(VOY episode: "Lineage"), At first, she and Janeway did not see eye to eye. (VOY: "Drive"). (VOY episode: "Nothing Human"), The previous year she had allowed her DNA to be duplicated by the bio-mimetic beings on the Demon planet. History []. She helped end the crew's imprisonment by the Nyrians when the crew was imprisoned on a bio-sphere ship. (VOY: "Day of Honor"), During her time at the Academy, B'Elanna dated Maxwell Burke; however, their relationship did not last long. Torres, remembering painful events from her own childhood, urged the Doctor to perform gene therapy to reduce this phenotype, and even went so far as to reprogram him to do so. He had placed a note in her permanent record saying he would support her if she ever reapplied. 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.. P/T, J/C, K/f. In the beginning, Torres felt like Janeway had set her up to fail and had no intention of making her chief engineer. That beloved meal always put a smile on B'Elanna's face. Common sets: approx. Tenets (NC-17) Janeway/Kim B'Elanna's extreme behavior in "Lineage" has severe reprecussions both within the Circle and without. Tuvok rescued them and told Tom that unless he had sex with B'Elanna, she would die from the symptoms of the blood fever. 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 eventually found her, and the two began rapprochement, when Miral was mortally wounded by a wild animal. This is the wiki of "List of Star Trek: Voyager episodes". Found insideB'ELANNA TORRES OCCUPATION: Chief engineer of Voyager, former Maquis ... brink of death, once found herself on the journey to the Klingon warrior's ... She was subsequently rescued by Janeway. Torres was initially assigned the provisional rank of lieutenant junior grade. Even though quite a brilliant student and promising engineer, she eventually dropped out of the Academy in 2368, at the age of nineteen. 168, 182 & 184), The same compilation of notes, from 6 August 1993, additionally suggested a relationship between this character and The Doctor. This enabled them to access a translocation system that allowed the crew to escape. 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.) (VOY: "Juggernaut"), 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 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. (VOY: "Extreme Risk"), Also on her father's side was her father's brother, her Uncle Carl. Maquis engineer B'Elanna Torres takes the weapons offline to add impulse power so Chakotay, the cell's leader, can get into the Badlands. During an incident in 2374, Torres confessed her love to him when they were left floating in space in environmental suits, with almost no hope of rescue ("Day of Honor"). 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. As different units arrived from the other side of the war, a battle ensued. A mixture of Klingon and human genetics, Torres is shown as prone to aggressive outbursts. Along with Paris and Kim, she launched a new shuttle called the Delta Flyer in which they encountered the Malon species. 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. A few years later she became a member of the Maquis renegade group, and began developing a profound hatred of the Cardassians. She thinks about the past, about the future and about the pain that seems to engulf 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. Soon after, she died, along with the rest of the duplicate crew, from subspace radiation. After her mother resuscitated her, she told B'Elanna about the Klingon beliefs of the afterlife, Sto-vo-kor, and Gre'thor. She was admitted to Starfleet academy but dropped out before graduating. 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 . This would have greatly reduced the length of Voyager's journey, but the aliens refused to share their technology because of their own Prime Directive. Torres would work under the leadership of Chakotay. Then the normally so rational Borg does something irrational. When B'Elanna overheard this in her tent, she got angry, and later yelled at him for saying such things about her mother. Complete. (VOY: "Equinox"), Ultimately, B'Elanna had a hard time fitting in, often getting into trouble with instructors and faculty. It ends with the beautifully-acted scenes of Tom and B'Elanna floating in space together, facing death, with their bodies growing progressively closer. Torres thought Janeway was too stiff and set in her ways, while Janeway believed Torres to be a loose cannon. After reuniting with her husband and daughter, the family moved to Boreth to pursue prophecies about the infant. "Alice" attempted to kill Torres by sealing a hatch in the shuttle and shutting off life support systems. She was placed in the engineering department, which had no clear department head because the original chief engineer was killed during the trip to the Delta Quadrant; Captain Janeway promoted Torres to chief engineer based on Voyagers first officer Chakotay's recommendation. She was previously the Intendant of Cestus III. During a battle with them, she devised a way to contain a gas leak and save the crew and the shuttle. 2346,Kessik IV A companion to the popular syndicated television show offers a complete show-by-show guide to the series, including plot summaries and behind-the-scenes details. Played by: Warning: Extremelysappy. Although Voyager was soon able to rescue them, Torres realized that her courage in admitting her love had brought her one step closer to discovering what she considered true honor. Their closeness made an actress in Kelis' troupe jealous because she thought Kelis' relationship with Torres was threatening her romance with him. As in the "real" timeline, she married Tom Paris. 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. Deep down Janeway reminded Torres of her mother; she was as dedicated to Starfleet principles as her mother was to Klingon traditions. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle", "Author, Author"), One of Torres' favorite foods as a child was banana pancakes with maple syrup, which her grandmother would make for her. The human Torres is portrayed fraught with fear but having strong technical expertise, while the Klingon Torres is shown as aggressive and impatient. Chakotay soon realized B'Elanna's exceptional engineering abilities and the two became close friends. The crew of the starship Voyager have been thrown across the galaxy, where they must form an alliance with dangerous enemies in order to return home. This is one of several image categories on Memory Alpha. Born: (VOY episode: "Dreadnought"), At first she refused to let The Doctor harvest some of her brain tissue to find a cure for the Phage when Denara Pel, a Vidiian scientist for whom The Doctor had romantic feelings, was beamed aboard Voyager (Klingon DNA is resistant to the Phage). 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. 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. Voyager NCC-74656 in 2371 is a thin-skinned woman who hears criticism in friendly comments, doesn't trust anyone who likes her, doesn't respect anyone unless they've proven themselves to her, and has a bad temper that's often expressed in physical violence. Torres and Janeway, using a shuttle, were able to heal the wounded creature. Fighting Cardassians gave her the outlet she needed in dealing with her violent emotions. Born Roxann Caballero, Dawson is the ex-wife of actor Casey Biggs (Damar on Star Trek: Deep Space . But the assimilation was only of her body. These are the four best episodes of Voyager featuring B'Elanna Torres Barge of the Dead (season 6, episode 3) The episode opens with B'Elanna technically dying and finding herself on the Barge of the Dead, heading to the Klingon version of hell, because she dishonored her Klingon heritage. Miral (VOY episode: "Prophecy"), Torres battled an alien space craft with a bio-neural interface in order to save Paris. This book is an in-depth, illustrated account of the Intrepid-class U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656. 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. This episode focuses on the perspective of human B'Elanna, who is frightened of everything. Jeri Taylor later recalled, "We wanted to make her a person somewhat at war with herself. B'Elanna's behavior and the Doctor's response resonated with me, reminding me that people do care.---In genuine Star Trek role-modeling, the Voyager crew must intervene to help B'Elanna cope with grief, and they respond well to her mental health crisis. The producers wanted to hire an actress who could portray B'Elanna's inner struggle between her human and Klingon halves. She later consented and it helped The Doctor retard the Phage in Pel. 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: "Imperfection"), Torres shortly after meeting Harry Kim on Ocampa in 2371, B'Elanna developed a special friendship with Harry Kim. For the mirror universe counterpart, see B'Elanna (mirror). Chapter Text. She was imprisoned for transferring violent thought to the citizens, but Tuvok proved her innocence. 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!" She once attacked her schoolmate Daniel Byrd after he repeatedly taunted her, calling her "Miss Turtlehead" due to her cranial ridges. Torres refused to cooperate and attempted to escape. 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. (There was also mention of their having a telepathic ability between themselves.) Torres then yanked Byrd off the swing and "started pounding his little face" until their teacher, Miss Malvin, separated them. Found inside – Page 247I'm Lieutenant Torres, and this is Seven of Nine.” Assylia looked more closely at ... “How many of your people have died, Lieutenant Torres?” Assylia asked. (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. Torres was able to beam aboard it and, with some difficulty, destroy the missile. While in the academy, B'Elanna was constantly having trouble with the rules of Starfleet, resulting in her getting four disciplinary hearings and one suspension. (VOY: "Revulsion"), Torres was used as a pawn in an illegal trade of violent thoughts on the planet Mari. While trying to modify the warp core it became critical and had to be dumped. In 2377, she married Tom Paris and gave birth to their daughter Miral at the beginning of the next year, while Voyager was returning to the Alpha Quadrant. Found insideEmotional space Facing death in the depths of space, B'Elanna Torres shares her true feelings for Tom Paris. “Get this cheese to B'Elanna Torres Identity ... The real Mirell was transmitting her memories to Torres. (VOY episode: "Barge of the Dead"), 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. After begging and pleading, they finally made her understand that they didn't want anything from her – just her. 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. (VOY episodes: "Prototype", "Future's End, Part II", "Nothing Human", "Virtuoso", "Lineage", "Endgame"), 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. [B'Elanna doesn't look very happy about this comment. In 2371, B'Elanna Torres joined the Voyager crew with the rest of the Maquis from the Val Jean, as Captain Kathryn Janeway offers them the opportunity. (VOY: "Parallax"), Torres' quarters were on Deck 9, Section 12. She was one of the crew who allowed her DNA to be duplicated by the aliens so that they could experience consciousness. The episode largely deals with B'Elanna's discomfort with the idea of celebrating the Klingon holiday. Torres retained this aggressive behavior throughout her life, but she eventually learned to control it. She referred to him as "Starfleet" upon their first meeting and had continued to do so off and on over the seven-year journey. The Doctor saved her using a hologram of a Cardassian doctor named Crell Moset. Equinox: We meet B'Elanna's ex-boyfriend, Tom is jealous . The program turned deadly after being tampered with by Seska when she had been on the ship two years earlier. 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. 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. Paris and Captain Janeway both disagreed and prevented the Doctor from performing the genetic modifications. 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. 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. In the document, which includes character biographies, it confirms that when the series began (2371)—"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. When Vorik arrived and challenged Tom, B'Elanna took over and fought Vorik to end the pon farr. Tuvok of Vulcan thinks this is a bad idea, but goes along. Found inside – Page 3THARIA DIDN'T CRY when his three mates died. It had been nine months, and not a single tear ... That left Tharia ch'Ren, Gerron Ral, and B'Elanna Torres. The Equinox was finally destroyed and Burke was killed by the creatures. 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. (VOY: "Dark Frontier"), During the last year of Voyager's trip home, Torres helped to deal another blow to the Borg. (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.