B'Elanna. Yes, I remember her. [He takes the drink and decides to pace with it. It's difficult for him to stay still at the moment.] The way she despised herself was the fault of a man who acted as a poor husband and an unworthy father. He found a strong female, bred a capable child, but was unable to fulfill his duties as a father. Her cousins mocked her for her heritage.

[He remembers how she avoided him after that flood, because he could see how she was. He told her a story then, about how his sister would growl when she was angry- to make her feel better about her own anger.]

She might have been. But he was dead for that. He didn't have the opportunity to stand for his Empire. Even if Azetbur succeeded him. If she was what you say, I doubt she would have wanted a woman of her people to feel that way.