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Are they relate?? [message #127038] Thu, 10 October 2013 11:58 Go to next message
Daniel47@teranews.com is currently offline  Daniel47@teranews.com
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Here in Australia, we are being served up a good helping of Star Trek
episodes at the moment, even if they are repeats, three episodes of
ST:DS9 each Thursday evening which then get re-repeated on Saturday
afternoon and also one episode each Monday to Friday, ST:Voyager has
just finish its run and ST:NG has just restarted.

In "Encounter at Farpoint", the first Ep of ST:NG, Q zaps a navigation
officer, Lt. Torres (played by Jimmy Ortega), apparently a human.

Anybody know if he, the character, is related to the B'Elanna Torres
character from ST:Voy, as she is half-human, half-Vulcan??

Daniel
Re: Are they relate?? [message #127123 is a reply to message #127038] Thu, 10 October 2013 16:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In article <M8A5u.38324$Y95.18439@fx31.iad>, <"Daniel47@teranews.com">
wrote:

> Here in Australia, we are being served up a good helping of Star Trek
> episodes at the moment, even if they are repeats, three episodes of
> ST:DS9 each Thursday evening which then get re-repeated on Saturday
> afternoon and also one episode each Monday to Friday, ST:Voyager has
> just finish its run and ST:NG has just restarted.
>
> In "Encounter at Farpoint", the first Ep of ST:NG, Q zaps a navigation
> officer, Lt. Torres (played by Jimmy Ortega), apparently a human.
>
> Anybody know if he, the character, is related to the B'Elanna Torres
> character from ST:Voy, as she is half-human, half-Vulcan??

B'Elanna Torres is half-human and half-Klingon.

The Star Trek Encyclopedia doesn't say they are related nor what
species he is. It might be possible (when she was five years old
B'Elanna's father left her and her mother and went back to Earth), but
realisitcally there's probably thousands of people with the surname
Torres spread throughout the galaxy.
Re: Are they relate?? [message #127216 is a reply to message #127123] Thu, 10 October 2013 19:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 10/10/2013 4:17 PM, Your Name wrote:

> realisitcally there's probably thousands of people with the surname
> Torres spread throughout the galaxy.
>

Realistically, this is Star Trek, not the real world, and in Star Trek
everybody is related to everybody else.
Re: Are they relate?? [message #127500 is a reply to message #127123] Fri, 11 October 2013 10:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Your Name wrote:
> In article <M8A5u.38324$Y95.18439@fx31.iad>, <"Daniel47@teranews.com">
> wrote:
>
>> Here in Australia, we are being served up a good helping of Star Trek
>> episodes at the moment, even if they are repeats, three episodes of
>> ST:DS9 each Thursday evening which then get re-repeated on Saturday
>> afternoon and also one episode each Monday to Friday, ST:Voyager has
>> just finish its run and ST:NG has just restarted.
>>
>> In "Encounter at Farpoint", the first Ep of ST:NG, Q zaps a navigation
>> officer, Lt. Torres (played by Jimmy Ortega), apparently a human.
>>
>> Anybody know if he, the character, is related to the B'Elanna Torres
>> character from ST:Voy, as she is half-human, half-Vulcan??
>
> B'Elanna Torres is half-human and half-Klingon.

Opps!! My mistake!! Guess I was connecting her, race-wise, to Tuvok, who
is Vulcan, right??

> The Star Trek Encyclopedia doesn't say they are related nor what
> species he is. It might be possible (when she was five years old
> B'Elanna's father left her and her mother and went back to Earth), but
> realisitcally there's probably thousands of people with the surname
> Torres spread throughout the galaxy.

Gee, you could be right, I just did a Whitepages 'phone book search and
there are 100 of them in Australia, alone!!

Daniel
Re: Are they relate?? [message #128511 is a reply to message #127500] Fri, 11 October 2013 17:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In article <FwT5u.82378$bu1.21894@fx29.iad>, <"Daniel47@teranews.com">
wrote:
> Your Name wrote:
>> In article <M8A5u.38324$Y95.18439@fx31.iad>, <"Daniel47@teranews.com">
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here in Australia, we are being served up a good helping of Star Trek
>>> episodes at the moment, even if they are repeats, three episodes of
>>> ST:DS9 each Thursday evening which then get re-repeated on Saturday
>>> afternoon and also one episode each Monday to Friday, ST:Voyager has
>>> just finish its run and ST:NG has just restarted.
>>>
>>> In "Encounter at Farpoint", the first Ep of ST:NG, Q zaps a navigation
>>> officer, Lt. Torres (played by Jimmy Ortega), apparently a human.
>>>
>>> Anybody know if he, the character, is related to the B'Elanna Torres
>>> character from ST:Voy, as she is half-human, half-Vulcan??
>>
>> B'Elanna Torres is half-human and half-Klingon.
>
> Opps!! My mistake!! Guess I was connecting her, race-wise, to Tuvok, who
> is Vulcan, right??

Yep, Tuvok is a Vulcan, the same as Spock (although Spock is half-human)




>> The Star Trek Encyclopedia doesn't say they are related nor what
>> species he is. It might be possible (when she was five years old
>> B'Elanna's father left her and her mother and went back to Earth), but
>> realisitcally there's probably thousands of people with the surname
>> Torres spread throughout the galaxy.
>
> Gee, you could be right, I just did a Whitepages 'phone book search and
> there are 100 of them in Australia, alone!!

Try "Smith", "Jones", "Brown". ;-)
Re: Are they relate?? [message #128864 is a reply to message #128511] Sat, 12 October 2013 06:08 Go to previous message
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Your Name wrote:
> In article <FwT5u.82378$bu1.21894@fx29.iad>, <"Daniel47@teranews.com">
> wrote:
>> Your Name wrote:
>>> In article <M8A5u.38324$Y95.18439@fx31.iad>, <"Daniel47@teranews.com">
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here in Australia, we are being served up a good helping of Star Trek
>>>> episodes at the moment, even if they are repeats, three episodes of
>>>> ST:DS9 each Thursday evening which then get re-repeated on Saturday
>>>> afternoon and also one episode each Monday to Friday, ST:Voyager has
>>>> just finish its run and ST:NG has just restarted.
>>>>
>>>> In "Encounter at Farpoint", the first Ep of ST:NG, Q zaps a navigation
>>>> officer, Lt. Torres (played by Jimmy Ortega), apparently a human.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody know if he, the character, is related to the B'Elanna Torres
>>>> character from ST:Voy, as she is half-human, half-Vulcan??
>>>
>>> B'Elanna Torres is half-human and half-Klingon.
>>
>> Opps!! My mistake!! Guess I was connecting her, race-wise, to Tuvok, who
>> is Vulcan, right??
>
> Yep, Tuvok is a Vulcan, the same as Spock (although Spock is half-human)
>
>
>
>
>>> The Star Trek Encyclopedia doesn't say they are related nor what
>>> species he is. It might be possible (when she was five years old
>>> B'Elanna's father left her and her mother and went back to Earth), but
>>> realisitcally there's probably thousands of people with the surname
>>> Torres spread throughout the galaxy.
>>
>> Gee, you could be right, I just did a Whitepages 'phone book search and
>> there are 100 of them in Australia, alone!!
>
> Try "Smith", "Jones", "Brown". ;-)

No thanks, haven't got the time to count them!! ;-)

Daniel
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