#character: B'Elanna Torres

[trillscienceofficer]

Star Trek: Voyager 6x04 Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy B'Elanna, Harry and Seven

[sopheadraws]

My sister plays a Roblox game where you sell paintings for Robux, and here's my creations from the two times she's let me draw:

[lostyesterday]

B’Elanna should have gotten to write her own holonovels in Voyager. The Doctor, Tom, and Tuvok (sort of) all got to, and I think B’Elanna would enjoy it a lot and be really good at it, especially based on her investment in the play in Muse. I think B’Elanna would write beautifully romantic and tragic stories about characters struggling to find identity and belonging in alien worlds. And maybe through storytelling, she could find some kind of satisfying narrative about her own complicated sense of identity.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Hey, Star Trek Writers... -taps the glass-

[tea-earl-grey]

Voyager character dnd classes

see the other series here!

Janeway: paladin. literally no question she literally made an oath to get her crew home, she is a prototypical paladin. i started this series of posts because i realized how much of a paladin Janeway is.

Chakotay: paladin. i struggled a bit with Chakotay but he is obviously someone very dedicated to truth and justice and was willing to go off on his own path to fulfill that dream of justice when he joined the Maquis and that's very paladin of him.

Tuvok: monk. i think a lot of Vulcans have big monk energy due to their intense almost monastical studies and devotion to logic and Tuvok is a prime example who is highly trained in both physical and mental discipline and sought to help others (Kes, Suder) exercise that same discipline.

Torres: sorcerer. Torres very much lacks the formal training that a usual Starfleet engineer (or wizard) would have but (in my opinion) has even more natural talent for ambitious engineering and manages to be a miracle worker not through some pact or intelligence but just through sheer force of will.

Kim: wizard. look in the show, Torres and Kim were kind of presented as opposites (the Maquis vs Starfleet) with the personality differences to match despite having a vaguely similar set of skills and capabilities. so it really makes sense that if Torres is a sorcerer, Kim would be a wizard with all the traditional by the book learning that entails.

Paris: fighter. Tom Paris is a fighter and i don't have much of an argument other than ~vibes~ and the fact that only a fighter would think he could tank the damage from going warp 10 and then start turning into a salamander.

EMH: cleric/bard multiclass. look the EMH was literally designed to be a doctor. when he was first activated that was his entire purpose and nothing else so i don't think i can really argue that he isn't a cleric. but as he started to exist for longer, he consistently wanted to be something more (specifically a singer, see Virtuoso). i need to emphasize. he's not a good bard. he doesn't provide inspiration or support to anyone. but the fact is that he needs to prove he can be something more.

Neelix: bard. do i have to explain myself? Neelix is very much a jack of all trades master of none kind of character. he dabbles in pretty much everything and 90% of his scenes exist to give support and encouragement to other characters.

Seven: warlock. even in-universe, the Borg (when they're at they're best) are portrayed as this eerie eldritch entity so i think it would make sense that in dnd mechanics, even though Seven broke away from the Borg, she maintained that pact with them in order to keep performing sorts of magical acts (like her increased strength and like. bringing people back from the dead). but she also very much has that same darkness and melancholy that a warlock has from a pact with an ambiguously evil being.

Kes: druid. no question about this one. she has an affinity for plants and vague but powerful supernatural abilities drawn from the literal energy of the universe.

please feel free to reply with your own headcanons! i'd love to read them.

[leohttbriar]

thinking a lot about b'elanna torres and her machines; and @directedbygatesmcfadden's read of "prototype" as romantic/erotic; and donna haraway's cyborg manifesto---"why should our bodies end at the skin" and "for us...machines can be prosthetic devices, intimate components, friendly selves...we don't need organic holism to give impermeable wholeness, the total woman and her feminist variants (mutants?)"---and haraway's idea of existential cosmic answers found in cross-species bodily mutilation mimicry; and b'elanna's experience with being genetically split in half into two separate bodies, one of which died, the other of which had to regrow the other; and b'elanna's inherent romanticism; and b'elanna's role on the ship as the one responsible for the ship's ultimate health; and the fact that the ship has biological engineering incorporated into its structure; and b'elanna's position, twice over, between two different people and cultures; and how b'elanna is adaptable; and how b'elanna is lost with the rest of voyager but claims she has no physical place to truly return to; and how dreadnought said to b'elanna (lying)(sweetly) "goodnight" and she said "sweet dreams" back; how she and dreadnought, who has her voice, engaged in a chess match meant to determine who was right about where they both were; and sara ahmed's phenomenlogical queer theory, analyzing what exactly "Orientation" Means; how b'elanna made dreadnought functionally go through an "identity crisis" in order to win; and how b'elanna didn't flinch as she tried to stop something so instilled with her own self---

thinking about how b'elanna's orientation, derived from her own self-reflection, is both a reality of her navigating in voyager and navigating voyager through unknown space as well as an entry point into a genuinely fascinating queer reading of her character: to be so confused about the self and body--to be so unconfused about the vessel that bears you----and, in practice, to simply be alone in that.

[midnightlovestories]

Kes should have stayed onboard Voyager and train as a counsellor because, even without accounting for Voyager's crew unique situation, it's so obvious that despite huge medical advancements, even in the XXIV century mental health services are depressingly underfunded (and in a society that supposedly has no need or use for money that is just beyond disheartening).

(✨special shout out to Janeway and B'Elanna ✨

[hawkeykirsah]

Make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone’s favourite! I was tagged by the wonderful @vorchagirl 💜

I'll tag @shotce, @lttrsfrmlnrrgby, @starlightvld, @laelior, and @wombywoo (only if you want to, of course!)

[thresholdbb]

Let's recast our beloved 90s Star Trek shows!

*proceeds to name the most batshit actors for each role*

[trillscienceofficer]

being very normal and brave about this look

[lostyesterday]

The episode Prototype is a prime example of why B’Elanna is such a good engineer. She excels at improvising new solutions in situations she has no way of predicting she’ll end up in. This is obviously partially due to her experience as an engineer with the Maquis where improvisation with far from ideal resources was necessary to survive. B’Elanna’s construction of the robot in Prototype demonstrates her ability to work extremely well under pressure in situations where she has no prior experience with what to do – no rulebook to follow. This improvisational ability coupled with B’Elanna’s passion for building and fixing things and her strong drive to realize her vision make her practically unbeatable. What other engineer could have done a better job getting Voyager through the Delta Quadrant safely and in one piece (if altered in many fundamental ways) than B’Elanna?

[bumblingbabooshka]

Harry Kim/B'Elanna Torres: who resurrect and are resurrected in turn. "What can shock me now? I feel no coldness that can't be explained Against your cheek, my hand is warm and full of tenderness." Louise Glück's 'Metamorphosis' and Various VOY Episodes

[little-alien-duck]

a surface level reading of b'elanna torres as a character would suggest that if she were into climbing the type she would be into would be strength and power based boulder problems in line with the fact that she is A. strong and B. has a Girlboss persona. however a more in depth reading would suggest that she would be more likely to excel at precision based slab climbing (most likely lead as opposed to bouldering bc of the technical skill required). b'elanna is an engineer! she would be amazing at moves that require extreme accuracy and delicacy! she is balancing her whole weight on the toe of one foot and slowly and precisely doing a pistol squat up to the next hold. someone with less patience for the process would never be able to make this move but she's making it look easy!! the only argument against this being her preferred style that I'd accept is that she's really into comp style boulders because they tend to be heavy on coordination moves that require multiple parts of your body to be moving independently and a really good understanding of body mechanics to understand how your momentum is going to affect your movement. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[youngpettyqueen]

why are they making B'Elanna act so rude so unprompted here like is this just to make it like. conceivable later that the Doctor might want to stay on this planet. or make it easier for these people to kidnap him. like yeah shes often snarky with him but shes being downright nasty for absolutely NO reason and it feels so out of character

[isagrimorie]

Character asks: B'Elanna 5 & 24 please!

for the character ask game:

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

Ooh. songs, I am honestly, not great with music-- I am that person who only discovers a song through tv, movies, and fanvids!

But the song that comes to mind is a song I associate with Faith Lehane from Buffy: Living Dead Girl.

But I know that's not accurate to B'Elanna and yet, its the one that keeps coming back in my head when I try to search for songs for B'Elanna...

Did I mention I'm bad at choosing songs?

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

Since I already mentioned it -- I think Faith reminds me a little of B'Elanna.

Not an original answer, I know

[midnightlovestories]

I'm on my Voyager re-watch and I love Janeway even more than the first time, but I gotta admit that B'Elanna is the best written character in Voy. I'm becoming obsessed with B'Elanna, I love her sm.