Fleet Admiral Kathryn Janeway

Character Information

Gender		Female
Species		Human
Age		75

Physical Appearance

Hair Color

Silver

Family

Father		Edward Janeway
Mother		Gretchen Janeway
Sister(s)		Phoebe Janeway

Personality & Traits

Personal History		Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20 in Bloomington, Indiana, on Earth. Her father was Vice Admiral Edward Janeway and she had a sister, Phoebe who she described as the artist of the family. Janeway once spilled Phoebe's paints and blamed it on their dog. One of Kathryn's favorite foods, Welsh rarebit, was something she always enjoyed while at her grandfather's. Another was her grandmother's vegetable biryani. She grew up on the great plains surrounding her grandfather's farm in Indiana. With their family having grown up around farmers, her parents insisted that she learn some basic gardening skills. When she was a girl, she liked to swim in a swimming pool or a pond – where she knew exactly what was beneath her – but she was scared to death of swimming in the ocean, where in the open water there was no way to know what was down below. When she was six years old, she once watched a bolt of lightning split an oak tree in her grandfather's yard, one she had climbed just a few hours before. Many years later, she recalled that there was no anomaly more frightening than a thunderstorm on the plains, especially at such a young age. Also at the age of six, Kathryn enjoyed an interactive holodeck fairy tale series called The Adventures of Flotter and took ballet lessons, where she learned the dance of "The Dying Swan". She described the dance as being the hit of her "Beginning Ballet" class and recreated the performance in 2373, during Talent Night aboard Voyager. At the age of nine, she and her father hiked the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. She found that "the biggest ditch on Earth" – as her father used to call it – was too dusty for her liking, and Kathryn always preferred farm country. When she was twelve years old, she walked home in a thunderstorm over seven kilometers because she lost a tennis match. In 2354, during high school, she gave up playing tennis; she ultimately didn't pick it up again until 2373. Janeway was also experienced in pool, even though the first time she played it with the crew in Tom Paris' holodeck simulation Chez Sandrine, she led everyone to believe that she was a novice. She also enjoyed skiing. Janeway had a special relationship with her father, who had raised her to be a doubter and a skeptic and to look at the world with the scientist's eye. When he died by drowning under a polar icecap on Tau Ceti Prime sometime before 2358, she was devastated. She was so grief-stricken she fell into a terrible depression and spent months in bed, sleeping away her days. Her sister eventually forced her into the real world again. Janeway credited the family tale of her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnel, for inspiring her to join Starfleet. The family tale claimed that O'Donnell had been involved as the driving force in ensuring the construction of the Millennium Gate, despite strong local opposition. O'Donnell was also believed to be an early female astronaut, the first of a line of Janeway explorers. Much to Janeway's disappointment, research in 2376 revealed that her involvement in the Millennium Gate project had been far less prominent than everyone thought and that she had been a mere consulting engineer on the project. However, Seven of Nine told her that her inspiration to Janeway should not be diminished by this, as she was still the driving force behind her desire to join Starfleet and become an explorer. During her lifetime, Janeway studied chromolinguistics, American Sign Language, and the gestural idioms of the Leyron. However, she struggled with basic Klingon.
Service Record		During Janeway's first year at Starfleet Academy, she overcame her fear of open water after she went through zero g training in the Coral Sea. As a cadet, Janeway learned that a good officer kept an open mind. During her time at the Academy, Janeway developed a close relationship with Boothby, the chief custodian of the Starfleet gardens, who brought fresh roses to her quarters each morning. Janeway also enjoyed spending her time at a little coffee shop on Market Street known as "the Night Owl". Her love of coffee and her late nights got her through many of her classes, as she often had to pull all-nighters. She studied under such memorable professors as Patterson, Hendricks, and H'ohk. Janeway was also considered an intelligent and adaptive cadet. Janeway graduated in the class of 2357 at Starfleet Academy. Janeway's first Starfleet posting was as a science officer aboard the USS Al-Batani, under the command of Captain Owen Paris. When she was a science officer, Janeway envied the captain's privilege of making first contact with alien species. While aboard the Al-Batani, she participated in the Arias Expedition. During another mission, the Al-Batani tried to navigate a dense protonebula and became stuck. Janeway once revealed that, at one point during her posting aboard the Al-Batani, she knocked out power to six decks by misaligning the ship's positronic relays. While she held the rank of lieutenant, she was the member of an away team which defended a Federation outpost from Cardassians during a border conflict. They ended up cut off in a three-day long firefight with the Cardassians. One night during a break in the fighting, her commanding officer ordered her and an ensign to crawl out into the brush and save a wounded Cardassian soldier. At the time, she thought her commander crazy, but in retrospect saving that man's life was one of her proudest moments. In the end, her away team secured the outpost, and all members were decorated by Starfleet Command. Janeway first met one of her future closest friends and confidants, Tuvok, in 2356, at which time he dressed her down in front of three Starfleet admirals for failing to observe proper tactical procedures during her first command. Although the incident bruised her "Human ego" at the time, she ultimately realized Tuvok was correct. From 2365 onward, Janeway and Tuvok became close friends, and Janeway found she could always "rely on his insightful and unfailingly logical advice." During the mid-2360s, when Tuvok was temporarily assigned to Jupiter Station, he often wrote to Janeway. By 2371, Tuvok had made detailed psychological observations about Janeway over the course of four years. While in her first year as a commander aboard the USS Billings, Janeway sent an away team to survey a volcanic moon. Their shuttle was damaged by a magma eruption and three crewmembers were severely injured. The next day, she returned to the moon, alone, to complete the survey. She wanted the crew to know that their suffering had not been in vain, despite the possibility that she could have been killed. 2371 - 2378: Promoted and assigned the command of U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656. 2378 - 2384: Promoted to Vice-Admiral and assigned to Starfleet Intelligence. 2384: Temporary command of the U.S.S. Dauntless NCC-80816. 2384 - 2385: Assigned command of U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656-A. 2385: Retired from Starfleet. Returned to Starfleet after the attack on Mars. 2385 - 2395: Chief of Starfleet Operations. 2395 - 2401: Promoted to Admiral and assigned to Starfleet Exploration. 2401 - Current: Promoted to Fleet Admiral assigned as Commander and Chief.