Kathryn Janeway

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Kathryn Janeway
Captain Kathryn Janeway
Species:	Human
Gender:	Female
Height:	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Eye color:	Blue
Date of birth:	May 20, 2332 or 2336
Home planet:	Earth
Affiliation:	Starfleet
Posting:	USS Al-Batani science officer USS Voyager commanding officer Starfleet Command
Rank:	Captain Vice Admiral
Portrayed by:	Kate Mulgrew

Kathryn Janeway (Born: May 20, 2332 in Bloomington, Indiana), played by Kate Mulgrew, is a Starfleet officer in the fictional Star Trek universe. She is the captain of the USS Voyager in Star Trek: Voyager and appears as a vice admiral in the film Star Trek: Nemesis. She is the first female captain to be a lead character in a Star Trek series.

Contents 1 Casting 2 Overview 3 Key episodes 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Casting

The character was originally titled Elizabeth Janeway after the famous poet. However, after Geneviève Bujold was cast, the character was briefly renamed "Nicole Janeway", for Bujold's birth name. Bujold, who had mainly feature film experience and was not prepared for the schedules demanded by series television, dropped out on the second day of filming on the pilot episode "Caretaker", Kate Mulgrew, who had previously auditioned for the role but had been rejected, was brought in. She suggested that the name be changed from "Nicole" to "Kathryn."^[1]

[edit] Overview

Early in her career, she was a science officer on the USS Al-Batani.^[2]

In 2371, Captain Janeway took command of the Intrepid class starship USS Voyager. Their first mission was to locate a missing Maquis vessel last seen in the area of space known as the Badlands. While in the Badlands, the Maquis ship and Voyager are engulfed by a coherent tetryon beam that hurls the ships to the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light-years away. The Maquis ship is destroyed while fighting the Kazon, and although Voyager survives the ordeal, there are numerous casualties. In order to protect the Ocampa, Janeway destroys a device, the Caretaker Array, that has the potential to return her crew to Federation space, stranding her ship and crew seven decades travel from home.

Her first major task is integrating the surviving Maquis and Voyager crews.^{[citation needed]} Chakotay, captain of the Maquis ship, succeeds the deceased Lieutenant Commander Cavit as her executive officer. She also grants convicted criminal, former Starfleet officer and accomplished pilot Tom Paris a field commission and makes him Voyager's helmsman.

Janeway's other important interactions with her crew include:

• Helping Seven of Nine, an ex-Borg drone, reclaim her individuality and humanity.
• Helping the Doctor through many difficulties and advocating his status as a sentient, living being.

Janeway has protracted contact with the Borg. With the intervention of a future version of herself, she leads Voyager's crew in using one of the Borg's transwarp conduits to return her ship to Federation space after traveling through the Delta Quadrant for seven years.

At some point after her ship's return, Janeway is promoted to the rank of admiral (Star Trek: Nemesis).

[edit] Key episodes

Episodes in which Janeway's character is expanded or takes a key role:

• "Caretaker" - introduction to character; gets stranded in the Delta Quadrant
• "Time and Again" - Paris and herself get trapped inside a world that will be destroyed in one day by their own technology
• "Alliances" - attempts to form an alliance with the Kazon
• "Deadlock" - meets a duplicate of herself
• "Tuvix" - faced with dilemma whether to kill a newly-formed lifeform to save two crewmembers
• "Resolutions" - after contracting a disease, must remain on a planet with Chakotay
• "Basics" - forced to survive on an unstable planet with no technology with her crew
• "Future's End" - must prevent a time paradox from destroying the Earth's solar system in the future
• "Sacred Ground" - must save Kes' life by taking part in a religious ceremony
• "The Q and the Grey" - Q asks her to be his mate
• "Macrocosm" - fights giant viruses single-handed
• "Coda" - appears to be caught in a time loop, each ending in her death
• "Pathfinder" - Starfleet makes contact with Voyager
• "Scorpion" - makes a pact with the Borg when the Voyager crew enter their space; helps fight Species 8472
• "Concerning Flight" - teams up with holgram to recover stolen items from her ship.
• "Year of Hell" - fights a temporal ship which tries to erase 'Voyager from history
• "Killing Game" - The crew is trapped in the holodeck and is being hunted by Hirogen. Janeway shares holographic technology with the Hirogen to end the bloodshed.
• "Bride of Chaotica!" - Janeway and others have to help save a race from Chaotica and get their space unstuck from subspace
• "The Omega Directive" - reveals classified information to the crew when they encounter a dangerous particle
• "Good Shepherd" - Janeway takes it upon herself to "rescue" 3 underperforming crew members by taking them on an away mission
• "11:59" - character development and family history by revealing one of her ancestors
• "Unimatrix Zero" - Janeway infiltrates the Borg to rescue drones and she is assimilated into the collective.
• "Q2" - Q returns and deposits his rebel son on the ship under Janeway's care.
• "Endgame" - returns the Voyager crew home

[edit] References

1. ^ Poe, Stephen Edward (1998). A Vision of the Future: Star Trek Voyager. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-53481-5. 
2. ^ Episode Bride of Chaotica

[edit] External links

• Kathryn Janeway article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
• An Essay on Janeway as a Feminist Character

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