The human father of B'Elanna Torres, whose departure from the family when she was a girl left her blaming her Klingon heritage.
John Torres is the human father of B'Elanna Torres. He married the Klingon Miral and raised B'Elanna with her on a colony, but he left the family when B'Elanna was still a child. She grew up believing that her Klingon side had driven him away, a belief that shaped her lifelong struggle with her heritage.
In Lineage, flashbacks during B'Elanna's pregnancy show her as a girl with her parents on a camping trip with relatives, where tensions over her Klingon nature come to the surface. Those memories drive her attempt to remove her daughter's Klingon traits.
Once Voyager gains regular contact with Earth, B'Elanna has the chance to speak to her father again in Author, Author, beginning to repair their long estrangement.