Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway
Name Kathryn Elizabeth Janeway
Position Starfleet Command Staff Officer
Rank Vice Admiral
Stats
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Last Post
Tue Apr 2nd, 2019 @ 8:54pm
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 61 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 9" | |
| Weight | 140 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Dark Red | |
| Eye Color | Green |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Brother(s) | None |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | 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. By 2379, she was a Vice Admiral at Starfleet Command. Today she is a member of the Starfleet Command Senior Leadership. |
| Personal History | Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20 in Bloomington, Indiana, on Earth. Her father was Vice Admiral Janeway and she had one sibling, a sister, who she described as the artist of the family. Kathryn grew up on the great 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 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. One of her favorite foods, 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 nineteen years, Janeway decided to take tennis up again, having not played since high school. Janeway was also experienced in pool, even though the first time she played with the crew in Tom Paris's holodeck simulation Chez Sandrine, she led everyone to believe that she was a novice. She also enjoyed skiing. Memory Alpha On MA Wiki Activity Random page Videos Images Portals Star Trek Community Recent Changes Contribute Share Watchlist Random page Recent changes Multiple realities (covers information from several alternate timelines) Kathryn Janeway edit this page Discuss152 35,537pages on this wiki Vice admiral Kathryn Janeway (2379) Gender: Female Species: Human Affiliation: Starfleet Rank: Vice Admiral Status: Active (2379) Born: May 20 Bloomington, Indiana Father: Vice Admiral Janeway Mother: A mother Sibling(s): One sister Marital Status: Single (formerly engaged to Mark Johnson) Children: Three hyper-evolved Human children Played by: Kate Mulgrew, unknown actress (as a child), Robert Duncan McNeill (in Tom Paris' body) Captain Kathryn Janeway (2371) "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." - Kathryn Janeway to Naomi Wildman, 2375 ("Dark Frontier") 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. By 2379, she was a Vice Admiral at Starfleet Command. Contents [show] Early life Edit Young Kathryn JanewayA representation of a young Kathryn Janeway 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 one sibling, a sister, who she described as the artist of the family. (VOY: "Sacred Ground", "Coda", "The Killing Game") Her mother was still alive as of 2378. (VOY: "Author, Author") 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 great plains surrounding her grandfather's farm in Indiana. (VOY: "Macrocosm", "Live Fast and Prosper") 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") One of her favorite foods, Welsh rarebit, was something she always enjoyed while at her grandfather's. (VOY: "Death Wish") 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. (VOY: "Coda") 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. (VOY: "Imperfection") When Janeway was twelve years old, she walked home in a thunderstorm over seven kilometers because she lost a tennis match. (VOY: "Deadlock") In 2373, after nineteen years, Janeway decided to take tennis up again, having not played since high school. (VOY: "Future's End") Janeway was also experienced in pool, even though the first time she played with the crew in Tom Paris's 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. Janeway credited the family tale of her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, 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. During her lifetime, Janeway had studied chromolinguistics, American Sign Language and the gestural idioms of the Leyron. However, she struggled with basic Klingonese. |
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| Service Record | 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. She once revealed that during her posting aboard the Al-Batani, she once knocked out power to six decks by misaligning the ship's positronic relays. While a junior science officer, Janeway envied the Captain's privilege of making First Contact with alien species. While she held the rank of lieutenant she was the member of an away team defending 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 Tuvok, who later became one of her closest friends and confidants, 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 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. By 2371, Tuvok had made detailed psychological observations about Janeway over the course of four years. 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 in order 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 Admiral Owen 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. 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 becasue 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 man named Neelix who, in exchange for water, agreed to help the crew retrieve the 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 - which 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. 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. 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 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 the 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 is initally reluctant, but after Captain Janeway gets the support of the crew for her plan, the two Janeways team 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, 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 Owen Paris, Lt. Barclay, and the entire Voyager crew. Voyager was then escorted back 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 Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise-E on 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 transmission, saying how Jean-Luc gets the easy assignments. In March of 2380, Janeway appeared as a panelist on Illuminating the City of Light to discuss the status of the Reman refugees then heading for Outpost 22. Later that year, Admiral Janeway was contacted by Captain Jean-Luc Picard and informed of a renewed Borg threat to the Federation. She initially did not believe his claims, but later recanted that decision and ordered the Enterprise to hold position and await the arrival of Seven of Nine. Captain Picard defied her orders and took the Enterprise to engage the Borg before their vessel became fully operational . She informed Captain Picard that she did not approve of his decision and ordered an investigation of the remains of the Cube. Shortly afterward she would contact the Enterprise in response to their report that Q had appeared on the Enterprise. Admiral Janeway then visited the Borg Cube herself aboard the USS Einstein. When she arrived, she was captured and assimilated by the Borg Collective a short time afterward. Because of her knowledge and experience the Borg used Janeway in the role of a new Borg Queen. An attempt to rescue her from the Collective resulted in Janeway's death. In the final moments before her demise, Janeway's consciousness surfaced long enough to allow Seven of Nine to introduce the Endgame virus into the cube, halting the cube's rampage. After Janeway's death, the Female Q took her spirit as a traveling companion. During Voyager's mission to the Delta Quadrant as part of Project Full Circle, the female Q that rescued her facilitated her return by prolonging the moment between death and a higher level of being. With the help of both Q's son as well as Kes, Janeway was able to recollect her scattered atoms and reintegrate them. Q then returned her to where she was needed most at that time: aboard the USS Achilles to battle against the Omega Continuum that was threatening to end the universe several trillion years before its time. Upon on her return, she and Captain Chakotay resumed their romantic relationship, indicating that they wished to continue it for as long as possible. Janeway also rejoined Starfleet in charge of the Full Circle fleet. In 2384, Vice Admiral Janeway was reassigned to Starfleet Command as one of the Command Staff Officers under Fleet Admiral Neychev. |