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Torres Thursday

🎉 It’s the return of Torres Thursday, yay!! 🎉

B’Elanna and Tuvok are judging you…

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Torres Thursday: Darkling

“There's nothing like a heart that burns…” Or a Klingon temper that’s running equally hot. B’Elanna is likely still smarting from the incident which will never be discussed a few weeks ago, and is in no mood to put up with Creepy Doc’s creepiness. Seriously, unless our girl asks to be touched, keep your hands to yourself. And your smug opinions about her lunch habits. Or she might just rearrange your (deranged) algorithms! Really, incapacitating her was likely the Deranged Doc’s smartest move.

I can’t help wondering how the rest of the season would have played out if Kes had left with her romantic (somewhat smug & superior & bullying) traveling pilot, and Tom had been made the ship’s nurse at this point in the series. Would the Doc have invited both Tom & B’Elanna to dinner with his holographic family in Real Life?

TBH, without a later s3 rewatch, I can’t think of much that would have played out differently aside from Before & After never happening. …and now I WISH that Kes had gone off with her new flame. Except that he’s a jerk & Kes’ only crime is that she’s f’ing boring.

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Torres Thursday

I have a sneaking suspicion that I already did Blood Fever back before my TT hiatus. 🤷‍♀️ It’s such a pivotal P/T episode that I don’t mind seeing Blood Fever content over & over again.

Without rehashing the episode, I do want to take this opportunity to say yeah, yeah, sure, Vorik. It’s not B’Elanna’s technical skills that you admire. She’s freaking gorgeous.

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B'Elanna hates it when mom and dad fight.

presses button ...ZAP!

Finally! Some peace and quiet.

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B’Elanna spends most of this episode thinking & pondering and I love that she gets to not only exhibit her engineering skills but also her mathematical brain. I also love that she & KJ get to ‘science’ together (with a Maquis sentient’s-rights twist), PLUS we get a messhall coffee bonding chat at the end. This is a great B’Elanna episode, from her instant curiosity with the robot to her obsession with getting it working to her recognition that sometimes science can bite you in the ass (I’m looking at you, Oppenheimer). I love that the writers showed her going to the EMH for help in preventing the robot from ‘dying’, & that she forms a friendship with 3947 and gets angry when she realizes that she’s been deceived and that ultimately she’s forced to help the enemy to save her crew. The idea that her actions have consequences will absolutely be reinforced when they run into Dreadnought in a few episodes. ALL THE B’ELANNA LOVE!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Also, in case any of the three people who read this took that science comment the wrong way: wear a damn mask, social distance, wash your hands, and get the damn vaccine when it’s available!

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So little B’Elanna in Ex Post Facto. Such a pain in the butt taking my own screen shots! I missed her smirk 5 times. I gave up. 

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Kathryn and B’Elanna Science! together (with Tom’s help) and no one says, warp particles, but you know they’re thinking it.

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“What do you mean, dibs on his replicator rations if Harry’s really dead this time?”