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>
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.
