Elanna

In the episode, B'Elanna has a near-death experience and travels to Grethor, the Klingon Hell, where she meets her mother, Miral, and discovers that because of the dishonor B'Elanna has caused her family, her mother would spend eternity in Grethor.

The idea for Tom's combative romantic partner became B'Elanna, in a move that better suited Torres' personality and natural chemistry with Paris.

But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder—and must flee for her life.

At the end of the series, Dawson described B'Elanna's character arc as that of an unruly young woman who matures over the course of seven years.

Creating the character The official Star Trek: Voyager Companion describes B'Elanna as a young half-human half-Klingon in her twenties who is a member of the Maquis Rebellion.

Dawson believed the episode had many layers to it, and she believed it was essentially a coming-of-age story for B'Elanna and her final acceptance of her Klingon heritage.

Eventually they came up with a design with which Roxann was happy, something she described as her "beauty monster makeup". citation Although B'Elanna's character was twenty-five years old when the series began, Dawson was actually thirty-seven.

In 2371, B'Elanna Torres joined the Voyager crew with the rest of the Maquis from the Val Jean, as Captain Kathryn Janeway offers them the opportunity.

Starfleet Academy and Maquis While in the academy, B'Elanna was constantly having trouble with the rules of Starfleet, resulting in her getting four disciplinary hearings and one suspension.

Star Trek Magazine Interview During the seventh season, a pregnancy storyline was written in for B'Elanna's character.

The episode not only explores some aspects of B'Elanna's character, but it also gives further insight into Klingon mythology.

The producers wanted to hire an actress who could portray B'Elanna's inner struggle between her human and Klingon halves.

The writers decided they did not want B'Elanna to be pregnant as well, so for the duration of Dawson's pregnancy, she was given an engineering lab coat, which was used to help cover her growing pregnancy.

This information would then place B'Elanna's birthdate at 2346.

This is a passage taken from the book: "B'ELANNA TORRES is a half Klingon, half Human in her twenties who is frantically working at the consoles of the barely spaceworthy craft..

This is seen in the Voyager episode " Blood Fever ", when B'Elanna Torres and Ensign Vorik fight in the traditional Vulcan manner.