B'Elanna Torres
B'Elanna Torres is a female television character who features in Star Trek.
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Biography
B'Elanna Torres was a female human/Klingon hybrid born in 2349 on the United Federation of Planets colony of Kessik IV as the daughter of John Torres who was her human father and Miral who was her Klingon mother. Much of her early life was spent on the colony but at the time relations between the Federation and Klingon Empire were not cordial at the time. As such, her mother and B'Elanna herself were the only Klingons on the time on the world and despite not being treated badly she felt that they were perceived differently from the other colonists. This led to her developing an feeling of unease that she found hard to shake in the future. (VOY: Faces) The alienation became the root of insecurity from an early age where she was regularly teased due to her Klingon heritage. In grammar school, she was tormented by a boy named Daniel Byrd who would call her 'Miss Turtlehead' and tease her for her cranial ridges as well as her being half-Klingon. These insults came to anger B'Elanna to the point that during recess she attacked Byrd when he was on the gyro-swing. This saw her disengage the centrifugal governor causing Byrd to spin so fast that he almost flew apart. She then proceeded to throw him off the swing and started hitting until the teacher Miss Malvin arrived to separate them. (VOY: Juggernaut) 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)
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. 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)
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 her. (VOY: Basics, Part II) She also had to dodge several punches in the lab, which Chakotay later joked about, saying that only B'Elanna could start a brawl in Astrotheory 101. (VOY: Future's End, Part II) Interstellar history was, according to Torres was the one subject she almost failed at the Academy. (VOY: Year of Hell) Also among her Academy training was EV suit simulations. She thought that it 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)
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 had 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)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Her father was a human male named John Torres whilst her mother was a Klingon woman named Miral. (VOY: Faces)
Powers and abilities
B'Elanna Torres was a female humanoid who was of human and Klingon descent. (VOY: Caretaker)
Torres invented an emergency measure of locking a transporter beam onto minerals in the target's skeletal system, in order to allow transport when bio-signs could not be detected from transporting origins. This allowed personnel to be transported back to the ship, even if regular means of transporter lock failed. She came up with it after a conventional signal lock failed and referred to it as a skeletal lock. (VOY: Scorpion)
After leaving Starfleet, she came to be a member of the Maquis where she was part of a resistance cell that opposed the Cardassian Union. (VOY: Caretaker)
Notes
- B'Elanna Torres were portrayed by actress Roxann Dawson and featured in the setting of Star Trek: Voyager.
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