Rank: Captain
Current assignment: Commanding officer,
U.S.S. Voyager
Full Name: Kathryn Janeway
Home region: Indiana, North America, Earth
Parents: Late Admiral and Mrs. Janeway
Siblings: One sister
Education: Starfleet Academy graduate
Marital status: Single, engaged
Office: U.S.S. Voyager, Deck 1 Ready Room
adjoining Bridge
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
Bio-Psychological Profile: Report of Starfleet
Medical/Counselor's
Office
Janeway is a tough captain who is not afraid
to take chances, while her
intelligence, thoughtfulness, dedication
and diplomacy have earned her respect
and recognition as one of the best in Starfleet.
Her talents in engineering and
science allow her hands-on expertise, if
necessary; as such she has shown a
tendency to defy the Starfleet protocol
against beam-down of commanding
officers into unsecured away team missions.
She prefers to be addressed as
"Captain" rather than either the gender-based
"sir" or "ma'am." Aside from math
and the sciences her studies have included
chromo-linguistics, American Sign
Language, and the gestural idioms of the
Leyron.
This subject's penchant for the scientific
method and clear-cut choices has
given her a healthy dose of skepticism,
which usually provides a command
asset in dealing with new situations. Her
preference for difficult studies is
self-traced back to childhood, when she
would prefer that to outdoor play.
Since then she has indicated no pleasure
in outdoor camping, hiking, or
cooking.
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 subject reports 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.
In 2171, Janeway gambled on giving troubled
Starfleet renegade Tom Paris a
reprieve from his Rehabilitation Settlement
in New Zealand by tapping him as a
scout for a search-and-rescue mission of
her security chief gone undercover
aboard a Maquis vessel. However, contact
with her new ship, the U.S.S.
Voyager, was lost after SD 48307.5 and
all hands were presumed lost.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
Report by Cmdr. Chakotay, First Officer,
U.S.S. Voyager
As with all captains through the ages, Janeway
looks to her crew like a flock of
sheep, but being thrown into the Delta
Quadrant and being utterly cut off from
home has intensified that burden to levels
few commanders may have endured.
The loneliness has also led her to relax
at times the separation that
commanders usually impose upon themselves
purely to maintain the
"respectful distance" - such as an occasional
Sandrine's Bar pool game on the
Holodeck.
Her Starfleet training and the graciousness
and grit obviously instilled in her
upbringing are to blame and to credit for
the situation her ship is in: following
the Prime Directive to the letter, even
if it means stranding oneself 70 years
from home, and melding a crew of Maquis
and other non-regulation members
into an effective force and family that
can live as well as merely survive.
Although we have our differences, my respect
and admiration for her grow with
each day. I appreciate her gamble in my
suggestion to select B'Elanna Torres
as chief engineer, while we all now know
her instincts were correct when she
originally opposed my desire to enter alliances
with the Kazon or Trabe. We
see eye-to-eye on numerous issues, especially
a healthy respect for life and
other cultures no matter what shape or
form, and I cannot fault her on the
handling of our encounter with the suicidal
Q and his Q pursuer.
She has not only refrained from creating
a shipboard fraternization policy but
feels eventually the crew will pair off
anyway - except for her; I can sense the
captain yet fears to "give up" and fully
separate emotionally from her fiance
Mark. Her trusted Tuvok's disobeyal of
direct orders on the grounds of logic
when it seemed to help our trek home clearly
hit home as well, though overall
she takes confidence in the strength of
her people.
Amelia Earhart was a personal heroine, so
meeting her on the '37s planet was
an indescribable event - as was the gratification
that not one of the combined
Maquis-Starfleet crew would choose to stay
behind on the human colony.
Personnel Medical File, EMH Acting CMO:
SD 50500
While amazed at her durability and courage,
I must go on record after over two
years with my concern at the captain's
bent toward constantly putting her
personal security at risk. I trust it will
not be her undoing, and this ship's.
While my confidence in her mental state
has not wavered, I am pleased she
has taken my shipwide advice to pursue
arts and recreation forms as a
diversion to our long journey. The captain
has returned to tennis after 19 years,
taken up watercolors, and even shared a
childhood ballet with the ship on talent
night.
DQ Addendum, Cmdr. Chakotay
SD 50525
The captain would never admit it, but for
the record I would note her action
beyond the call of duty in almost single-handedly
saving this ship from the
strain of macrovirus that nearly killed
its crew. The captain also amazed me by
offering to sacrifice her life to save
Kes on Nichristi, even though its spiritualism
was a puzzle to her, and her strength of
will was never stronger than when
defeating what I would call a life entity
succubus.
As our journey grows I cannot help but grow
in respect and affection for our
captain, stirred on by our short-lived
planetary abandonment before our viral
infection could be cured. Thanks to that
incident I have every confidence that
Kathryn Janeway will see us through our
predicament with high spirits in, dare I
say it, the best Starfleet tradition.