B ' Elanna Torres B ' Elanna Torres was a Klingon - Human hybrid and former Maquis who served as chief engineer on the Federation starship under Captain Kathryn Janeway . In 2371 , while Starfleet was trying to capture the Maquis raider " Val Jean " in the Badlands , she and the rest of her Maquis crew were pulled 70 , 000 light year s across the galaxy , deep into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker ' s array and forced to merge with the crew of the " Voyager " during its estimated seventy - year journey home . Before serving as " Voyager " s chief engineer , B ' Elanna had joined the Maquis right after dropping out of the Academy after years of disciplinary issues . ( ) Family and Academy years . Early life . B ' Elanna was born in 2349 on the Federation colony Kessik IV to John Torres , a Human father and Miral , a Klingon mother . 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 . 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 . ( ) B ' 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 . When she attended grammar school she was tormented by a boy called Daniel Byrd who would point at her cranial ridges and tease her about being half - Klingon , calling her " Miss Turtle head " . This insult angered Torres so much until one day during recess she attacked Byrd while he was on the gyro - swing . Torres disengaged the centrifugal governor , which caused Byrd to spin so fast that he almost flew apart . Torres then yanked Byrd off the swing and " started pounding his little face " until their teacher , Miss , separated them . ( ) The alienation continued when her own father began distancing himself from them . 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 ' s , Miral , and that he had a hard time living with two Klingons . ( ) John Torres finally left the Federation colony and traveled back to Earth in 2354 , when B ' Elanna was five years old , never to return to his family again . For months after , B ' Elanna cried herself to sleep every night , wondering what had made her father leave and if it was her fault . 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 . These kinds of set backs resulted in B ' Elanna developing a thin skin , often punching her way through life . She often blamed her Klingon temper having gotten her in trouble all the time . 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 . ( ) After her father left , B ' Elanna and her mother lived on Qo ' noS , the Klingon homeworld , for some time . Eventually her mother pulled B ' Elanna out of the Federation school she was attending and took her to a Klingon monastery in order to teach her honor and discipline . ( ) However , B ' Elanna and her mother , found it difficult to cope without John in their lives . Shortly before Miral returned to Qo ' noS , B ' Elanna left for Starfleet Academy , where she had a hard time fitting in , often getting into trouble with instructors and faculty . Within two years at the Academy , she was suspended once and had four disciplinary hearings against her . Even though quite a brilliant student and promising engineer , she eventually dropped out of the Academy in 2368 , at the age of 19 . ( ) B ' Elanna never spoke 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 . John tried to make amends and even though it was not easy for B ' Elanna she tried to re - establish a relationship with her father . ( ) One of Torres ' favorite foods as a child was banana pancake s with maple syrup , which her grandmother would make for her . That beloved meal always put a smile on B ' Elanna ' s face . ( ) Her other favorite foods included potato salad with paprika and fried chicken . ( ) One time Miral took her to visit the Sea of Gatan , where she almost drowned . After her mother resuscitated her , she told B ' Elanna about the Klingon beliefs of the afterlife , " Sto - vo - kor " , and Gre ' thor . ( ) Starfleet Academy . Beginning in 2366 , Torres attended Starfleet Academy where she participated on the Academy decathlon team . ( ) During her time in the Academy , she had four disciplinary hearings and one suspension . ( ) 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 . " " ( ) During her time at the Academy , B ' Elanna dated Maxwell Burke , however , their relationship did not last long . ( ) After a brilliant but troubled two years headed toward an engineering specialty , she dropped out at age 19 . ( ) Her teachers included Commander Zakarian and Professor . Torres and Chapman argued constantly , so she was later surprised to learn that Chapman thought she was one of the finest students he had ever taught and was disappointed when she dropped out . He had placed a note in her permanent record saying he would support her if she ever reapplied . ( ) In the Maquis . After leaving the Academy , an angry young Torres eventually joined the Maquis in 2370 , after former Starfleet officer Chakotay saved her life . From then on she formed a close friendship with Chakotay and she became one of his most trusted friends . At that point in her life , the Maquis became the closest thing to family she had ever had . Fighting Cardassians gave her the outlet she needed in dealing with her violent emotions . ( ) To help deal with her explosive and often violent temper , Chakotay taught her many Native American and spiritual techniques to help calm her emotions ; he even trained her to speak to her " animal guide " . To his surprise , she became the only person he ' d ever known who tried to kill their animal guide . ( ) Torres also formed a close friendship with Seska , a Bajoran crew member in Chakotay ' s Maquis cell . She considered Seska to be her best friend , long before finding out that Seska was really a Cardassian agent of the Obsidian Order . ( ) The first time Torres took a leadership role in the Maquis , she led her people into a cave that she thought was a Cardassian Military installation , but she mistook unstable mineral deposits for weapons signatures . There was a rock slide and she and her team was stuck there for three days . They finally dug themselves out with their bare hands before being rescued . ( ) In late 2370 , the Cardassians deployed a sophisticated automated missile called the " ATR - 4107 " to destroy a Maquis munitions base . However , the missile failed to detonate and Torres , who nicknamed it " Dreadnought " , managed to board the weapon , spending nearly a month to completely reprogram the computer to work for the Maquis and changing its vocal subroutines so that the computer sounded like her . Without authorization from Chakotay , she sent " Dreadnought " to attack the Cardassian fuel station on Aschelan V , but an evasive attack route took it through the Badlands , where it inexplicably disappeared . Two years later , Torres eventually found out that , like " Voyager " , the missile had been brought to the Delta Quadrant by the entity . ( ) In 2371 , when their ship , the " Val Jean " , was being chased into the Badlands by Gul Evek ' s flagship , the " Vetar " , it was mysteriously transported to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker . After the crew was subjected to a painful examination , the crews of " Voyager " and the Maquis vessel were returned to their ships , with the exception of Torres and Starfleet ensign Harry Kim . Those two were sent by the Caretaker to an Ocampa n settlement beneath the surface of a planet , where they were told that they were dying and needed medical care . Torres refused to cooperate and attempted to escape . Both Torres and Kim were rescued by the crews of " Voyager " and the Maquis . The " Val Jean " was later destroyed , and its crew , including Torres , joined the Federation starship USS " Voyager " . ( ) USS Voyager . The first year ( 2371 ) . Since the two crews were stranded together in the Delta Quadrant , they were forced to work together as a single crew . Torres was initially assigned the provisional rank of lieutenant junior grade . Torres had difficulty getting along with the temporary chief engineer , Joe Carey , to the point of breaking his nose over plasma conduit s . She was recommended as a replacement chief engineer by Chakotay . However , Kathryn Janeway was ambivalent about his suggestion . . After " Voyager " became trapped in a quantum singularity , Torres proved her skills to Janeway and earned her respect . Janeway then made her chief engineer over Carey . ( ) Torres ' quarters were on Deck 9 , Section 12 . ( ) While exploring a nebula , Torres discovered that it was actually a living creature and that by entering the cloud - like being , " Voyager " had wounded it . Torres modified a nucleogenic beam and was able to heal the wounded creature . ( ) While visiting the Sikarian s , she learned that they possessed the ability to fold space and travel great distances . This would have greatly reduced the length of " Voyager " s journey , but the aliens refused to share their technology because of their prime directive . She wanted to steal the technology or make an illegal trade for it , but Janeway ordered her not to do so . She ignored Janeway ' s order and arranged a meeting with one of the aliens . She was shocked when Tuvok assisted her , but the technology was not compatible with " Voyager " . ( ) Later that same year , Torres was captured by Vidiian s , who experimented on her . A Vidiian named Sulan , who had learned that Klingon DNA was resistant to the Phage , separated Torres ' Klingon and Human DNA , creating two separate individuals , one of each species . Initially both were unaware of each other , the Klingon Torres being tested by Sulan while the Human Torres was in the labor camp with Paris , but they eventually became aware of each other when each attempted to escape at the same time . Although initially hostile towards each other as they resented the other ' s raw aggression and frailty respectively , the two pooled together to infiltrate the main control room and shut down the force field protecting the facility . The Klingon Torres gave her life to save the Human Torres and , once aboard " Voyager " , The Doctor was able to recombine both elements of Torres ' DNA , as the procedure to separate them had compromised the Human Torres ' ability to process key proteins . ( ) The second year ( 2372 ) . The following year she was imprisoned by the Mokra Order while trying to secure tellerium . She was subsequently rescued by Janeway . Torres was also kidnapped by automated personnel units created by an extinct race to fight their wars . The units wanted Torres to help create new units because they had been unable to stabilize their power units . Torres was able to create a prototype from which they could create more units but she learned that their former creators had called off the war and the units refused to stop fighting , killing their creators in the process . As different units arrived from the other side of the war , a battle ensued . The new prototype that Torres had created would have allowed the Pralor robots to win the war against the Cravic robots . Torres destroyed the prototype and was beamed aboard " Voyager " while the units continued their civil war . ( ) Later , " Voyager " encountered the Cardassian automated missile called " Dreadnought " that Torres had reprogrammed while she was still in the Maquis . They found that it had been brought into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker and was headed towards the inhabited planet Rakosa V , which it thought to be Aschelan V , the site of a Cardassian fuel depot . Torres was able to beam aboard it and , with some difficulty , destroy the missile . ( ) At first she refused to let The Doctor harvest some of her brain tissue to find a cure for the Phage when Danara Pel , a Vidiian scientist for whom The Doctor developed romantic feelings , was beamed aboard " Voyager " . Klingon DNA was resistant to the Phage and The Doctor believed this was the only way to help Pel . She later consented and it helped The Doctor retard the Phage in Pel . ( ) Torres and Kim had their consciousnesses captured in a hibernation status control by an evil entity known as The Clown . She was released to inform Janeway that if they tried to disable the program , the Clown would kill the Kohl captives and Kim . ( ) During a physical encounter with the Kazon she accidentally projected The Doctor into outer space . ( ) While stranded on a hostile planet when the Kazon took over " Voyager " , she helped rescue Neelix and Kes from a primitive tribe on the planet . ( ) The third year ( 2373 ) . While " Voyager " was transporting a group of Enaran s , Torres began having dreams of genocide against members of their race known as " the Regressives " . In her dreams , Torres was reliving the experiences of an Enaran named Jora Mirell . The real Mirell was transmitting her memories to Torres . After Mirell died , Torres confronted the Enarans who denied any knowledge of the event ; they left , but not before Torres was able to transfer the memories to another Enaran . ( ) In another encounter , Torres and Paris were attacked by unknown aliens . She was able to recover and get Paris back to " Voyager " for medical care . ( ) Later that year , Torres was affected by the " pon farr " when Vorik , a Vulcan crewmate , tried to mate with her . This spurred her Klingon mating instincts which caused many problems . This also led to the first obvious hints of a relationship with Tom Paris . While under the influence of the " pon farr " , Torres and Paris shared a passionate kiss and intimate revelations about their feelings toward each other . But after fighting with Vorik in the ritual challenge which purged her of the fever , she only vaguely acknowledged what happened . ( ) Torres reprogrammed The Doctor ' s perfect holo - family into a more realistic example of family life , which caused him distress but ultimately gave him a better understanding of family life and its problems . She helped end the crew ' s imprisonment by the Nyrian s when the crew was imprisoned on a bio - sphere ship . Torres reconfigured The Doctor ' s optical sensors so that he could detect passages that led to different biospheres . This enabled them to access a translocation system that allowed the crew to escape . ( ) She also took part in a holoprogram about a mutiny on " Voyager " that Tuvok had programmed as a training exercise for his security detail . The program turned deadly after being tampered with by Seska when she had been on the ship two years earlier . ( ) The fourth year ( 2374 ) . Torres had difficulty controlling her anger . She verbally attacked Seven finding it hard to believe she had no " sense of guilt " for her past as a Borg . While trying to modify the warp core , it became critical and had to be dumped . Paris and Torres left in a shuttle to retrieve it . Upon finding it , they discovered a Caatati trying to salvage it and , after a brief fight , the shuttle was destroyed with the two left in space in their spacesuits . As their air dwindled , Torres was forced to confront her true feelings and told Paris she loved him , just as " Voyager " , which retrieved the core from the Caatati , arrived to rescue them . ( ) She accompanied The Doctor on an away mission to save an another sentient hologram stranded on a disabled ship . Torres discovered that the hologram had killed the organics on the ship , and had gone mad . She was able to deactivate him before he killed her . ( ) Torres was used as a pawn in an illegal trade of violent thoughts on the planet Mari . She was imprisoned for transferring violent thought to the citizens , but Tuvok proved her innocence . During the Hirogen takeover of " Voyager " , when they used the crew in various hunting scenarios , she was a pregnant resistance fighter carrying the baby of one of the German officers who had taken advantage of her . ( ) An alien switched bodies with Paris and claimed his life aboard " Voyager " . For a time he even fooled Torres . ( ) After examining a substance she had discovered on a toxic planet , Torres found that the substance was sentient and could duplicate lifeforms . She was one of the crew who allowed her DNA to be duplicated by the aliens so that they could experience consciousness . ( ) The fifth and sixth years ( 2375 - 2376 ) . Torres battled an alien space craft with a bio - neural interface in order to save Paris . " " attempted to kill Torres by sealing a hatch in the shuttle and shutting off life support systems . Paris saved her . She fought the Vaadwaur , who , after reviving from stasis , tried to capture " Voyager " . Torres crashed on a planet where , in exchange for parts to repair the shuttle , she told Kelis , a poet , stories he later used to amuse the head of his planet . ( ) In 2375 , " Voyager " , using a Hirogen communication system , made contact with Starfleet . Torres became extremely depressed when she learned that most of her Maquis friends had been killed by the Dominion . She began taking unnecessary risks , such as using the holodeck with its safety protocols turned off . Along with Paris and Kim , she launched a new shuttle called the " Delta Flyer " in which they encountered the Malon species . During a battle with them , she devised a way to contain a gas leak and save the crew and the shuttle . This made Torres feel needed again , and her depression subsided . ( ) The last year and the return home ( 2377 - 2378 ) . Icheb became infatuated with Torres after he thought she was giving him signals that she was interested in him . Before that , Seven recommended Torres to help him study for the warp mechanics section in the Starfleet Academy entrance exam . ( ) Torres was in an accident and when in a coma she found herself in Klingon Hell , Gre ' thor . There she met her mother , Miral , who told her that Torres ' rejection of Klingon ways had doomed them both . When Torres woke up , she asked to be put into a coma again so she could save her mother . The Doctor did as she asked . Her mother is saved not by Torres dying for her or by performing Klingon rituals , but rather by Torres living a good life and being true to herself . ( ) She again confronted her Klingon side when she became pregnant . She was afraid to have a baby because she thought that the baby would suffer as she had during her childhood . She found out that the child had a deformed spine that The Doctor could correct genetically in the womb . When she saw a projection of the child and discovered it had Klingon ridges , she questioned whether she wanted the child . She asked The Doctor to make further genetic changes so that the child would not have Klingon features . She falsely altered a diagnostic test that convinced The Doctor that the changes were necessary . Paris found out about the false report and stopped The Doctor from performing the procedure . He discovered that she blamed herself for her father having left her because she was Klingon . Paris convinced her that he would never do that and wanted a child just like her . She believed him and accepted the pregnancy . ( ) " Voyager " encountered a Klingon generational ship . They were on a quest to find the savior of the Klingon race , the " kuvah ' magh " . The captain of the Klingon ship , Kohlar , believed her child to be the " kuvah ' magh " . They initiated the self - destruct sequence which in turn caused a warp core breach and Janeway transported their entire crew on board to save them . Kohlar wanted Torres to help him convince his crew that her child really was their savior . When she was insulted by a Klingon warrior , Tom Paris accepted a challenge from him to defend her honor . The warrior collapsed in the battle and The Doctor discovered the Nehret , a fatal disease , caused the collapse . Because the Nehret is only contagious to Klingons , she and the baby became infected . Because of this Kohlar ' s group no longer believed the child could be their savior and they tried to take over " Voyager " , but failed . The Doctor discovered a cure to the Nehret using the baby ' s immune system . The Klingons finally came to believe that the baby was their savior and Janeway dropped them off on an uninhabited M - class planet . Torres and Paris considered the name Kuvah ' Magh for their baby . ( ) She wed Paris after an interstellar starship race that Irina , one of the participants , tried to sabotage and thereby destroy the peace in the area . She had joined Paris in the race because she wished to share his interests . A bomb was planted on their ship , but they were able to eject it in time . They married after the race . ( ) After holograms used by the Hirogen became self - aware , they rebelled and killed many Hirogen . The holograms were led by Iden , who believed that all organics should be destroyed . After their holoprograms became unstable during a battle with the Hirogen and " Voyager " , Torres , an expert on holo - emitters , was kidnapped . At first believing that they only wanted to be left alone , Torres helped enhance their technology . Once she realized that Iden was bent on destroying organics , she stopped him with the aid of The Doctor . Torres asked Janeway to let the other holograms go and Janeway agreed . ( ) Torres built a polaron modulator that helped " Voyager " escape a void in space that trapped ships . ( ) During the final battle with the Borg which led to " Voyager " s return home , Torres gave birth to her daughter Miral . ( ) Alien race encounters . In 2375 , Torres was attacked by a cytoplasmic lifeform that attached itself to her and used her organs to stay alive . The Doctor saved her using a hologram of a Cardassian doctor named Crell Moset . Torres refused to allow Moset to operate on her because he was Cardassian ( albeit a holographic one ) . Moset was in fact a war criminal who had experimented on Bajoran prisoners . When Torres ' condition became critical , Captain Janeway decided to let Moset operate on her , despite Torres ' wishes . ( ) The previous year she had allowed her DNA to be duplicated by the bio - mimetic beings on the Demon planet . In 2375 her counterpart married the Paris duplicate , and later died from subspace radiation with the rest of the duplicated crew . ( ) Torres encountered the Malon again when she was part of an away team that entered a Malon vessel to shut it down before it exploded and contaminated space with theta radiation . She discovered that the rupture was made by a Malon named Dremk who wished to show the danger of transporting theta radiation . When he refused to let her seal the ruptured tanks , he attacked her and she killed him to save herself and " Voyager " . ( ) Toward the end of that year , B ' Elanna met up with an old flame from Starfleet Academy , Maxwell Burke , who was stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the . The two ships came in conflict when it was discovered that the " Equinox " was killing sentient nucleogenic lifeform s for an energy source . The " Equinox " was finally destroyed and Burke was killed by the creatures . ( ) The Borg . During " Voyager " s first contact with the Borg , she helped to engineer nanoprobe s that were used as weapons against Species 8472 , who had become a threat not only to " Voyager " , but to the Borg as well . When Seven , on board " Voyager " , attempted to assimilate the vessel after the Species 8472 threat had been eliminated , Torres created a power surge through Seven that disabled her . This severed Seven ' s link to the Collective . ( ) She took part in the attempt to steal a Borg transwarp coil that would shorten " Voyager " s journey home . When Seven had been lured back to the collective in the heist , Torres manned the weapons systems allowing the " Delta Flyer " to rescue Seven . ( ) During the last year of " Voyager " s trip home , Torres helped to deal another blow to the Borg . She , along with Janeway and Tuvok , allowed themselves to be assimilated by the Borg . But the assimilation was only of her body . She utilized an inoculation administered by The Doctor before the mission that kept her mind from being assimilated , and thus kept her from becoming a Borg drone . She implanted a pathogen into the collective which slowly brought various Borg drones out of the collective consciousness . This led to a Borg civil war . ( ) Personal relationships . Family . B ' Elanna was an only child of mixed heritage . Her father John Torres was Human , and her mother Miral was a Klingon , which has caused many trials and tribulations in her life . Her grandmother on her mother ' s side , L ' Naan , died when she was young , so she was taught to say the prayer of remembrance for her , and her great - grandmother ( mother of L ' Naan ) Krelik . ( ) On her father ' s side was her father ' s mother , her grandmother , who could always put a smile on her face , even when she was very depressed , by cooking banana pancakes . ( ) Also on her father ' s side was her father ' s brother , her Uncle Carl . On a few occasions when she was young , her Uncle Carl took her and her father , and his children ( her three cousins : Elizabeth , Dean , and Michael ) to go camping and fishing . It was twelve days after the last of these camping trips that her father left her and her mother . ( ) Miral . Miral and B ' Elanna had a large fight in early 2366 , and this was the last time she spoke with her mother until a decade later . In 2376 , while trapped in the Delta Quadrant , on the ten - year anniversary of their not speaking , B ' Elanna was in a shuttle accident , putting her into a coma . While in the coma , she was sent to the Barge of the Dead , where she found out that her mother had died in the Alpha Quadrant and was being sent to Gre ' thor . After discovering this , her crewmates were able to resuscitate her . She read several ancient Klingon texts , including the Eleventh Tome of Klavek from the " paq ' batlh " , and concluded that she had to go back , as it was her fault her mother was being sent to the Klingon hell , for her not following Klingon traditions as her mother was supposed to teach her to do . After working hard to persuade Captain Janeway to allow her to , and telling Tom that she would , she returned to the Barge by simulating her death . She asked to perform the transference ritual , so that her mother would go to " Sto - vo - kor " , for the honored dead , and B ' Elanna would go to Gre ' thor for her . When she found out that once in Gre ' thor , even her crewmates couldn ' t bring her back from death , and despite the fact that her mother forbade it , she decided to do so . Once in Gre ' thor , which was a representation of " Voyager " , she argued with her former crew as well as her mother , demanding to know what they want from her . After begging and pleading , they finally made her understand that they didn ' t want anything from her – just her . She finally understood it , and she would be sent back to " Voyager " as " it wasn ' t her time . " Her mother said goodbye , and that she ' d see her again , whether it be in " Sto - vo - kor " , or when she came home , in the Alpha Quadrant . ( ) John Torres . When B ' Elanna was young , she was very close to her father . She said she " worshipped him " , and their family was very close , if fragile , for a time . But after a couple years , B ' Elanna ' s mother ' s Klingon attitude was wearing him down . When he began to be unable to take it , he scheduled a camping trip with his brother , and brought B ' Elanna along . On the camping trip , he confessed that it was getting harder and harder to live with Miral , and that his mother never thought he had what it took to love a Klingon woman , " and now he [ had ] two . " When B ' Elanna over heard this in her tent , she got angry , and later yelled at him for saying such things about her mother . But what she also said , which would haunt her for more than twenty years , was " If you can ' t handle it any more , why don ' t you just leave ! " Twelve days later , that was exactly what he did , abandoning his family . For years , she believed she had planted the seed in his mind to divorce , and blamed herself , when in actuality it was a combination of multiple factors , which is often reason for the dissolution of many relationships . ( ) Years later in 2378 , when Starfleet Command was able to establish consistent contact with " Voyager " using the MIDAS array , John sent a message to B ' Elanna asking to speak with her . Although they would only have three minutes , he wanted to re - establish their relationship . During their brief conversation , they were able to catch up on her new family , and she was able to tell her father about her marriage to Tom and the fact that she was pregnant . ( ) Relationships on board Voyager . Chakotay . Chakotay was always a true mentor to Torres and was perhaps the only person on the ship who truly understood her nature . ( ) In 2370 , Chakotay saved B ' Elanna ' s life , and she later joined the Maquis in its early stages . Chakotay soon realized B ' Elanna ' s exceptional engineering abilities and the two became close friends . He even once tried to help her find her animal guide to help her deal with her emotional difficulties , but was shocked when she became the only person he knew ever to try to kill it . ( ) When Chakotay ' s Maquis crew became stranded in the Delta Quadrant , Chakotay backed Torres for the position of chief engineer , knowing her abilities would make her perfect for the position . ( ) Although she never acted on her feelings , she was initially attracted to Chakotay . When the Botha came aboard " Voyager " and affected everybody ' s senses , she hallucinated about him , although B ' Elanna was more ' attracted ' to Chakotay as a mentor figure and the hallucination just combined that desire with her Human desire for affection and love . ( ) In 2374 , Chakotay was forced to tell his Maquis crew , including Torres , that the Maquis had been wiped out by the Dominion . A year later , he would find out Torres had been suffering from a deep depression because of the loss and made Torres finally face her demons , helping her cope with her inner conflicts and emotions . ( ) In 2377 , Chakotay jokingly asked Torres if she had checked the warp core for cracks , as he noticed she had a certain " glow " about her , after finding out about her pregnancy . Later , Chakotay helped to bring Torres and her husband , Tom Paris , back together after they argued vociferously over their unborn daughter ' s Klingon heritage . ( ) Kathryn Janeway . At first , she and Janeway did not see eye to eye . Torres thought Janeway was too stiff and set in her ways , while Janeway believed Torres to be a loose cannon . In the beginning , Torres felt like Janeway had set her up to fail by making her Chief Engineer . ( ) . But later , Torres realized she couldn ' t have been more wrong . Deep down Janeway reminded Torres of her mother ; she was as dedicated to Starfleet principles as her mother was to Klingon traditions . Janeway even , accidentally , employed B ' Elanna ' s mother ' s pet name for her , " Lanna " , when the younger woman made it back safely from a foolhardy , self - imposed mission . Despite their differences , Torres always remained loyal to Janeway . Eventually they would earn each other ' s respect and trust . ( ) The Doctor . Although their doctor / patient relationship could be difficult at times , such as when The Doctor attempted to remove a cytoplasmic lifeform from B ' Elanna using knowledge acquired from the hologram of Crell Moset , a Cardassian doctor who had committed various war crimes , The Doctor and B ' Elanna went on to develop a surprising friendship and working relationship , such as when the two brainstormed possible solutions to help reactivate Automated Unit 3947 when he was recovered and his power was running out . B ' Elanna also helped The Doctor gain a better understanding of his new mobile emitter after he acquired it , clearly expressing her fascination with the new technology . Although B ' Elanna ' s feelings were hurt when The Doctor dismissed her musical opinions while preparing to give a concert for the Qomar , she later convinced him not to reprogram himself to reach the high notes achievable by the Qomar ' s new hologram because he would be sacrificing his identity for others if he tried to reprogram himself in that manner . Their relationship became so close that , when B ' Elanna learned that she was pregnant , she asked The Doctor to be the child ' s godfather , to the point that , even when faced with the possibility that she could give birth to the child on Earth in Starfleet Medical , she made it clear that she wanted The Doctor to be the supervising physician rather than some stranger . ( ) Seven of Nine . Although their initial confrontation didn ' t end well , and the two often agitated each other over the four years they were together on " Voyager " , they did respect each other ' s technical skills and had high standards and respect for each other when it mattered most . When Seven was dying because her Cortical node was malfunctioning , to get away from The Doctor , she hid in main engineering . When Torres found her , she related that she also hid from The Doctor in Engineering , hating to be cooped up in sickbay . The Doctor then came in and found her , and said " " I should ' ve known " she ' d " be the one to harbor a fugitive . " " Torres responded with " " We ' difficult ' patients need to stick together . " " ( ) Harry Kim . B ' Elanna developed a special friendship with Harry Kim . She referred to him as " Starfleet " upon their first meeting and had continued to do so off and on over the seven - year journey ( ) . The two would often work together on projects and often socialize together when off duty ( ) . B ' Elanna was also keen to give Harry a letter from his parents and waited somewhat anxiously for the letter to be extracted from an alien transmission array . She comforted Harry when he thought he would not be receiving one . When a letter for Harry did arrive , she took personal charge of delivering it to him . ( ) Romance . Maxwell Burke . While at Starfleet Academy she dated Maxwell Burke , who referred to her affectionately as " BLT " , and loaned her a blue sweater that she never returned . B ' Elanna used to call him petaQ occasionally and their relationship broke off with Maxwell ' s intention to leave Starfleet being the last B ' Elanna heard of him . ( ) Tom Paris . Torres had her first romantic flirtation with Tom Paris in 2373 during an away mission on a shuttlecraft . Paris asked her out on a date in the holodeck once he found out that she was not interested in the advances of Ensign Freddy Bristow . B ' Elanna , aware of Tom ' s reputation as a ladies ' man , turned him down flat . ( ) When Ensign Vorik , struck with the " pon farr " , asked Torres to become his mate , she turned him down . Vorik took her face in his hands and unintentionally initiated a telepathic mating bond , giving her the " blood fever " , inducing something similar to the " pon farr " in her . On the subsequent away mission and overcome by the intense urges accompanying the " pon farr " , she wanted to have sex with Paris , but he resisted her , because he realized that she was not in control of her actions . Tuvok rescued them and told Tom that unless he had sex with B ' Elanna , she would die from the symptoms of the blood fever . When Vorik arrived and challenged Tom , B ' Elanna took over and fought Vorik to end the " pon farr " . Later on the ship , Paris told her that he had seen her scary Klingon side , but was still interested and wouldn ' t mind seeing it again . Her last words as she left the turbolift were that he should be careful what he wishes for . ( ) She admitted her love for Paris when they both faced death during the incident with the Caatati . ( ) Torres and Paris often changed shifts so they could be close to each other . Their relationship was passionate , but they were not sure if their relationship would have a future . When it was discovered that a race known as the Srivani were performing experiments on the crew , Torres thought that their feelings for each other might have been caused by the experiments . ( ) In 2377 , Torres married Tom Paris . She initially thought he proposed because the " Delta Flyer " II was about to blow up , but he replied that he was " still alive and still asking . " Soon thereafter , they had their first child , Miral , as they arrived in the Alpha Quadrant in 2378 . ( ) Alternate B ' Elanna Torres . Holograms . B ' Elanna Torres has been holographically duplicated on a number of occasions . Alternate realities and timelines . In an alternate timeline created when Kes traveled back in time from 2376 to 2371 , Torres was killed by an energy beam from the warp core . ( ) In an alternate reality experienced by Kes , Torres was killed alongside Captain Janeway during the first confrontation between " Voyager " and the Krenim in 2374 when the console they were standing beside exploded . Tom Paris noted that he felt like dying after losing B ' Elanna before Kes helped him move on . ( ) In 2374 , after suffering devastating attacks from the Krenim , she stayed on board " Voyager " as part of a skeleton crew . ( ) In 2375 , Torres was killed when " Voyager " crash landed on an Class L planet in an attempt to get home via slipstream . Events in this timeline were changed , however , when Harry Kim , Chakotay and The Doctor stopped the slipstream mid flight . ( ) When an anomaly shattered " Voyager " into different time frames , a version of Torres who had just arrived on " Voyager " discovered from a Chakotay seven years in her future that she would become part of the " Voyager " crew , something she found " pretty hard to believe . " ( ) In an alternate 25th century timeline , after " Voyager " s return to the Alpha Quadrant in 2394 , Torres became Federation Liaison to the Klingon Empire and was responsible for arranging Admiral Janeway ' s meeting with Korath . ( ) Appendices . Background information . B ' Elanna Torres was played by Roxann Dawson throughout the entire run of . A young B ' Elanna was played by Jessica Gaona in . B ' Elanna ' s nickname of " BLT " was said to have derived from her initials ; however , it is unclear if B ' Elanna has a middle name , or if this just reflects the L sound in the second syllable of B ' Elanna . Torres has the distinction of being the first female chief engineer as a series regular . The first female chief engineer shown on - screen was Sarah MacDougal of the in . Regarding Torres ' birthdate , she says in that she was nineteen when she quit Starfleet Academy and , by 2376 , it was ten years since she entered the Academy and ten years since she last spoke with her mother . ( ) Torres quit the Academy in her second year , at age nineteen in 2368 , which puts her birth year at 2349 . The first draft script of gave further indication as to Torres ' age , noting , " " B ' Elanna Torres [ is ] a half - Klingon , half - Human woman in her twenties who is frantically working the consoles of the barely spaceworthy craft . " " A press release issued by Paramount on the launch of the series stated , " " B ' Elanna is a beautiful 25 year old woman who is half Human , half Klingon . " " This information would then place B ' Elanna ' s birthdate at 2346 , but this was not stated in the series itself . At the " Voyager " wrap party , held in , Roxann Dawson described Torres ' character journey on the show , stating , " " She was an unruly teenager who grew into a woman , over the course of seven years . " " Early character photos of Torres showed her wearing the Starfleet provisional enlisted / noncom rank insignia . When she was promoted to chief engineer , she initially wore the provisional rank of lieutenant . This costume gaffe was corrected as of , and thereafter , Torres wore the rank of provisional lieutenant junior grade . The bathing suit worn by Torres in the third season episode was later sold off on the It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction on eBay . Apocrypha . In the " Voyager " relaunch book series , Torres traveled to Boreth and found her mother Miral alive . Miral then died and Torres decided to stay on Boreth and immerse herself in Klingon tradition . In " Full Circle " and " Unworthy " , B ' Elanna and Miral were revealed to be alive , after their " deaths " were established to throw off the pursuing Warriors of Gre ' thor . B ' Elanna and Miral then reunite with " Voyager " ' s first officer , Lieutenant Commander Tom Paris . In " A Singular Destiny " set in 2381 , Torres and Miral Paris ' names were appended to a casualty list sent to Starfleet , listing confirmed dead in Sector 22093 as a result of the Borg attacks in the Alpha Quadrant . In " Unworthy " , B ' Elanna recreates the slipstream drive from memory and reunites with " Voyager " in the Delta Quadrant under Project Full Circle . She is then given the rank of Fleet Chief Engineer and returns to active duty . She is revealed to be pregnant in " The Eternal Tide " , and gives birth to her and Tom ' s son , Michael Owen Paris , in " A Pocket Full of Lies " . In the alternate future in the " Deep Space Nine " " " book trilogy , Torres , along with " Voyager " and her crew , returned to the Alpha Quadrant at an unspecified time . As in the " real " timeline , she married Tom Paris . Sometime after returning to the Alpha Quadrant , Torres and Paris were both assigned to the USS " Enterprise " - F under Captain William T . Riker . However , Torres was killed along with the rest of the " Enterprise " s crew when she was lost with all hands during the destruction of Earth . The epithet " turtle head " is also found in non - canon novels such as " A Flag Full of Stars " , used by xenophobic Humans on Earth against Klingon s to make fun of their forehead ridges . Her mirror universe counterpart appeared in the novel " The Mirror - Scaled Serpent " as the Supervisor of Ardana in 2371 . She was previously the Intendant of Cestus III .