B'Elanna Torres is portrayed as a half-human half-Klingon born in 2346 on the Federation colony Kessik IV.
27 Facts About B'Elanna Torres
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B'Elanna Torres was admitted to Starfleet academy but dropped out before graduating.
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The Star Trek: Voyager Companion describes B'Elanna Torres as a young half-human half-Klingon in her twenties who is a member of the Maquis Rebellion.
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B'Elanna Torres asked the producers and makeup artist Michael Westmore if they could perhaps make her more attractive and tone down the Klingon makeup.
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The writers decided they did not want B'Elanna Torres to be pregnant as well, so for the duration of Dawson's pregnancy, she was given an engineering lab coat, which was used to help cover her growing pregnancy.
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Roxann explained to them that she felt B'Elanna Torres had an extreme dark side that hadn't been explored, and from that discussion the episode "Extreme Risk" was created.
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B'Elanna Torres discovers that because of the dishonor B'Elanna has caused her family, her mother would spend eternity in Gre'thor.
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B'Elanna Torres is portrayed as having been born in 2346 on the Federation colony Kessik IV.
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B'Elanna Torres had a troubled childhood; her human father, John B'Elanna Torres, and Klingon mother, Miral, often fought, and her father left the household when she was twelve years old depicted in an episode in season 7, in an earlier episode when she was at the age of five, she overheard her father expressing his unhappiness in the home of two Klingons, she would attempt to run from home.
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B'Elanna Torres returned to Earth days later, leaving her to be raised by her mother.
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B'Elanna Torres once attacked her schoolmate Daniel Byrd after he repeatedly taunted her, calling her "Miss Turtlehead" due to her cranial ridges.
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B'Elanna Torres retained this aggressive behavior throughout her life, but she eventually learned to control it.
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B'Elanna Torres dropped out of Starfleet Academy in 2365 at age 19.
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B'Elanna Torres became associated with a Maquis captain named Chakotay, and was serving as chief engineer on his ship, the Val Jean, when they were brought to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.
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B'Elanna Torres reprogrammed it on a course for a Cardassian installation, but "Dreadnought" was swept into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.
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When both the USS Voyager crew and the Val Jean crew were taken to the Delta Quadrant, Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres were transported to the Ocampa home world while their respective crews set out to look for them.
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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.
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B'Elanna Torres 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.
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Shortly after becoming chief engineer, B'Elanna Torres disobeys the captain's orders when Voyager encounters a race known as the Sikarians.
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B'Elanna Torres becomes involved with a small group of officers who obtain the technology on the Sikarian black market and perpetrate a failed attempt to integrate it into Voyager's systems.
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B'Elanna Torres believed the Klingon DNA had a specific biochemical property that could lead to a cure for the Phage, a disease affecting his people.
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The human B'Elanna Torres is portrayed fraught with fear but having strong technical expertise, while the Klingon B'Elanna Torres is shown as aggressive and impatient.
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In 2373, B'Elanna Torres was the target of telepathically inspired dreams from a member of a race called the Enarans.
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B'Elanna Torres later began a relationship with Paris after a complicated and stormy courtship.
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B'Elanna 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.
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Once he allayed her fears, he admitted wanting even more children just like their mother, and B'Elanna Torres was shown as finally enjoying the pregnancy.
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In 2019, B'Elanna Torres was ranked the 11th-sexiest Star Trek character by Syfy.