TrekRanks Episode 192: Top 5 B'Elanna Torres Episodes

Voyager’s chief engineer is beloved for a variety of reasons, and we break them all down in this essential episode of TrekRanks – “The Top 5 B’Elanna Torres Episodes.” From the Maquis to Starfleet, B’Elanna Torres showcased a myriad of skills, qualities and styles in her seven years on Voyager, fighting and defeating more than a few personal demons along the way. Portrayed by Roxann Dawson, there’s no doubt how popular Torres was, and our panel of host Jim Moorhouse and guests Daniel Martin, Teresa Jusino and Anjali Mathai go deep with the picks. No recalibration necessary to sitback and enjoy the “Top 5 B’Elanna Torres Episodes.”

 Episode Rundown:

•  Diagnostic Cycle: We go through our normal character episode roll call and remind everyone that we call this a “top 5 episode” topic, but you can just as easily choose a small moment as you can a big character episode.
• Prime Directive: Before revealing their Prime Directives and how the finalized their picks, our pane each reveal one word the would use to describe the character of B’Elanna Torres.
• The Order of Things: Everyone reveals their picks with the usual “Five-word summary and a hashtag.”
• Secondary Systems: Our guests each rattle off a few additional selections for the picks that just missed our lists!
• Regeneration Cycle: Everyone recaps their picks and we relay some interesting statistics from the results.
• Temporal Inversion: We flashback to some listener feedback from a previous episode of TrekRanks.

 If you have your own picks you would like to relay to us, please hail us at 757-828-RANK (7265) and record your own personal TrekRanks log to let us know your Top 5 B’Elanna Torres Episodes. (Or you can record it yourself and just DM us @TrekRanks on Twitter.) Your comments could be used as part of a Temporal Inversion on an upcoming episode (and might get you a chance to be a guest on a future episode, too).

 And don’t forget to check out TrekRanks.com for our entire back catalog of episodes and a detailed rundown on every episode of Star Trek ever.