Captain's Ready-room
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Captain Kathryn Janeway
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"At ease before you sprain something"
FACT FILE
Rank: captain
Department: command
Position: commanding
officer
Race: human
Gender: female
Home region: Indiana, North America, Earth
Parents:
Admiral Edward Janeway (deceased) and Mrs.Gretchen Janeway
Siblings: One
sister: Phoebe
Education:
Starfleet Academy graduate
Marital status:
single, engaged
Starfleet Career Summary:
Science officer under Adm. Paris on the U.S.S. Al-Batani , Arias mission 2171 Given command of U.S.S. Voyager,
new Intrepid-class starship,presumed lost in Badlands.
Katheryn Janeway is the Captain of the Starship Voyager. When she accepted Voyager's mission, to find a maquis ship and her secuirity
offficer Tuvok who had dissapeered in a area of space known as the Badlands, she was never able to predict that
she would end up in the Delta quadrant, 75 thousand light years from home and that her crew and the maquis crew
would join forces in order to survive the Delta quadrant. In the beggining, she was always faced with the fear
of a mutiny, but soon both crews began working well together, and became loyal to her.
Kathryn janeway is a
tough starfleet captain, who is not afraid to take chances. Her intelligence, thoughtfulness, dedication and diplomacy
have earned her respect and recognition as one of the best starfleet captains -- male or female.
The daughter of a mathematician
mother and an astrophysicist father, Janeway gained experience in various science posts through her early career.
She brings a greater familiarity with technology and science to her position than any other captain we've seen
before.
Her talents in engineering
and science allow her hands-on expertise,if necessary; as such she has shown a tendency to defy the Starfleetprotocol
against beam-down of commanding officers into unsecuredaway team missions. She prefers to be addressed as "Captain"rather
than either the gender-based "sir" or "ma'am."
For relaxation, Janeway
enjoys role-playing and recreation in Holodeck programs, such as Gothic novels, skiing and sailing. In her youth
in rural agricultural Indiana she played tennis, and at age 12 walked back from a match she lost for 7 km in a
thunderstorm; however, she has not played the game regularly since 2354, when a member of her high school tennis
team. As a child she also studied beginning ballet and performed the "dying swan" at age 6, but in all
her activities - many of them pushed by her parents, such as gardening - she never studied a musical instrument.
She has often ascribed this situation to her sister being the artist of the family.
The Captain has
had one severe depression in life, when her father died under the polar ice cap on Tau Ceti Prime in the mid 2350s.
She stayed bedridden with grief until her sister finally coerced her into accepting the fact and moving on, literally
dragging Janeway out of bed. The captain has credited her father with forcing her to learn her own lessons and
not shielding her from life.
At the Academy Janeway
was taught a captain had to keep a certain distance to the crew; but now that they are stranded in the Delta Quadrant
she sometimes has to give up this aloof attitude.
To read more about Captain
Janeway's life, read Mosaic, by Jeri Taylor.
