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Kathryn Janeway

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Admiral Kathryn Janeway was a 24th and early 25th century Starfleet officer . One of the most decorated captains in Starfleet history , she was most noted for commanding the starship USS Voyager during its journey through the Delta Quadrant . Her captaincy of Voyager and its unprecedented journey through the Delta Quadrant became legendary. As the first Federation captain to successfully traverse the Delta Quadrant, she encountered dozens of new planets , and by one Admiral 's estimation, made first contact with more civilizations than any captain since James T. Kirk . ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Friendship One ", " Endgame ")

After Voyager 's return, she served as a vice admiral at Starfleet Command , and later commanded the USS Dauntless on a rescue mission in the Delta Quadrant. While looking for the missing USS Protostar , she helped to stop the Vau N'Akat plot to destroy the Federation. By the time of the Attack on Mars , Janeway had been promoted to Admiral . ( Star Trek Nemesis , PRO : " A Moral Star, Part 2 ", PIC : " The Next Generation ")

• 1 Early life
• 2.1 Starfleet Academy
• 2.2.1 Service aboard the Al-Batani
• 2.2.2 Other assignments
• 2.2.3 Service aboard the Billings
• 2.3.1 Taking command
• 2.3.2 Beginnings in the Delta Quadrant
• 2.3.9.1 Returning home
• 2.4 Home again
• 2.5.1 Looking for the Protostar
• 2.5.2 The Vau N'akat plot
• 2.5.3 Back on Earth
• 2.6 Later career
• 3 Conflict with the Borg
• 4 Alternate realities and timelines
• 5.2 Nostalgia and the holodeck
• 5.3 Sciences
• 6 Personality
• 7.1.1 Tuvok
• 7.1.2 Chakotay
• 7.1.3 Seven of Nine
• 7.1.4 The Doctor
• 7.1.5 Tom Paris
• 7.1.6 Harry Kim
• 7.1.8 Patterson
• 7.2.1 Mark Johnson
• 7.2.2 Kashyk
• 7.2.3 Michael Sullivan
• 7.2.4 Jaffen
• 7.3 Biomimetic duplicate
• 7.4 Holograms
• 8.1 Janeway's coffee quotes
• 9 Chronology
• 10.1 Appearances
• 10.2 Background information
• 10.3 Apocrypha
• 10.4 External links

Early life [ ]

Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20 in Bloomington , Indiana , on Earth . ( VOY : " Year of Hell ", " Imperfection ")

Her father was Vice Admiral Janeway and she had a sister , Phoebe who she described as the artist of the family. Janeway once spilled Phoebe's paints and blamed it on their dog. ( VOY : " Sacred Ground ", " Coda ", " The Killing Game "; PRO : " Mindwalk ") Her mother was still alive as of 2378 . ( VOY : " Author, Author ")

One of Kathryn's favorite foods, Welsh rarebit , was something she always enjoyed while at her grandfather 's. ( VOY : " Death Wish ") Another was her grandmother 's vegetable biryani . ( VOY : " Timeless ") She grew up on the great plains surrounding her grandfather's farm in Indiana. ( VOY : " Macrocosm ", " Live Fast and Prosper ") With their family having grown up around farmers , her parents insisted that she learn some basic gardening skills . ( VOY : " Resolutions ")

When she was a girl, she liked to swim in a swimming pool or a pond – where she knew exactly what was beneath her – but she was scared to death of swimming in the ocean , where in the open water there was no way to know what was down below. ( VOY : " Good Shepherd ")

When she was six years old, she once watched a bolt of lightning split an oak tree in her grandfather's yard, one she had climbed just a few hours before. Many years later, she recalled that there was no anomaly more frightening than a thunderstorm on the plains, especially at such a young age. ( VOY : " Fair Haven ", " Shattered ") Also at the age of six, Kathryn enjoyed an interactive holodeck fairy tale series called The Adventures of Flotter and took ballet lessons, where she learned the dance of " The Dying Swan ". She described the dance as being the hit of her " Beginning Ballet " class and recreated the performance in 2373 , during Talent Night aboard Voyager . ( VOY : " Coda ", " Once Upon a Time ")

A representation of a young Kathryn Janeway

At the age of nine, she and her father hiked the northern rim of the Grand Canyon . She found that "the biggest ditch on Earth" – as her father used to call it – was too dusty for her liking, and Kathryn always preferred farm country. ( VOY : " Imperfection ")

When she was twelve years old, she walked home in a thunderstorm over seven kilometers because she lost a tennis match. ( VOY : " Deadlock ") In 2354 , during high school , she gave up playing tennis; she ultimately didn't pick it up again until 2373. ( VOY : " Future's End ")

Janeway was also experienced in pool , even though the first time she played it with the crew in Tom Paris ' holodeck simulation Chez Sandrine , she led everyone to believe that she was a novice. ( VOY : " The Cloud ") She also enjoyed skiing . ( VOY : " Macrocosm ")

Janeway had a special relationship with her father, who had raised her to be a doubter and a skeptic and to look at the world with the scientist's eye. When he died by drowning under a polar icecap on Tau Ceti Prime sometime before 2358 , she was devastated. She was so grief-stricken she fell into a terrible depression and spent months in bed, sleeping away her days. Her sister eventually forced her into the real world again. ( VOY : " Coda ")

Janeway credited the family tale of her ancestor , Shannon O'Donnel , for inspiring her to join Starfleet . The family tale claimed that O'Donnell had been involved as the driving force in ensuring the construction of the Millennium Gate , despite strong local opposition. O'Donnell was also believed to be an early female astronaut , the first of a line of Janeway explorers. Much to Janeway's disappointment, research in 2376 revealed that her involvement in the Millennium Gate project had been far less prominent than everyone thought and that she had been a mere consulting engineer on the project. However, Seven of Nine told her that her inspiration to Janeway should not be diminished by this, as she was still the driving force behind her desire to join Starfleet and become an explorer. ( VOY : " 11:59 ")

During her lifetime, Janeway studied chromolinguistics , American Sign Language , and the gestural idioms of the Leyron . However, she struggled with basic Klingon . ( VOY : " Macrocosm ", " Hope and Fear ")

Starfleet career [ ]

Starfleet academy [ ].

During Janeway's first year at Starfleet Academy , she overcame her fear of open water after she went through zero g training in the Coral Sea . ( VOY : " Good Shepherd ")

As a cadet , Janeway learned that a good officer kept an open mind. ( PRO : " Mindwalk ")

A grown Janeway meets a Boothby replica

During her time at the Academy, Janeway developed a close relationship with Boothby , the chief custodian of the Starfleet gardens , who brought fresh roses to her quarters each morning. Janeway also enjoyed spending her time at a little coffee shop on Market Street known as "the Night Owl ". ( VOY : " In the Flesh ") Her love of coffee and her late nights got her through many of her classes, as she often had to pull all-nighters . ( VOY : " Good Shepherd ") She studied under such memorable professors as Patterson , Hendricks , and H'ohk . Janeway was also considered an intelligent and adaptive cadet. ( VOY : " Relativity ", " Friendship One ", " Darkling ")

Early postings and assignments [ ]

Service aboard the al-batani [ ].

Janeway's first Starfleet posting was as a science officer aboard the USS Al-Batani , under the command of Captain Owen Paris . ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Live Fast and Prosper ", " Shattered ") When she was a science officer, Janeway envied the captain's privilege of making first contact with alien species. ( VOY : " Innocence ")

While aboard the Al-Batani , she participated in the Arias Expedition . ( VOY : " Caretaker ")

During another mission, the Al-Batani tried to navigate a dense protonebula and became stuck. ( VOY : " Bride of Chaotica! ")

Janeway once revealed that, at one point during her posting aboard the Al-Batani , she knocked out power to six decks by misaligning the ship's positronic relays . ( VOY : " Shattered ")

Other assignments [ ]

While she held the rank of lieutenant , she was the member of an away team which defended a Federation outpost from Cardassians during a border conflict. They ended up cut off in a three-day long firefight with the Cardassians. One night during a break in the fighting, her commanding officer ordered her and an ensign to crawl out into the brush and save a wounded Cardassian soldier . At the time, she thought her commander crazy, but in retrospect saving that man's life was one of her proudest moments. In the end, her away team secured the outpost, and all members were decorated by Starfleet Command . ( VOY : " Prey ")

Janeway first met one of her future closest friends and confidants, Tuvok , in 2356 , at which time he dressed her down in front of three Starfleet admirals for failing to observe proper tactical procedures during her first command. Although the incident bruised her "Human ego" at the time, she ultimately realized Tuvok was correct. ( VOY : " Fury ", " Revulsion ")

From 2365 onward, Janeway and Tuvok became close friends, and Janeway found she could always " rely on his insightful and unfailingly logical advice. " During the mid- 2360s , when Tuvok was temporarily assigned to Jupiter Station , he often wrote to Janeway. ( VOY : " Tuvix ") By 2371, Tuvok had made detailed psychological observations about Janeway over the course of four years. ( VOY : " Revulsion ", " Phage ")

Service aboard the Billings [ ]

While in her first year as a commander aboard the USS Billings , Janeway sent an away team to survey a volcanic moon . Their shuttle was damaged by a magma eruption and three crewmembers were severely injured. The next day, she returned to the moon , alone, to complete the survey. She wanted the crew to know that their suffering had not been in vain, despite the possibility that she could have been killed. ( VOY : " Night ")

Commanding the USS Voyager [ ]

Taking command [ ].

Janeway takes the center seat in 2371

In 2371 , Janeway took command of the USS Voyager and received her first general order at Starfleet Headquarters . She was to locate a missing Maquis vessel, the Val Jean , which had disappeared in the Badlands with her security officer Tuvok , who was working as an undercover agent. Given the navigational challenge in this region of space, she proposed to Admiral Patterson to rehabilitate Tom Paris – an excellent pilot and disgraced son of her former captain, now Admiral Paris, as well as a former Maquis – for the mission. She visited Paris at the Federation Penal Colony in New Zealand , where he was serving time for his involvement with the Maquis. In exchange for his help in finding the Val Jean , Janeway offered to Paris that she would help him at his next review. Paris was less than enthused about returning to Starfleet after his disgraceful dismissal, but the moment he found out that he would be cut loose, he agreed to join.

While chasing the Val Jean in the Badlands, both ships were engulfed by a displacement wave that hurled them seventy thousand light years into the far side of the galaxy , deep into the Delta Quadrant . ( VOY : " In the Flesh ", " Relativity ", " Caretaker ")

Beginnings in the Delta Quadrant [ ]

After finding Voyager transferred 70,000 light years across the galaxy , Janeway soon discovered that they had been brought there by a sporocystian lifeform known as the Caretaker . The Caretaker was dying and therefore looking for a suitable mate so that his offspring could continue to care for a species known as the Ocampa . He held a debt to the Ocampa because, many years ago, he had been responsible for the destruction of their planet 's atmosphere , forcing the Ocampa to move below ground, in turn prompting the Caretaker to continue providing for them.

The Caretaker had pulled both the Val Jean and Voyager into the Delta Quadrant in order to see if anyone in their crews might be a compatible mate. To that end, he abducted the crew of both ships and conducted experiments. These efforts proved unsuccessful, however, as he found himself to be incompatible with any of Voyager 's or the Val Jean 's crew members. Unfortunately, two of the crew members – B'Elanna Torres from the Maquis and Harry Kim from Starfleet – became ill after the experiments and were sent to the Ocampa homeworld for care and treatment. Given their perilous situation and the missing crew members, Janeway and the captain of the Val Jean , a former Starfleet commander named Chakotay , decided to put aside their differences in order to locate their missing people and find a way home.

While searching for answers to their dilemma, they encountered a small Talaxian freighter manned by a Talaxian named " Neelix " who, in exchange for water , agreed to help the crews retrieve their missing shipmates.

The Caretaker's condition kept deteriorating and he died before being able to send back Janeway's and Chakotaty's ships to the Alpha Quadrant . Even though Lieutenant Tuvok believed he could activate the system that could send Voyager back, it would have meant leaving the technology in the hands of a hostile native species, the Kazon – who were going to use it to get to the Ocampa. Realizing that this was a sacrifice she was not willing to make, Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array by using two tricobalt devices at a yield of twenty thousand teracochranes. Evacuating his crew to the Starfleet vessel, Chakotay crashed his ship into a Kazon carrier vessel in order to protect Voyager while it destroyed the array.

This decision left Voyager stranded 70,000 light years in the Delta Quadrant, with their only means to get home destroyed. Recognizing their long, daunting journey ahead, both Starfleet and Maquis crews merged and decided to work together when embarking on their seventy-year-long journey home . Chakotay became Janeway's first officer and second in command of the ship. The decision to merge the Maquis and Starfleet forces was controversial for both sides at first, but the crews soon learned to work together under the new joint command structure. ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Parallax ", " The Voyager Conspiracy ")

One of the problems facing Janeway when Voyager first became trapped in the Delta Quadrant was to combine the Maquis and Starfleet crews into one cohesive unit for their journey back home. Their violent hurdle into the Delta Quadrant had left them with empty key positions that urgently needed to be filled, such as the position of first officer previously held by Lieutenant Commander Cavit , the helm , chief engineer , a transporter chief , and the entire medical staff, including the chief medical officer .

Early on in the voyage, there was an incident between B'Elanna Torres, who was a Maquis, and Joe Carey of Starfleet. Having a fiery temperament, Torres had punched Carey in the nose over a disagreement in engineering. Chakotay, despite being furious about Torres' lack of discipline, still recommended her for the position of chief engineer ; a proposal which Janeway initially dismissed, as she saw Torres as an undisciplined troublemaker unfit to hold a command position. Chakotay kept standing up for Torres, however, and after seeing first-hand what she was capable of, Janeway agreed to give her the position. ( VOY : " Parallax ")

Janeway fixes the timeline

While visiting a planet which had been devastated by a polaric ion explosion, Janeway and Tom Paris were transported back in time , due to a fracture in subspace . They got caught up between a group of protesters and government officials disagreeing over an energy source and its potential dangers. When the protesters took over a power plant , Janeway came to believe that it would become the source of the explosion, but as an away team from Voyager tried to rescue them by cutting into subspace, she realized that this was the actual cause of the catastrophic events. She sealed the rift, and a new timeline was created, where the explosion never happened. ( VOY : " Time and Again ")

Janeway dreams of the possibility of finally having found a way home

Janeway's fallen hopes of returning home

During the first year of the voyage, Janeway made first contact with a number of species, one of which were the Vidiians , who were plagued by an incurable phage and as a result harvested the organs of other species for survival. During an away mission , Neelix's lungs were stolen by the Vidiians and The Doctor had to create a pair of holographic lungs to keep him alive. After searching for and finding the Vidiians responsible, it turned out that they had already bio-transformed Neelix's lungs. However, they possessed the medical knowledge to do an organ transplant and, having been unexpectedly spared, resolved to do all they could. Kes donated one of her lungs to Neelix. Janeway was furious with the Vidiians and promised them that, should they harm any members of her crew again, she would not be so generous. ( VOY : " Phage ")

Janeway also led the ship into a nebula that was really an organic lifeform . Upon discovering that they had injured the space-dwelling being, she and her crew immediately worked on a procedure to repair any damage they might have caused to it. ( VOY : " The Cloud ")

Their hopes of returning home were renewed when Voyager came upon a micro-wormhole that ended in the Alpha Quadrant . Janeway made contact with a Romulan ship captained by Telek R'Mor . They successfully transported R'Mor through the wormhole onto Voyager and to the Delta Quadrant, only to find out that that version of R'Mor was from twenty years in the past . Heartbroken, Janeway asked R'Mor to at least transmit the crews' messages, twenty years later , to their loved ones. When R'Mor was beamed back to 2351 , Tuvok informed the captain that he had, in fact, died in 2367 and that it was unlikely that he could relay the messages. ( VOY : " Eye of the Needle ")

The same year, Janeway and her crew made first contact with the Sikarians , a friendly and hospitable species that possessed some rather groundbreaking technology; they were capable of folding space , thus allowing ships to travel great distances in short amounts of time. However, the Sikarians had their own set of prime rules, one of which prohibited them from sharing key technology with other species. Janeway tried to negotiate with their leader, but he simply refused to share the technology. Humiliated and helpless, Janeway decided to move on, but some crew members, including Seska and B'Elanna, but also Carey and even Tuvok, were not willing to take no for an answer and looked for alternate means to acquire the technology. However, when they tried to use it, they found that it was not compatible with Federation technology. When Janeway found out, she was more than upset to see this level of insubordination among her crew. She warned B'Elanna Torres to never cross the line again or else she would no longer be an officer on the ship. Her biggest disappointment was in Tuvok, however, who had led the operation; she felt let down, but he explained that, according to his logic, he had had no choice but to do what the captain had been morally unable to do. Even though she was touched by his loyalty and willingness to sacrifice for her, Janeway told him to never act on his logic again without consulting with her, telling him that she needed to be able to count on him as he was the one that she turned to when she needed her moral compass checked. ( VOY : " Prime Factors ")

Later that year, she and the rest of the crew found out that Seska, a member of the Maquis crew, was really a Cardassian spy altered to look Bajoran , and that she had been giving Federation technology to the Kazon-Nistrim . Seska berated the captain for having destroyed their last chance to get home and thought her to be a fool for continuing to hold on to what Seska believed to be useless Starfleet principles at the expense of her crew. Janeway tried to explain to her that sharing even minor technology might have dire consequences for the balance of power in that part of space, but Seska, blinded by vindication, could not be convinced. She left Voyager and joined Maje Culluh of the Kazon-Nistrim. Throughout the year, she and Culluh plotted ever newer ways to get to Voyager and capture it. ( VOY : " State of Flux ")

Despite constant attacks by alien races in an unknown and potentially hostile part of space, Janeway also discovered some favorite pastime for the times Voyager was not on constant guard. In order to relax, she participated in a Gothic holodeck program in which she was the governess of a mysterious mansion. ( VOY : " Cathexis ")

The integration of the Maquis crew into the Starfleet crew was not smooth and, at the beginning of their journey, both crews faced some challenges. When a few members of the Maquis who were not well versed with Starfleet protocols and procedure exhibited disruptive and even insubordinate behavior, Janeway proposed that, instead of punishment, they take on the responsibility of getting those crew members up to speed and instruct them in how to run a Starfleet vessel. For that purpose, Tuvok, who had Academy teaching experience, was put in charge of training crew members who could benefit the most from such training. ( VOY : " Learning Curve ")

Amelia Earhart and Janeway, with Voyager landed behind

In 2371 , Voyager discovered Amelia Earhart and other Humans in stasis . They had been captured by the Briori to become slaves, but their descendants had revolted and overthrown their alien captors. The Humans on the planet believed that the eight ancestors were dead and honored them in a shrine. Upon revival, the group (nicknamed "the 37's") decided to stay on the planet with their "descendants." Earhart invited Voyager 's crew to stay as well, but they decided to continue their journey home. ( VOY : " The 37's ")

During an attack by space-dwelling lifeforms , Kes began to prematurely enter puberty . This was the first time Janeway was faced with the possibility that, on their long voyage home, crew members would eventually start pairing off and maybe even having children. Although the aliens were driven off and Kes returned to her normal state, Ensign Samantha Wildman informed Janeway that she was, in fact, pregnant. ( VOY : " Elogium ")

Voyager came across an anomaly that distorted the structure of the ship, trapping the senior staff in the holodeck . Janeway was injured by the anomaly, but the crew soon realized that it was actually sentient, attempting to communicate. ( VOY : " Twisted ")

The same year, the ship was attacked by the Botha , who caused violent hallucinations in the crew; Janeway hallucinated about her fiance, Mark. However, The Doctor and Kes were able to drive the aliens away, and Voyager 's crew recovered. ( VOY : " Persistence of Vision ")

Janeway also met up with the Caretaker's partner, Suspiria , who had been taking care of an Ocampa colony. She attacked Janeway and Voyager , whom she blamed for the Caretaker's death. Kes was able to distract Suspiria with her telekinetic powers, allowing Janeway to fire a toxin at Suspiria that disabled her. ( VOY : " Cold Fire ")

Janeway and Caylem

Janeway later helped rescue Tuvok and Torres from a Mokra Order prison , after being nursed back to health by Caylem , who believed she was his daughter , Ralkana . His wife and daughter had been killed resisting the Mokra Order. As Caylem was dying, Janeway posed as his daughter to assure him that she and his wife were fine. ( VOY : " Resistance ")

When Tom Paris broke the warp ten barrier that same year, he began exhibiting strange behavior until his DNA completely mutated and transformed him into an amphibian species. In his delirious state, he abducted Janeway and embarked on a warp ten journey with her, which resulted in her DNA mutating as well. When they were discovered by Voyager a short while later, they had mated and produced offspring. After The Doctor was able to restore them back to their Human form, they decided to leave the offspring on a planet where they had left them. Janeway joked to Paris that, while she had thought about having children, she'd never believed it was going to be with him. ( VOY : " Threshold ")

" Captain Janeway... USS Voyager"

Janeway also had her first contact with Q . While exploring a comet, the Voyager crew accidentally released what turned out to be a Q from the core of the comet. After some time, the well-known Q arrived, telling Janeway that the other Q, eventually known as " Quinn ", had tried to kill himself many times, and that this was the reason for his captivity. Quinn asked for asylum and a chance to become Human. He argued that, although the existence of a Q is exhilarating and incredible at first, the initial wonder very soon turns to boredom, as there is nothing more to explore, nothing more to reveal about the universe or anything. Because of this unbearable lack of purpose in the Q Continuum , he wished to end his life. Janeway granted his request after a hearing on the matter, where numerous witnesses, including Maury Ginsberg and the USS Enterprise 's William T. Riker , took part. She urged Quinn to lead a full mortal life. Regardless, he killed himself, receiving a poison from Q, who revealed himself as a sympathizer with the late Q in the end. ( VOY : " Death Wish ")

Janeway meets her double

While attempting to avoid a number of Vidiian ships, Voyager entered a divergence field and was duplicated in nearly every aspect, including the crew. The two ships were connected by a rift in the lower decks that allowed passage between both ships, but they faced danger as they drew on the same antimatter supply. When the Vidiians attempted to board one of the Voyager s, both crews were in danger, and one of the Janeways destroyed her ship, killing the Vidiians and saving the other Voyager . ( VOY : " Deadlock ")

Janeway later faced a crisis of conscience when a transporter accident fused Neelix and Tuvok into one being, Tuvix . The only way to bring them back to their original form was to eliminate Tuvix, who protested the murder. Janeway had to execute a new, sentient, and innocent lifeform so that she could have Tuvok and Neelix brought back to life. ( VOY : " Tuvix ")

Janeway also confronted fear incarnate, in the form of The Clown . This occurred when she tried to save a group of aliens who, while in stasis, had been trapped by their malfunctioning neural link. When the consciousness of some of her crew became trapped in the program, The Doctor served as an "ambassador" to negotiate with The Clown (the "ruler" of that network, serving as the personification of the aliens' fear that something would go wrong). Voyager 's crew eventually tricked The Clown into letting his prisoners out by having Janeway connect to the network without actually entering it, a holographic Janeway, sent in to trick The Clown, informing him that fear existed to be conquered and that he would now vanish. ( VOY : " The Thaw ")

Along with Chakotay, Janeway was subsequently left behind on a planet, due to an incurable disease that the atmosphere of the planet inhibited. They began to show affection for each other, but a possible relationship was put on hold when the crew disobeyed direct orders and contacted Vidiians who knew of a cure. ( VOY : " Resolutions ")

Janeway and crew left behind

The rest of the year was spent in confrontation with the Kazon. Chakotay was captured by the Kazon and tortured when he refused to give up secrets of Voyager 's defenses. Paris left the ship under a ruse to uncover the traitor in Voyager 's crew. Janeway tried to form alliances with the Trabe , enemies of the Kazon, to force both sides to participate in a peace conference; the conference ended in disaster when the Trabe tried to kill the Kazon. ( VOY : " Maneuvers ", " Investigations ", " Alliances ") Sometime later, Voyager was captured, and the crew was stranded on a prehistoric planet. ( VOY : " Basics, Part I ", " Basics, Part II ") After Paris – along with Lon Suder and The Doctor – regained the ship, the crew was rescued. Seska was killed and Culluh's power base was smashed, allowing Voyager to depart Kazon space with no further contact with them. ( VOY : " Basics, Part II ")

Janeway blending in aboard the Excelsior

After Tuvok began suffering a mental breakdown in 2373 , Janeway engaged in a mind meld with him, which took them back to his tour of duty on the USS Excelsior , captained by Hikaru Sulu . The breakdown was caused by an alien virus that had lain dormant in Tuvok's mind. ( VOY : " Flashback ")

Voyager was later assaulted by alien ships that attacked in great number. ( VOY : " The Swarm ") The Starfleet vessel also came across a planet ruled by two Ferengi who had become trapped by an unstable wormhole . Janeway devised a plan to oust the Ferengi who were exploiting the people. ( VOY : " False Profits ")

During a visit to a Nechani shrine, Kes was struck down by an energy surge and lapsed into a coma. Janeway underwent a series of rituals to help cure Kes, but, in the end, it was Janeway's faith that helped revive Kes. She took Kes through the energy field even though The Doctor told her it was deadly. It did no harm, and Kes was revived intact. ( VOY : " Sacred Ground ")

After an encounter with a timeship from the future, Voyager was transported back to the 20th century . They stopped Henry Starling , who had used the timeship for monetary gain, from launching the ship and altering history. The Doctor received his mobile emitter , which allowed him complete freedom to go anywhere. ( VOY : " Future's End ")

During that year, Q appeared on the ship and wanted to have a baby with Janeway, in order to stop a civil war in the Continuum. He transported her to the Continuum to escape a seemingly female Q who had boarded Voyager . The Human perception of the Q Civil War was set in the American Civil War , and Janeway and Q were captured, but the female Q along with the crew of Voyager managed to enter the Continuum and rescue them. When the Qs engaged in a truce, Voyager was returned to normal space, but not before Q presented his newborn son, whom he instead had with the female Q, to Janeway. ( VOY : " The Q and the Grey ")

Chakotay desperately trying to revive Janeway after their shuttle crashes

After an accident that left Janeway in a coma, an alien energy being tried to convince Janeway that she was dying. It fed off the souls of the dying, trying every trick to get her to cooperate, even appearing to her as her father, but she saw through the ruse and refused. Once the being left, The Doctor was able to revive her. ( VOY : " Coda ")

Near of the end of the year, Voyager was captured by the Nyrians , who replaced the crew with one of their number using a transporter and imprisoned them on a biosphere ship . Janeway led an escape by securing the transporter and beaming the Nyrian leader to one of their own biospheres simulating a frozen wasteland, forcing them to return Voyager . ( VOY : " Displaced ")

Janeway as a nightclub owner

The following year brought Janeway and Voyager in contact with two dangerous races: the Krenim and the Hirogen.

Janeway faces a year of hell

The encounter with the Krenim began late in 2373 when a Krenim timeship tried to change history to restore the Krenim Imperium . This plunged Janeway and Voyager into a year-long battle. The presence of Voyager had upset the calculations used to restore the Imperium, and therefore Voyager had to be eliminated. Voyager came under a series of attacks by the technologically advanced Krenim, resulting in the loss of many of the crew and severe damage to the ship. It ended when Janeway suicide-crashed a mortally wounded Voyager alone into the timeship, destroying it and wiping it from existence. This restored the timeline and allowed Voyager to plot a course around Krenim space in the preferred timeline, avoiding Krenim territory entirely. ( VOY : " Year of Hell ", " Year of Hell, Part II ")

Also during that year, the crew was subjected to various experiments carried out by cloaked aliens called the Srivani . After being close to death, the Voyager crew figured out a way to break the Srivani cloak, only to discover that the aliens had no intention of leaving, finding their studies much too interesting to abandon. The conflict ended when Janeway threatened to destroy the ship and the aliens along with it, partially because of the raised dopamine levels in her blood, by flying through a binary pulsar. This threat worked, however, and the Srivani, at the cost of one of their two vessels being destroyed by the pulsar, left the ship. ( VOY : " Scientific Method ")

The holoprogram Leonardo da Vinci , along with other Voyager technology, was stolen by pirates led by Tau . Janeway found his hideout and recovered the technology, including the Leonardo hologram. ( VOY : " Concerning Flight ")

Voyager discovered a communications network that allowed the crew to contact Starfleet . The network was owned by the Hirogen , a hunter race. When Tuvok and Seven of Nine beamed over to examine the network, they were captured by the Hirogen, who planned on killing them and using their bones as trophies. Janeway discovered that the network was being powered by a black hole , and, by increasing the power relays, she managed to disable the Hirogen ship and rescue the two. ( VOY : " Hunters ") Later, another Hirogen was encountered during his hunt for Species 8472 , which continued on Voyager when the wounded Hirogen was beamed over for medical attention. ( VOY : " Prey ") The final contact with the Hirogen that year took place on Voyager . The Hirogen captured the starship and, using brainwashing techniques, used the crew as prey in various hunting programs in the holodeck. Janeway played the part of a Klingon warrior killed by the Hirogen as well as the leader of a French resistance unit during a World War II holosimulation. After becoming aware of what was happening, the crew managed to retake the ship when Janeway killed the Alpha Hirogen . As the Hirogen left the ship, she gave them holo-technology in hope that they would give up hunting live prey and use the holoprograms instead. ( VOY : " The Killing Game ", " The Killing Game, Part II ")

Janeway set out to destroy a molecule known as the Omega molecule , the most dangerous and unstable substance known. She succeeded in destroying the molecule, but not without opposition from Seven of Nine. Seven, being a former Borg drone, still possessed incredible appreciation and awe of the Omega molecule, which the Borg believed to be perfect. ( VOY : " The Omega Directive ")

Janeway and Arturis

Near the end of the year, Janeway met Arturis , who helped them decode a Starfleet message. Decoding the message, they found a Federation ship that they believed had been sent to take them back to the Alpha Quadrant using slipstream technology , which Arturis offered to help them install. However, it was a ruse, as the ship had been manufactured by Arturis so that he could take Voyager and its crew to be assimilated. When his plan didn't work, he settled on Janeway and Seven of Nine being assimilated by the Borg. His people had been fighting the Borg, and their only hope had been that Species 8472 might defeat the Borg. When Janeway had helped the Borg, his people had subsequently been assimilated, and he now wanted revenge. Janeway managed to shut down the force field on his ship, and she and Seven were beamed back to Voyager as Arturis' ship arrived in Borg space. ( VOY : " Hope and Fear ")

On stardate 50979, unknown aliens attacked Ensign Harry Kim , The Doctor , and Ensign Ahni Jetal on an away mission. The Doctor had to decide between saving the life of either Jetal or Kim. The ensuing decision began an ethical battle between his original programming and his evolved personality. In order to combat this, Janeway ordered his program rewritten. Eighteen months later – when he recovered these memories – she again ordered his program rewritten. As a result of Seven disagreeing with her, she allowed The Doctor to remain as he was, working out the problems on his own with the support of the crew. ( VOY : " Latent Image ")

In 2375 , Janeway and Voyager made contact with a race known as the Malon . While entering a vast void in space with no stars, Janeway rescued a night being who was dying from radiation poisoning. The Malon, who were the garbage men of the quadrant, were dumping radioactive material in the aliens' space. The dying night being asked Janeway to close a vortex that the Malon were using to dump the material. Janeway decided to close the vortex, which had to be done inside the void, which would cause her to sacrifice herself. The crew refused to follow her orders and instead persuaded her to close the vortex as Voyager entered it. It caused a shock wave , but Voyager survived and closed the vortex, protecting the space of the night aliens. ( VOY : " Night ") Later that year, they encountered a Malon ship that was in danger of exploding and contaminating space due to ruptured fuel tanks. An away team found that a Malon who was disfigured from years of work on the ship had deliberately caused the damage, for revenge. ( VOY : " Juggernaut ")

Janeway discovered that Species 8472 had simulated Starfleet Academy as a training exercise to prepare for an invasion of Earth . This was based on Janeway's previous actions in their war with the Borg. When Janeway explained that she did not know that the Borg had started the war and that she hoped they could get home faster, the two groups found common ground. The leader of the simulation, having taken the form of Boothby , invited the crew to stay for a bit and treat it as shore leave , but Janeway politely declined, preferring to get underway for the real thing. ( VOY : " In the Flesh ")

Janeway demoted Paris for interfering with a water society. ( VOY : " Thirty Days ") She later had a romantic interlude with a Devore commander who, while looking for telepaths to arrest , asked for asylum aboard Voyager . The romance ended when the commander revealed himself as only pretending to defect in order to discover the whereabouts of the telepaths. ( VOY : " Counterpoint ")

Janeway as Queen Arachnia

Janeway played the part of Queen Arachnia , Queen of the Spider People, in one of Paris' holoprograms, The Adventures of Captain Proton . Aliens had taken the program as a serious threat, and she had to "kill" Doctor Chaotica to satisfy the aliens that they were no longer in danger. ( VOY : " Bride of Chaotica! ")

Janeway saved Voyager and Seven from the Think Tank , a group of aliens who solved problems for a fee. They hired the Hazari to attack the ship, and, in return for solving Voyager 's problem with the Hazari, they wanted Seven of Nine. ( VOY : " Think Tank ")

Janeway discovered another Federation ship lost in the Delta Quadrant, the USS Equinox , captained by Rudolph Ransom . He explained that his ship was attacked by creatures that killed much of his crew. The crew was beamed to Voyager for medical attention, and the Voyager crew attempted to repair the Equinox . Janeway discovered that the reason the creatures were attacking the Equinox was that Ransom had been capturing them and using them for fuel for the ship. Janeway confronted Ransom and arrested him and his crew. The EMH for the Equinox , which was beamed aboard Voyager , helped the crew escape back to the Equinox . They disabled Voyager , kidnapped Seven, and sped away. In the meantime, the creatures attacked Voyager . ( VOY : " Equinox ")

Janeway pushed to the limit

Janeway became obsessed with finding Ransom and resorted to means that would not have been acceptable to Starfleet. She was willing to kill a captured member of the Equinox , if he did not tell them the location of the ship, and confined Chakotay to his quarters when he interfered. When Voyager found Equinox , a battle ensued. When the Equinox was damaged by Voyager and attacked by the creatures, Ransom had a change of heart, dropped his shields, and surrendered Seven in exchange for his crew beaming aboard Voyager . He himself stayed with his ship as it exploded. Her final words to Ransom was agreeing with a promise to get her crew home. ( VOY : " Equinox, Part II ")

The same year, Tuvok was attacked by cloaked aliens during an away mission, and the weapons fire caused brain damage. Since The Doctor needed to examine the weapon in order to cure Tuvok, Janeway sought the Ba'Neth , the race of aliens responsible for the attack. With the help of Kesat Deputy Investigator Naroq , Janeway succeeded in tracking the Ba'Neth down. She used a photolitic converter to uncloak them. Janeway threatened to expose their location to other races, to which the Ba'Neth responded by handing over the weapon, and Tuvok was thereafter cured. ( VOY : " Riddles ")

Janeway encountered the Vaadwaur , a race that had been in stasis for nearly nine hundred years in order to survive the bombardment of their world, which had been destroyed by the Turei . After Seven of Nine opened one of the stasis pods without permission and a Vaadwaur named " Gedrin " was consequently awakened, Janeway offered to help him wake up the rest of his race, in return for allowing Voyager to use its subspace corridors , which would considerably cut the time to return home. She was unaware, though, that the Vaadwaur were a warrior race which had subjugated many of the races in their sector, including the Turei. They tried to take over Voyager but were unsuccessful. Gedrin refused to betray Janeway and helped Voyager escape. ( VOY : " Dragon's Teeth ")

Janeway and Voyager enlisted the help of Tash , who was working on a catapult vessel that could propel a ship many light years away and could thereby cut the time of Voyager 's trip. However, Seven of Nine tried to sabotage the experiment. Attempting to bite off more than she could chew, she downloaded too much information into her cortical node , resulting in paranoid delusions. She believed that Voyager was part of a Federation invasion force into the Delta Quadrant and that the catapult would bring more ships into the quadrant. She told Chakotay this. At the same time, she told Janeway that the catapult would be used by Chakotay to launch a Maquis attack on the Federation. When Seven used the Delta Flyer to get away from Voyager , Janeway beamed over and was able to convince Seven that she was ill and needed medical attention. ( VOY : " The Voyager Conspiracy ")

Although Voyager was able to send messages to Starfleet through the Hirogen communications network, the network had been destroyed two years earlier and there had been no further contact. Lieutenant Reginald Barclay of Starfleet was able to make contact in that year by opening an artificial wormhole through which communication could occur. The next year, the link was further stabilized to allow daily visual communication for eleven minutes a day. ( VOY : " Pathfinder ", " Author, Author ")

Enjoying the company of Michael Sullivan

Janeway found time to relax in a new holoprogram of Paris', called " Fair Haven ". There, she became attracted to the main character, Michael Sullivan . Although Sullivan was happily married, Janeway solved that little issue by changing the program to make him single. Later in the year, she rescued Paris and Kim from the townsfolk, who believed they were evil spirits. ( VOY : " Fair Haven ", " Spirit Folk ")

Voyager was drawn by a gravimetric wave into the orbit of a planet with a high rate of revolution. Because of a tachyon core breach, a second on Voyager was a day on the planet. While trapped in orbit, they observed the evolution of the planet. However, Voyager was unable to break orbit without significant harm inflicted on the planet, and, when the civilization began space travel, Voyager was threatened and attacked. When one of the astronauts landed on Voyager , Janeway explained the situation, and the pilot returned to his planet. Ships from the planet used a tractor beam to pull Voyager out of its orbit. ( VOY : " Blink of an Eye ")

Janeway also suffered an illusion that she and members of her crew took part in a massacre on the planet Tarakis . The massacre had taken place three hundred years prior, but a synaptic transmitter sent images to anyone who entered the system. This was done as a way of commemorating the people who had died. ( VOY : " Memorial ")

Voyager also encountered a Borg ship that was piloted by children who were separated from the hive due to an accident in space. After Seven of Nine convinced them to release captured crewmembers, Janeway allowed them to be beamed aboard Voyager and join her crew. Later, when she returned Icheb – the oldest of the former Borg children – to his parents on the Brunali planet, she found out that his parents only had him so he could be used as bait to defeat the Borg. Without the knowledge of the rest of their people, they had secretly genetically engineered him to produce a pathogen, and, when he was assimilated, the pathogen was spread among the Borg, effectively leading to their termination and causing the situation in which Voyager found their cube. The crew saved Icheb, who remained on Voyager . ( VOY : " Collective ", " Child's Play ")

Later that year, after an efficiency report, Janeway became aware that three members of her crew were performing below standard. She decided to take the three on an away mission with her, in order to help them improve their efficiency. When the Delta Flyer was attacked by an unknown force, the trio rose to the occasion and saved the ship and Janeway. ( VOY : " Good Shepherd ")

Janeway also foiled a scam run by Dala , a con artist who was impersonating her. Dala was stealing goods and conning various races by pretending to be Janeway. ( VOY : " Live Fast and Prosper ")

Dealing with the "haunted" nebula

Janeway also had her last meeting with an elder Kes who, with her telekinetic powers, was attacking Voyager and, by traveling back in time, was trying to change the timeline by betraying Voyager to the Vidiians. She blamed Janeway for taking her away from her people, for developing her mental powers before she was ready to use them, and for destroying her youth. As the Vidiians boarded the ship in the past, Janeway was forced to kill the older Kes with a phaser, and Voyager broke free and escaped. Janeway explained to the young Kes in the past what had happened, and she made a recording, explaining how happy she was and that her stay on Voyager was voluntary. When the older Kes again appeared in the normal timeline, she was convinced by the recording and left Voyager peacefully. ( VOY : " Fury ")

At the end of the year, Janeway returned an electric being, which had invaded Voyager , back to its home in a nebula. ( VOY : " The Haunting of Deck Twelve ")

2377-78 [ ]

Janeway in 2377

In 2377 and 2378 , the last years of Voyager' s trip home, Janeway faced many dangers and old enemies.

The first threat came from an unlikely source: the Ferengi . Nunk , a Ferengi, tried to steal some of Seven's nanoprobes . He programmed a fake hologram of Barclay , which arrived on Voyager through the artificial wormhole Barclay had created to communicate with the ship. Nunk was able to steal the codes by using a dabo girl pretending to be a teacher – she was Barclay's girlfriend. The counterfeit Barclay would steer Voyager into a space accident, which would destroy the ship, and at the last-minute take Seven and turn her over to the Ferengi. The plot was foiled by Barclay and Starfleet. ( VOY : " Inside Man ")

Janeway dealt with a mutiny by the Maquis, caused by a repressed brainwashing technique implanted into Tuvok by a Bajoran named " Teero Anaydis ". ( VOY : " Repression ") The ship also became trapped in a void in space in which only those ships willing to plunder other ships for technology could survive. Voyager , by forming an alliance with other ships in the void, was able to escape. ( VOY : " The Void ") Chakotay recruited the aid of a past version of Janeway to restore the timeline on Voyager after the ship was hit with a distortion wave. ( VOY : " Shattered ")

Janeway dealt with Paris and Torres' marriage and pregnancy. She encountered Klingons who lived on a generation ship, were looking for the savior of their race and believed Torres was carrying that savior. ( VOY : " Lineage ", " Prophecy ")

Janeway kidnapped by the Quarren

Janeway again encountered the Hirogen. They had used the holoprogram she had given them, after their attempt to take over Voyager , and had enhanced it so that the holograms had become sentient, but they, under Iden , rebelled, killing the Hirogen and other species they came in contact with. Janeway joined with the Hirogen and defeated Iden as well as his murderous desires. However, she protected the other holograms who wished to live in peace. ( VOY : " Flesh and Blood ")

The crew was later captured and brainwashed into believing that they were part of a Quarren workforce. Janeway became romantically involved with another employee before being rescued. ( VOY : " Workforce ", " Workforce, Part II ")

Q enlisted her aid in helping his son, "Junior", who had become a troublesome teenager. Janeway helped straighten the boy out and reconciled him with his father. ( VOY : " Q2 ") She also convinced Neelix to stay with a colony of Talaxians they discovered on an asteroid and helped repel a group of miners who had been threatening them. ( VOY : " Homestead ")

Returning home [ ]

In 2378 , Janeway was able to return to Earth with the assistance of Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway from the early 25th century of an alternate timeline .

Admiral Janeway from an alternate timeline

Admiral Janeway had provided her present-day counterpart with sophisticated anti-Borg technology, including transphasic torpedoes and ablative generator armor technology, in order for her to enter a nebula that had readings suggesting dozens of wormholes and Borg cubes .

When Voyager reached the nebula guided by Admiral Janeway, she ordered the crew to enter the transwarp hub , but Captain Janeway was reluctant to forgo the opportunity to damage the Borg's infrastructure considerably. Admiral Janeway was initially reluctant, but after Captain Janeway got the support of the crew for her plan, the two Janeways teamed up together to try to do both.

While trying to outrun the cascading shock wave reaction caused by the destruction of one hub, a Borg sphere pursued Voyager and attempted to capture it. Upon exiting the transwarp conduit in the Alpha Quadrant less than a light year from Earth, Admiral Paris ordered all available ships to intercept, in response to sensor readings indicating a Borg energy signature.

On arrival in the Alpha Quadrant, the Starfleet armada opened fire on the sphere, which had encompassed Voyager , to no avail. However, Voyager destroyed the sphere from inside with a single transphasic torpedo . As this happened, Voyager flew out from the wreckage, much to the surprise and amazement of not only the fleet, but also Admiral Paris, Lieutenant Barclay, and the entire Voyager crew. Voyager was then escorted back home. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Home again [ ]

Vice Admiral Janeway at Starfleet Command

Upon the return of Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant, Janeway was promoted to the rank of vice admiral and given an assignment at Starfleet Command . In 2379 , she ordered Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise -E on a diplomatic mission to Romulus , in response to a message relayed at a request of the new Romulan praetor , Shinzon . Janeway told Picard that Shinzon was a Reman and that, if the Romulan Empire became unstable, it would mean war for the entire quadrant. Janeway then ended the discussion, sarcastically remarking how Picard got all the easy assignments, but hoped his luck would hold out. ( Star Trek Nemesis )

Janeway's renown would spread beyond the Federation. The Pakleds would sometimes conflate any Human female Starfleet captain that they had several dealings with, such as Carol Freeman , with Janeway. ( LD : " The Spy Humongous ")

Sometime after returning home, Seven of Nine wanted to join Starfleet but they declined her admittance because she was Borg. Janeway fought against this decision to the point where she even threatened to resign but Seven eventually gave up on the idea of joining Starfleet and she ended up joining the Fenris Rangers instead. ( PIC : " Hide and Seek ")

Shortly after being promoted to vice admiral, Janeway attended the launching ceremony of the USS Protostar , which was equipped with a training holographic program modeled after her. Janeway spoke with Captain Chakotay about his returning to the Delta Quadrant; Chakotay promised that she would be the first one to call if he ran into any trouble, but he never did. At the time, Janeway was one of the most decorated officers in Starfleet history. ( PRO : " Lost and Found ", " Starstruck ", " Asylum ")

In the alternate timeline when Voyager returned to Earth in 2394 , Janeway became an admiral who had done some work with Starfleet Intelligence , though it had concluded by the time she was guest lecturing at Starfleet Academy alongside then-Commander Reginald Barclay at the Communications Research Center . ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Commanding the USS Dauntless [ ]

Looking for the protostar [ ].

Vice Admiral Janeway in command of the USS Dauntless

By 2384 , Janeway commanded the USS Dauntless on a mission to locate Chakotay and the missing Protostar . ( PRO : " A Moral Star, Part 2 ")

The Dauntless tracked the Protostar' s warp signature to a planetoid in the Carina Nebula . Upon arrival to the remains of Tars Lamora , Janeway lead an away team where they discover one lifeform alive but in a form of stasis and believe that he had answers to what happened. ( PRO : " Asylum ")

Her chief medical officer Doctor Noum was initially unable to revive the patient, until her navigator Ensign Asencia suggested that they replicate the serum found within the patient’s biosuit. Not long after, the Dauntless tracked the Protostar' s last movement to Federation relay station CR-721 , which had been destroyed. Since she knew Chakotay couldn’t be responsible for the attack on the station, that meant that someone else must be in command of the ship. ( PRO : " Let Sleeping Borg Lie ") By this point, their mysterious patient had woken up but had no memory of who he was or what had happened to him. ( PRO : " All the World's a Stage ")

He did eventually remember that he had a mission and that the Protostar crew had taken his daughter. After locating CR-721’s sole occupant, Lt. Barniss Frex at the Denaxi Depot , Janeway ordered the Dauntless to set a course for the Depot, hoping that Frex could shine light on what had happened. At the depot, Frex reported that the station had been destroyed by six "ruthless savages" dressed as Starfleet. When Frex revealed that one of the marauders had purple skin, Janeway realized that it must have been the young man, a teenager she had just met moments earlier. She then admonished Frex for not telling her that the group in question wasn’t a group of criminals, but simply a bunch of kids.

Suddenly, Janeway was informed that the Protostar itself just lifted up from the planet. Once her landing party beamed back about the ship, Janeway ordered the Dauntless to pursue the Protostar into warp. When the Protostar accidentally fired a torpedo at the Dauntless , Janeway ordered to return fire, careful to disable to the ship and not destroy it. When the Protostar fled into the Romulan Neutral Zone , Janeway was ready to follow them in. However, her first officer, Commander Tysess refused to obey her order since he feared she was letting her desire to find Chakotay dictate her actions, actions which could’ve led to war. ( PRO : " Crossroads ")

Janeway contacted Admiral Edward Jellico , at Starfleet Command to get permission to enter the Neutral Zone, arguing that they couldn’t let the Romulans get their hands on an unknown weapon aboard the Protostar . However, her request was denied, and Jellico ordered her to destroy the Protostar if the Romulans seized it. Though Ensign Asencia volunteered to covertly enter the Neutral Zone to get the ship, Janeway stated that she wasn’t ready to defy orders. Monitoring the Protostar from the other side of the Neutral Zone, Janeway gave the order to destroy the ship when appeared that a Tal Shiar squad was about to board, but quickly belayed the order when the Romulans were suddenly taken out of commission by the Protostar crew. ( PRO : " Masquerade ").

As the Protostar continually ignored the Dauntless ' hails, Janeway got a lead when Tysess presented her with a PADD which contained bounty information, names, and images, on the Protostar 's captors. When Janeway lamented that the Protostar crew weren't criminals, but simply children who got in over their heads, Tysess suggested that she look into who asked for the bounty. When Janeway discovered that it was someone called "The Diviner", she expanded one of the images and recognized that the girl was the same species as their mysterious patient. Wondering if the images could jolt his memory, went looking for him and learned that he was in Ensign Asencia's quarters. After ordering security to look up information on The Diviner, she walked into the quarters and found an artificial lifeform and Ensign Ascencia who now appeared to be the same species as the patient. Before she could do anything, Janeway was knocked unconscious from behind. ( PRO : " Preludes ")

The Vau N'akat plot [ ]

Later, she woke up surrounded by strange people, whom she recognized as the children who'd stolen the Protostar. Not only was she aboard the Protostar , but she was also somehow in the body of one of the children – Dal R'El . Zero , a young Medusan , explained that in the process of Dal attempting to contact Janeway telepathicly , his neural pattern must have gotten switched with hers – which meant that Dal must be in her body aboard the Dauntless . At that point, the young crew explained their entire situation to Janeway: the discovery of the abandoned Protostar on Tars Lamora , their escape from The Diviner , and the weapon placed on the Protostar , the living construct , which was designed specifically to destroy Starfleet should any Starfleet system link up to it. Recognizing that she'd made some unfair assumptions about the children, a sympathetic Janeway promised to help them any way she could; however, she needed to find some way to get her back to her body back on the Dauntless .

While the crew tried to come up with a solution, Janeway located the hologram version of herself that was loaded onto the Protostar. Though Janeway wasn't able to deactivate the living construct, she was able to restore Holo-Janeway's original program and remove the construct's corruption, which caused Holo-Janeway to take over the ship and set it on a non-stop course towards Federation space . With her memories restored, Holo-Janeway then showed Janeway Chakotay's last log, which showed him sending out a distress call before being boarded by Drednoks .

Afterwards, Rok-Tahk , the young Brikar on board, revealed her theory that the Dauntless ' phaser beam , which struck the Protostar at the moment Zero was attempting to create a telepathic link between Dal (a Human Augment hybrid created from the genes of twenty-six different species) and Janeway must have acted as a conduit and caused the two neural patterns to switch. Zero explained that before the ancient Organians became non-corporeal, they were able to transfer their consciousness into other bodies through physical touch. Zero suggested that Janeway-in-Dal and Dal-in-Janeway go out into space in environmental suits so they could float out in space until they came within touching distance of each other. Since the Protostar was so close to the Dauntless that Dal-in-Janeway could see them through the windows, they were able to get the word out to him through charades . As Janeway prepared to exit the ship, she told Rok that she'd make an excellent science officer someday and promised to help them all in their quests to join Starfleet. However, she revealed to Gwyn that, since Dal was an Augment, he would never be allowed to join.

Later, both Janeway-in-Dal and Dal-in-Janeway both struggled to reach each other so they could switch back. When the Dauntless attempted to pull Dal-in-Janeway back in via a tractor beam , Janeway-in-Dal shot her counterpart with a low powered phaser blast, hoping it would work as a conduit for the mind swap . The plan worked and both Dal and Janeway were returned to their respective bodies and to their own ships. Unfortunately, Janeway, groggy from the phaser blast she'd inflicted on her own body, woke to find herself in the brig , under guard. ( PRO : " Mindwalk ")

Janeway tried to convince the officer standing guard outside the brig that Starfleet was in imminent danger. When Janeway assured the guard that she could be trusted, the officer turned around and said that she knows she could. The officer informed Janeway that, years earlier , when she was a child , she was one of the Brenari refugees that the captain, hid from the Devore and had sent through a wormhole in the Delta Quadrant . The officer released Janeway who rushed to the bridge. Unfortunately, she was too late as the living construct had been activated and Starfleet vessels, including her own, began firing on one another. ( PRO : " Supernova, Part 1 ")

Ultimately, the Protostar crew sacrificed their ship, and their mentor and mother-figure Holo Janeway in the process, in order to save Starfleet. ( PRO : " Supernova, Part 2 ")

Back on Earth [ ]

One month later, at a debrief at Starfleet Command , Janeway was informed that, thanks to Holo Janeway, the Protostar 's path across space-time created a wormhole that duplicated the one that sent Chakotay and his crew into the future. This created an interspatial flexure to approximately the same space-time coordinates – in an alternate future. From the wormhole, they were able to pick up a signal from Chakotay. Told that Starfleet was talking about sending a ship through the wormhole to find Chakotay, Janeway stated that she wanted to be on that ship. Just then, an officer entered and announced that the young crew of the Protostar had been found. She ran outside and joined a crowd to see the crew being rescued from their shuttle that crash-landed in San Francisco Bay .

At the tribunal Starfleet conducted regarding the criminal charges that faced the young crew, such as stealing a Federation starship and impersonating Starfleet officers, Janeway argued that the kids did everything in an effort to warn Starfleet. However, the judges were dismissive of Janeway's idea for the kids to be accepted straight into Starfleet Academy , especially the Augment. One judge argued that the Academy was not a space camp for children, but a serious, disciplined institution designed for only the brightest, while another judge argued that there were protocols to enroll in the Academy and stated that "good intentions do not make up for Federation crimes." Janeway argued passionately on the kids' behalf, stating that the interviews and psychological evaluations couldn't stand up to what the crew had been through and stated that the "Augment" (who she pointed out was not "enhanced" in any way) contained the DNA of twenty-six of the Federation's 150 members and asked if there was a better example of what their alliance represented.

Soon after, Janeway informed the kids that, while the tribunal did drop all the criminal charges, they could not allow them to be fast tracked to Starfleet Academy, stating that it wasn't fair to the more-qualified applicants. However, five of them would be permitted to serve under her as warrant officers -in-training, on her new assignment. When the group asked why only five, Gwyn stated her intent to forgo Starfleet and travel to present day Solum in the hope of unifying the Vau N'Akat in an effort to prevent the civil war.

Later, Janeway showed the remaining crew the newest Protostar -class ship but stated that it wouldn't be their ship, saying that she had a much bigger plan for them. ( PRO : " Supernova, Part 2 ")

Later career [ ]

Following the attack on Mars in 2385 , now-Admiral Janeway was stalked by Lieutenant Commander Raffaela Musiker , who was seeking support for her conviction that a conspiracy was behind the attack. ( PIC : " The Next Generation ")

In 2401 , Picard proposed to Commander Ro Laren that they approach Janeway with her evidence of a widespread Changeling infiltration of Starfleet. Ro replied that she had already tried, but was stymied at every turn. ( PIC : " Imposters ")

Conflict with the Borg [ ]

Negotiating with the Borg

Janeway earned herself a reputation for dealing with the Borg. Her first encounter with the Borg was in 2371 , while Voyager was in drydock at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards . A former Borg and future crew member from the future traveled back in time with the help of the Federation timeship USS Relativity . ( VOY : " Relativity ")

Another encounter came about after Janeway aided the Sakari in camouflaging energy readings and ruins from their planet. A single dead Borg drone was found among the rubble. ( VOY : " Blood Fever ")

While traveling through the Nekrit Expanse , Voyager encountered a Borg cube floating dead in space. There were no power signatures on board and scans revealed 1,100 dead drones. Janeway sent an away team over to the cube to collect and gather information about Borg technology . The away team discovered that all systems on the ship had ceased abruptly due to an electro-mechanical discharge, approximately five years earlier. The team brought back a Borg corpse to analyze.

While leaving the region, Chakotay was forcibly linked to the new Borg Cooperative and made to activate a Borg cube, which was destroyed seconds later by the Cooperative. ( VOY : " Unity ")

Dealing with Seven of Nine

In late 2373 , Janeway had a major dealing with the Borg. After nearly three years of travel, Voyager had reached the edge of Borg space . Janeway increased security and prepared herself and her crew for the eventual crossing of Borg space. Rather than turn around, Janeway and her crew managed to locate a small passage where there was no Borg activity, which they named the " Northwest Passage ".

It was later discovered, however, that the absence of Borg activity was due to the presence of a large number of quantum singularities . While en route to the Alpha Quadrant, Voyager 's engines stalled as Kim detected fifteen Borg ships closing fast from behind. Fourteen of the ships passed Voyager , but the last one scanned Voyager with a polaron beam. Later, Kim detected that the power signatures of the Borg ships had ceased. Janeway, curious about this, decided to head for their position. When they arrived, the Borg ships were destroyed.

The singularities, in turn, were how a race, supposedly more powerful than the Borg, were entering our domain from their realm of fluidic space . Later, she learned that the Borg's new enemy, designated Species 8472 , occupied the passage. Rather than tempt fate with the unusual aliens, Janeway opted to make a treaty with the Borg. Voyager 's EMH had discovered a way for Borg nanoprobes to assimilate the previously immune species. Janeway oversaw the development of a new nanoprobe -based bioweapon that was designed to attack Species 8472 at a cellular level. It was during this incident that Seven of Nine was stranded on Voyager .

Janeway caught by a Borg drone

Seven of Nine's newly found individuality caused concern within herself, giving her the need to return to the Borg to be with the others in the Collective. Kathryn Janeway attempted to stop this need by introducing Seven to her past and to what her normal life should have been. Despite much apprehension on Seven's part, Janeway eventually got through to her and she finally accepted her individuality. ( VOY : " Scorpion ", " Scorpion, Part II ", " The Gift ")

Between stardates 50953.4 and 50984.3, Voyager was attacked by a Borg probe . After destroying the attacking vessel, several data nodes were salvaged. Using information obtained from the nodes, Janeway devised a plan to raid a Borg sphere and steal one of its transwarp coils ,

Janeway, assimilated by the Borg

which would speed Voyager 's journey home. The mission went well until Seven was captured by the Borg Queen . Janeway led an away team to free her using the Delta Flyer , which had been adapted to withstand the firepower of the Borg. The Borg diamond was destroyed, and Seven was freed. ( VOY : " Dark Frontier ")

In 2376 , Janeway found out that a group of Borg had a genetic mutation that allowed them to exist as they were when they were individuals during their regeneration. This state was named " Unimatrix Zero ". Janeway assisted them in fighting Borg without the mutation so that they could remain individuals. She, B'Elanna Torres, and Tuvok introduced a nanovirus into Tactical Cube 138 's central plexus , separating the members of Unimatrix Zero from the hive mind . This plunged the Collective into a civil war. ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ")

In 2378 , with the help of a future version of herself from an alternate timeline , Janeway discovered a Borg transwarp hub and decided to destroy it rather than use it to return home. With the support of her crew and ultimately her future self, Janeway enacted a risky plan to do both. The plan succeeded and Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant , less than a light-year from Earth, having destroyed the hub and a Borg sphere. Although the Admiral Janeway from the future of an alternate timeline allowed herself to be assimilated while infected with a neurolytic pathogen , she thereby annihilated both the Borg Queen and the Unicomplex, dealing a crippling if not fatal blow to the Borg and allowing Voyager to return home. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

In 2384 , the crew of the USS Protostar , which included a holographic duplicate of Janeway that acted as a training advisor , encountered a Borg cube that had been rendered dormant by Admiral Janeway's pathogen. ( PRO : " Let Sleeping Borg Lie ")

In 2401 , the Borg Queen revealed that Janeway and her alternate timeline counterpart's plan had decimated the Borg to the point of near destruction. Following a failed vengeful plan to assimilate Starfleet with the help of the Changelings , the Borg were finally destroyed by the USS Enterprise -D , finishing what Janeway had started. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

In the alternate future timeline from which Admiral Janeway originated, she was once introduced by Commander Reginald Barclay, when she was about to give a lecture to his cadets at Starfleet Academy , as the person who "wrote the book on the Borg." ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Alternate realities and timelines [ ]

In an alternate timeline experienced by Kes , Captain Janeway was killed during the first encounter between the USS Voyager and the Krenim in 2374, requiring Chakotay to take command. ( VOY : " Before and After ")

In another alternate timeline , Janeway engaged the Krenim, during a year in which the USS Voyager was wrecked nearly beyond repair. This devastating year pushed Janeway to her psychological limits – to the point where she was only still in command because there was nowhere to contain her for treatment, as the ship fell apart around them. Afterward, Janeway rammed Voyager into the Krenim temporal ship, restoring the primary timeline. ( VOY : " Year of Hell ", " Year of Hell, Part II ")

In a different alternate timeline , Voyager used a quantum slipstream drive in 2375 but crash-landed on an arctic planet. Janeway was killed when the vessel crash-landed, as was the rest of the crew except for Harry Kim and Chakotay , who had survived the trip in the Delta Flyer . Fifteen years later, they found Voyager and "fixed" history. ( VOY : " Timeless ")

In a timeline in 2377 in which Voyager was split into 37 different timeframes, the Chakotay of the original timeframe encountered a Janeway from shortly before Voyager ventured into the Delta Quadrant. He injected her with a chroniton infused serum so that she could travel freely aboard the vessel and enlisted her help in resolving the situation. She became troubled by what she learned of Voyager 's future and suggested preventing Voyager from ever being sent into the Delta Quadrant in the first place, but Chakotay told her that it was presumptuous to think that she had the right to change everyone's future. ( VOY : " Shattered ")

In the aborted timeline in which Voyager avoided the nebula that contained the transwarp hub controlled by the Borg , the ship returned to the Alpha Quadrant sixteen years later than they did in the prime timeline. Janeway became a vice admiral and traveled back in time to 2378 , bringing along technology approximately thirty years from the future to help Voyager return to Earth using the previously avoided hub. The Janeway from this timeline had become more obsessed with bringing her crew home after having suffered heavy casualties during the remaining sixteen years since they had encountered the Borg-infested nebula. She had also encountered the Borg several more times, which had enabled her to develop new tactics and weapons, including ablative generator armor and a type of transphasic torpedo . She had apparently also studied the Borg extensively; she knew the shields protecting the hub were controlled by the Borg Queen herself. She also gave up coffee, in favor of tea, but only took up coffee again after she went back in time to help her younger self get home. This Janeway had become very bitter and lost her idealism, but upon seeing the crew's loyalty, she regained her idealism and agreed to work with the crew to deliver a crippling blow to the Borg and get home. Pretending to be seeking the Borg Queen's help in getting Voyager home because of the stubbornness of her present-day counterpart, this Janeway allowed herself to be captured and assimilated by the Borg Queen, infecting her with a neurolytic pathogen , killing her and destroying the Borg Unicomplex. She died in the explosion, but her sacrifice allowed Voyager to finally return home while destroying the Borg transwarp hub . ( VOY : " Endgame ") In 2401 , the Borg Queen revealed to Jean-Luc Picard that Janeway's pathogen had decimated the Collective, leading to a vengeful scheme to assimilate the Federation through subterfuge but bringing the Collective to the very edge of destruction and later giving the USS Enterprise -D the chance to finish the job. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

Personal interests [ ]

Janeway was well known for her love of coffee . She refused to go a day without it and hadn't changed her standing order " Coffee, black, " (without milk or sugar ) in the seven years of Voyager 's journey home. In stressful situations, she tended to drink more than four cups a day. ( VOY : " Shattered ", " Hunters ")

Neelix pours Janeway a cup of his "better than coffee substitute"

When energy reserves were low and the use of replicators was discouraged early in Voyager 's time in the Delta Quadrant, she tried to give up coffee by drinking Neelix's " even better than coffee substitute ", but to no avail; the beverage had a thick, molasses-like consistency that Janeway found offputting. She was relieved when the bridge called her just before Neelix was finished pouring it. ( VOY : " The Cloud ")

In an alternate timeline, Janeway gave up coffee in favor of tea later in life. When this future version of Janeway time travelled back to help Voyager return home and regained her idealism, Admiral Janeway returned to drinking coffee and told her younger self she had no idea why she had ever given it up. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Janeway's love of coffee was carried over into her holographic duplicate who would often simulate drinking coffee. ( PRO : " Starstruck ")

By 2384 , Admiral Janeway had reluctantly switched from black coffee to black tea to comply with her doctor's orders, though she quipped that she "need[ed] a second opinion". ( PRO : " Let Sleeping Borg Lie ")

Janeway's love of coffee was such an integral part of her personality that when Dal R'El accidentally swapped minds with her in an attempt to contact her telepathically, the Dauntless crew were perplexed by the "admiral's" odd behavior to the point that Dr. Noum rescinded his "no coffee" order and gave "Janeway" a cup to restore her to normal. When "Janeway" spat it out and reacted with disgust, it served as further proof to the Dauntless crew that something wasn't right with her. ( PRO : " Mindwalk ")

Nostalgia and the holodeck [ ]

Janeway appreciated certain elements of Earth history, often through a scientist's eyes. She once expressed a desire to serve in the 23rd century , alongside Captain Kirk and his crew . While she believed their conduct would have been unacceptable in contemporary Starfleet, she said she would have enjoyed being with them in an era when space seemed "a whole lot bigger." ( VOY : " Flashback ")

As an avid user of Voyager ''s holodeck, she enjoyed a Gothic holonovel in the first year of the voyage home and later recreated Leonardo da Vinci's workshop , casting herself as the inventor's apprentice. ( VOY : " Cathexis ", " Scorpion ") Her adventures with Leonardo da Vinci left the holodeck when a thief named Tau stole The Doctor's mobile emitter and inadvertently downloaded da Vinci's program into it. ( VOY : " Concerning Flight ")

When Paris created the Fair Haven holoprogram, set in a small 19th century Ireland village, Janeway marveled at the detail but could point out slight errors in authenticity. Janeway enjoyed playing rings in the program, and even developed romantic feelings for one of the holographic characters. ( VOY : " Fair Haven ", " Spirit Folk ")

Sciences [ ]

Janeway maintained her passion for science during her captaincy, and the Delta Quadrant provided ample wonders. She enjoyed exploring unfamiliar spatial phenomena and believed that some risk was acceptable for the sake of knowledge. She made a detailed exploration of an astral eddy and collected data on a binary pulsar, although the latter instance was hampered by Srivani experimentation. ( VOY : " Real Life ", " Scientific Method ") Janeway's background in science and engineering allowed her to quickly grasp the implications or potential of spatial phenomena and discuss it on a level with her crew. Although she sometimes had to suspend her scientific mindset , she did use it to reason out seemingly supernatural phenomena. ( VOY : " Parallax ", " Sacred Ground ", " Coda ")

Personality [ ]

Janeway characteristically fiddling with her combadge when about to drop a bombshell on her crew

As a captain, Janeway was very committed to Starfleet protocol, resisting the urge to bend or break the Prime Directive throughout Voyager 's trip back to Earth through the Delta Quadrant, despite the fact that she was decades from Starfleet Command and could have simply broken the rules and lied about it in her records. While she recognized the potential dangers of this attitude, she refused to compromise on matters of principle. However, she often took action to help any species they encountered where Voyager could offer assistance without breaking the rules, such as investigating mysterious asteroid "assaults" or helping damaged ships conduct repairs without providing any of their "allies" with advanced technology ( VOY : " Alliances ", " Rise ", " The Disease ") The only exception Janeway made towards breaking the Prime Directive was when it got in the way of their journey home, particularly when it came towards entering other species territory in the Delta Quadrant instead of going around it, which would extend their journey by months or even years.

Following the rules also extended to handling her responsibilities with her subordinates. When Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres disagreed on unnecessary genetic modifications for their unborn daughter, they went to her for a command ruling. Janeway came to the conclusion that the problem was not ethical, but marital. She also stressed that, while she was willing to give advice as a friend, she would not make any orders of any kind as to a decision, as it would be highly inappropriate for a captain to do so. ( VOY : " Lineage ")

While Janeway was a skilled commander, her habit of becoming fixated on her central goals could sometimes compromise her judgment. A key example of this included her vendetta against Captain Rudolph Ransom and the crew of the USS Equinox when she discovered the lengths that his crew had gone to while trying to get home, threatening Equinox crewmember Noah Lessing and ordering Chakotay confined to quarters when he questioned her decisions. ( VOY : " Equinox ") This personality trait was shown at its most extreme in the alternate timeline caused by the Krenim weapon ship , when Janeway kept the crew together until Voyager had lost nine decks, despite being presented with a reasonable argument that splitting up might be safer and kept pushing herself to the point of physical and psychological damage. ( VOY : " Year of Hell ") As another example, her Silver Blood duplicate attempted to continue their journey to Earth even after learning their true natures until it became clear that this was impossible, too late to prevent the crew from disintegrating while trying to return to a safe environment. ( VOY : " Course: Oblivion ")

Janeway could sometimes be brusque, moving crew out of the way with the wave of a hand or nod of her head. Her detractors – and even herself from an alternative future – characterized her as self-righteous and stubborn, perhaps impulsive. She was also very tender and caring, giving time to her crew, even when off duty, checking in on them when she knew they might need support. Many of the crew felt they could approach her directly with concerns or requests, even when she was off duty. She took a maternal role towards her crew, and especially so with certain individuals like Kes and Seven of Nine. ( VOY : " The Raven ", " Hope and Fear ", " Latent Image ", " Barge of the Dead ", " The Void ", " Q2 ", " Homestead ", " Endgame ")

Janeway could become depressive and carried guilt with her for some of her actions towards the people under her. This could cause her to want to atone for these actions, even at great risk to herself. ( VOY : " Night ") She was brave, a great tactician and had a scientific mind. ( VOY : " Night ", " Parallax ", " Real Life ", " Unimatrix Zero ", " Endgame ")

Personal relationships [ ]

Friends [ ].

Janeway and Tuvok in the mess hall

The first time Janeway met Tuvok, he dressed her down in front of three Starfleet admirals for failing to observe proper tactical procedure during her first command. Even though her ego took some bruising, Janeway knew that he was right. ( VOY : " Revulsion ")

Tuvok became one of Kathryn Janeway's closest as well as most trusted friends and advisers. She often sought out his advice and counted on him when she needed her moral compass checked. They had known each other for nearly twenty years ( citation needed • edit ) , served on three starships together, and she was present at his daughter's Kolinahr . Janeway was also one of the few people who knew Tuvok's birthdate, and in 2376 , she replicated a birthday cake for him. Tuvok regarded Janeway with the same esteem, and over the years, they forged a friendship based on trust and deep respect for the other. ( VOY : " Prime Factors ", " Fury ")

Unlike with Chakotay , Janeway and Tuvok had a less tumultuous relationship. Almost without exception, Tuvok always respected Janeway's decisions, including her decision to make Chakotay first officer over him. ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Prime Factors ", " Twisted ") When, in 2371 , Tuvok – along with several other crew members – disobeyed her orders regarding acquiring classified technology from the Sikarians that could have gotten them home faster, Janeway felt betrayed, disappointed and saddened at Tuvok's behavior. Even though Tuvok reassured her that he acted out of logic , believing he had to acquire the technology on her behalf as she was not morally able to violate the Prime Directive like that, she reminded him of the strong relationship they had spent years forging and asked him to bring his logic to her the next time instead of just acting on it. She emphasized once again how much she needed to be able to rely on him. ( VOY : " Prime Factors ")

In 2372 , Tuvok and Neelix were merged into a single being, Tuvix , after a transporter accident. The new hybrid quickly became popular among the crew, including Janeway. When The Doctor was finally able to devise a method to separate the two again, Tuvix refused – calling their plan an execution. Janeway was faced with a moral dilemma, as saving Tuvix would have meant sacrificing Neelix and Tuvok. Realizing that both men had loved ones waiting for them and how much she in fact missed Tuvok's friendship and guidance, she took it upon herself to make sure that the separation took place – despite opposition by The Doctor – and confirmed that both his protest and her actions would be in the official records. ( VOY : " Tuvix ")

When she commended him (in 2374 ) for his outstanding service as chief tactical and security officer and promoted him to the rank of lieutenant commander , Janeway expressed her appreciation for Tuvok, remarking how she had come to rely on his insightful and unfailingly logical advice over the years. ( VOY : " Revulsion ")

Admiral Janeway's gift to Tuvok shortly before her departure

One of the reasons Admiral Janeway from an alternate timeline wanted to change the outcome she had witnessed in her own timeline was to help her friend Tuvok. In that timeline, Voyager had returned home from the Delta Quadrant after a twenty-three-year journey, instead of a seven-year one. Tuvok's declining mental state could not be treated, due to his return home aboard Voyager having been too late for him to receive proper treatment, which would have required a blood -relative. In this alternate timeline, he suffered severe mental damage and lived in a mental hospital . However, due to the intervention of Admiral Janeway from this same alternate timeline, Tuvok arrived back in the Alpha Quadrant with the rest of the Voyager crew in time to receive his treatment. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Chakotay [ ]

Janeway and Chakotay

Janeway's relationship with Chakotay was complicated. Chakotay started out as an enemy and a compulsory shipmate. As they got to know one another, he became a possible romantic interest, and finally her close friend and confidant. ( VOY : " Renaissance Man ")

Chakotay was the leader of a Maquis cell that Janeway was sent to apprehend. When both of their ships were transported to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker, Chakotay and Janeway became reluctant allies in the attempt to find missing crew members and return to the Alpha Quadrant. After the array and Chakotay's ship were destroyed in a battle with the Kazon , the crews integrated, and Chakotay became Janeway's first officer .

Janeway liked the idea that Chakotay not only had the technical qualifications with command experience but that he also was a graduate of the Academy , something which could not be said of most of his crew of outlaws and malcontents. Chakotay did not want to be her token Maquis, however, and while he embraced Starfleet ways once again and promised the captain his allegiance, he also stood up for his former crew and made sure they were treated fairly. ( VOY : " Caretaker ")

After some rough patches in the beginning, such as the time Chakotay pushed for her to give B'Elanna Torres the post of chief engineer – despite Torres' unprofessional and rebellious attitude – Janeway soon began to trust Chakotay and admired him for his integrity and fair handling of the crews of Voyager and the Maquis. He eventually became one of her most trusted officers and friends, and she remarked once how she could not imagine a day without him. ( VOY : " Parallax ", " Learning Curve ", " Scorpion ") She often relied on Chakotay's innovative tactics in the battle with the Kazon, and she integrated many Maquis tactical and procedural techniques in various battles.

Janeway and Chakotay on New Earth

Janeway once told Chakotay that, as the captain, she did not have the luxury of getting involved with anyone on board the ship – no matter how long the journey. She went on to say that she intended to return home before her fiancé gave her up for dead. ( VOY : " Elogium ") A budding romance seemed to emerge between the two when they were forced to remain behind on a deserted planet because of an incurable virus that was only contained by the environment of that planet. They had no choice but to remain there and make their home " New Earth ", which is what they decided to call the planet. While Janeway was not ready to give up yet and immediately began to search for a cure, Chakotay came to terms with their situation and worked to make their new home a better place – even building her a bathtub and working on a boat. They also dropped the formalities, and Janeway suggested that he call her "Kathryn". Both felt a certain attraction to one another, and outside of a command structure, a romantic involvement suddenly seemed less inappropriate. Yet, both were hesitant to take their relationship a step further.

Chakotay gets personal with the captain

One night after a long day of work, Chakotay gave an exhausted and sore Janeway a neck massage, stating he had had a lot of practice in his younger years because of his mother's own neck problems. Janeway greatly enjoyed the opportunity to unwind until she realized that their actions might be inappropriate. They separated, but the issue gnawed on their minds, preventing sleep. Eventually, Janeway broached the subject and said they needed to "define parameters" for both their sakes. However, Chakotay responded that he wasn't certain if he could. So, instead, he told her about an ancient legend among his people – about an angry warrior who couldn't find peace even with the help of his spirit guide . For years, he struggled with his discontent until, one day, he and his war party were captured by a neighboring tribe led by a woman warrior. She called on him to join her because her tribe was too small and weak to defend itself from all its enemies. They fought many battles together and the angry warrior swore to himself that he would stay by her side, doing whatever he could to make her burden lighter. From that point on, her needs would come first. In that way, the warrior began to know the true meaning of peace. While listening to this story, Janeway realized that Chakotay was talking about himself – that it was their story – and both came, silently, to an understanding. When a cure for their condition was eventually found, they returned to Voyager and resumed their professional and cordial relationship, leaving everything they had said to each other behind on the planet. ( VOY : " Resolutions ") A romance between the two was never directly explored again. ( VOY : Shattered [!] ) ( citation needed • edit )

Janeway concerned about Chakotay's health

Over time, Chakotay, next to Tuvok, became one of Janeway's most trusted advisers and closest friends, although they did not always see eye-to-eye. This was evident on several occasions where both passionately disagreed over command decisions.

During Voyager 's first major occasion involving the Borg , Chakotay strongly discouraged Janeway to strike an alliance with such an unscrupulous enemy. ( VOY : " Scorpion [!] ", " Scorpion Part II ") Beyond suspicion of this dubious ally, he questioned that this decision would enable the Borg to continue assimilation, decimation, and genocide against more species, especially considering that Species 8472 had been the most powerful and destructive force against the Borg seen so far. Janeway's reasoning that Species 8472 posed a greater threat to Voyager , as well as to life in the galaxy (partially based on the intense, disturbing telepathic messages Kes received from the mysterious aliens) justified the Borg alliance was one of their biggest disagreements and points of contention. Chakotay - who, up to this point, had never questioned Janeway's final actions - maintained his deep uncertainty of the plan. This was an instance where Janeway refused to even discuss with Chakotay, however, and was steadfast in her insistence that this alliance was the only way through Borg space. After Janeway is injured in the fight and unconscious, and Chakotay is put in command, he defies orders to "make this alliance work" after discovering the Borg had initiated the conflict by invading the species natural habitat - fluidic space - in attempted assimilation. Janeway is furious at this, but after so much disagreement over what constituted the right course, both finally realized that fighting each other wasn't going to help them get through this. Though Chakotay stood by his assertion that Janeway had made a grave mistake in forging the alliance, they subsequently set their differences aside and worked together. His objections ended up inspiring a backup plan between the two, in case the Borg turned on them; this ended up saving the crew. ( VOY : " Scorpion ", " Scorpion, Part II ")

One of their most serious conflicts occurred when Voyager encountered the USS Equinox , which was captained by Starfleet officer Rudy Ransom . They found out that Ransom and his crew had been using sentient beings as fuel for their ship. Janeway was furious to see a Starfleet officer having behaved like that and set out for a relentless hunt of the Equinox . Her drive to bring Ransom and his crew to justice quickly turned to an obsession, and on more than one occasion, she compromised the safety of the ship for the pursuit. She even went so far as to lock one of Ransom's crew members in the cargo bay and threatened to unleash one of the alien beings, unless he told her where Ransom was. Chakotay was able to stop just in the nick of time, telling her that she was crossing the line. Blinded by her desire to catch Ransom, Janeway relieved Chakotay from duty. After they caught Ransom and she came back to her senses, she realized that she had gone too far and that Chakotay had had reason to stage a mutiny against her if he had wanted to. However, she was glad that he had never crossed the line like she had done. ( VOY : " Equinox ", " Equinox, Part II ")

Over the course of their journey, Janeway and Chakotay grew as friends and colleagues, each coming to respect and admire the other. Janeway once stated that there was no crewmember that she trusted more than Chakotay. ( VOY : " The Voyager Conspiracy ") With the passage of time, both Starfleet and Maquis had bonded and grown as one Starfleet crew. Thus, Janeway was rather displeased when Starfleet referred to Chakotay and half of her crew as "Maquis", unaware of the unity and trust that now existed between the former adversaries. ( VOY : " Life Line ")

Following their return from the Delta Quadrant, Janeway, now a vice admiral and Chakotay, having officially rejoined Starfleet and now a captain, reunited at the christening of the USS Protostar where they greeted each other warmly with a hug . Janeway spoke with Chakotay about him returning to the Delta Quadrant after everything they went through, but Chakotay assured her that the Protostar would get him there and back in a fraction of the time. Plus, he won't be alone as he'll have Janeway's holographic duplicate to advise him, with Janeway joking that she told Starfleet that was the only way she would willingly go back out there. She then tells him to be careful as it's still a long way from home. Chakotay promised that she would be the first one to call if he ran into any trouble, but he never did. By 2384 , Janeway commanded the USS Dauntless on a mission to locate the missing Protostar and find Chakotay. ( PRO : " Asylum ", " A Moral Star, Part 2 ")

Seven of Nine [ ]

After rescuing Seven from the Borg, Janeway developed a very complex relationship with her. She was determined to help the ex-Borg to adjust to life on Voyager and regain her lost Human identity. Against the advice of her senior officers who wished to return her to the Borg Collective with her memory wiped, Janeway was unwilling to return Seven to the Borg and instead tried to rehabilitate her. Even when Seven demanded to return to the Collective as she wished for her connection to be restored, Janeway denied her request and instead tried to appeal to her humanity. Gradually, Seven rediscovered her Humanity with Janeway as her mentor and role model.

Janeway frequently worked with Seven to teach her the concepts of human interactions and to help her find a place with the crew. When Seven wished to be assigned duty position aboard Voyager, Janeway accepted her request to be assigned to engineering, though Seven's disagreeable and cold personality ended with her butting heads with B'Elanna Torres. She was eventually assigned to astrometric though still had trouble interacting with the crew despite Janeway's help and had a more difficult time of understanding the Prime Directive. Janeway initially overlooked this behavior at first as Seven was not familiar with Starfleet rules and protocols until Seven had disobeyed her orders by allowing a wounded member of Species 8472 to be captured by a Hirogen hunting party. Janeway then punished Seven by having her confined to her quarters and duty station and forbade her from accessing any of the ship's systems without her knowledge. They eventually moved past the incident and gradually became friends.

Janeway and Seven played a game of Velocity together. ( VOY : " Hope and Fear ", " Renaissance Man ")

The Doctor [ ]

The Doctor examines Janeway

Janeway initially shared her crew's frustration with the Doctor's rude demeanor and considered having him reprogrammed. It wasn't until Kes brought her concerns of the crew's treatment of the Doctor to Janeway that the latter considered him to be treated any better than the rest of the crew. She went down to ask if he had any concerns or needs to be addressed, one of which was his frustration that the other crew members had either left him on or turned him off, later giving his program control of that function in his programming. As the crew's journey unfolded, Janeway soon found herself becoming friends with The Doctor. The two of them became closer, particularly when they were the only crewmembers standing between Voyager and the macrovirus that was attacking the ship. ( VOY : " Macrocosm ")

Over time, their friendship and mutual respect grew, with The Doctor often coming to Janeway when he needed personal advice or information about how his program was developing, as well as consolation about any wrong decisions he had made in recent times. It was Janeway who stopped The Doctor from deleting the additional subroutines that made him unique when he felt responsible for the death of an innocent man, ( VOY : " Retrospect ") Janeway who assured The Doctor that none of the crew thought any less of him when he was embarrassed about the fantasies created by his dream program, ( VOY : " Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy ") and Janeway who told The Doctor that none of the crew blamed him for betraying them to help a crew of holograms. ( VOY : " Flesh and Blood ") In addition, when Janeway faced death after being captured by an alien species, The Doctor risked everything to save her. ( VOY : " Renaissance Man ")

Tom Paris [ ]

Chakotay once remarked that Tom Paris was Janeway's personal reclamation project. At a time where no one wanted anything to do with Tom, she approached him and offered him a second chance at redeeming himself by joining her on the mission to the Badlands to retrieve the Maquis ship with her security officer on board. Janeway was aware of Tom's exceptional piloting skills and gave him a chance to join her on the mission as a Starfleet observer.

Tom was reluctant but he accepted the offer. After the Caretaker's array was destroyed and the crew permanently stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway, recognizing Tom's hard work and bravery, granted him the field commission of lieutenant for his exceptional accomplishments during their battle with the Kazon. For the first time in his life, Tom didn't know what to say, determined to not disappoint the captain after the faith she had demonstrated in him. ( VOY : " Caretaker ")

When Tom was caught by Chakotay during his gambling operation in Sandrine's, he reminded him that the captain had put a lot of faith in him and that she would be disappointed to find out about his recent conduct. Even though Paris' insubordination and lack of discipline were part of a larger plot to expose a traitor among the crew, everyone understood the importance of the faith she had placed in him. ( VOY : " Lifesigns ", " Meld ")

Janeway disciplines Tom

Only once, during their journey, did Janeway seriously punish Paris. This happened in 2375 , when he disobeyed her direct orders not to interfere with the affairs of the Moneans . He was demoted to the rank of ensign and sentenced to thirty days in solitary confinement in the brig. Janeway was gravely disappointed in Tom's conduct, which she believed was something he had finally grown past. She reminded him of the fresh start she had given him, four years earlier. Tom admitted that, even though he had never been very good at playing by the rules, it did not mean that serving under her command hadn't changed him for the better. Even though he regretted having let down Janeway, he felt proud because, this time, he had broken the rules for something he believed in. ( VOY : " Thirty Days ") A year later, Janeway reinstated him to the rank of lieutenant junior grade as an award for his exemplary performance and expected more of the same from him. ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ")

Janeway was a central figure in Tom Paris' personal and professional journey on board Voyager by helping him change for the better and grow into a responsible officer who performed with integrity.

Harry Kim [ ]

Janeway and Kim talking in the mess hall in 2371

Janeway felt differently about Harry Kim than about the other officers and crewmen under her command. He came to her fresh from the Academy, and she was very protective of him. ( VOY : " The Disease ") Kim exceeded all of Janeway's expectations and she considered him "one of the bright spots of this whole mission." ( VOY : " Twisted ") He continued to exceed her expectations to the point where she let him have command experience of Voyager , such as managing the night shift twice a week. Although normally his performance on Voyager would have meant he would rise up the ranks fairly quickly, Janeway could never promote Kim. As he pointed out to his parents, " it's a small ship. There are only so many command positions available. " ( VOY : " Author, Author ")

The only time when Janeway and Kim ever came into serious conflict was when Kim had an intimate relationship with a Varro scientist called " Derran Tal ". This was a violation of Starfleet regulations, which brought Janeway and Kim into serious conflict. Kim, under the influence of alien hormones, actively defied her orders more than once and then engaged in a heated argument with her over his feelings for Tal. Although their relationship was temporarily strained, Kim (with help) managed to break free of the influence of the hormones. ( VOY : " The Disease ") After this, Janeway and Kim's relationship very quickly returned to normal. Kim continued to serve well aboard Voyager to the point where Janeway once humorously warned Chakotay, " You'd better watch out for your job, commander. " ( VOY : " Dragon's Teeth ")

Janeway was a central influence on Kim's emotional well-being in the Delta Quadrant. Feeling insecure because he was "the baby of the crew," he looked up to Janeway as something of a mother figure, for comfort and guidance. ( VOY : " The Thaw ") Janeway, in turn, was there for him whenever he needed guidance and comfort after missions that had tested his abilities to the limit. ( VOY : " Emanations ", " Timeless ") In turn, he remained immensely loyal to her and obeyed her orders to the best of his ability.

Janeway displayed a particular fondness for Kes . They were able to talk freely and deeply together. When Kes locked herself in The Doctor 's office, frightened and confused by the early onset of the Ocampa elogium , she allowed only Janeway to enter. Kes explained to her what was happening, and Janeway comforted her. ( VOY : " Elogium ")

Towards the end of 2372 , Janeway supported Kes when she was struggling to cope with the loss of Neelix and his replacement by Tuvix , a fusion of Neelix and Tuvok caused by a transporter accident. Janeway was available to comfort and give advice to Kes late at night, receiving her although she (Janeway) was in her nightgown. At that time, she found herself sharing a confidence with Kes: about how much she missed Mark Johnson . She told Kes, " My door is always open for you, Kes. " Later, she received Kes in her ready room and comforted her as Kes wept. ( VOY : " Tuvix ")

Kes requested temporary leave to travel with Zahir , a Mikhal Traveler . Janeway advised Kes to think about it for another day, but she was supportive of Kes' desire to have variety and "complications" in her limited lifespan. ( VOY : " Darkling ") Ultimately, Kes decided to decline Zahir's invitation.

Kes told Janeway that she was evolving into a higher plane of existence and had to leave Voyager to prevent any further damage to the ship (her new-found mental powers were causing problems in the structural integrity field). In response, Janeway said, " Oh, I am going to miss you. " ( VOY : " The Gift ")

Patterson [ ]

Admiral Patterson

Admiral Patterson was Janeway's favorite teacher at Starfleet Academy. He became her mentor and a parental figure to her, especially since her father had died when she was young. Patterson treated her like his own daughter.

He helped get her the assignment on Voyager and gave her the first tour of the ship. ( VOY : " Relativity ")

Romance [ ]

Mark johnson [ ].

Janeway and Mark Johnson with their dog

At the time Janeway was commissioned as captain of Voyager , she was engaged to Mark Johnson . Shortly before her departure to the Badlands, she discussed the fate of her pregnant dog with Mark. In 2374 , when Voyager had begun communication with Starfleet in the Alpha Quadrant, Janeway received a letter from Mark telling her that, having held out hope longer than most, he had eventually believed her dead after Voyager was lost in the Delta Quadrant and that he had met another woman whom he had just married recently. This news was rather unexpected for Janeway, but it was also the jolt she needed to finally move on with her life and stop hiding behind their relationship. ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Hunters ")

Janeway kisses Kashyk before he leaves Voyager

After the infamous "Dear John" letter she received from her fiancé Mark Johnson informing her of his marriage, Janeway shyly began pursuing romance again. During the incident with the Devore Imperium , Janeway became attracted to Kashyk , the Devore inspector who pretended to defect to Voyager . Even though she wasn't sure about him, she did give him the benefit of the doubt, and at one point, even offered him to join Voyager . It was rather atypical for her to begin a romance with a former alien enemy, but they passionately kissed before his departure. When Kashyk showed his true face, she was prepared, albeit disappointed. Before Kashyk left, she told him that her offer to take him with them was genuine and that it would still stand if he had kept his part of the bargain. He told her that, for what it was worth, she made a tempting offer, and even though his assistant wanted Voyager confiscated and its crew sent to a detention center, Kashyk ordered him to drop the matter and pretend that this incident never happened. ( VOY : " Counterpoint ")

Michael Sullivan [ ]

In the program Fair Haven that was created by Tom Paris, Janeway became attracted to one of the male characters, Michael Sullivan , and even went so far as to alter his appearance and personality subroutines so he conformed more to her standards. Sullivan originated as a simple, married man, but she modified his program parameters so that he was single, well versed in literature, in addition to enjoying long, intellectual debates. Although a romance ensued, Janeway ended it, because she wasn't sure how she felt about a relationship with a hologram. ( VOY : " Fair Haven ", " Spirit Folk ")

Janeway with Jaffen

In 2377 , the entire Voyager crew was captured, and their memories modified so they could join the workforce at a power distribution center on Quarra . There, Janeway met a Norvalen engineer called " Jaffen " and fell in love with him. After two weeks, she even moved in with him. When she regained her memory, Janeway said that, even though she could always use a skilled engineer on Voyager , him joining them wouldn't be appropriate as they were romantically involved. Once again unable to pursue a relationship with someone because of her responsibilities, Janeway left Jaffen behind, stating that she would never forget the time they had spent together. ( VOY : " Workforce ", " Workforce, Part II ")

Biomimetic duplicate [ ]

In 2374 , Voyager landed on a demon-class planet rich in deuterium sources. The planet was filled with silver fluid with mimetic properties. The " Silver Blood " sampled the crew's DNA and created duplicates with identical memories and personalities but with the ability to survive on the planet. The "Silver Blood" would not let Voyager leave unless it could duplicate the rest of the ship's crew, to populate the planet. Captain Janeway, understanding that this was their only way out, allowed the "Silver Blood" to duplicate the crew. ( VOY : " Demon ")

In 2375 , this duplicate crew – unaware that it was a facsimile of the original Voyager crew – had managed to recreate Voyager and begun their own trip to the Alpha Quadrant, but began suddenly dying one-by-one due to warp drive radiation caused by an enhanced warp drive they had developed. Even after finding out their true identities, the Janeway duplicate attempted to continue their mission to get back to Earth, too caught up in the original quest for "home" to think about stopping, but the death of Chakotay's duplicate forced her to recognize that she was being irrational. They set a course back to the demon-class planet, but everyone, including the duplicate Janeway, died before the ship could reach home. ( VOY : " Course: Oblivion ")

Holograms [ ]

Kathryn Janeway was holographically duplicated on a number of occasions.

• Recreations of crew members from Voyager and the Jupiter Station Holoprogramming Center were seen by The Doctor during a holographic malfunction in 2371 . This simulation or daydream included Janeway, apparently part of a program created by " Lewis Zimmerman ". ( VOY : " Projections ")
• A holographic Janeway was used to fool The Clown in Viorsa's species ' artificial hibernation program, created to interact with The Clown as Janeway would while preventing the real Janeway from having to actually enter the program herself. ( VOY : " The Thaw ")
• The entire crew of Voyager was recreated by Tuvok for his Insurrection Alpha program, Janeway initially away on a mission with Tom Paris before returning to try and retake the ship. ( VOY : " Worst Case Scenario ")
• The Kyrian Museum of Heritage in the 31st century used the program The Voyager Encounter to detail their encounter with the warship Voyager , as an aid to a history lesson. In this version, Janeway was a darker character, willing to use force and murder to make her point, although the Doctor later recreated the "true" Janeway to explain what had really happened. ( VOY : " Living Witness ")
• In 2374 , The Doctor recreated the crew of Voyager , including Janeway, to help Seven of Nine improve her social skills. ( VOY : " One ")
• The Doctor took a holographic image, down to the subatomic level, of Captain Janeway deleting his memory in 2375. ( VOY : " Latent Image ")
• Lieutenant Barclay recreated most of the crew of the USS Voyager at the Communications Research Center on Earth for the Pathfinder Project in 2376 . ( VOY : " Pathfinder ")
• Also during that year, Ensign Harry Kim and Seven of Nine projected The Doctor's daydreams into the holodeck aboard Voyager in order to better understand what was malfunctioning. In one such daydream, The Doctor acted as the Emergency Command Hologram after Captain Janeway was incapacitated. ( VOY : " Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy ")
• In 2378 , Seven recreated the crew of Voyager to perfect her social skills, including Janeway. ( VOY : " Human Error ")
• The Doctor's holonovel Photons Be Free was set aboard the USS Vortex and crewed by characters based on the crew of the USS Voyager , albeit the names were changed to protect the innocent. The character of Jenkins was based on Janeway but was far colder and more brutal, once killing one of her crew so that the novel's protagonist would focus on treating her less injured pilot over the more seriously injured man. ( VOY : " Author, Author ")
• The Doctor was forced to impersonate members of Voyager 's crew during a crisis in 2378 . One of them he impersonated was Janeway. ( VOY : " Renaissance Man ")
• Some point prior to 2383 , Janeway was used as the basis for the holographic training advisor aboard the USS Protostar , referring to herself as Hologram Janeway . ( PRO : " Lost and Found ", " Starstruck ") This was so that Chakotay would still have Janeway with him in form as he returned to the Delta Quadrant , something that the real Janeway refused to ever do again. ( PRO : " Asylum ") Hologram Janeway later sacrificed herself to destroy the Protostar , saving both the crew and a Starfleet armada commanded by the real Janeway. ( PRO : " Supernova, Part 2 ")

Memorable quotes [ ]

" You know, I'm really easy to get along with most of the time, but I don't like bullies and I don't like threats, and I don't like you , Culluh. You can try and stop us from getting to the truth, but I promise you that if you do, I will respond with all the 'unique technologies' at my command. "

" In a part of space where there are few rules, it's more important than ever that we hold fast to our own. In a region where shifting allegiances are commonplace, we have to have something stable to rely on. And we do... The principles and ideals of the Federation. As far as I'm concerned, those are the best allies we could have. "

" We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job. "

" Space must have seemed a whole lot bigger back then. It's not surprising they had to bend the rules a little. They were a little slower to invoke the Prime Directive and a little quicker to pull their phasers. Of course, the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet today, but I have to admit, I would have loved to ride shotgun at least once with a group of officers like that. "

" Dismissed. That's a Starfleet expression for 'get out'. "

" You and I know that fear only exists for one purpose: to be conquered "

" This ship has been our home. It's kept us together. It's been part of our family. As illogical as this might sound, I feel as close to Voyager as I do to any other member of my crew. It's carried us, Tuvok, even nurtured us. And right now, it needs one of us. "

" It's never easy, but if we turn our backs on our principles, we stop being Human. "

" Who are these kids? "

" The Protostar , named after the early stage in the formation of a star, powered by it; we designed a ship that could explore the far reaches of our understanding in hope of finding others who share our ideals, so that we may create a stronger alliance. Stack up those tests, the psych evaluations, interviews. The don't hold a candle to what this crew has been through. And concerning the Augment, whose name you've conveniently forgotten. His name is Dal R'El. Is he genetically engineered? Yes. Was he enhanced in every way? Look at him, or course not. But his heart is bigger than any in this room. I should know. The Federation is made-up of over 150 member species. Dal's DNA includes 26 of those. So, I ask you, is there a better living embodiment of what are alliance represents? "

Janeway's coffee quotes [ ]

A replicator replicates the mug after the coffee

" Coffee, black. "

" Just… coffee. "

" There's coffee in that nebula! "

" I'm just going to have to give up coffee, that's all there is to it. "

" Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised… I beat the Borg with it. "

" One more cup [of coffee] and I'll jump to warp. "

" You ought to try it one day. Keeps you sharp. "

" It's an acquired taste. "

" Coffee, black. " " Make it yourself. "

" I don't know why I ever gave this up. "

" Listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. Coffee, black. "

" Tea… black. " " Admiral, you're not drinking coffee? " " Doctor's orders. Between you and me, Ensign, I need a second opinion. But I know you didn't come here to talk about beverages. "

Chronology [ ]

Appendices [ ], appearances [ ].

• " Caretaker "
• " Parallax "
• " Time and Again "
• " The Cloud "
• " Eye of the Needle "
• " Ex Post Facto "
• " Emanations "
• " Prime Factors "
• " State of Flux "
• " Heroes and Demons "
• " Cathexis "
• " Learning Curve "
• " The 37's "
• " Initiations "
• " Projections "
• " Elogium "
• " Non Sequitur "
• " Twisted "
• " Parturition "
• " Persistence of Vision "
• " Cold Fire "
• " Maneuvers "
• " Resistance "
• " Prototype "
• " Alliances "
• " Threshold "
• " Dreadnought "
• " Death Wish "
• " Lifesigns "
• " Investigations "
• " Deadlock "
• " Innocence "
• " The Thaw "
• " Resolutions "
• " Basics, Part I "
• " Basics, Part II "
• " Flashback "
• " The Chute "
• " The Swarm "
• " False Profits "
• " Remember "
• " Sacred Ground "
• " Future's End "
• " Future's End, Part II "
• " Warlord "
• " The Q and the Grey "
• " Macrocosm "
• " Fair Trade "
• " Alter Ego "
• " Blood Fever "
• " Darkling "
• " Favorite Son "
• " Before and After "
• " Real Life "
• " Distant Origin "
• " Displaced "
• " Worst Case Scenario "
• " Scorpion "
• " Scorpion, Part II "
• " The Gift "
• " Day of Honor "
• " Nemesis "
• " Revulsion "
• " The Raven "
• " Scientific Method "
• " Year of Hell "
• " Year of Hell, Part II "
• " Random Thoughts "
• " Concerning Flight "
• " Mortal Coil "
• " Waking Moments "
• " Message in a Bottle "
• " Hunters "
• " Retrospect "
• " The Killing Game "
• " The Killing Game, Part II "
• " Vis à Vis "
• " The Omega Directive "
• " Unforgettable "
• " Living Witness " ( holographic recording)
• " Hope and Fear "
• " Extreme Risk "
• " In the Flesh "
• " Once Upon a Time "
• " Timeless "
• " Infinite Regress "
• " Nothing Human "
• " Thirty Days "
• " Counterpoint "
• " Latent Image "
• " Bride of Chaotica! "
• " Gravity "
• " Dark Frontier "
• " The Disease "
• " Course: Oblivion "
• " The Fight "
• " Think Tank "
• " Juggernaut "
• " Someone to Watch Over Me "
• " Relativity "
• " Warhead "
• " Equinox "
• " Equinox, Part II "
• " Survival Instinct "
• " Barge of the Dead "
• " Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy "
• " Riddles "
• " Dragon's Teeth "
• " One Small Step "
• " The Voyager Conspiracy "
• " Pathfinder "
• " Fair Haven "
• " Blink of an Eye "
• " Virtuoso "
• " Memorial "
• " Tsunkatse "
• " Collective "
• " Spirit Folk "
• " Ashes to Ashes "
• " Child's Play "
• " Good Shepherd "
• " Live Fast and Prosper "
• " Life Line "
• " The Haunting of Deck Twelve "
• " Unimatrix Zero "
• " Unimatrix Zero, Part II "
• " Imperfection "
• " Repression "
• " Critical Care "
• " Inside Man "
• " Body and Soul "
• " Flesh and Blood "
• " Nightingale "
• " Shattered "
• " Lineage "
• " Repentance "
• " Prophecy "
• " The Void "
• " Workforce "
• " Workforce, Part II "
• " Human Error "
• " Author, Author "
• " Friendship One "
• " Natural Law "
• " Homestead "
• " Renaissance Man "
• " Endgame "
• Star Trek Nemesis
• " A Moral Star, Part 2 "
• " Let Sleeping Borg Lie "
• " All the World's a Stage "
• " Crossroads "
• " Masquerade "
• " Preludes "
• " Mindwalk "
• " Supernova, Part 1 "
• " Supernova, Part 2 "

Background information [ ]

Kathryn Janeway was played by actress Kate Mulgrew . In many long and reverse shots, Sue Henley played Janeway, functioning as Mulgrew's stand-in and body double . The young Janeway in " Flashback " was played by an unknown actress , while photo double Erin Price stood in for Mulgrew in the last episode, " Endgame ". In the episode " Vis à Vis ", Janeway was briefly portrayed by Robert Duncan McNeill after exchanging DNA with Tom Paris, whose DNA had been previously taken by the impostor Steth . In " Mindwalk ", Janeway was voiced by Brett Gray while she was in Dal R'El 's body.

The decision to feature a female captain as the lead character of the (not-yet-named) series of Star Trek: Voyager helped set that then-forthcoming Star Trek show apart from its predecessors. ( Braving the Unknown: Season One , VOY Season 1 DVD special feature) Executive Producer Rick Berman explained, " The feeling was that... the best direction for us to go – in terms of trying new things, being socially responsible, which Star Trek has always been – was to go for a female captain. " ( The First Captain: Bujold , VOY Season 1 DVD special feature) Berman elaborated, " We didn't want to just create a captain and cast it with a female. We wanted to create a female captain who was a captain that was somewhat more nurturing and a little bit less swashbuckling than someone like Captain Kirk , a little bit less sullen than someone like Captain Sisko , and a little bit more approachable than Captain Picard . " ( Star Trek: Voyager Companion  (p. ? )) Wanting to develop the character of a female captain who would act as the lead role on Star Trek: Voyager was one motive Berman had for including Jeri Taylor as another executive producer involved in the conceptual genesis of the series, as it was believed Taylor could be a positive influence on the character's development. ( Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future , p. 156) Taylor and her then-associates, Berman and Executive Producer Michael Piller , all agreed that they wanted a female captain for the series. ( Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future , p. 158)

Although a female captain had been decided on, this concept was downplayed to Paramount Studios . Essentially, the three executive producers of the forthcoming series said to Paramount, " Let us interview both sexes, and if the best actor we find is a woman, can we hire her? " Eventually, Paramount accepted this proposal. The studio's hesitation was based on uncertainty over the viewing audience's possible response to having a female captain as the series lead. No one at the studio knew if the viewers – who were well known as predominantly male, aged twenty-five to forty-five – would accept the idea. However, the choice of a female captain had a significant advantage, as it would eliminate the problem of fans comparing the new captain to Captains Kirk and Picard. As a result, the executive producers proceeded unhindered, building the notion of a female captain into their premise for the series. ( Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future , pp. 158-159)

In a series of early development notes written by Jeri Taylor (dated 3 August 1993 ), the character of the captain was briefly outlined, in a section titled "The Crew". The outline stated, " Captain – a human female, Lindsay Wagner type." ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , p. 176)

The character was originally named "Elizabeth Janeway". ( [2] (X) ; VOY Season 2 DVD trivia text version of " The 37's ") In the first draft script of " Caretaker " (dated 8 June 1994 ), the character had that name, though she had received the first name "Kathryn" by the time the final draft of the script was issued.

In the "Caretaker" script, Janeway was described as "a charismatic woman in her early forties." The script went on to say, " She has a warm thoughtful face and remarkably attentive eyes that suggest a deep awareness of all that is going on around her. "

Looking for the right actress to play Janeway was an arduous process, due to the untried nature of the female character. Jeri Taylor commented, " The search for the captain was a long and difficult one. This is the person that gets the white-hot glare of publicity as the first female ever to head one of the Star Trek series and she had to be just right. " ( Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages )

Kate Mulgrew's original audition

Numerous actresses have claimed that they were or have been reported in the media as having been considered for the role of Janeway, most notably Susan Gibney ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion  (p. 299); A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , p. 267; Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , paperback ed., p. 214), and veteran science fiction television actress Erin Gray . Others considered include Karen Austin ( citation needed • edit ) , Joanna Cassidy ( Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , paperback ed., p. 214), Lindsay Crouse ( citation needed • edit ) , Blythe Danner ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , p. 267), Patty Duke ( citation needed • edit ) , Chelsea Field ( Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , paperback ed., p. 214), Linda Hamilton ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , p. 267; Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , paperback ed., p. 214), Kate Jackson ( Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , paperback ed., p. 214), Patsy Kensit ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , p. 267; Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , paperback ed., p. 214), Carolyn McCormick ( citation needed • edit ) , Tracy Scoggins ( citation needed • edit ) , Helen Shaver ( citation needed • edit ) , and Lindsay Wagner ( Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , paperback ed., p. 214). At an early time of pre-production when it was unclear that Janeway was to be a woman, actors Gary Graham and Rene Rivera also auditioned for the role. ( citation needed • edit ) Nigel Havers was another male actor who was considered for the part. ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , p. 267)

Geneviève Bujold as Nicole Janeway

Eventually, French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold was cast in the role of Elizabeth Janeway. Following this selection, the character was described in an early press release (dated 2 September 1994 ), which referred to Janeway as " a Human female [who] leads the combined teams of Starfleet and Maquis personnel. She is not the only female Captain in Starfleet, however, her intelligence, thoughtfulness, dedication and diplomacy have earned her respect and recognition as one of the best Starfleet Captains – male or female. " [3] Due to legal aspects (specifically, that a prominent person, an actual American feminist writer, named "Elizabeth Janeway" existed), the name had to be changed. At Bujold's request, the character was renamed "Nicole Janeway".

Kate Mulgrew with an unused haircut she originally wore as Janeway

Genevieve Bujold left the cast of Star Trek: Voyager during filming of the pilot, "Caretaker". The first season DVD release includes the first public release of footage featuring Bujold as Janeway. The extant footage shows a subdued Bujold; accustomed to the big screen, her quiet, nuanced acting style did not blend well with the rest of the cast. A distinctly unimpressed Brannon Braga commented, " If you watch her dailies, you can see she's not very good. " ( The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years , p. 569) When Bujold left the set after two days of filming, Kate Mulgrew, who had been Braga's second choice, was asked to come back for another audition. Mulgrew ended up being cast in the part, replacing Bujold. At that time, the character's name was changed to its final form – "Kathryn Janeway".

Jeri Taylor was hopeful that, with Kate Mulgrew in the role, Captain Janeway could and would be highly sociable. Shortly after casting the part, Taylor remarked, " We are going to see that she interacts much more easily on a social level with the crew in a way that Picard never did. " ( Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages )

In an early press release issued shortly after the casting of Kate Mulgrew, much the same information about Janeway was presented as in the earlier press release, apart from a few changes. For example, the character (now renamed "Kathryn") was introduced as "a Human Starfleet Captain" rather than "a Human female". The updated press release additionally referred to Janeway by remarking, " She is a tough Captain, who is not afraid to take chances. " The same document relayed that Mulgrew had commented, " Captain Kathryn Janeway is the quintessential woman of the future... both commanding and discerning in her warmth; she's authoritative while remaining accessible. Beneath her extraordinary control runs a very deep vein of vulnerability and sensitivity that I look forward to exploring in seasons to come. " [4]

Due to the female gender of Voyager 's captain, depicting the character was a balancing act; the captain's feminine qualities, her nurturing and emotional aspects, had to be maintained while also making the character tough enough that she was believable as a Starfleet captain. Concerning the plausibility of the character's toughness, Rick Berman stated, " It's not really all that true with a somewhat diminutive woman like Kate Mulgrew. Those are problems that we find enjoyable to work with and to overcome. " ( Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future , p. 159) Berman was ultimately pleased with how Mulgrew sought this balance. He recalled, " Kate, I think, remarkably deliver[ed] a feminine nurturing side and at the same time, a sense of strength and confidence. And that's just what we were looking for and I think that we've gotten it in spades. " ( Star Trek: Voyager Companion  (p. ? ))

The Star Trek: Voyager costuming department regarded the maintenance of Kate Mulgrew's body weight as vital for the portrayal of Captain Janeway. " We have to beg Kate Mulgrew not to lose weight, " remarked Costume Designer Robert Blackman , during the making of the series, " because she is very energetic and burns up the calories like there's no tomorrow. So to keep her at a US size 3 or 4 is very difficult sometimes. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 9 , p. 55)

Brannon Braga found witnessing Kate Mulgrew portray the role of Captain Janeway was particularly informative for writing the character. Mulgrew's habit of frequently placing her hands on her hips, while personifying Janeway, inspired the creation of the Tak Tak body language in " Macrocosm ", an episode Braga wrote. ( Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future , pp. 171-172)

Nana Visitor considered auditioning for the role. She commented: " Can you believe I had the nerve? I accosted Rick Berman in the street right in front of Stage 4 at Paramount and said, “Why not? Why? Why can’t I?” Because you know, they had the mix-up, and they fired the person they hired, and all of that stuff. And I said, “I can do both!” … I don’t know what I was thinking. And he was like – he practically patted me on the head, and said, ‘No, we’re gonna get a whole other actress for that ". [5]

Apocrypha [ ]

The Caretaker novelization gives her name as "Kathryn M. Janeway". The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway reveals that the M stands for Margaret.

In the Voyager relaunch book series, Admiral Janeway taught at Starfleet Academy with Tuvok.

Janeway was mentioned in the Deep Space Nine book trilogy Millennium . In the book's alternate future, Janeway and Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant at an unspecified time. After the destruction of Earth, Janeway, along with The Doctor, Admiral Seven of Nine, and Hugh negotiated an unholy alliance with the Borg, as a desperate measure to stop Weyoun 5 and the Pah-wraiths from destroying the universe. The cornerstone of Janeway's plan was Project Guardian. The goal of Project Guardian was to use the Guardian of Forever to go back in time and destroy Bajor . Although such an act would violate the Temporal Prime Directive, at least it would save the universe. On December 22, 2399 , the combined Borg/Federation fleet arrived at the Guardian's planet to find it was interdicted by hostile Grigari forces. What followed was six days of fighting. Finally, on December 28, Janeway and an army of Federation troops made it to the surface, the Guardian in sight. At that moment, Janeway knew that she had won, that victory was in hand. However, the Grigari were ready for her. They activated a singularity bomb, which created a black hole, killing all who were present. Janeway, the Borg and Federation fleets, the Guardian, and the Grigari were all killed. The timeline was later reset thanks to Captain Sisko .

In "Places of Exile", a novella from the Star Trek: Myriad Universes anthology book Infinity's Prism , an alternate version of Janeway is presented, who becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant along with the rest of the Voyager crew. She eventually is instrumental in helping to form a Delta Quadrant version of the Federation, as well as beginning a romantic relationship with Chakotay, and bearing his child, Shannon Sekaya Janeway.

In the Star Trek Online multiplayer game, Admiral Janeway is alive and well in the year 2409, and is one of the principal backers of scientific investigation into the supernova of 2387 that destroyed Romulus . When the player speaks to the Trill astronomer Damar Kahn aboard Starbase 114 during the episode titled " Heading Out ", this information is revealed through Kahn's dialogue text. Janeway finally appeared in-game in January 2022 for the game's 12th anniversary, voiced by Kate Mulgrew, and appearing in old age much like her alternate timeline self in "Endgame". She replaces Commander Ethan Burgess as the point of contact for Starfleet characters in the Delta Rising expansion (which had been released in 2014) and is involved in the mission "Red Shift", set during a conflict with the Terran Empire . Janeway's mirror universe counterpart, known as "Marshal Janeway", also appears. The mirror Janeway appears to have Borg implants similar to those of Seven of Nine, as well as the ability to reanimate slain Starfleet officers as Borg drones. Leading a team to Jupiter Station to claim a "prize" for the Emperor, Janeway is betrayed by her team – the mirror counterparts of Sylvia Tilly , the Lukari captain Kuumaarke, and the player character – and forced to seek asylum, revealing to her prime universe counterpart the reason behind the raid.

In the Next Generation prequel The Buried Age , then-Lieutenant Janeway served as the second officer aboard the USS Mary Kingsly under the command of Captain Onna Karapleedeez. She participated in an archaeological expedition led by Captain Picard a few years after the destruction of the USS Stargazer , where a plan of Janeway's to access a location isolated from the rest of the universe by a quantum field results in the accidental death of three of the four aliens trapped there; Janeway later notes that, if placed in a situation where her own interests and the well-being of another race are in conflict, she will choose the second option. When assembling his crew for the USS Enterprise -D , Picard attempted to recruit Janeway for his first officer, but she was on another long-distance assignment and could not be reached.

In the Next Generation relaunch novel Before Dishonor , Janeway was assimilated by the Borg in the year 2380 and is made into their new Queen . An attempt by Seven of Nine to rescue her resulted in the defeat of that Collective , but Janeway herself was apparently killed. Her final fate was left uncertain, as it was implied that she had become a companion of Lady Q. Her death was confirmed in the Full Circle novel.

In the Star Trek: Voyager novel The Eternal Tide , Janeway's consciousness was intercepted by Lady Q as a favor for her son. Lady Q extended the instantaneous moment between life and death experienced by all beings to a point where Janeway exists in this manner for over a year. With assistance by Lady Q, Q Junior, and Kes , Janeway is able to return to her Human body, sans Borg implants, and travel to the Project Full Circle fleet in the Delta Quadrant in September 2381, in order to aid in Voyager saving the universe from an early death via the Omega Continuum . With the absorption of Fleet Captain Afsarah Eden into the Continuum from whence she came, Starfleet Command places Janeway as the new admiral in command of Voyager and the fleet. Meanwhile, Janeway also renews her romantic relationship with Captain Chakotay . The novel A Pocket Full of Lies sees the fleet discover the existence of an alternate version of Janeway created during the events of " Shattered ", also revealing that the temporal fracture Voyager experienced during those events was the result of an attack by the Krenim after they became aware of the events of the "erased" Year of Hell in " Year of Hell " and " Year of Hell, Part II ". This alternate Janeway had a daughter named Mollah with a Krenim agent.

In the novel To Lose the Earth , the prime timeline Janeway finally married Chakotay with Seven of Nine and B'Elanna serving as bridesmaids.

The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway reveals that Janeway had a daughter named Amelia who was created by Janeway's mother and sister from Janeway's frozen eggs during the time that Janeway was believed dead. Amelia eventually joined Starfleet.

In an alternate timeline featured in the Star Trek: Myriad Universes novella A Gutted World , Voyager was never stranded in the Delta Quadrant and Janeway and Mark were married by 2373. She remained in command of the ship until it was destroyed by the Cardassians in the Dorvan sector in 2373.

External links [ ]

• Kathryn Janeway at StarTrek.com
• Kathryn Janeway at Wikipedia
• Kathryn Janeway at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Kathryn Janeway at the Star Trek Online Wiki
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Star Trek's 1st female captain rises through Starfleet ranks in 'The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway'

Young Ensign Janeway reports for duty in this exclusive excerpt.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the initial broadcast launch of "Star Trek: Voyager," and the series continues to attract followers young and old to its intrepid outer space adventures and compelling cast of human and alien characters.

One of the key figures in the sci-fi series' success was actor Kate Mulgrew and her iconic portrayal of Captain Kathryn Janeway, whose struggles to achieve the respect and admiration of her crew and Starfleet resonated with audiences worldwide. Last month Nickelodeon and CBS Studios announced that Mulgrew will reprise her "Star Trek: Voyager" for Nickelodeon's upcoming kids animated series "Star Trek: Prodigy" in 2021.

To delve further into her origin story, "The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway" (Titan Books) was recently published to chronicle her impressive career in Starfleet, from her first command to her perilous journey into the Delta Quadrant, leading to her elevation to the rank of vice-admiral — and we're fueling up a special chapter excerpt to share.

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Written by Uma McCormack, this official in-universe tale explores how Janeway brought together Starfleet and the Maquis as part of her crew, forged new alliances with intergalactic species, and clashed with The Borg on their own home territory.

"Janeway is such an important figure in the history of "Star Trek" — the first woman lead, and such a strong female role model," McCormack tells Space.com. "I think people connect to her courage and her determination, and also her warmth as captain and mentor to her crew. She's thrown into an impossible situation, and she carries her people along with humor, sincerity, and grit. Not every captain would have succeeded in that situation, but Janeway does."

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"Ensign Kathryn Janeway, reporting for duty, ma'am!" 

It was my first day of my first posting, and I was shaking in my shiny boots, and tugging away at the cuffs of my stiff uniform. My new direct superior, Lieutenant Commander Flora Kristopher, the Al-Batani 's chief science officer, was waiting in the transporter room to welcome me on board, leaning against the console. She looked at me steadily, and—bless her—did not smile at my overseriousness and formality, but simply said, "Welcome aboard, Ensign. Please don't call me 'ma'am.' Makes me sound fifty years older." 

I blushed bright red. "Sorry… Commander!" (He won't thank me for this, but I can't help but recall a certain Ensign Harry Kim, so keen to make a good impression on his new captain in our first meeting that I thought he was going to strain something. Don't worry, Harry. We've all been there.) 

Kristopher gave me a lopsided smile, pushed herself up from the console and nodded to me that I should follow her. I snapped to it. I was desperate to make a good impression. I trotted at her heels as she gave me a rapid tour of the ship, introducing me to various other officers, senior and junior. They were all friendly; one or two invited me to the mess hall for a drink once I was off shift. I gratefully accepted, muttering their names, ranks, and specialisms under my breath as we went on so that I wouldn't forget them. After about an hour of this, Kristopher said, "Relax, Janeway. This is home now. Keep up this level of intensity much longer and I'm going to have to go for a lie-down." 

I blushed again. "Sorry, Commander. I'll try and take it a little easier." 

"Good. Don't worry, Janeway. You're going to do fine." 

Kristopher was a supremely talented officer, who gave the appearance of being very laid back, but who never missed a thing. She had an enviable gift for being able to come up to speed rapidly in hugely technical subjects, ideal for a chief science officer, who frequently finds herself having to offer expert advice in fields well beyond her specialisms. Kristopher's own area of study was sustainable xenoagronomy. She had grown up on Mars, on one of the terraformed colonies, and so had early experience of experimenting with crops growing under less than propitious circumstances. By this stage in her career, numerous colony worlds had benefited from various technical advances she had made in soil science. My mother, learning that I would be serving under her, was incredibly excited. I had been instructed to get advice on a new rose hybrid she was trying to grow. Kristopher, in her turn, was delighted to discover that my mother was that Gretchen Williams: she had, so she told me, been inspired toward her field by an early encounter with her stories for The Adventures of Flotter . (I have to say that I thought it would be my father's name that went before me on my first Starfleet posting, not my mother's.) 

Flora Kristopher was a fine mentor to have at this stage of my career. She was patient with mistakes born from inexperience, tough on mistakes born from sloppiness, and more than usually able to spot the difference. The only way to get on her bad side was to point out the nominative determinism of her first name. My word, she hated that. She must have heard it almost every day of her adult life. I am eternally grateful that another new ensign made this mistake before I did. I've never seen a young man so thoroughly cut down to size. Under Kristopher's guidance, I flourished, and I started to gain confidence—which is, after all, exactly what a newly minted officer needs at this stage of her career. I thought about her constantly when I had junior staff of my own, when I tried to instill this same kind of confidence: trusting their judgement but always having a backup plan in case their inexperience let them down. 

I was lucky too that I got on well with my commanding officer. Captain Owen Paris had a reputation for rigidity within the service, but he and I hit it off immediately. We both came from families that had been in Starfleet for generations, and this shared culture eased our relationship from the outset. I too can be rigid in my own way, and the discipline of his ship suited my nature. I know that my father respected him greatly and I took my cue from this. He lacked much of a sense of humor, but he got things done. It was a pleasure to serve under him, and I have been personally grateful to him for his many kindnesses over the years, not least in the roadblock I hit during my second year, but also in his championing of the Pathfinder Project that allowed Voyager to establish contact with Starfleet. 

My first six months on the Al-Batani were, broadly speaking, a success. Half a dozen new staff had come on board at the same time, and we formed a close-knit group. One of our number—a Vulcan named T'Nat—had been captain of the Velocity team at the Academy and persuaded us to form a junior league with some of the junior lieutenants. I had not played the game at the Academy, but I was always ready for a new physical challenge, so I agreed to try it out. I took to it immediately; it filled a tennis-shaped gap in my life. The game became popular across the whole ship, leading some of the more senior officers to form their own league. Flora Kristopher was instrumental in this, and the first officer, Commander Shulie Weiss, joined too. The captain kept his lofty distance. The inevitable challenge was offered, which we junior officers accepted with alacrity: surely we would have no trouble defeating what we gleefully referred to as our "elders." Well, this is where I learned that Velocity is as much about wits and guile as it is about speed and agility. I won't say that we were trounced, but… all right, we were trounced. I have never seen a more triumphant set of senior officers. Paris came and awarded a trophy he'd organized for the occasion, and we junior officers swore to get our revenge. We never did while I was on the team. 

Between this and our survey mission, which expanded my scientific knowledge and my practical skill immensely, I had a good and challenging life. I count myself lucky to have entered Starfleet during this period. The border skirmishes with the Cardassians rumbled on, but there was still time and space for us to enjoy something of the old Starfleet, when ships were dedicated chiefly to exploration, and we were able to pursue our primary purpose as individuals, devoting our energies as much to our own personal advancement as to protecting the Federation. I knew that at the back of our minds we all feared that a larger conflict was coming—even outright war—and we were intent on seizing the day. Speaking to officers younger than me, who came of age just before and during the Dominion War, I know that they had a very different experience during their first postings. They were straight into the thick of it. Even after the Dominion War was over, there was the hard work of reconstruction, and not as much time to play. I am fortunate to have been on a ship like this. I enjoyed my work; I enjoyed my downtime; I was making good friendships and I was earning praise from my superiors not only for my work, but for my handling of various situations that were intended to prepare me for command. I was pleased with my performance. The only risk was that I was starting, perhaps, to get a little cocky, but Starfleet has its own corrective measures for this kind of thing, as I was going to find out. 

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Kate Mulgrew Reveals The Conditions She Gave Alex Kurtzman For A Return As Live-Action Janeway

| October 28, 2022 | By: Anthony Pascale 91 comments so far

In recent months, there has been a lot of talk about Kate Mulgrew coming back to live-action to play Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager , a character she is currently voicing on Star Trek: Prodigy. The actress herself has even been dropping   hints . It was also discussed earlier this month on stage at New York Comic Con by both Mulgrew and executive producer Alex Kurtzman. Now Mulgrew reveals what she has told Kurtzman it would take to get her to do it.

Mulgrew wants taut stories, adventure, exploration… no bun of steel

When Kate Mulgrew was in Bloomington, Indiana last weekend to visit the Janeway Memorial , she did a fan Q&A event and of course, the subject of returning to live-action came up. At first, Mulgrew recounted her version of the events of the NYCC panel when Kurtzman hinted at an “idea” for the return of Janeway, with her reaction:

[Alex Kurtzman] said, “I think it’s in discussion.” You know, in Hollywood, what does that mean? That’s like a man saying to you after a date, “I’ll call ya.” There’s been a hue and a cry of late. I was in Europe doing a tour and there was a lot of that too, “When are we going to see Janeway live-action?” There seems to be something interesting going on. You know, I didn’t think I would, because I’m a certain age now. Just as I was a certain age then, right? But I’m very strong and still full of life and I adore this character. So why on earth wouldn’t I bring her back?

When asked if she had specific ideas about Janeway’s story for a given series, the actress said she didn’t because she doesn’t want to be “crushed,” but did reveal what she told Alex Kurtzman she wants:

I said this to Kurtzman. The writing is going to have to be absolutely exquisite and as tight—I mean so tight. I want that language to just burst! And I want the story to be so tenuous and taut. I said, “No languishing.” I don’t want peaks and valleys. I want a Janeway that everybody can say, “That’s what she’s become. I’m with her! This is great!” Right? And I think some sort of extraordinary adventure. Even greater than Voyager . Even greater than the Delta Quadrant.

Later, when talking about storylines she wanted to see more of on Star Trek: Voyager , Mulgrew mentioned the idea of “the loneliness of command,” pointing to the episode “ Night ,” as a “brief” example of executive producer Rick Berman’s reaction to her desire for more exploration of the personal sacrifices Janeway had made. She then turned the discussion of the past around to return to the idea of her possible future return:

If I come back live-action, that will be a moot point, because the flip side of it was: Yes, I missed the turn in the Delta Quadrant. But secretly, privately after I cried on the bridge and said, “We’re all lost in the Delta Quadrant,” I think I went to my quarters and went, “Yes!” Because the scientist—the explorer is so alive in Janeway. She just loves it. She was made for it. So we would get into that a little more with the older Janeway. And no more of those buns on my head.

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Alex Kurtzman is no stranger to making accommodations for a legacy Star Trek star, having made Patrick Stewart an executive producer on Star Trek: Picard and given him input on its development. Paramount+ currently has three live-action shows, but by this time next year, they will be down to two following the third and final season of Picard . While Strange New Worlds is just getting started, Discovery is likely past its halfway point with production soon to wrap up on the fifth season.

There have been indications that Paramount+ is ready to move forward with a new live-action show. Alex Kurtzman confirmed at SDCC that there were at least two in active development, hinted to be a Starfleet Academy show and a Michelle Yeoh-led Section 31 show. Picard showrunner Terry Matalas has said he hopes to see a spin-off of that show set in the early 25th century and members of the cast have indicated they’re eager to be on board, including some former Star Trek: The Next Generation stars . In theory, Admiral Janeway could be part of such a series, but it isn’t known if Mulgrew would be satisfied with a recurring or supporting role for her return to live-action. For now, fans will have to settle for animated Admiral Janeway (and Hologram Janeway) on Star Trek: Prodigy .

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Again, it seems like it’s only a matter of when and not if she returns to live action. Clearly the fans wants Mulgrew back in a uniform barking commands so make it happen. But I actually have faith in Kurtzman over this. He listened to people who wanted Pike back after his stint on Discovery and he’s already said he knows how badly fans wants to see Mulgrew on a live action show so I think it will definitely happen. Especially since there will be a dozen more Trek shows probably and this would be a no-brainer to get fans to subscribe.

Dude, you keep saying that in a way that is coming across like you speak for most fans. I just don’t think that’s the case.

I’m not really hungry for this, and I have a number of Trek fan friends who I attend conventions with who aren’t really blown away by this idea either. I think perhaps half of of Trek fans might be into this, but I don’t think this is as big a slam dunk to fans wanting this as you are imagining it is?

Would I watch a new Voyager series? Sure. Do I need a new Voyager series? Not really.

Agreed! Kate has become overexposed. I like her in PROD and don’t think its necessary to bring her back in live action.. But, everyone needs their member berries.

Exactly. She already got her new series…we don’t need ANOTHER one.

It’s DS9’s turn anyway.

Yes but not a LIVE ACTION show, thats what many (Janeway) fans really want.

And who says there won’t be a DS9 spin off show? I’m sure all these ideas are on the table. How many will happen, who knows, but they are making more shows, I think they will go with whatever they think has the wider appeal.

Everywhere else, you have been defending the idea that animated shows (chiefly Lower Decks) are equal in quality, or indeed surpass, to the live-action shows from the Berman era.

Why do you now say that an animated show is insufficient for Mulgrew?

LOL, I am not remotely implying that. It’s an odd thing to even suggest.. And it’s amazing how often basic logic constantly dies online. I have also said I want to see more legacy characters on LDS and Prodigy as well EVEN though they are on stuff like Piccard and SNW. So am I now suggesting the live action shows are ‘insufficient’ because I want more Riker on Lower Decks like I want him on Picard? Logic man.

And dude, everyone knows your issues with the animated shows. You don’t have to watch them. Problem solved.

Well you have sort of implied that the animated shows are on equal ground with the live action shows, right? And if that’s the case, then Janeway’s covered with the Prodigy series and doesn’t really need a live action series, right?

I think this is a fair point regardless of River Termarc’s known agenda of pushing people’s buttons on this site…lol

I want to see the characters on as many shows as possible AS a fan. I think I made this pretty clear lol. I’m the guy who wants Riker on every show so he can keep his record for the Star Trek character appearing on the most shows. That includes the includes both live action and animation. ;)

Again, bizarre logic.

Fair enough.

OK great! And I want to add these points as well. This is NOT aimed at you or anyone, just the general topic. But three points.

A. Janeway started as a live action character . For people who grew up with her or became fans of hers after Voyager went off the air, that’s how they know her so naturally they just want to see her in that format again. They want Mulgrew in the costume because that’s how the character was presented for 7 seasons. If she was always just an animated character then no I don’t think most would care.

B. Yes, Janeway is in another show, but it’s a KIDS show and for some older fans, it’s just not as appealing to them as an adult drama would, animated or not. For us, we don’t care, but there are probably many casual fans out there who love Janeway but have no interest in this specific show due to that issue. So I will say on that level Prodigy is not equal to the live action shows. This show is designed to appeal to a younger base and that will put off some people.

I mean I can speak to that personally but with Star Wars. I loved characters like Obi Wan, Anakin, Yoda, etc, but I had zero interest to watch them in TCW because it was a kids show to me. I eventually did, but that wasn’t until just 3 years ago and this was years reading how great that show was. But I consider myself more of a casual Star Wars fan so I can clearly see the same issue if you’re only a casual Star Trek fan. I still haven’t watched The Bad Batch yet.

C. Many want to see where Janeway is in the 25th century like we are seeing Picard, Seven, Riker etc right now. I consider the Picard show the ‘present day’ of Star Trek right now since it’s in a period where all the legacy actors can appear as their own ages like when they originally played their characters. So people want to know what THAT Janeway is up to as well since Prodigy is 15 years prior to Picard (well…we think anyway ;)). Now if there was no Picard show, it would probably be different. And yes because Seven is also around in the 25th century that makes the motivation bigger for people who want them reunited.

So these are valid reasons why they want the character outside of Prodigy. Again IF you are a fan of Janeway. And yes there is D, people just want more Janeway, period .

You laid it out perfectly bro. I love Prodigy so far, one of the best shows since Voyager for me. Almost as good as Lower Decks too. But it would probably be way more popular if it was a live action show with Mulgrew in it and not geared for 10 year olds.

I think it’s great Janeway is there to get the youngins into Star Trek for the first time, but a lot of us grew up with the live action version first and got new fans like me into the franchise when I was still a teenager when Voyager was on.

So a lot of us want that again. I don’t even know if I would be a Trek fan without Janeway. That’s how much this character means to me for over 20 years now.

You don’t have to watch them

I’m not. I’ve cancelled my Paramount+ subscription until the live-action shows return next year. If I have a free evening at that time, I may check them out (and in fairness, Prodigy wasn’t awful, even if it’s not going to remain in the cultural zeitgeist the way TOS and TNG-era Trek did), but it’s also not a product I have any desire to spend money on.

OK great. That’s all you can do.

To me, I’d prefer that people who don’t watch stuff do not come in here and comment about it. What’s the point of them commenting if they haven’t even bothered to watch the show they are criticizing?

Of course it’s their right to do it, but in my opinion those comments are rather useless and a waste of everybody’s time, including their own.

For me it was these animated shows that got me to love the franchise again. It certainly wasn’t Discovery, Picard or JJ verse. 🙄

But if you asked me before they started I didn’t think I would be interested in them at all. It’s crazy. I rewatch Lower Decks as much as I watch TNG, DS9 and VOY. Just love it. It has the same vibe of those shows. It’s a big reason I think it’s so popular now.

But I gotcha. I can’t get my own girlfriend to watch Lower Decks for more than 10 minutes. She really hates it lol! Can’t stand Mariner and Ransom (but she does love Tendi which is why we are still together lol). But she loves Prodigy. Mostly because of Janeway and she’s hoping Neelix will show up since they are back in the Delta quadrant and she loooooves Neelix. Don’t get it either but that’s what makes the fan base interesting, everyone has different taste! But it’s so much Star Trek today it’s something for everybody. 😎🖖

Maybe in the future you will enjoy them more! If not you tried! 👍

Mulgrew own words in the article:

There’s been a hue and a cry of late. I was in Europe doing a tour and there was a lot of that too, “When are we going to see Janeway live-action?” There seems to be something interesting going on.

We’re only talking about this because MANY people are talking about this now.

And of course I don’t mean EVERY fan. I mean if you’re already a fan of Voyager and Janeway, right? Nuance is hard on the internet but that’s all I mean. Clearly you’re not a big Janeway fan. you made that pretty clear yourself many times. I think I saw you made a list someway the other day where Janeway was further down on it as favorite captain. Which is obviously fine, but I’m talking about the millions of fans like me who loves that character and would have no issues with a show. But if there is no Janeway show, I will live.

And how many conventions do you go a year man lol. And it’s funny how all your friends and associates seems to back you up on your thoughts on all of your opinions at these conventions lol. I don’t go to conventions man and that’s all just anecdotal stuff anyway true or not. I just read the internet like I’m guessing most do. and most seem into the idea than not, agreed?

Over the last three decades I have been to approximately one Trek convention per year (not including the 2020-2021 COVID period). I have a about a dozen friends that I coordinate with on going to conventions with, and a little broader network about I would say between 40 and 50 fans who I keep in email and phone contact work. The first convention I went to was in 79.

Also, I didn’t say all of my personal Trek friends agree with me…I very clearly said, “a number” of them did.

Can we also agree that the fans who want this a lot are much more likely to post on articles like this one supporting this new series versus the fans who are ambivalent on the need for this new series?

OK dude, but that’s not really something you can base around if a show should happen or not lol. Yes you and ‘a number of your friends’ are split on it. Fine and you and your number of friends will all be watching just the same and Paramount knows that too.

No one is going to lose sleep if we don’t get a Janeway show lol. But we’re FANS! You had no problem telling everyone you wanted a Pike show when the idea was thrown around 100 times on these boards, correct? This is what we do as fans. And frankly I hardly see any resistance on it anywhere online. I posted the Trekmovie article about it when Mulgrew said there was discussions about it last month, it got over 2000 likes and most were excited over the prospect.

Again, it doesn’t mean everyone , clearly it’s people who are fans of that character, but that’s how it always works lol.

No worries. I will point out that so far two people have responded to my post here, and one of you is in favor, and one not so much…that’s 50% ;-)

And I have said this before, I don’t think everyone is begging for a Janeway show in itself, just have the character back in live action, which is a no-brainer. So I think most would just be happy with that.

The thing about Janeway is that she is, by far, the most inconsistent Trek captain. One moment (“Alliances”), she’s a Kantian moralist, the type who today would be happy to see nukes fly in Ukraine rather than concede a scintilla in negotiations. The next (“Scorpion”), she’s the ultimate Kissingerian pragmatist, willing to overlook genocide to ensure survival.

I attribute this inconsistency more to poor writing than to design. Still, it’s not necessarily a bad thing in a character — but the rub is that they need to *explore* it, and outside of “Equinox Part II,” they rarely did. If a hypothetical Janeway series did this, and looked into how Starfleet treated Seven and the Maquis post-return to Earth, it might be interesting. If it’s a reunion show, well, I have no interest in seeing Neelix again.

I don’t disagree with hardly any of that, I still love the character just the same. Hopefully she will be written more consistently. But yeah it was just sloppy writing unfortunately. We’ll see how well they handle her on Prodigy. She’s been barely in it so far but I know she’s going to be a big part of the show the rest of the season.

And maybe they will do some flashbacks with what happened when they arrived back to Earth but based on Lower Decks, Picard and Prodigy it just sound like they all became official Starfleet officers, got promotions and moved on (well OK, Kim is probably still an Ensign ;)).. But Chakotay is now a captain and that was two years after returning to Earth. Paris is still in Starfleet as we saw in Lower Decks which was also about two years later. I don’t remember if he got promoted or not. I have to assume B’Elanna is still in Starfleet and they are happily married. I would be curious why Seven had such a rough bout by the time we saw her in Picard when she got home. But even she is now part of Starfleet. I think overall they all landed on their feet.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed a few turn up in Picard season 3. Maybe we will hear more if they do!

And who said it would be another Voyager show?? Is Picard another TNG show? Well the first two seasons aren’t anyway. ;) Is Prodigy a Voyager show? Definitely has Voyager elements in it but it’s mostly its own thing. I imagine the same would be for a new Janeway show.

Good point!

I’d love to see Seven and Janeway reunite. They need to save the galaxy from a new treat from the delta quadrant, maybe Species 8472 The Doctor, Harry Kim and the rest of the crew, even Reg Barclay, what are they all doing now? Endgame gave us a glimpse of a possible Voyager future but what really happened after Voyager got home? There is a lot of story to tell there.

Honestly I think a big reason why people want Janeway in live action is to reunite her with Seven. Obviously people just want to see her again but now that Seven is so prominent in Star Trek again, of course they want to see that relationship on some level. There is no Seven without Janeway. She freed her from the collective and made her an individual again.

And of course I would love to see all the Voyager characters reunited in some fashion, but I don’t know how realistic that is. But if you asked me five years ago if I could’ve seen the TNG characters all reunited I would’ve said a hard no and here we are.

I had trouble seeing ANY of those characters back to be honest outside of a cameo somewhere. But that’s only because I assumed they would just go much farther in the timeline (50+ years) once we finally got a post-Nemesis show or movie. But now since they went the opposite of that and put all these shows in the TNG era again, it’s all possible now.

And that’s probably the point. ;)

Yep, Seven and Janeway like peas in a pod! “There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew.” – Janeway will always be there when her crew ‘family’ needs her, that’s why Prodigy is so good.

…and if you have to make a deal with the Borg that will cause tens of millions of assimilations to get your 141 crew members back to Federation space, do it.

If they can put Janeway and Seven in just one scene together on Picard I would be happy. ;)

I was disappointed that there was no romance for Janeway and Chakotay. I’ll watch if there’s a live action Janeway series and can’t ya talk Chakotay into coming back?

The fans that want Jane way back are the ones who grew up on Voyager they were too young for TNG and DS9 was over their heads and they’ve never seen good Star Trek everyone who wants Janeway back needs to go watch the rest of Star Trek and then rewatch Voyager to realize how bad it is

May the force be with you

I think they want to do it but I also think they want a Sevin of Nine show and they’re may not be room for both. We’ll see.

I think that’s a possibility as well. I do see a lot of people on other boards say just make a show with both of them which seems like a great twofer. And I think 1 or 2 TNG characters could be involved as well.

It’s crazy though that 20 years after Voyager ended we’re now talking about a possible Seven or Nine or Janeway show. Who would’ve thought this would even be remotely a possibility two decades later lol. Power of Star Trek fandom I guess.Or more importantly Paramount liking the smell of $$$$ since they know fans will happily pay to watch them two decades later. ;)

“ But I actually have faith in Kurtzman over this. He listened to people who wanted Pike back after his stint on Discovery”

But completely ignored the majority of fans who have been telling him for years that Disco and Picard are terrible and how it could change for the better

I have ZERO faith in the man

The writing is going to have to be absolutely exquisite and as tight—I mean so tight.

Would you settle for a dog instead? Maybe some wine? A vineyard even? Oh, maybe a coffee farm? But you’ll have great hair, that we can guarantee.

[looks at Patrick Stewart] Did I mention the dog?

LOL, yeah let’s go that route instead doing a new series. :-)

Given all those conditions she is dictating to Kurtzman, my advice to him would be to smile, say, “we will consider all of these,” and then seal them in a crate in the DOD warehouse from the end of the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie…and never revisit this series idea again. :-)

All she is asking for are good stories and writing, that should just be a given lol. And I don’t think asking for no hair bun is some big demand, especially since Janeway already lost it completely by the third or fourth season of Voyager 20 years ago. And I’m guessing all these actors have made demands. That’s why they negotiate before signing on.

Anson Mount made it clear he wouldn’t sign on to a Pike show unless it was more upbeat, optimistic and episodic like TOS was and fortunately he got his wish. And we know the kinds of demands Stewart wanted to play Picard again. That show is basically designed around where he saw Picard 20 years later and was adamant about not being in a Starfleet uniform again.

And to give Kurtzman credit, he listened to all of it and made it happen. So I don’t see a big difference here if they are considering a Janeway show.

Least you forget, there are people out there that are firm in the belief that Kurtzman can’t hit the floor with a hat. Hence, the smart ass-ery.

Yeah true. But I’m just talking about the RATIONAL fans out there. Even if they still don’t like Kurtzman’s direction on the franchise or some of the shows (but I am personally loving it even though I don’t love every show myself), they are open minded enough to judge each show on their own merits.

The people in places like Youtube screaming Kurtzman is the devil who should be fired, all the shows are not ‘real’ Star Trek but a travesty to the brand, etc, they’re not going to reach those people on any thing at this point no matter what they do.

People pile on the ending of Enterprise, but was an ending ever good outside of TNG? Of course we would like to see more of every captivating character.

By and large, DS9’s satisfied me.

I was thinking the same thing.

Imagine being a writer and getting the note “No peaks and valleys but tenuous yet taut.”

Have Janeway on as the antagonist to s31. She tries all sorts of legit ways to expose or derail them, then finally sacrifices herself by ramming their priary base and knocking it right out of orbit. She gets to go out standing for the virtue of doing the right thing, even if there is almost nobody around to know she did it.

I don’t think you’re going to kill off Section 31 by destroying a base though. That’s like suggesting you kill off America because you destroyed the White House. And as we literally saw on Discovery, Control basically wiped out most of Section 31 when he was trying to take, well, control and they just regrouped after that and still around 100 years later.

I’d watch the hell out of this! Even if it doesn’t kill off Section 31, it’ll at least destabilize it or at least prevent some harm from being done… doing the right thing might be “insignificant” in the grand scheme of things, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.

Section 31, at least the real version from DS9, likely operates via cell networks. No way destroying one base or anything like that would get rid of them.

Wasn’t talking about getting rid of them, was talking about hitting them hard.

Janeway’s return: YES. Starfleet Academy: Yes. Michelle Yeoh Section 31: Yawn.

I would much rather a Michelle Yeoh vehicle than a college melodrama (which is what Starfleet Academy is almost guaranteed to be given the people developing it).

This… I feel like Starfleet Academy would just feel like Riverdale with a sci-fi twist.

Or how about neither? Discovery completely wrecked what Section 31 is supposed to be and I have no desire to see a series based on that. But yes I don’t need Star Trek: 90210 either.

Really hoping for the Yeoh series myself.

I had the privilege of meeting her when I worked at Paramount Pictures back in the 90s and I have to say the woman is a CLASS ACT all the way! One of THE nicest people on that lot, with the only person coming close to being nicer was Jonathan Frakes. =) I truly hope that they give her the opportunity to return in live action again with the stipulations that she’s pointed out.

You might want to go back and read how she treated Jeri Ryan in the ’90s.

Frankly, she reminds me of William Shatner… A lot of good there with the public face, but a number of reports of her treating some of the actors on her cast in a crappy way. Wang also brought this up in interviews years back (although he has his own issues).

I don’t really consider this a big deal, but let’s not get carried away and annoint her the Mother Teresa of Trek…lol

Now Jonathan Frakes, that dude is the good guy real deal, and I can personally attest to that having met with him and talked with him.

No one’s perfect and we should remember that while to us this is entertainment, to them it was work. Work can be sometimes be stressful and think it would be correct to say we all react and deal with it in different ways, and not always the right way in reteospect. It seems to me that whatever issues they had were not terminal or abhorrent but more common tension found in any long running ensemble cast. They seem to have buried the hatchet too for the most part.

Exactly! They worked it out and made up years ago. It’s not the ridiculous Takei/Shatner beef that’s been going on for what, 40 years now?

Mulgrew has not only apologized, she has said she was the one in the wrong at conventions and Ryan has accepted that. What else can be done?

I listen to the podcast Delta Flyers and both Wang and McNeil has said nothing but positive things about Mulgrew. McNeil trailer was next to hers and he said they hung out and talked all the time, has not said a single bad thing about her.

Maybe when I get to the season Ryan shows up there will be more about their issues, but everything they say about her seems to be someone they like and respect for someone they known for nearly 30 years at this point.

Tried to respond, but for some reason I can’t figure out my response got labeled as spam. Hopefully it shows up later today after the mods review it.

Like I said, it doesn’t really bother me that much. Heck I feel the same way about Shatner and I’m buying his new biography and I’ve paid to see him in person.

My point was simply that let’s not lionize her as a paragon of friendly virtue given there’s been some documented issues similar to Shatner‘s.

Will happily take this over Starfleet academy with Silly Tilly

Given Lower Decks, maybe we get the first Trek Sitcom, “The Warp 10 Theory” with Janeway, Seven and Tilly sharing an apartment and being instructors at Starfleet Academy.

Its pretty obvious we going to be getting a Star Trek Janeway series as Picard ends

Yep, they don’t want to announce yet because it will steal Picards final season thunder. My guess is soon after the conclusion of season 3 there’ll be a announcement of a Janeway show. There’s been too many hints now for it not to happen.

Lol. We’ll see,

Hope so bro! Hope so! 😎👍

Would make sense to me too! A 25th century Janeway show would be sooo sweet! Give Mulgrew whatever she wants!

Don’t watch kid’s cartoon Trek so a Live Action return is vital to me!

Mulgrew bringing up “Night” as being something of an attempt to address her desire for an exploration of how Janeway handles her lonely burden is interesting.

At the time, “Night” didn’t really work because it was an isolated incident. It’s not properly set up since the only Janeway we’ve ever really seen in the one the crew sees – resolute, firm but empathetic and compassionate, curious, enthusiastic and even at times rather self-righteous. There was almost no dramatization of her inner life or how she handled the stress of her job in her off-hours beyond the holodeck. So “Night” comes along four years into the run and suddenly she’s massively depressed because there’s nothing to explore to take her mind off of their situation. And then they get in a big space battle and find stars at the end so all is well for her and it’s barely addressed again until Endgame. It doesn’t play well.

Now, if they’d had the fortitude to actually show Janeway struggle with her responsibility and guilt in private while putting on a different side to her crew, that could have been incredible. Instead we got a character who was flawed yet also written to be infallible since she’s meant to be the wise captain everyone turns to – the burden of that on her was not important to anyone besides Mulgrew. So an episode like “Night” or “Equinox Part 2” would only be an aberration, not something to build on, Par the course for how most of the characters bar Seven and the Doctor were handled. I think the writers were so resolved to not let the first female captain display aspects of character which could be construed as emotional weaknesses, they closed off a lot of avenues which would have given her real depth.

I’d be interested to see that addressed in a show but don’t know if it’s easily retconned.

My impression — going back to the first interview I saw with her about the show, which I think was around the time of the early phage episode — was that the actress is smarter than the character, and certainly more articulate. I only lasted halfway through VOYAGER’s run — though I saw the Ransom eps (very good!) and the finale (still wtf?) — and my departure was largely over frustration with how Janeway was mishandled, at least IMO. Ian’s take on how they could have gone is a solid one, and probably would have kept me watching.

Yeah, Janeway was always uneven. That episode where she goes Ahab on Ransom could have led to something very compelling, but in the next episode the slate is wiped clean and even Chakotay never brings it up again.

Despite its premise, by season 3 it was a show which declined to explore many consequences of the actions of any of its characters. It wanted to be TNG 2.0 and that meant backgrounding the reality of the lost in space idea in order to have more exciting adventures of the week with tidy reset buttons. In keeping with that, Janeway ends up being somewhat inscrutable and all over the place. She’s only ever worked by way of the sheer force of will Kate Mulgrew’s performance exuded.

So “Night” comes along four years into the run and suddenly she’s massively depressed because there’s nothing to explore to take her mind off of their situation. And then they get in a big space battle and find stars at the end so all is well for her and it’s barely addressed again until Endgame…Now, if they’d had the fortitude to actually show Janeway struggle with her responsibility and guilt in private while putting on a different side to her crew, that could have been incredible.

Yes — say that again. It’s absolutely symbolic of the overall problem with Voyager: there are no consequences to anything, and it’s a massive re-set button each week, far more than even TNG was.

And this issue is also a rejoinder to all of those people ululating about how great episodic television is and how wonderful SNW is for (allegedly) returning to it. Janeway’s depression was one-and-done, never foreshadowed, never spoken of again. It stuck out like a sore thumb.

It’s a bit like the Airiam complaints we heard on DISCO; the friendship between Airiam and the rest of the crew was similarly never foreshadowed. Still, it’s a lot easier to accept an offscreen friendship between a few junior officers than it is offscreen depression in the series lead.

Pike, Spock, Uhura, and M’Benga got fairly consistent building development compared to the likes of Janeway, Torres, Paris, Chakotay, Tuvok and Kim who all basically went into stasis after season 2. I remember RDM’s disbelief at being told that “Barge of the Dead” didn’t need to focus on Torres’ relationship with Paris because that didn’t really matter much to the show. SNW at least has character arcs while making the stories be self-contained. That’s the big difference in the approach and why I’m a little less worried it will fall into the Voyager trap.

Airiam was hugely problematic, not only for not having been developed until her last episode, but also because her existence retreaded an ugly “woe is me, if only I weren’t disabled” trope. A dear friend who uses a wheelchair found both that storyline and DS9’s “Melora” to be highly frustrating and I could really see why.

Star fleet academy show between TOS and TNG era

This site’s filters are still awful. I had a big thing about “Night” and Janeway filtered out as spam. Thanks.

Can’t be bothered to rewrite it, just will say that it’s worth noting a show that explores Janeway’s inner life and struggle to deal with her burdens while putting on a brave face for everyone else might be interesting – Voyager barely did that beyond “Night” and “Endgame” so it rang false at the time. They were so obsessed with having the first female captain look strong and infallible that they robbed her of having real depth.

Me too…spam for no reason on a reply I had to Tiger2.

Dar, and it finally got through. Ah well. I suppose I could have waited longer to see if it showed up, but as with any message board, there’s a short window when a conversation can happen then we move on!

So as I read some of the comments about whether or not Janeway should be brought back to live action I just want to add: Why the heck not?????

I’m a Star Trek fan from the Original Series all the way to Strange New Worlds. I’m so big of a fan that a conscientious and clever coworker built and hung an impressive looking model of the original Enterprise over my work cubicle for my birthday once!

With all these years under my belt the one thing that hits me the hardest is the drought of no Trek that followed the cancellation of Enterprise. I never want to see that happen again.

So I’m at a point where anything Trek related that at least attempts to stay in canon is good news to me. More Trek is always better than no Trek.

And lets face it. Beauty has always been in the eye of the beholder. People gave Deep Space Nine a very hard time. But now its revered as legacy Trek just like everything else. So as to the arguments about how bad it was at the time – who cares now? We just like the show.

Every Trek that comes out will have both lovers and haters. But the only thing Hollywood cares about are dollars. People can “say” this or that to reinforce their positions, but as long as these shows bring in money for Paramount Plus (or whatever its called at given moment) – these shows will be made.

I’ve never been happier to have so much Trek! So for me – TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT – all prior characters are welcomed as far as I’m concerned. Show me Sulu, Dr. Crusher, Major Kira, Harry Kim, Malcom, or anybody else you can come up with. A rich history just waiting to be explored!

Am I the only one who doesn’t watch the show for the captain, but for the SHIP? heck, Torres was my favourite on Voyager. But I watched the show for the Intrepid Class starship.

Data was my favourite on TNG. But I watched the show for the Galaxy Class (and then Sovereign class) ship.

Quark and Odo were my favourite on DS9. But I watched the show for the awesome station, the wormhole and mystery beyond it. Also for the Danube class runabouts that landed on pads that retracted into the station. Oh and the Defiant! DUH

Actually… I do like Strange New Worlds for Captain Pike. But that’s because he’s handsome as heck.

But largely, myself and many other Trekkies/-ers watch the show for the ships. We don’t much care about the Captains. I think.

There’s a reason Trek Yards is a popular YouTube channel, people love the ships.

I don’t feel as connected to Discovery in part because the VFX are darker, murkier, dirtier and more frantic than the old Trek aesthetic established by TMP. Times change, they aren’t beholden to lower budgets that necessitate the same half dozen stock shots of the ship exteriors (that certainly bred familiarity with us). Still, we lost a lot of the grace and elegance of the designs from back then along with beauty shots that lovingly show off these ships which often ARE characters, I agree. Strange New Worlds lingers a bit more on the Enterprise, but between the lovingly animated sequences and the characters cooing about the Cerritos, it’s Lower Decks which best recaptures that emotional connection.

I don’t feel as connected to Discovery in part because the VFX are darker, murkier, dirtier and more frantic than the old Trek aesthetic established by TMP.

Yes. I hate the poor lighting. The fact we never got a *really* thorough look at 1701 — something akin to the TMP flyby scene, or the opening scene of “Encounter at Farpoint” — also detracted from the last few TNG movies.

GIVE US A JANEWAY SHOW KURTZMAN!!!!!!

I love Prodigy but I only cared about it when it was announced when Janeway was coming back on it. I think that’s why a lot of people watched it. A kid cartoon usually doesn’t interest me much!

So 100% I want a live action Janeway show! It would be crazy not to do it! 😄 🖖

Meh. I’d rather see someone pick up the idea that floated around a few years ago about an anthology Trek series, where each season focuses on a different story, cast, and time period.

I really don’t have any interest at all in the Starfleet Academy show.

The Section 31 show, with Yeoh, who was my favorite Discovery character (along with Pike) has some potential.

I just wonder whether some of these shows diverge too far from the starship basis that has been the root of the Star Trek franchise. Yes, Deep Space 9 obviously worked, thanks to Behr, Moore, Pillar and the rest, but I’m not even sure if a Section 31 show can work and they want to to SF academy? Why?

Some show with Kate Mulgrew’s Janeway is something I can get behind.

How about this idea. It picks up on a dropped plot point from the TOS ST films. Originally, the reason for Saavik remaining on Vulcan in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was that she was pregnant with Spock’s baby, which was conceived when he went through Pon Farr on the Genesis planet. That was the original plan, but Nimoy didn’t like it, so he had the lines dropped from the screenplay. I can’t recall his reasoning exactly, but it may have been because he didn’t want Spock to look like a deadbeat dad or something like that. I think that was a shame, since this could’ve been an interesting dramatic wrinkle for Spock, even though they only had 2 films after that with the TOS characters. We also heard from Picard in “Sarek” that Picard was present, in some capacity, when Sarek’s son was married? Unless Sarek had another son, that was Spock getting married. Who too? Saavik would be a logical choice if he had a son with her.

In any case, it would be cool to have some sort of post TOS film show with this new character, Spock and Saavik’s son or daughter, as a character. You could include appearances by George Takei and Walter Koenig. Or, you could even have the aged child in a new Janeway show. I just think that could be a cool legacy character idea that could be a callback to the original show and Spock.

Mulgrew says: “There’s been a hue and a cry of late. I was in Europe doing a tour and there was a lot of that too, ‘When are we going to see Janeway live-action?’ There seems to be something interesting going on.”

Everyone who attended her convention talks in Germany knows it was Mulgrew herself who kept bringing up the idea of live-action Janeway and telling those in attendance to post to social media to say they want her to return. I hope Kurtzman runs away.

Star Trek's Captain Kathryn Janeway Is Primed for a Spinoff Series

Kate Mulgrew's Kathryn Janeway is the best Star Trek captain to feature in a new spinoff series because of how well she exemplifies Starfleet values.

Starfleet captains are a rare breed, and all of them are excellent in their own ways. Captain Kathryn Janeway -- famously of the USS Voyager -- is one of the best and easily deserving of a rumored spinoff series . The Star Trek of today is trying to both move forward and look back in equal measure. Janeway is a character that allows the franchise to do both.

The next season of Star Trek: Picard is both the final season and a proper The Next Generation reunion . While reaction to previous seasons of Picard has been mixed, showrunner Terry Matalas is excellent at series finales . Part of why the reaction to these bold and challenging show is lukewarm is that some folks just hoped to see Patrick Stewart go off on a few more rounds of Star Trek adventure. Instead, they got season-long stories about the dangers of xenophobia, authoritarianism and even deeper emotional issues . Season 3 seems like it will be slightly more committed to that franchise feel -- but the potential for these legacy characters to tell relevant stories is not limited to Jean-Luc Picard.

RELATED: Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew Promises Not to Cause a Paradox in Janeway's Hometown

Kate Mulgrew was the first woman to lead a Star Trek series when Star Trek: Voyager went on the air in 1995, and nailed the character from the pilot episode. Then in the final scene of Voyager , Janeway delivered a swagger-y Captain line in a bigger emotional moment than any Captain had experienced before. Thankfully, today's Star Trek doesn't lack for female captains , but Janeway is perfect for a spinoff series because of her relationship to Starfleet and its ideals.

Genre stories are always a reflection of their time. Strange New Worlds notwithstanding , today is not a time that dreams of perfect institutions in a future where humans fix everything. (Though fans always forget it only happens after a nuclear war .) Shows like Discovery and Picard reflect how modern institutions often fail to live up to the ideals they were supposedly founded on. And no person in Star Trek history has ever lived up to the tenants of Starfleet more than Janeway.

The premise of Voyager was that the ship was flung a bajillion miles away from Earth, and it will take decades at warp speed to get home. This happens because Janeway made a classic "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" decision. Instead of a mutiny, they discovered more than any other Starfleet vessel -- and Janeway decimated the Borg to boot. Throughout this entire voyage, she maintained the loyalty and respect of the crew, despite almost getting them killed several times. The ideals of Starfleet were never more realized than in Captain Kathryn Janeway, and if Starfleet isn't living up to its own values, there is no better officer to sic on them.

RELATED: Star Trek: Prodigy's Kate Mulgrew Revives Kathryn Janeway For a New Generation

Off-screen, the Voyager crew remains very close. Garrett Wang (who played Harry Kim) and Robert Duncan McNeill ( who portrayed helmsman Tom Paris ) are recording a rewatch podcast. Jeri Ryan is currently a regular on Picard , reprising her role as Seven of Nine. Producers could do a Voyager reunion on Picard like they are doing for TNG . But if any character has more story to tell, it's Janeway. She could hit all the buttons that Paramount wants their Star Trek to hit.

Of course, the idea only works if Kate Mulgrew is interested in returning to lead another series. She's already lending her voice to the remarkable Star Trek: Prodigy on Nickelodeon -- but voice work is different than being a series lead. While her talks about a Janeway spinoff may be just conversation, the Star Trek powers that be would be fools not to jump at the chance to revisit one of the franchise's best characters.

Star Trek: Prodigy is streaming on Paramount+ with a new season expected in 2023.

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Kathryn Janeway is a Starfleet Admiral and former commanding officer of U.S.S. Voyager .

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The Al-Batani , Janeway's first Starfleet assignment

Janeway was born on Earth in the first half of the 24th Century . By the 2360s she had graduated from Starfleet Academy and served as a science officer aboard the U.S.S. Al-Batani .

In 2371 , Janeway took command of U.S.S. Voyager , with her long-time friend Tuvok as chief of security. The ship was stranded in the Delta Quadrant soon after its launch and it took Janeway and her crew until 2378 to find a way home. During this voyage, Janeway made several scientific discoveries and many notable first contacts with a number of species.

By 2379 Janeway had been promoted to Vice Admiral and no longer commanded Voyager, now working with Starfleet Command. She briefed Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the changed political situation on Romulus .

In 2388, Admiral Janeway commanded a modified Delta Class Shuttle on a survey mission of the Hobus System . She and her crew observed that the Hobus Nebula left in the aftermath of the supernova bore a resemblance to the McAllister C-5 Nebula, making it a plausible location for quantum singularities which could be used to travel to Fluidic space . While on the mission, her vessel detected the warp signature of an Undine vessel; however, this turned out to be a Romulan ruse intended to cover up tests of a subspace weapon.

In 2401 , Kathryn Janeway was part of a contingent of retired and current Starfleet officers, also including Ambassador Worf , Admirals Beverly Crusher and Chakotay , as well as retired Captains Ezri Dax and Tuvok , who all appealed to the Federation Council to reconsider its position on the Klingon-Gorn War and to support the Klingon Empire .

In 2408 , Admiral Janeway assumed command of the U.S.S. Tucker to conduct another annual survey of the Hobus System. She suspected Undine , or another race's involvement in the star's destruction, which lead to the annihilation of Romulus 21 years prior . The Tucker's sensors again detected an Undine warp signature; the outcome of this encounter remains unknown, as the records have been redacted by Starfleet Intelligence .

By 2409 , she is an instructor at Starfleet Academy , stationed on Earth. Later that year, she comes to the aid of Captain Masc Taggart 's training vessel as the Borg launch a full scale invasion of the Vega Colony .

In 2410 , Admiral Janeway returned to the Delta Quadrant, overseeing Delta Quadrant Command at her posting on the Jenolan Dyson Sphere . Later that year, the Doctor wished to inform Admiral Janeway about the recent discovery of the Iconian involvement with the rise of the Vaadwaur and the capture of Sela , hoping that she might be able to move investigations forward at a faster pace.

By the 32nd century, the Janeway -class had been named in her honor of the Admiral.

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Missions involved [ | ]

Other involvement [ | ]

• In Tales of the War #18, Seven composes a series of letters to Admiral Janeway. The letters chronicle Seven's misgivings about the Krenim timeship project, and her conflicts with the other researchers there, particularly Noye . Her concerns culminate in her decision to leave the project prior to the events of “Butterfly” . She finds out about the failed temporal incursion while on her way back to the Sol System . Janeway's responses to these letters are not included, but Seven's letters confirm she has been receiving replies.
• Damar Kahn talks about her investigation of the Hobus Supernova in the mission “Heading Out” , while the Doctor mentions her at the end of “What's Left Behind” .

Notes [ | ]

• Janeway was retroactively added into Star Trek Online with Season Twenty-five: Shadow's Advance in 2022. She replaced Ethan Burgess at Delta Quadrant Command and as mission giver for many of the Delta Quadrant story episodes.
• Janeway's birth year has never been mentioned on-screen, with several sources varying between 2328 and 2344.
• Compared to other main cast characters of TNG, DS9 and VOY, there are very few mentions of Kathryn Janeway in the Path to 2409 . The STO tie-in novel The Needs of the Many mentions Admiral Janeway commanding the U.S.S. Tucker .
• Janeway's dialogue in "Measure of Morality (Part 2)" is pre-recorded voice lines from the Voyager episode Dark Frontier .
• Janeway is the second Captain from one of the Star Trek series to make a full appearance in the game with their original actress providing voice acting.

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• U.S.S. Voyager
• U.S.S. Al-Batani
• List of canon characters

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• Kathryn Janeway at Memory Alpha , the Star Trek Wiki.
• Kathryn Janeway at Memory Beta , the non-canon Star Trek Wiki.
• Official Blog - Star Trek Online: Tales of the war #18 (August 18, 2015)
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Star Trek: Discovery's Burnham Arc Is Season 5's Best TNG Homage

WARNING: Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8, "Labyrinths"

• Captain Burnham's journey in Star Trek: Discovery season 5 mirrors the emotional exploration of Captain Picard from The Next Generation.
• "Labyrinths" delves into Burnham's introspective journey, echoing themes from iconic TNG episodes like "The Inner Light."
• Star Trek's strength lies in exploring characters' emotions, highlighting the humanity and capacity for feeling in its beloved characters.

Star Trek: Discovery has always been about Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), and the show's fifth and final season gives her a story arc reminiscent of Star Trek: The Next Generation . Discovery season 5 finds Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery on a race across the galaxy to track down the Progenitors' ancient and powerful technology. The Progenitors, who created all humanoid life in the galaxy, were first introduced in TNG season 6, episode 20, "The Chase." Not only has Discovery season 5 served as a direct follow-up to this episode, but it has also contained more references to past Trek than any other season.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8 , "Labyrinths" finds Captain Burnham closing in on the final clue, which leads the USS Discovery to a massive interstellar library called the Eternal Gallery and Archive. One of the original scientists who found the Progenitors' treasure, Betazoid Dr. Marina Derex, hid this final clue in the original manuscript of her book, Labyrinths of the Mind . As part of the test to acquire the clue, Burnham enters her mindscape where, guided by an avatar of Cleveland Booker (David Ajala), she must confront hard truths about herself. Burnham's emotional journey echoes the story of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Star Trek: Discovery revealed the five scientists who hid clues to the Progenitors' treasure, and they all have links to Star Trek's legacy.

Star Trek: Discovery Writer Explains How Season 5 & Burnham Honor TNG

"if youre going to be the one to protect what the progenitors left behind, youll need to know yourself.".

In an interview with TrekMovie , Eric J. Robbins, who co-wrote Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8, "Labyrinths", with Lauren Wilkinson, spoke about how he incorporated elements from Star Trek: The Next Generation into Discovery . Read Robbins' quote below:

Eric J. Robbins: I feel like it is part of every episode that I worked on Discovery. It was always important for me to find reference episodes. There was a common joke during season four when we were working remotely and after we get back on Zoom after lunch I would be like, 'I just watched this episode of Voyager!' So, yes, 'Inner Light,' which I hesitate to say because, to me, it is arguably the best written episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. That and 'Family' in terms of emotional exploration of Jean-Luc Picard. 'Tapestry' was also on my mind, having an opportunity to reflect on your life and the choices youve made.

Throughout Star Trek: Discovery season 5, the show has built upon stories that began in Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . In "Labyrinths," Burnham is hit with a nucleonic beam that sends her into the mindscape, which is the same technology used to affect Picard in TNG season 5, episode 25 , "The Inner Light." Aside from this direct shout-out to one of Picard's greatest episodes, "Labyrinths" also explores Burnham's emotional journey , just like "Family" and "Tapestry" did with Picard. Like Burnham, Picard was somewhat reckless in his younger years, but that boldness shaped both officers into the Captains they became.

Exploring Characters' Emotions Has Always Been Star Trek's Secret Weapon

The most important journey is the human journey.

Since Star Trek: The Original Series , the franchise has never shied away from diving into the emotions of its characters. Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) regularly displayed strong emotions, sometimes bordering on the histrionic, and even the ever-logical Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) had moments of deep feeling. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), and Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) may have been less outwardly emotional, but Star Trek still allowed these characters time for reflection. Star Trek often tells big science fiction stories, but the franchise would not be as popular as it is if it didn't also explore the emotions of its characters.

Star Trek has brought to life some of the greatest characters in science fiction, who are beloved because of their humanity and capacity for feeling.

Some of the characters of Star Trek: Discovery may be more comfortable expressing their emotions around one another, but Star Trek has always celebrated empathy and compassion. Star Trek has brought to life some of the greatest characters in science fiction, who are beloved because of their humanity and capacity for feeling. Even the android Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) clearly experiences some form of emotion, for all that he protests otherwise. Star Trek emphasizes that it takes logic and emotion to be a true leader, and Star Trek: Discovery's Michael Burnham exemplifies that better than most.

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Cast Blu del Barrio, Oded Fehr, Anthony Rapp, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Wilson Cruz, Eve Harlow, Mary Wiseman, Callum Keith Rennie

Release Date September 24, 2017

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is the third installment in the sci-fi franchise and follows the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew members of the USS Enterprise. Set around one hundred years after the original series, Picard and his crew travel through the galaxy in largely self-contained episodes exploring the crew dynamics and their own political discourse. The series also had several overarching plots that would develop over the course of the isolated episodes, with four films released in tandem with the series to further some of these story elements.

Cast Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden

Release Date September 28, 1987

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Every star trek captain warp catchphrase explained.

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Star trek: every version of the starship enterprise, star trek's new warp drive breaks the prime directive in a way no-one expected.

• "Go" - Captain Gabriel Lorca keeps it simple with a concise and authoritative command in Star Trek: Discovery season 1.
• "Execute" - Captain Saru's choice of catchphrase falls a bit flat, feeling clunky and lacking elegance in Star Trek: Discovery.
• "Carry On" - Captain Saru opts for a passive catchphrase that may not convey the necessary authority in Star Trek: Discovery, still workshopping his perfect phrase.

The starships of Star Trek have seen many Captains and almost all of them has uttered a catchphrase when preparing the ship for Warp speed. The moment a starship jumps into warp is a moment full of endless possibilities. It seems fitting that most Captains would choose to punctuate this moment with a memorable saying. The warp catchphrase has become such a staple that Star Trek: Discovery showed the crewmembers eagerly anticipating what a new Captain would say (and then poking fun at them if their chosen phrase didn't quite work).

Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was in charge of the USS Enterprise when it was a training vessel in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , but he never uttered a warp catchphrase before ceding the center seat to Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner). Perhaps this is because of his experience in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's premiere when Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) said, " I would like the ship to go... now " after Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) asks him what his catchphrase will be. While that particular phrase might be a bit too clunky to stick, here are 17 warp catchphrases that have been used by various starship Captains.

17 "Go"

Captain gabriel lorca - star trek: discovery.

Star Trek Captain catchphrases don't get much simpler than this. In Star Trek: Discovery season 1, Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) simply says " Go " just before the USS Discovery engages its spore displacement hub drive . Everyone on the ship is nervous to use the spore drive, but Lorca delivers his concise command in a way that communicates his authority and confidence. While it's not a particularly creative catchphrase, it serves to get his meaning across. Taking into account Lorca's no-nonsense demeanor, it's possible he simply couldn't be bothered to come up with a lengthier Warp catchphrase.

16 "Execute"

Captain saru - star trek: discovery.

Captain James T. Kirk made use of this catchphrase in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , but he's not the only Star Trek captain to have said it. Saru (Doug Jones) tries this one as Captain of the USS Discovery to signal the use of the spore drive. Saru struggled to find his perfect Captain's catchphrase , and " Execute " just doesn't quite stick. It's not an elegant word, and it feels clunky to shout when in the middle of a potentially tense situation.

15 "Carry On"

Captain Saru still has some workshopping to do when it comes to his catchphrase.

After having previously tried " Execute " out as his potential catchphrase, Saru then chooses to go with " Carry on ." While this one arguably works better than " Execute ," it feels almost too passive. " Carry on " is not an authoritative command so much as it is a suggestion to keep doing what you're doing. Perhaps, nothing will ever top the simplicity and punchiness of Captain Picard's (Patrick Stewart) " Engage ," but it seems Captain Saru still has some workshopping to do when it comes to his catchphrase.

14 "Let's Go"

Captain jonathan archer - star trek: enterprise.

Simple, and to the point, it seems fitting that the first Captain of the Enterprise would say this to send his ship, the NX-01, to Warp. Not so much a catchphrase as a thing Captain Archer (Scott Bakula) just says sometimes , this doesn't feel like the order that it should be. He says it as if he's excited to set off on this journey through space, but not necessarily as if he's commanding an entire ship full of people.

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13 "Take Us Out"

Captain james t. kirk - star trek (2009).

In the 2009 Star Trek movie , Chris Pine's Captain James T. Kirk uses " Take us out ," but as will become apparent from this list, Kirk doesn't have one particular catchphrase. Kirk orders his crew to initiate Warp Drive in many different ways , often specific to the situation he and his crew are in. This catchphrase, for example, works best when the USS Enterprise is leaving a ship dock or otherwise heading out into the stars. " Take us out" might be more appropriate for impulse engines; it doesn't feel strong enough as a command to go to Warp.

12 "That-a-Way"

Admiral james t. kirk - star trek: the motion picture.

Admiral James T. Kirk responds with this one at the end of Star Trek: The Motion Picture when Mr. Sulu (George Takei) asks for a heading. As Kirk says this, he gestures vaguely at the stars, suggesting that there will be more adventures ahead for Kirk and his USS Enterprise crew. Though this one didn't exactly catch on, it wouldn't make sense in every context anyway. However, here, it's perfect. As the send-off for the first feature-length Star Trek film, Kirk's phrase encapsulates the wonders of exploring the stars.

11 "Let's See What She's Got"

Captain james t. kirk - star trek iv: the voyage home.

Kirk's line feels like a fitting end for Star Trek IV.

As the final words said in the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , this catchphrase works so well. Kirk and his crew have just successfully traveled back in time and saved the Earth. This phrase not only hints that there are more adventures to come but also celebrates Kirk's new USS Enterprise-A and what she's capable of. It's also reminiscent of the popular Scotty phrase, " I'm giving her all she's got! " Kirk's line feels like a fitting end for Star Trek IV and a way to commemorate the many achievements of the ship called Enterprise.

10 "Do It"

Captain kathryn janeway - star trek: voyager.

Star Trek: Voyager 's Captain Janeway's (Kate Mulgrew) Warp catchphrase may be simple, but she says it with such a commanding air that it's impossible not to want to follow her orders. While it's more than just the word " Go ," this one is still a basic catchphrase that serves to get the point across without any flowery language. As the first female starship Captain to lead her own show, it makes sense that Janeway would have a catchphrase that commands authority. Something about the way she says it also makes it feel like it must be obeyed, which works well for her job on the USS Voyager.

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9 "¡Dale!"

Captain cristobal rios - star trek: picard.

Spanish for " Go ahead ," this was Captain Cristobal Rios' (Santiago Cabrera) catchphrase of choice in Star Trek: Picard . While at one point, Rios also lovingly mocks Picard by saying " Make it so ," his " ¡Dale! " is direct and effective regardless of whether his crew speaks Spanish or not. The way Rios says it communicates his meaning clearly enough, and it's a word that has the same punchy quality as Picard's " Engage ."

8 "Punch It"

Captain christopher pike - star trek (2009).

"Punch it" denotes director J.J. Abrams' Star Wars fandom.

Used only by the version of Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) from 2009's Star Trek , this catchphrase acts as an homage to the Star Wars franchise. " Punch it " is Han Solo's preferred way to tell Chewie to send the Millennium Falcon into hyperspace. It's not a bad Warp catchphrase, and it's always fun to see connections between two of science fiction's biggest franchises, but this phrase will be forever associated with Solo and the Millennium Falcon. A good Star Trek Captain should come up with their own catchphrase, not just borrow from another franchise, but "Punch it" denotes director J.J. Abrams' Star Wars fandom.

7 "Let's Fly"

Captain michael burnham - star trek: discovery.

When Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) became the USS Discovery's Captain, she went with " Let's fly " as her catchphrase. "Let's fly" phrase captures Captain Burnham's idealism and desire to explore the stars . While it doesn't feel as commanding as something like " Hit it " or " Engage ," that's not really Burnham's style anyway. This phrase works well for her as a character and as a Captain. It conjures the wonder and pure fun of spending your time exploring space in a starship.

6 "Step On It"

Captain jean-luc picard - star trek: the next generation.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) only uses this one once, after just returning from a Holodeck program as Dixon Hill in Star Trek: The Next Generation . While it's fitting for the outfit he's wearing and the concept of driving a car, it doesn't really make sense as a Warp catchphrase. No one has to step on anything to make a starship go. Still, it works here because everyone on the bridge is in on the joke . It's a fitting end to an entertaining episode that allowed the normally serious Picard to have a little fun.

5 "Warp Me!" & "It's Warp Time!"

Captain carol freeman - star trek: lower decks.

Captain Freeman tried out both "Warp Me!" and "It's Warp Time!," and she seems to prefer the former to launch the Cerritos into action.

Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) experienced a lot of Captain envy on Star Trek: Lower Decks , and that includes trying to think up an iconic catchphrase of her own. As Captain of the California Class USS Cerritos, Freeman's Starfleet career is perpetually in the shadow of more prestigious ships like the USS Enterprise . Captain Freeman tried out both "Warp Me!" and "It's Warp Time!," and she seems to prefer the former to launch the Cerritos into action.

4 "Hit It"

Captain christopher pike - star trek: strange new worlds.

Captain Christopher Pike's (Anson Mount) " Hit it " has already hit it off with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fans. Somehow, this phrase feels punchier than many of the others, and it just fits this version of Pike so well. Of all the catchphrases on this list, this one might come the closest to achieving the iconic status held by both of Captain Picard's famous phrases. It's not especially different from many of the other chosen catchphrases, but for whatever reason, when Captain Pike says it, it just works.

3 "Make It So"

"Make it so" is perhaps Picard's most well-known catchphrase

One of the most iconic Star Trek phrases of all time, Captain Picard's " Make it so " was first used during Star Trek: The Next Generation series premiere. "Make it so" is perhaps Picard's most well-known catchphrase, and it feels fitting for the type of captain Jean-Luc is. He's professional, diplomatic, and to the point, and this catchphrase perfectly encapsulates that. Often used after an Enterprise crew member has suggested a course of action, this phrase also shows Captain Picard's regard for his crew. Fans have jumped on this phrase as well, going so far as to make a parody video for the holidays called " Make it snow ."

2 "Engage"

Captain & admiral jean-luc picard - star trek: the next generation & star trek: picard.

Though the warp catchphrase, " Engage ," may be most associated with Captain Picard, many starship Captains have used this one. Captain Pike used it all the way back in Star Trek: The Original Series unaired pilot,, "The Cage." Captain Kirk used it over the course of TOS , Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) used it on the USS Defiant , Janeway and Lt. Tuvok (Tim Russ) both used it on the USS Voyager, and of course, Picard used it often on Star Trek: The Next Generation . It's no surprise " Engage " is as popular as it is. For one thing, it's a more realistic command, as the starship engines are, in fact, engaging as they start up. It's also satisfying to say and has the ring of a true order, so it's no surprise it has become such an iconic Star Trek phrase.

1 "???"

Captain seven of nine - star trek: picard season 3.

We don't know what Captain Seven's warp command is.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 ended with the newly-minted Captain of the USS Enterprise-G, Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), about to command her starship to warp for the first time. Only we don't know what Captain Seven's warp command is. Picard season 3's in-joke sets up a spinoff series, Star Trek: Legacy , about Captain Seven and the Enterprise-G's voyages. But, unfortunately, no Picard spinoff is in development at Paramount+. This means Captain Seven's warp catchphrase will remain a Star Trek mystery.

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The Baddest Part of Space: A Brief History of the Badlands

The last place in the galaxy you want to take your starship, is often the place with the most going on.

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains story details and plot points for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5's "Erigah" and "Labyrinths"!

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The stormiest part of the galaxy is also the place where everyone seems to end-up, at least, if you’re in a certain kind of Star Trek adventure.

In the seventh (" Erigah ") and eighth ("Labyrinths") episodes of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, the crew learns that the final clue to unlocking the Progenitor tech will lead to the Eternal Gallery and Archive, a kind of mobile library. These days, it's located in the center of the Badlands , an area of space beset with plasma storms, gravitational anomalies, and, on a few occasions, the accidental doorway to the other side of the galaxy.  

Discovery 's return to the Badlands might be the next-to-last stop on the treasure map to get the elusive secrets of the Progenitor tech, but it's a thrilling moment for longtime Star Trek fans. The Badlands isn't just a random Easter egg. This is a part of space pivotal to the history of the 24th Century, a place which spans not just a chunk of the Alpha Quadrant, but the paths of two beloved Trek shows — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager .

Here's your brief history of the Badlands, plus, what makes it so bad, and so cool.

Star Trek and the Art of Foreshadowing

"When It Rains..."

In many ways, the Badlands represents a moment in Star Trek history where the franchise was getting really good at planting seeds for later plot developments, and, in the case of the Badlands, for TV series that had yet to even premiere. As many longtime fans know, back in the 1990s, having serialized arcs on any TV show was rare, meaning that ongoing shared continuity between Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine was downright revolutionary.

How does this connect to the Badlands? Well, before the U.S.S. Voyager actually went into the Badlands in the 1995 series premiere of Star Trek: Voyager , " Caretaker ," the concept of the Badlands was introduced in Deep Space Nine .

On April 24, 1994, in the 20th episode of Deep Space Nine 's second season, the concept of the Badlands was quietly introduced. Titled " The Maquis, Part I ," the episode introduced the growing resistance movement among former Federation colonists living in a demilitarized zone that now was part of Cardassian space. This storyline was directly connected to The Next Generation episode " Journey's End ," which had aired just a month prior on March 28, 1994. That episode established the conundrum of what was happening to the Federation colonists in the Cardassian DMZ, and then, DS9's "The Maquis, Part I" and " The Maquis, Part II ," revealed what happened when those colonists organized into a fighting force.

By May 16, 1994, this storyline pivoted back to TNG with the episode " Preemptive Strike ," in which Ro Laren defects to the Maquis, breaking Captain Picard's heart for nearly 30 years, until their reconciliation in the 2023 episode of Star Trek: Picard , " Imposters ."

So, in 1994, the Star Trek franchise escalated a huge storyline in March, April, and May. And one common element of this entire Maquis storyline was the Badlands.

The Badlands Revealed

"Caretaker"

Although Deep Space Nine introduced the concept of the Badlands in Season 2, and later mentioned it again in the Season 3 episode " Defiant ," the full destructive and absurdly dangerous aspect of the Badlands wasn't fully on display until the first episode of Star Trek: Voyager .

In "The Maquis, Part 1," Sisko says, "A few ships have been lost there over the past year or two," which again, foreshadows the moment when Voyager, and then Chakotay's ship the Val Jean , are transported to the Delta Quadrant, from the Badlands.

So while the Badlands had been visited and name-checked before Voyager , most fans associate this unstable region of space with that series. And with good reason, if Voyager had never pursued the Val Jean into the Badlands, the entire show would never have happened. Janeway even selected the temperamental, former-criminal Tom Paris as her pilot, because the Badland were known to be treacherous. And although DS9 would revisit the Badlands a bit more in subsequent seasons, the pink-orange landscape of the plasma storms from the opening moments of "Caretaker" have been burned into the brains of fans for almost 30 years.

Discovery ' s Return to the Badlands

"Erigah"

As Rayner tells Captain Burnham in "Erigah," he’s been to the Badlands and "it's as fun as it sounds." In "Labyrinths," we learn what was a very unstable region in the year 2371, has expanded to become, as Rayner explains, "the largest plasma storm in the quadrant," in 3191.

When Discovery enters the Badlands, it appears to be one intricate, massive storm in space, even more intense than back in the Voyager days. "It's kinda beautiful, in a twisted sort of way," Tilly declares as the ship rolls up on the Badlands, and she's totally right.

While the Badlands has always been a scary place in the Trek universe, there's also something ethereal and magical about this specific spacescape. In DS9, it was a place of refuge for an idealistic band of rebels. In Voyager , the Badlands became a doorway to a larger adventure, changing the lives of Janeway and the rest of the crew in ways that had countless repercussions throughout all of Star Trek history. And now, in Discovery , the Badlands becomes a diaphanous, whimsical setting for a library in space.

"Labyrinths"

One of Star Trek 's recurring themes is the ways in which the pursuit of knowledge can help us all overcome hardship. And in Discovery , that theme is perfectly exemplified by a celestial library, at the center of an interstellar storm.

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