Torres to Torres: "That's the way you respond
to every situation isn't it? If it doesn't work - hit it.
If it's in your way - knock it down.
No wonder I got kicked out of the Academy!"
(Faces)
, having proven herself as a Maquis engineer,
she is now the Chief Engineer on Voyager. She does not have the
full Starfleet training that each of the other senior officers
has. She dropped out of the Academy in her second year, but what
she lacks in formal training she makes up for in on-the-job
experience.
B'Elanna is half Klingon-half Human. Her father is Human and
she hasn't seen him since she was five. Her mother is Klingon
and is probably on the Klingon homeworld. They haven't kept in
contact either. She grew up on a Federation colony on Kessik
Four, where she often tried to hide the fact she was Klingon.
She now considers the Maquis to be her family, and is especially
close to Chakotay. He has become her mentor, with his faith in her
really bringing out her good points. He thinks she is the best
engineer he's ever known and could teach at the Academy.
B'Elanna can be quite angry and violent. Once she even broke
Lt. Carey's nose over a minor disagreement. She is very competitive
and excels at sports. At the Academy she was on the decathlon team.
She enjoys Parisian squares and hoverball. She even finished the
hoverball championship with a broken ankle.
Her abilities as chief engineer are tested continuously as she must
make due with the limited supplies of being the lone Starfleet
vessel in their region. Although she is the head of engineering
she is not allowed to eject the warpcore, only Captain Janeway and
Chakotay are able to do that. She often comes up with revolutionary
ideas that sometimes ignore Starfleet policies. In one of her finest
moments as an engineer she build an automated sentient being.
However she was forced to destroy it.
She was once kidnapped by the Vidiians and split into two people-
one fully Human and one fully Klingon. She felt more at peace with
herself while split in two, but the Holodoc had to recombine
her DNA into one person again. The Vidiians found her Klingon side
was completely resistant to the phage. She donated one gram of her
brain to a Vidiian woman, Danara Pel, to help her fight the disease.
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