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Torres - half human half klingon

Crewman47

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As we have seen other hybrids in Star Trek, namely Alexander 1/4 Human, 3/4 Klingon, Kehler (sp?) 1/2 human/klingon and Naomi Wilidman 1/2 Human/Katarian, and we have seen both Alexander and Naomi mature at a faster rate than usual, is there any idication in B'eLanna's past to show if she also matured faster or is the whole maturing at a faster rate gene only present where the Father is the non-human, Worf father of Alexander and Naomi's father and there mothers were human or part human?
 
The only episode I can think of that might give us any insight in to this is "Lineage", but I don't think it really gave any indication that B'Elanna did or did not grow up any faster than a human.
 
Umm, we might be looking at a perfectly normal Klingon maturation rate with Alexander - in which case the same thing probably happened to K'ehleyr and Torres, too, as the Klingon influence would have been even more dominant there. But no, we never ventured into the early years of these two female characters, so we can't tell for sure.

It wouldn't necessarily make any sense that the father's influence would be greater than the mother's - nothing of the sort is found on crossbreeds here on Earth, at least. But supposedly Klingon-human crossbreeds require medical intervention (see Troi's dialogue with K'ehleyr), so the doctor who was in bed with Worf and K'ehleyr, or with B'elanna's parents, might have been able to decide which influence is stronger.

Timo Saloniemi
 
Just a little background, I realize; but I also remember from the '80's TOS novels that a woman said a Klingon/Human pair needed "a lot of help from the geneticists" and that Klingons have shorter life spans relative to humans.
 
In "Faces" B'Elanna says the last time she saw her father was age five, while in "Extreme Risk" she said she was six. In any case, this would seem to contradict scenes in "Lineage" where on a camping trip with her father B'Elanna appears to about 10 years old. We can only assume that like Worf's son Alexander, B'Elanna's physical aging process was accelerated since she was part Klingon.
 
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