STARFLEET PERSONNEL FILE: Janeway, Kathryn (Missing In Action)

**Includes updates, addenda through SD 50500 (2373)

Played By: Kate Mulgrew

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.

Kate Mulgrew stars as Captain Kathryn Janeway, the Starfleet Captain for the Starship U.S.S. Voyager in Paramount Network Television's Star Trek: Voyager for UPN. As captain, it is Janeway's job to keep the crew hopeful as they struggle through the far reaches of the uncharted Delta Quadrant in search of a way home. As the first female to captain a featured lead Star Trek vessel in the franchise's 31- year history, Kate Mulgrew has stepped into television history. In commenting on her role, Mulgrew said, "Beneath Captain Janeway's extraordinary control runs a very deep vein of vulnerability and sensitivity. (She) is the quintessential woman of the future... both commanding and discerning."

Kate grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, the oldest girl in a family of eight. She left home at the age of 17 and traveled to New York City to study acting. Upon her arrival, Kate enrolled at New York University and was accepted into Stella Adler's Conservatory. At the end of her junior year, Kate left the university to commit herself full-time to her craft.

Exhibiting some of the legendary "luck of the Irish," Kate was immediately cast as Mary Ryan on the ABC daytime drama Ryan's Hope , while simultaneously earning the role of Emily in the production of Our Town at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. Her role as Mary Ryan lasted two years. Her theatrical stint ended a good deal sooner, but both set the stage for how her acting career would unfold.

At the age of 23, Kate was approached by the head of NBC programming Fred Silverman, who offered her a starring role in a series he had created with her in mind -- Kate Columbo. The series found Kate playing the wife of one of TV's most beloved detectives, Lt. Columbo. While a critical success, the series was canceled after two seasons, although it can still be seen in syndication under the title Kate Loves a Mystery.

Mulgrew went on to star in several feature films, including Love Spell: Isolt of Ireland alongside Richard Burton, and A Stranger is Watching, with Rip Torn. She traveled to Europe to film the ABC mini-series The Manions of America with Pierce Brosnan, and spent time in Mexico filming the feature Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. Mulgrew also starred in Throw Momma from the Train with Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal.

She returned to television as the star of the ABC drama Heartbeat , where she portrayed Doctor Joanne Springstein, the head of a medical clinic. This series, which aired for two seasons, won a People's Choice Award for Best Drama. Following this, Mulgrew went on to co-star in the comedy series Man of the People, alongside actor James Garner.

Mulgrew is also a veteran of numerous theatrical productions. She made her Broadway debut in Black Comedy, a play written by Peter Schaeffer that also starred Nancy Marchand and Peter MacNicol. Her other stage credits include starring roles in Titus Andronicus at the Shakespeare Theater in New York City's Central Park; and Hedda Gabler and Measure for Measure at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum.

Her episodic television series credits include a recurring role as a Boston councilwoman and Sam Malone's love interest on several important episodes of Cheers, and her portrayal of an alcoholic anchorwoman on an episode of Murphy Brown, for which she won the Tracey Humanitarian Award.

The recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of letters for Artistic Contribution from Seton Hall University, Mulgew currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with her two sons, Ian and Alexander.