
Biography Sketch: Report of Starfleet Security
After a brilliant but troubled two years
heading toward an engineering specialty at Starfleet Academy, subject Torres
seemed
to be constantly at odds with the Klingon
heritage of her maternal side and after several disruptive episodes agreed
to leave
school. She and her Klingon mother had
lived on Kessick IV along among humans after her father, a human Starfleet
officer,
left them when she was 5.
She later joined the Maquis rebellion in
its early stages and by mid-2370 was acting as engineer for former Starfleet
officer
Chakotay's crew, her position at last report
and the crew to which Lt. Tuvok of the U.S.S. Voyager under Captain Kathryn
Janeway had infiltrated undercover. Her
ship was last heard from a week before the Voyager went looking for it
in the DMZ
Badlands; both vessels are missing and
presumed lost, last detected SD 48307.5.
When she turns to recreation as an outlet, she has been know to play both hoverball and Parrises Squares.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
Report by Capt. Kathryn Janeway, U.S.S.
Voyager
I have never regretted my decision to assign
Torres the brevet rank of lieutenant or make her my chief engineer. She
is
tough, knowledgeable and independent, and
sometimes seems an echo of myself at her age in her department, but her
mixed heritage has manifested itself in
a state of confusion and denial that I hope is not personally insurmountable.
Now that
B'Elanna is unable to release her frustrations
through fighting the Cardassians, she must learn to accept herself and
her
conflicting heritage; I recall how far
she has come since her diatribe against my order to destroy the Caretaker's
Array when
we first arrived, and her reaction to Tuvok's
grumbling "boot camp" Maquis bears out my faith in her.
Episodes such as the Vidiians' kidnapping
of her to test Klingon tissue for its Phage-resistance does not hurt, although
I
was gratified to see she allowed such a
sample taken a year later to aid Dr. Danara Pel, who later in turn helped
our crew
when Chakotay and I were fatally infected
and left behind. It hurt me to put her on report following the Sikaris
insubordination.
Torres was also driven by guilt to stop
"Dreadnought", the code name of a Cardassian doomsday missile she reprogrammed
as a Maquis in mid-2370 to hit its makers'
fuel depot at Aschelon V and swept up by the Array to into the Delta Quadrant.
She launched it as a super-killer without
Chakotay's permission - even though she programmed it to warn Federation
ships.
B'Elanna was also away from us when a Cravic
fighter robot she reactivated here kidnapped her to its vessel to give
its kind
the secret of replication that had all
but halted their undying war with Praylor robots, since neither could reproduce
after both
sides eliminated their makers and kept
fighting.
(******
(CROSS-EXCERPT, related file, Chakotay
personal log, SD 50246:
(
(Sometimes I wonder about my B'Elanna.
I know she's honest, but the erotic Enaran dreams she experienced are
I trust not a product of her own psyche.
It' s none of my business of course, but even though she dates I do worry
about her keeping to herself too much.
I just hope the flirtatious sparring she gets from Tom Paris these days
doesn't lead to more hurt for her.
(******
Personnel file addendum, report of CO Janeway, SD 50450:
I have nothing but praise for my chief engineer
as we near our third year in returning home, despite her unusual behavior
with
the Enarans, whom I had hoped to make as
a new ally. But B'Elanna is nothing if not brutally honest, and though
my own
inquiry failed to turn up concrete proof
of her story I cannot help but feel we are better off without allies whom
she claim
engaged in a Holocaust-like purge and then
ignored the horror.

