Kathryn Janeway
"At ease, Ensign, before you
sprain something."
- Janeway
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Kathryn Janeway was a 24th century Starfleet officer, most noted for her service as captain of the starship USS Voyager. She became the first Federation captain to successfully traverse the Delta Quadrant, encountering dozens of new planets and civilizations over the course of seven years. While there, she and her crew also survived numerous encounters with the Borg.
Janeway was born on May 20 in Bloomington, Indiana, on Earth.
According to an okudagram shown in "The Killing Game", she was born in 2344, however, this would mean she was only 27 in 2371 when she took command of the USS Voyager. For comparison, Mulgrew was 39 when she took the role. Not having played tennis for 19 years since high school in 2373, Janeway was probably around the age of 35 when Voyager's mission began, placing her actual year of birth closer to 2336.
An Okudagram biography on the video game Starship Creator Warp II states her birthdate as 2332.
Her father was a Starfleet admiral, and she had one sibling, a sister, who she described as the artist of the family. Her mother was still alive as of 2377. (Janeway's grandfather was of Irish descent and her grandmother of Hungarian descent.
According to Jeri Taylor's book Mosaic, Janeway's sister is named Phoebe. Also, according to this novel, Janeway's middle name is Elizabeth.
Kathryn grew up on the plains surrounding her grandfather's farm in Indiana. 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 in just a few hours before. Many years later she recalled that there was no anomaly scarier than a thunderstorm on the plains, especially at such a young age. One of her favorite food dishes, Welsh rarebit, was something she always enjoyed while at her grandfather's.
Janeway took ballet lessons in her youth. Also, while she was six years old, she learned the dance of the "Dying Swan", the hit of the "Beginning Ballet" class. She recreated the performance in 2373, during Talent Night aboard Voyager. At the age of nine she and her father hiked the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. She found "the biggest ditch on Earth", as her father used to call it, too dusty and always preferred farm country. When Janeway was twelve years old, she walked home in a thunderstorm over seven kilometers because she lost a tennis match. In 2373, after 19 years, Janeway decided to take tennis up again, having not played since high school. Janeway is also experienced with pool.
Janeway credited the family tale of her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, for inspiring her to join Starfleet. The family tale told (to Janeway by her Aunt Martha Janeway) that O'Donnell had been involved as the driving force in ensuring the construction of the Millennium Gate against strong local opposition and an early female astronaut, being the first of a line of Janeway explorers. Research by Seven of Nine in 2375 indicated her involvement had been much less important, and she had been a failed NASA astronaut and only a consulting engineer on the project. However, Seven of Nine said that her inspiration to Janeway should not be diminished by this, which she seemed to agree with.
During her lifetime, Janeway had studied chromolinguistics, American Sign Language, and the gestural idioms of the Leyron.
When she was a Cadet in Starfleet Academy she had a close relationship with Boothby who brought fresh roses to her quarters each morning. She also enjoyed spending her time at a little coffee shop on Market Street known as the Night Owl. Her love of coffee and her late nights got her through many of her classes, as she often had to pull all-nighters. She studied under such memorable professors as Patterson, Hendricks and H'ohk.
Janeway's first Starfleet posting was aboard the USS Al-Batani, under the command of Captain Owen Paris. She served as the science officer during the ship's participation in the Arias Expedition. During her posting aboard the Al-Batani, she knocked out power to six decks by misaligning the ship's positronic relays.
Janeway first met Tuvok in 2356. Janeway was dressed down by Tuvok 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. From 2365 onward, Janeway and Tuvok were close friends, and Janeway found she could always "rely on his insightful and unfailingly logical advice".
While in her first year as a commander she was 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.
In 2371, Captain Janeway took command of the Intrepid-class starship USS Voyager. The vessel's first mission was to locate a missing Maquis vessel last seen in the Badlands. Given the navigational challenge in this region of space, she proposed to Admiral Patterson to rehabilitate ex-Maquis Tom Paris in exchange for his help in finding the ship. While in the Badlands, Voyager was engulfed by a huge energy wave that hurled the ship 70,000 light years into the far side of the Delta Quadrant, in the same way that it did the Maquis vessel. Janeway soon discovered that they had been brought there by the Caretaker, a being who was looking for a way to reproduce as he was dying. The Caretaker told Janeway of how he, and another like him who had left several centuries earlier, had accidentally ruined the homeworld of the Ocampa. After the entity's death, Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array to keep it from falling into the hands of the Kazon, who would have used it against the Ocampa. She then had the task of merging the Starfleet and Maquis crews in order to return home, a trip that would take over 75 years at the ship's maximum cruise velocity.
In 2378, Janeway was able to return to Earth with the assistance of Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway from the early 25th century in an alternate timeline.
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Admiral Janeway.
Admiral Janeway had provided her present-day counterpart with sophisticated anti-Borg technology, including transphasic torpedoes and ablative armor generator technology, in order for her to enter the nebula that had readings suggesting dozens of wormholes and Borg cubes.
When Voyager reached the nebula through guidance 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.
While trying to outrun the cascading shockwave 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, Admiral Paris ordered all available ships to intercept in response to sensor readings indicating a Borg energy signature.
As the Starfleet armada opened fire, Voyager destroyed the sphere from inside with a single transphasic torpedo. Shortly, the fleet greeted Janeway as Voyager exited the conduit and reached home.
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 the USS Enterprise-E to Romulus, a message relayed at a request of the new Romulan Praetor, Shinzon.
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From: Memory Alpha
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