![]() ![]() Interstellar history was, according to Torres, " the one subject I almost failed at the Academy." ( VOY: " Year of Hell")Īlso among her Academy training was EV suit simulations. She also had to dodge several punches in the lab, which Chakotay later joked about, saying, " Only you, B'Elanna, could start a brawl in Astrotheory 101." ( VOY: " Future's End, Part II") She later admitted that after quitting " The track and field coach was furious with me" ( VOY: " Basics, Part II") ( VOY: " Renaissance Man")īeginning in 2366, Torres attended Starfleet Academy, where she participated on the Academy decathlon team. ( VOY: " Extreme Risk") Her other favorite foods included potato salad with paprika and fried chicken. That beloved meal always put a smile on B'Elanna's face. One of Torres' favorite foods as a child was banana pancakes with maple syrup, which her grandmother would make for her. ( VOY: " Eye of the Needle", " Author, Author") John tried to make amends and even though it was not easy for B'Elanna she tried to reestablish a relationship with her father. ( VOY: " Barge of the Dead")ī'Elanna did not speak to her father again after he had left them in 2354, until he initiated contact with her in 2377, after she had been stranded for nearly seven years in the Delta Quadrant. After her mother resuscitated her, she told B'Elanna about the Klingon beliefs of the afterlife, Sto-vo-kor, and Gre'thor. One time Miral took her to visit the Sea of Gatan, where she almost drowned. ( VOY: " Faces", " Lineage")Īccording to a deleted line from the episode, the Klingon monastery B'Elanna was sent to was on Boreth. She even attempted to change her appearance to look more Human an insecurity that remained with her for most of her life, culminating in her trying to genetically alter all of her unborn child's Klingon features when she was pregnant with her daughter in 2377. She often blamed her Klingon temper having gotten her in trouble all the time. These kinds of setbacks resulted in B'Elanna developing a thin skin, often punching her way through life. However, she never talked about her feelings of guilt and shame to anyone and eventually decided for herself that her father had left because she looked and acted Klingon. ![]() For months after, B'Elanna cried herself to sleep every night, wondering what had made her father leave and if it was her fault. John Torres finally left the Federation colony and traveled back to Earth in 2351, when B'Elanna was five years old, never to return to his family again. 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. The alienation continued when her own father began distancing himself from them. Torres then yanked Byrd off the swing and "started pounding his little face" until their teacher, Miss Malvin, separated them. Torres disengaged the centrifugal governor, which caused Byrd to spin so fast that he almost flew apart. This insult angered Torres so much until one day during recess she attacked Byrd while he was on the gyro-swing. When she attended grammar school she was tormented by a boy named Daniel Byrd, who would point at her cranial ridges and tease her about being half-Klingon, calling her " Miss Turtlehead". ( VOY: " Faces")ī'Elanna's alienation and the roots of her insecurities had their foundations at an early age in her life where she was teased for her appearance as a result of her Klingon heritage. Although none of the other colonists voiced any negative opinions of B'Elanna, she felt that she and her mother were perceived differently a feeling that made her uneasy and which she found hard to shake. She spent much of her early life on Kessik IV, but because relations between the Klingon Empire and the Federation were not "too cordial" at that time, B'Elanna and her mother were the only Klingons on the planet.
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