Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About B'Elanna Torres

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"It may be the warriors who get the glory, but it's the engineers who build societies."

BY JACK KIELY
NOVEMBER 16TH, 2023

As the quasi-Greek Chorus member said, "And so ends the rescue of B'Elanna Torres. Half-Klingon B'Elanna Torres. Half-human B'Elanna Torres, Chief Engineer".

Kelis the Poet was certainly on to something in his otherwise inspired play about The Voyager Eternals. As Roxann Dawson herself rather fittingly once commented: "I'd like to hope that I created a character that, when viewed years to come in reruns, will still touch people. That the character is somewhat eternal". Rescued by the Maquis, rescued by Voyager, and ultimately rescued by herself, B'Elanna Torres' time in Star Trek certainly left its mark. We may not be able to live up to the works of Kelis, but we are still writing about B'Elanna all these years later.

B'Elanna came out swinging (her fist at Lieutenant Carey), a conflicted character with a complex and traumatic past who grew — perhaps more than any other — during her seven years on Voyager into a highly respected member of the crew, beloved by all, but most of all, of course, by former inmate, and all-round Turkey Platter, Tom Paris. Just as she was accepted by the Voyager crew, B'Elanna began to accept herself and the diversity of her heritage.

So, let's put the coolant assembly reconfigurations off until tomorrow; it's time we get to know our honorable ex-Maquis Chief Engineer a little bit better.