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B'Elanna Torres is a main character in ''Star Trek: Voyager'' played by Roxann Dawson. She is portrayed as a half-human half-Klingon born in 2346 on the Federation colony Kessik IV. Torres joined the Maquis in 2370 and was serving on the ''Val Jean'' when taken to the Delta Quadrant. Later, when she joined the USS ''Voyager'', she was given provisional rank of Lieutenant, junior grade and posted in engineering. After some time she was promoted to Chief Engineer. In 2377, she married Tom Paris and gave birth to their daughter Miral at the beginning of the next year, while ''Voyager'' was returning to the Alpha Quadrant. ==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. The producers wanted to hire an actress who could portray B'Elanna's inner struggle between her human and Klingon halves. After Roxann Dawson read for the role, she became the first of the ''Voyager'' actors to be cast.〔''Dreamwatch Magazine'' 1997〕 Originally, Dawson's makeup differed from the final design; she explained that she had a much more pronounced Klingon forehead and nose and had to wear a set of Klingon teeth, which made her feel uncomfortable. She asked the producers and makeup artist Michael Westmore if they could perhaps make her more attractive and tone down the Klingon makeup. Eventually they came up with a design with which Roxann was happy, something she described as her "beauty monster makeup". Although B'Elanna's character was twenty-five years old when the series began, Dawson was actually thirty-seven. Dawson's initial reaction to the script of the first-season episode "Faces" was one of doubt; she felt that it occurred too early in the series and that she didn't know the character well enough to play her as two separate people. However, she used the episode to learn more about her character, and it became one of her favorite episodes. When the episode aired, she called her parents to ask their opinions, and they replied, "You were good, but the girl that played that Klingon was really great!", which Dawson took as a compliment.〔 During the fourth season of the show, Roxann became pregnant with her first child. 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.〔''Star Trek Voyager'' Complete Season 4, ''Star Trek Magazine'' Interview〕 But during the episode "The Killing Game", in which the Hirogen had taken over ''Voyager'' and forced the crew to participate in holodeck recreations of various combat situations including World War II Europe, B'Elanna's holodeck character is portrayed as pregnant with a Nazi officer's child. During the fifth season, Dawson had a meeting with the producers and writers to discuss her character. Roxann explained to them that she felt B'Elanna had an extreme dark side that hadn't been explored, and from that discussion the episode "Extreme Risk" was created. Dawson stated that after the episode aired that she received fan mail praising the issues of depression and inner conflict raised in the episode, with which many people identified.〔 In the sixth-season episode "Barge of the Dead", Dawson finally got the chance to explore B'Elanna's Klingon heritage thanks to an episode originally conceived by Ronald D. Moore for ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. 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 episode not only explores some aspects of B'Elanna's character, but it also gives further insight into Klingon mythology. 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.〔Complete ''Star Trek Voyager'' Season Five/Six DVD. ''Star Trek Magazine'' Interview〕 During the seventh season, a pregnancy storyline was written in for B'Elanna's character. Jessica Gaona played the character's young iteration in the episode "Lineage". 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.〔Star Trek.Com 2001, Voyager Wrap Party Interview.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「B'Elanna Torres」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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