B'Elanna in Klingon gear

[M.A.C.O.]

I dunno, the episodes where Torres explores her heritage just seemed dull to me. It had really all been done by Worf at that point. It's funny how Torres always blames her Klingon half for her temper... yet most Klingons really never had her rage issues.

I do think her outfit could've done without the metal bra thing on the outside.

You know you're right. Of the Klingons we've seen through the ages.

Klang

Antaak

Antaak Ridgless

TOS

Kor

Koloth

Korax

Kras

Krell

Kang

Kruge

Chang

Azetbur

TNG-DS9-VOY

Worf and the Klingons behind him

K'Ehleyr: Half Human

B'Elanna: Half Human

B'Etor and Lursa

Abrams Star Trek

None of these (except B'Elanna) had anything resembling anger management issues. You look at episodes like "Heart of Glory", "Redemption", "Once More Into The Breach" which feature numerous Klingons interacting with one another and they all get along as well as humans do. B'Elanna by comparison comes off as having a chip on her shoulder and uses her mixed heritage to scapegoat her behavior.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

I liked her in it. I think she pulled it off well. Of course she's my favorite character and I love the episode. I have an 8x10 of her in the Klingon armor that I got Roxann Dawson to sign

edit: this is the photo I got autographed

This is obviously the Klingon version of Xena's armour.

 

[dauntless]

I liked her in it. I think she pulled it off well. Of course she's my favorite character and I love the episode. I have an 8x10 of her in the Klingon armor that I got Roxann Dawson to sign

edit: this is the photo I got autographed

 

[Lighthammer]

I honestly have to say as badly as they explored B'Elanna being half Klingon in Voyager, they may as well not have made her her Klingon at all. She could have been a human with a bad temper for all the good it did her and her story. Not much would have been changed by it. The two truly Klingon stories we got would have gone already, which always felt really forced and the story about B'Elanna having problems growing up could have been changed to her being a fat kid of something.

I'm not saying it wouldn't have been more interesting diversifying Voyager's crew a bit more then it was, but what I am saying is there was no advantage to having B'Elanna be a half Klingon and even if they would have written more on that angel, I don't think Dawson could have played off it better.

i think they explored it fine. she hated that part of heself and tried to ignore it, having a lot of episodes about her klingon-ness wouldn't have made sense

That's really side stepping my point.

My point was the fans LOVE Klingon stories and by pulling the "I hate myself because I'm Klingon" they alienated her from those stories right out of the get go and destroyed the potential for her having those stories.

They could have had those self loathing / emo stories without her being Klingon.