Star Trek : Voyagermade Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) the first female captain to lead aStar TrekTV series . Known for a violent protective streak , loose rendering of Starfleet ’s Prime Directive , and a preference for coffee ( calamitous ) , Kathryn Janeway cut a bluff track through the Delta Quadrant as Captain of the USS Voyager . After the USS Voyager and Maquis plunderer ValJean were flung across the galaxy , Captain Janeway andCommander Chakotay ( Robert Beltran)combined their Starfleet and Maquis crowd into a single crew that worked together to survive the 70,000 lite - year journeying back to the Alpha Quadrant .

Captain Janeway ’s guiding principle as a leader was the hope to render the USS Voyager work party back home to Earth , and protect them at all cost on the projected 75 - year trek . With a background as a skill officer , Janeway encouraged geographic expedition of the Delta Quadrant ’s in truth unusual new reality and never - before - seen anomalies . Captain Janeway ’s leading Starfleet principles of cooperation and communicating helped her crew uncover their full potential drop , from Maquis officers like Lt . B’Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ) , or ex - Borg droneSeven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) . Later , Admiral Janeway ’s loyal but thoughtful leading made her a bully wise man to untried cadets .

Kathryn Janeway’s Life Before Star Trek: Voyager (Before 2370)

Kathryn Janeway Was A Science Officer On The USS Al-Batani

Kathryn Janeway was born May 20 , in Bloomington , Indiana , sometime between 2328 and 2344 . Kathryn had an participating puerility grow up on her kin ’s farm , with hobby that included tramp , swim , tennis , concert dance , and horticulture . Young Kathryn was close with her forefather , Starfleet Vice Admiral Edward Janeway ( Len Cariou ) , who boost her to stay curious and require questions . At Starfleet Academy , Kathryn Janeway was bright , determined , and fueled by deep brown — tone that would follow Janeway throughout her Starfleet career . Like other cadet before her , Janeway befriended Groundskeeper Boothby ( Ray Walston ) . Cadet Janeway metLieutenant Tuvok ( Tim Russ)in 2356 .

The accurate year of Janeway ’s birth has never been saint , butThe Autobiography of Kathryn Janewaynovel and the fan - funded statue of Janeway that currently exists in Bloomington both give Janeway ’s birthing year as 2336 .

After graduating from Starfleet Academy in 2357,Ensign Janeway served as a scientific discipline officer on the USS Al - Batani , under the mastery of Captain Owen Paris ( Richard Herd ) . Janeway ’s early Starfleet calling was not without mishaps , but Kathryn take each fault as a new learning experience . By the 2360s , Janeway considered Lieutenant Tuvok a valuate friend and restrain in impinging with him while Tuvok was post to Jupiter Station . The 2360s also saw Janeway ’s promotion to Commander , along with a transfer to the USS Billings , where Commander Janeway was responsible for conduct aside missions .

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Captain Janeway Led USS Voyager Through The Delta Quadrant (2371-2378)

Captain Janeway’s Unprecedented Delta Quadrant Journey Faced Numerous Challenges

In 2371 , Captain Kathryn Janeway ’s first command was the Intrepid - class USS Voyager , a science vessel plan for inadequate - terminus geographic expedition . Voyager ’s first military mission was supposed to be the quick recuperation of Chakotay ’s Maquis raider , but both starships were swept to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker , a sporocystian lifeform try a mate . To protect the Caretaker ’s charges , the Ocampa , Janeway destroy the Caretaker ’s array , their only ticket back to the Alpha Quadrant . Captain Janeway allow the adventuresome OcampaKes ( Jennifer Lien)and Talaxian chef Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) to be guide to the unknown Delta Quadrant .

The role of Elizabeth Janeway , as she was first known , in the first place go to Gallic actress Genevieve Bujold , before Kate Mulgrew made Kathryn Janeway the iconic Starfleet headwaiter that she is today .

In 2373 , Captain Janeway formed an alliance with the Borg , facilitated by Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) after Janeway turn away to be assimilated as part of the agreement . In exchange for good passage across Borg space , Captain Janeway help the Borg defeat Species 8472 , a species aboriginal to fluidic infinite who were resistant to absorption . After free Seven of Nine from the Collective , Janeway became a positive influence on Seven , despiteJaneway and Seven ’s fraught relationshipindicating otherwise . Janeway ’s defiance and protective instincts made the Borg Queen ( Susanna Thompson ) Janeway ’s biggest adversary in the Delta Quadrant .

Three different animated Janeways in Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Trek : Voyager ’s 20 best episodes bestow out the best in Captain Kathryn Janeway , Seven of Nine , and the USS Voyager in the far - off Delta Quadrant .

Janeway ’s commission to bring the USS Voyager dwelling got a huge encouragement in 2374 , whenVoyager made inter-group communication with Starfleet Command using an abandoned Hirogen subspace relay race post . Although this attracted the attention of the predatory Hirogen , letters from the Alpha Quadrant boosted morale among most of Voyager ’s work party . In one message from home , Janeway memorize that her fiancé , Mark , had propel on when the USS Voyager was lost . That same class , Starfleet purportedly sent the data-based USS Dauntless to bring Voyager back base . The Dauntless was an foreign ruse , but itsquantum slipstream drivehelped advance Federation transwarp technology .

One year after the USS Voyager ’s return , Admiral Janeway sent Captain Jean - Luc Picard ’s ( Patrick Stewart ) Enterprise to Romulus inStar Trek : Nemesis .

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In 2378 , the USS Voyager get back in the Alpha Quadrant , and Kathryn Janeway was promoted to Admiral . Besides cut a 75 - twelvemonth journey down to just 7 years , Captain Kathryn Janeway was responsible for for Starfleet ’s first link with more foreign species than any other police captain since James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) . Even without the musical accompaniment of Starfleet Command , Captain Janeway was stubbornly committed to uphold Federation ideals and make command choices that prioritize protecting her crew , even when the option would have been easy .

Future Admiral Janeway’s Timeline In Star Trek: Voyager’s Finale (2404)

Admiral Janeway Gets The USS Voyager Home In 2378 And Beats The Borg Queen

Star Trek : Voyager ’s finale , " Endgame " , takes place in 2404 , in one ofStar Trek ’s alternate timelines where the USS Voyager take 32 years to get back to the Alpha Quadrant . In this timeline , Harry Kim ( Garret Wang ) is a captain , but Chakotay and Seven of Nine both die , and Tuvok succumbs to a Vulcan nous disease . Admiral Janeway discovers that using a Borg Transwarp Hub in 2378 would get the USS Voyager back home sooner , with the added welfare of avoiding gruelling losses and destroying the Borg Queen ( Alice Krige ) .

Admiral Janeway shoot herself with a neurolytic pathogen and allows herself to be assimilated , which infects the Borg Collective .

Rather than seeking permission to undertake this risky missionary work , which would undo the current timeline , Admiral Kathryn Janeway travels back in timeto 2378 , and muster in her retiring ego to dispatch the mission . Once aboard the Borg Transwarp Hub , Admiral Janeway injects herself with a neurolytic pathogen and permit herself to be assimilated , which infects the Borg Collective . Both part of Admiral Janeway ’s programme are successful : the Borg Collective is render inert for over 20 year , and Captain Janeway ’s USS Voyager give to the Alpha Quadrant in 2378 .

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Admiral Janeway In Star Trek: Prodigy (2383-2385)

Admiral Janeway Searches For Captain Chakotay’s Missing USS Protostar

In 2383,Admiral Janeway is the command officer of the USS Dauntless ' commission to find out Captain Chakotay ’s missing USS Protostar , which was lost on Starfleet ’s first delegacy back to the Delta Quadrant . When Admiral Janeway finds the Protostar , however , the experimental starship is crewed not by Chakotay , but by agroup of Delta Quadrant teensled by transmissible hybrid Dal R’El ( Brett Gray ) , and Vau N’Akat Gwyndala ( Ella Purnell ) . Admiral Janeway patronise the young Protostar crew ’s admission to Starfleet Academy , but instead of being fast - tracked as cadet , all except Gwyn join Janeway ’s USS Voyager - A crew as warrant officer in training .

Star Trek has a whole legion of Janeway variants , and Prodigy season 1 add four new rendering of the beloved Voyager master to the canon .

Only half of Admiral Janeway ’s mission is completed after the recovery and subsequent destruction of the USS Protostar becauseCaptain Chakotay is still missing . Admiral Janeway openly defies Admiral Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox ) to continue research for Chakotay and figure out the secular paradox that Dal accidentally create . Admiral Janeway and Captain Chakotay at long last reunify in 2384.Together , Janeway and Chakotay promote their young charges to triumph in the Solum Civil War — a fight that the Prime Directive prevents the Starfleet officers from actively participating in .

Boothby and Janeway at the Starfleet Academy reconstruction in Voyager

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Admiral Janeway ’s search for Chakotay lasted 2 year , but Captain Chakotay had to await 10 geezerhood to be reunify with Janeway , because a secular rift stick the Protostar on the planet Ysidia in 2374 — while the USS Voyager was still in the Delta Quadrant .

In 2385 , theMars synth onslaught inStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2destroys 20,000 starships fate to avail Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ’s Romulan rescue deputation , so Admiral Janeway comes out of retreat to help bolster Starfleet ’s numbers . Starfleet ’s thinning resource entrust few starship available for its primary mission of exploration , soAdmiral Janeway responds by institutionalise the USS Prodigy , crewed by the former Protostar crew , to the Delta Quadrantto fulfil the USS Protostar ’s original charge : fix the problems that Voyager allow for behind .

Janeway Is Still Admiral In Star Trek: Picard (2399-2402)

Admiral Janeway Is A Trusted Contact For Admiral Jean-Luc Picard

The Borg are hardly the threat that they once were , thanks to Kathryn Janeway .

While Admiral Janeway ca n’t facilitate with Picard ’s problem in 2401 , the Borg are hardly the threat that they once were , thanks to Kathryn Janeway . Over 20 years after next Admiral Janeway ’s neurolytic pathogen taint the Borg Collective , the Borg Queen ( Jane Edwina Seymour ) is still suffering the debilitating effects of the pathogen . Star Trek : Picard ’s burnt - out Borg husk is the result of the Borg Queen being wedge to cannibalise energy from thousands of laggard to go after Janeway ’s successful plan inStar Trek : Voyager ’s serial finale .

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