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torpedo sustainer engine. A miniature matter/antimatter fuel When fellow Voyager crew member Vorik underwent the Vulcar ell that powers a sustainer coll so that a photon torpedo can Pon farr in 2373, he asked Torres to become his mate. Torres aintain a warp field handed off from the torpedo launching tube declined, but nevertheless experienced Pon farr herself, the The sustainer engines allow a photon torpedo to remain at warp if result of a neurochemical imbalance introduced by Vorik. Torres aunched at warp. The sustainer engines were modified for pho subsequently attempted to mate with Tom Paris. (“Blood Fever ton torpedoes used in Dr. Timicin's daring helium fusion [VGR)) enhancement experiment in 2367, (“Half a Life” [TNG Torres’s first appearance was in “Caretaker” (VGR); in early episodes Roxann Biggs was credited as Roxann BiggsTorres, B’Elanna. (Roxann Dawson Biggs). Former member of the Maquis resistance Torres, Lieutenant. (Jimmy Ortega). Flight control officer - engineer of the U.S.S. Voy- the Enterprise-D's first encounter with Q in 2364, although he group who became chief (conn) aboard the Enterprise-D. Torres was frozen by Q during

— ager. Half-Klingon and later recovered. (“Encounter at Farpoint, Part I" [TNG]) ye aggressive personality and Torsus. One of the self-aware Borg discovered on Ohniaka Ill in half-human, Torres had an . had much difficulty control- late 2369. Torsus was killed by the Enterprise-D away team ling her temper, which she (“Descent, Part I” [TNG]) attributed to her Klingon heritage. (“Caretaker” [VGR]) Torze-qua. A musical portion of the historic Kriosian Ceremony we -» B'Elanna spent her early of Reconciliation held aboard the Enterprise-D in 2368. (“The . ll years with her parents at Perfect Mate" [TNG] i (| the Federation colony on HA planet Kessik IV. (“Faces Toscat. (David Selburg). An elder - My [VGR]). B’Elanna’s human Ocampa male. Toscat was one of N father left her and moved those Ocampa who settled for being to Earth when she was taken care of by the Caretaker and Pd on mother subsequently of life. (“Caretaker” [VGR]). David five. She and her Kling who no longer questioned that way

went to live on the Klingon Selburg also played Whalen in “The Homeworld, but as a re Big Goodbye" (TNG) and Dr. Syrus ir sult, B'Elanna wasn't close “Frame of Mind" (TNG) to either of her parents (“Eye of the Needle” [VGR] Tosin. (James Horan). A powerful member of the Kolaati. In Torres attended Star- exchange for their lives after a failed attempt to deliver narcotics fleet Academy, but dropped to Sutok, Tosin demanded that Wix and Neelix bring him three out in her second year gyrams of warp plasma. A massive explosion took place after because of difficulty with one of his henchmen fired his weapon into a leaking warg Starfleet discipline. (“Care plasma field. Tosin and the remaining henchmen were taken into taker” [VGR]). She had ustody by Bahrat aboard the Nekrit Expanse Supply Depot been a member of the Fair Trade" [VGR]). James Horan also played Jo'Bril in academy's decathlon team. (“Basics, Part 1" [VGR]). Torres felt Suspicions” (TNG), Lieutenant Barnaby in “Descent, Part II that her sometimes-turbulent stint at the academy was evidence ING), and lkat'ika in “In Purgatory's Shadow" (DS9) and “By that she was not Starfleet material, but at least one of her instruc Inferno’s Light" (DS9) tors, Professor Chapman, was so impressed with her original thinking that he recommended she be accepted if she ever Il Tosk. (Scott MacDonald). Reptilian sought re-admission to the academy (*Parallax” [VGRY]). She later @l humanoid who, in 2369, was the first joined the Maquis and served under Chakotay aboard a Maquis Ml being to visit Deep Space 9 from the ship, and became a member of the Voyager crew when her ship Gamma Quadrant. The collective name and the Voyager were stranded in the Delta Quadrant in 2371 3 ) Tosk stood for beings bred and trained to Caretaker” [VGR]). While in the Maquis, Torres was a close g ~ be tracked by the Hunters. Requiring friend of Seska, not suspecting that she was a Cardassian agent = E only 17 minutes of sleep per rotation and Maneuvers" [VGR] ? storing liquid nutrients in plastic fibers After joining the crew of the Voyager she had a violent alter — throughout his body, Tosk was completely cation with Lieutenant Carey, her superior officer in engineering 2 self-sufficient. Brought aboard the sta Nevertheless, Captain Janeway chose Torres over Carey to be i tion after his craft was damaged, he the chief engineer of the Voyager. (“Parallax” [VGR]). On stardate formed a friendship with Chief Miles 18784, Torres was captured by a Vidiian scientist who used a Ye, - O'Brien. Hampered by a code of silence genotron to split her into two individ ' Tosk could not communicate his role as sals, one fully human, the other . the hunted, even when the Hunters completely Klingon. SEE: Sulan. Her descended upon the station to take him Klingon self sacrificed her life so that back to their planet in disgrace. O'Brien disobeyed orders and her human half could live, and the Prime Directive by allowing Tosk to escape, thus continuing Voyager's holographic doctor was the hunt and fulfilling his friend's deepest wish: the chance to die subsequently successful in restoring with honor. (“Captive Pursuit” [DS9]). Scott MacDonald also her original genetic structure to her played N'Vek in “Face of the Enemy” (TNG), and Goran'Agar in surviving half. The experience Hippocratic Oath" (DS9) helped Torres realize the importance of each half to her personality touch-and-go downwarping. A maneuver in which a starship (“Faces” [VGRY)). Torres once sought drops briefly out of warp into normal space, then quickly acceler Chakotay's help in locating her ani- ates back to warp speed. The Enterprise-D used this technique mal guide. She didn't get along with L to transport an away team to Gravesworld while en route to an her guide and tried to kill it. (“The emergency rendezvous with the U.S.S. Constantinople. (“The Cloud” [VGR]). SEE: vision quest schizoid Man” [TNG])