Captain Kathryn Janeway
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Name: Kathryn Janeway
Rank: Captain
Position: Commanding Officer USS Voyager(slide)

Starfleet History
????: Assigned to USS Al-Batani as Science Officer
pre 2359: Promoted to Lieutenant and reassigned to USS Mary Kingsley
2371: Reassigned to USS Voyager as Commanding Officer

Personal History
Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20 in Bloomington, Indiana, on Earth. 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. One of Kathryn's favorite foods, Welsh rarebit, was something she always enjoyed while at her grandfather's. Another was her grandmother's vegetable biryani. She grew up on the great plains surrounding her grandfather's farm in Indiana. With their family having grown up around farmers, her parents insisted that she learn some basic gardening skills. 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. 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. 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." 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. When she was twelve years old, she walked home in a thunderstorm over seven kilometers because she lost a tennis match. In 2354, during high school, she gave up playing tennis; she ultimately didn't pick it up again until 2373. 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. During her lifetime, Janeway studied chromolinguistics, American Sign Language, and the gestural idioms of the Leyron. However, she struggled with basic Klingon.

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.As a cadet, Janeway learned that a good officer kept an open mind. 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." 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 was also considered an intelligent and adaptive cadet.

Janeway's first Starfleet posting was as a science officer aboard the USS Al-Batani, under the command of Captain Owen Paris. When she was a science officer, Janeway envied the captain's privilege of making first contact with alien species. While aboard the Al-Batani, she participated in the Arias Expedition. During another mission, the Al-Batani tried to navigate a dense protonebula and became stuck. 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. 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. 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.

In 2358, Janeway lost both her fiancé and father while they were testing the prototype ship Terra Nova on Tau Ceti Prime. While making a final approach for landing, the ship crash landed on Tau Ceti into a polar icecap. While Kathryn survived the crash, the others were frozen to death. She was rescued and took a leave of absence to deal with her deep depression. In 2359, Janeway returned to active duty and announced her intention to switch to the command division at Starfleet Headquarters. At the arrangement of Admiral Paris, Janeway spent six months on an Earth-bound assignment before being assigned a deep-space mission. While on Earth, she started to become closer to Mark Johnson. By late 2359, Janeway was second officer aboard the USS Mary Kingsley, under the command of Captain Onna Karapleedeez. During their mission surveying the Scorpius Reach in Beta Quadrant, they assisted a civilian research vessel, the Cleopatra's Needle. One of the researchers Janeway worked with was Jean-Luc Picard, who had taken a leave of absence following his loss of the USS Stargazer.

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. 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.

In 2371, Janeway took command of the USS Voyager and received her first general order at Starfleet Headquarters. She was to locate a missing Cardassian vessel which had disappeared in the Badlands. To assist in the search for the Cardassian ship Lieutenant Commander Corat Damar was assigned as an observer. The ship was engulfed by a displacement wave that hurled them seventy thousand light years into the far side of the galaxy, deep into the Delta Quadrant killing the ship's First Officer, Chief Engineer, Chief Helm Officer, Chief Medical Officer and many more. 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 – Porve Jessa from the Cardassian ship 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 Gul of the Cardassian ship, 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, the Cardassian Gul crashed his ship into a Kazon carrier vessel in order to protect Voyager while it destroyed the array killing the Gul in the process. 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 Cardassian crews merged and decided to work together when embarking on their seventy-year-long journey home. Damar became Janeway's first officer and second in command of the ship. The decision to merge the Cardassian and Starfleet forces was Difficult for both sides at first, but the crews soon learned to work together under the new joint command structure.

While visiting a planet which had been devastated by a polaric ion explosion, Janeway and Porve Jessa 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. 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. 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. 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.

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, 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. Janeway later helped rescue Tuvok and Carey 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. 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 Voyagers, both crews were in danger, and one of the Janeways destroyed her ship, killing the Vidiians and saving the other Voyager. 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. 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.

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. Voyager was later assaulted by alien ships that attacked in great number. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. During the next six plus years Voyager continued on it's way home constantly getting attacked by the Borg and finding a way to survive coming up with some unique ways to destroy cubes along the way. In early 2380 they found a way to get a message to Starfleet and they learned of Doctor Kahn's attempt to create an artificial wormhole. They were able to create one but it ended up taking them to a different quantum reality. They have no way home.

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