FEDERATION BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE FILE: Torres, B'Elanna (Wanted; Missing)

**Includes updates, addenda through SD 50500 (2373)

Played By: Roxann Dawson

Full Name: Torres, B'Elanna

Education: Starfleet Academy, incomplete second year

Marital status: Single

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.

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(CROSS-EXCERPT, related file, Chakotay personal log, SD 50246:

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(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.

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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.


Roxann Dawson

Roxann Dawson is Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager. B'Elanna is a beautiful young woman who is half-human, half Klingon. A former student at the Starfleet Academy, B'Elanna quit and joined the Maquis. "B'Elanna is strong willed, independent and confused," Roxann explains. "Caught between two worlds, she attempts to deny and suppress her powerful Klingon side."

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Roxann was a Theater Arts major at the University of California at Berkeley. The talented and attractive actress soon found her first acting stint nothing short of remarkable as she landed the role of Diana Morales in the Broadway production of "A Chorus Line."

Her theatrical credits continued as she performed in numerous plays as a member of the Circle Repertory Company. In addition to her work off Broadway in "The Tempest" for the Classic Stage Company, Roxann appeared in "Accelerando" at the American Contemporary Theater, among other regional theaters.

Roxann was a series regular in the NBC series Nightingales and The Round Table . Additionally, she had leading roles in USA Network's movies-of-the-week "Mortal Sins" and "Dirty Work", the NBC telefilm "Broken Angel" and the syndicated movie-of-the-week "Pointman." She has also guest starred in various television series including The Untouchables , Jack's Place and Equal Justice .

Roxann appeared in the feature film "Guilty By Suspicion" and the feature film, "Darkman II."

Roxann resides in Los Angeles with her husband, casting director Eric Dawson.