntlet was one of the universe’s most powerful objects, and when Thanos decided to use it, he snapped his fingers. In the blink of an eye, half of the universe’s population was wiped out. In both The Infinity Gauntlet and Avengers: Infinity War, the Snap was a chilling and unforgettable moment.

And now, Star Trek has its own version, courtesy of Lore. While Lore did not have an Infinity Gauntlet, he did have the Orb of Destruction, which is arguably in the same class as the Gauntlet. Lore does not share Thanos’ concerns with balance, instead wishing to indulge his nihilistic desires to kill and destroy. While Thanos’ methods were extreme, there was at least a justifiable reason for them, but nothing of the such exists with Lore. Lore is evil incarnate in the Star Trek universe, and his version of the “Infinity Snap” manages to outdo Thanos .

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