NAME: Kathryn Janeway
RANK: Captain
ROLE: Captain of the USS Voyager NCC 74656
RACE: Human
Captain Janeway is a confident, driven leader who must get her crew back to the Alpha
quadrant. Janeway is a scientist at heart, specialising in biology and earth sciences. Her
father Vice-Admiral Edward Janeway was a Starship designer and an expert on the
Cardassians. When she was a teenager, she went to the forbidden Mars quarries and nearly
drowned. However, she managed to save not only herself but her friend and later lover
Hobbes Johnson.
Janeway attended Starfleet academy and perused a science track. She won the respect of
Admiral Paris and when she graduated she served aboard his ship, the USS Icarus. She was
captured by the Cardassians and rescued by Lieutenant Tighe, who she later perused a
relationship with . Then, tragedy struck. Tighe, Janeway and her father were testing a new
type of ship in the Tau Ceti system when it crashed. Janeway battled to save her fiancee
and father but they both died.
With her life in tatters, Janeway sought to rebuild her life and career. She took a course
in command, when she once again meets Hobbes, who was now going under his first name Mark.
She fell in love with him. Janeway painfully had to choose her career first and in 2371
took command of the newly-commissioned USS Voyager. When Voyager is thrown 70,000 light
years into the Delta Quadrant, Janeway isn't ready to give up Mark yet. However, she knows
that as time passes he will give up all hope of seeing her again and will move on with his
life.
Mark is not the only man in Janeway's personal life. First officer Chakotay is clearly
attracted to her. Janeway knows that she cannot peruse a lasting relationship with him
because of his position, but in 2373 the two are stranded on a planet when they catch a
virus (Resolutions). With the normal command structure gone, Chakotay decides to
make his move. But still, Janeway is not ready to give up Mark. Chakotay is happy to make
a new life and accept their position, but Janeway works on trying to find a solution. As
their time in the Delta quadrant increases to four years, Janeway feels Mark slipping away
from her. Then, in 2374 Voyager makes contact with home via a Hirogen relay network (Hunters)
Mark writes Janeway a letter, saying that he had accepted that Voyager had been lost and
had moved on with his life. Three months ago, he had married another woman. Janeway is
devastated at the news, but now realises that she must move on with her life.
Image's of Captain Kathryn Janeway
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