Editing Kathryn Janeway (section)

==Character biography==
In the ''Star Trek'' universe, Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20, 2336{{CN|date=February 2025}} in [[Bloomington, Indiana]] on [[Earth]].<ref>[[Imperfection (Star Trek: Voyager)|Imperfection]]", ''Star Trek: Voyager'', Season 7, Episode 2 (October 11, 2000). UPN.</ref> She was the daughter of Vice Admiral Janeway and has a sister named Phoebe, who is the artist in the family. Phoebe never chose to join Starfleet and stayed close to home with her mother, Gretchen Janeway.  Kathryn Janeway was very close to her father, who taught her to look at the universe with a scientist's eye; she was devastated by his death.<ref>"[[Coda (Star Trek: Voyager)|Coda]]", ''Star Trek: Voyager'', Season 3, Episode 14 (January 29, 1997). UPN.</ref> Her first mission after graduating the academy was as a science officer on the USS ''Al-Batani'', where she served as Chief Science Officer during the Arias mission.<ref>"[[Shattered (Star Trek: Voyager)|Shattered]]", ''Star Trek: Voyager'', Season 7, Episode 10 (January 17, 2001). UPN.</ref>

Captain Janeway takes command of the ''Intrepid''-class [[USS Voyager (Star Trek)|USS ''Voyager'']] in 2371. Their first mission is to locate and capture a [[Maquis (Star Trek)|Maquis]] vessel last seen in the area of space known as the [[Badlands (Star Trek)|Badlands]]. While there, the Maquis ship and ''Voyager'' are transported against their will into the [[Delta Quadrant]], 70,000 [[light-year]]s away, by a massive displacement wave.  The Maquis ship is destroyed while fighting the [[Kazon|Kazon-Ogla]], and although ''Voyager'' survives, there are numerous casualties. In order to protect the [[Ocampa]], who live on a planet ''Voyager'' visits, Janeway destroys the Caretaker Array, the space station that transported the two ships to the Delta Quadrant, which provides energy to the Ocampa's planet, despite the fact that the Array may be the two ships' only chance to return home. In doing this, Janeway strands her ship and crew seven decades' travel from home.<ref name="Encyc">{{cite book|author=Okuda, Michael & Denise|author-link=Michael Okuda|title=[[The Star Trek Encyclopedia]] |location=[[New York City]]|publisher=[[Pocket Books]]|year=1999|isbn=0-671-03475-8}}</ref>

Her first major task is integrating the surviving Maquis and ''Voyager'' crews. [[Chakotay]], captain of the Maquis ship, succeeds the deceased Lieutenant Commander Cavit as her first officer. Janeway also grants convicted criminal, former Starfleet officer, and accomplished pilot [[Tom Paris]] a field commission, and makes him ''Voyager''{{'}}s helmsman.<ref name="Encyc"/>

Janeway's other interactions with her crew include helping the de-assimilated [[Borg (Star Trek)|Borg]] [[Seven of Nine]] reclaim her individuality and humanity and advocating for the [[Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)|Doctor]]'s status as a sentient being.<ref name="Encyc"/>

During the course of the TV series, ''Voyager'' has contact with the [[Q Continuum]] on three occasions, and repeated contact with the Borg. With the intervention of a future/alternate version of herself, Janeway leads her crew in using one of the Borg's transwarp conduits to return her ship to [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] space after having traveled through the Delta Quadrant for seven years.<ref name="Encyc"/>

In a cameo in the film ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', now-Admiral Janeway instructs Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]] to travel to [[Romulus (Star Trek)|Romulus]] at the invitation of the film's antagonist.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/MOV/detail/90.html|title=Summary of ''Star Trek: Nemesis''|publisher=[[Startrek.com]]|access-date=2007-06-09|archive-date=2018-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223643/http://www.startrek.com/database_article/star-trek-nemesis|url-status=dead}}</ref>

A few years after ''Voyager''<nowiki/>'s return to Federation space and Janeway's subsequent promotion to Admiral, Janeway commands the USS ''Dauntless'' in an effort to locate her former first officer Chakotay who disappeared while commanding the USS ''Protostar''.

=== Non-canon ===
Admiral Janeway also appeared in the Borg Invasion 4-D ride at the [[Star Trek: The Experience]] venue in Las Vegas, which closed in 2008. In the ride, Janeway leads ''Voyager'' to the rescue of ride participants who are ostensibly trapped first on a space station and later on a shuttlecraft that come under attack by a Borg Cube commanded by the [[Borg Queen]]. At the ride's end, Janeway tells the participants, "Congratulations. You've defeated the Borg with one thing the Queen can never assimilate: the human spirit. As long as we have that, resistance will never be futile."

Janeway continued as a major character in the ''Star Trek'' novels that depict the events in the lives of the ''Voyager'' characters after the end of that series. In [[Peter David]]'s 2007 ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel, ''Before Dishonor'',<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UZNSCW ''Star Trek: The Next Generation: Before Dishonor'' at] [[Amazon.com]]</ref> which is set after the events of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', Janeway is assimilated by a rogue faction of the [[Borg (Star Trek)|Borg]], and becomes their new Borg Queen. [[Seven of Nine]], with the aid of Ambassador [[Spock]] and the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)|''Enterprise''-E]] crew, manages to communicate with Janeway's consciousness, buried deep within the Queen's mind. During a brief moment of contact, Janeway helps them destroy the Borg cube, with all hands on board. Although Seven manages to escape, Janeway is killed. Her memorial service sees a vast turnout, and a tall gleaming pillar with a light burning atop it is constructed in tribute to her.  The Q female appears to Janeway's spirit, and tells her that [[Q (Star Trek)|Q]] and the [[Q Continuum]] had taken an interest in her. Telling her that she has a destiny, Lady Q takes Janeway by the hand, and disappears with her into realms unknown. Writer Peter David explained the book was conceived by [[Pocket Books]] editorial as one in which Janeway would die, and that he was brought in to write it in order to give her a reportedly heroic send-off.<ref>David, Peter (December 20, 2007). [http://www.peterdavid.net/index.php/2007/12/20/star-trek-new-frontier-from-idw/ "Star Trek: New Frontier from IDW"]. peterdavid.net. Quote: "The book was conceived by Pocket Books editorial as one in which Janeway would die, and then I was brought in to write it because they felt I could give her a heroic send-off. But if I hadn’t written it, someone else would have, and Janeway would still be gone."</ref>

In the 2012 ''Star Trek: Voyager'' novel ''The Eternal Tide'' by [[Kirsten Beyer]], Janeway returns to human life with the help of young Q, who needs her assistance, and by the book's end resumes her admiralship in Starfleet. In the 2014 ''Star Trek: Voyager'' novel ''Protectors'' by Kirsten Beyer, Janeway goes back to Earth per orders of Starfleet Command; by the end of the book she returns to the Delta Quadrant, taking charge of the starships stationed there. She continues this mission in Beyer's second 2014 ''Star Trek: Voyager'' novel, ''Acts of Contrition''.

In [[Cryptic Studios]]' online role-playing game, ''[[Star Trek Online]]'', Janeway was physically added to game in January 2022 along with voiceover work by Kate Mulgrew as part of the game's twelfth anniversary.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 25, 2022|title=Shadow's Advance is Live!|url=https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11507363-shadow%27s-advance-is-live%21|access-date=February 5, 2022|website=[[Star Trek Online]]}}</ref> Prior to her addition, Janeway was only occasionally mentioned in the game. She was also retroactively added to the game's 2014 ''Delta Rising'' expansion.