Editing Kate Mulgrew (section)

===''Star Trek: Voyager'' (1994–2001)===
[[File:DawsonMulgrewLien1995.jpg|334px|thumb|right|Kate Mulgrew with ''Voyager'' actresses [[Roxann Dawson]] and [[Jennifer Lien]] (1995)]]
In 1994, Mulgrew received a call to take the part of Captain Kathryn Janeway in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. She had auditioned for the role (originally named Elizabeth Janeway) when producers announced casting. She submitted a videotaped audition which she made in New York City in August 1994. Unhappy with the tape, she auditioned in person a few weeks later. That day, film actress [[Geneviève Bujold]] was selected to play Janeway (suggesting Nicole as the character's new first name), but left the role after two days of filming, realizing that the amount of work required for an episodic television show was too demanding. Mulgrew was then offered the role, which she accepted, and later suggested Kathryn as the character's final first name.<ref name="meisler19940915">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/15/arts/real-star-trek-drama-enlisting-new-skipper.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm| title=Real 'Star Trek' Drama: Enlisting New Skipper| work=[[The New York Times]]| date=September 15, 1994 |url-access=subscription |access-date=May 24, 2011| first=Andy |last= Meisler}}</ref>

Mulgrew made history in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise when she became the first female captain as a series regular in a leading role. ''Voyager'' was the first show broadcast on the new [[UPN]] channel, the only series renewed after the channel's first programming season, and its only show to run for seven seasons. Mulgrew won the Saturn Award for "Best TV Actress" in 1998 for her performances as Janeway.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Discovery, Martin-Green Win Saturn Awards |url=https://www.startrek.com/article/discovery-martin-green-win-saturn-awards |website=StarTrek.com |quote=Sonequa Martin-Green follows Kate Mulgrew as Star Trek's only recipients of a Saturn Award for best leading actor in a television series}}</ref>

Mulgrew voiced the character of Janeway for various ''Star Trek'' video games: ''Star Trek: Captain's Chair'', a virtual-reality tour of various Starfleet vessels for home computers; the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force]]'' series; ''[[Star Trek: Legacy]]'', which featured all of the captains up to that point (2006); and ''[[Star Trek Online]]''.

About her years on ''Voyager'', Mulgrew said:
<blockquote>I'm proud of it. It was difficult; it was hard work. I'm proud of the work because I think I made some minor difference in [[women in science]]. I grew to really love ''Star Trek: Voyager'', and out of a cast of nine, I've made three great friends, I managed to raise two children. I think, "It's good. I used myself well."<ref name="mulgrew1" /></blockquote>

Speaking about the best and worst part about playing a Star Trek captain, she said:
<blockquote>The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I was very familiar with. I was able to do that in front of millions of viewers. That was a remarkable experience—and it continues to resonate. The downside of that is also that it continues to resonate, and threatens to eclipse all else in one's long career if one does not up the ante and stay at it, in a way that may not ordinarily be necessary. I have to work at changing and constantly reinventing myself in a way that probably would not have happened had ''Star Trek'' not come along. I knew that going in, and I think that all of the perks attached to this journey have been really inexpressively great. So the negatives are small.<ref name="mulgrew1" >{{cite journal |last=Spelling |first=Ian |title=Deep Space Five! |journal=Star Trek Magazine |issue =1 |page=27 |date=September–October 2006}}</ref></blockquote>
During ''Voyager'', Mulgrew also played Titania in the animated series ''[[Gargoyles (TV series)|Gargoyles]]'' (with fellow ''Star Trek'' actors [[Marina Sirtis]] and [[Jonathan Frakes]]) and Victoria Riddler in the television film ''[[Riddler's Moon]]''.

Since ''Voyager'' and her subsequent ''Star Trek'' appearances, Mulgrew has appeared at ''Star Trek'' conventions and events around the world.

She returned to voice the role of Janeway as a training [[Holography|hologram]] and the real Vice-Admiral Janeway (commanding the ''USS Dauntless'' and ''USS Voyager-A'') in the animated series ''[[Star Trek: Prodigy]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 8, 2020|title=Breaking News - Nickelodeon and CBS Studios Announce Kate Mulgrew's Return as Captain Janeway in Upcoming Animated Series "Star Trek: Prodigy"|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/10/08/nickelodeon-and-cbs-studios-announce-kate-mulgrews-return-as-captain-janeway-in-upcoming-animated-series-star-trek-prodigy-026514/20201008nickelodeon01/|access-date=October 8, 2020|website=thefutoncritic.com|publisher=TheFutonCritic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=6 Apr 2021 |author=J. Kim Murphy |title=Star Trek Reveals First Look at Captain Janeway Animated Series |website=IGN |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/star-trek-captain-janeway-animated-paramount-plus |access-date=October 10, 2021}}</ref>