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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, on stardate 48315.6, the U.S.S. Voyager was swept into the Delta Quadrant, 70 000 light-years from home. At the Academy Janeway was taught a captain had to keep a certain distance to the crew; but now that they are stranded in the Delta Quadrant she sometimes has to give up this aloof attitude. |