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Biography K.E. Janeway
I apologize in advance for:
- Typos (That´s all the fault of my keyboard, it´s sentinent.)
- Weird grammar (I´m Bavarian after all, weird grammar is part of the job description...)
- That the story isn´t finished yet (How time flies! Sry, the great love story will follow in the next part.)
Greetings, A.M. :)
- Name: Janeway, Kathryn Elizabeth
- Rank: Captain
- Age: 47
- Affiliation: Starfleet
- Species: Human
- Assignment: U.S.S. Bloomington (Odyssey Tactical Cruiser)
Kathryn was born on May 20th 2331 in Bloomington, Indiana, and lived with her parents, Dr. Gretchen and Edward Janeway, and her younger sister Phoebe on the family´s farm in an agricultural park. Since Kathryn was a child she was fascinated about science and spacetravel. Her mother, a mathematician, and her father, a Starfleet admiral, encouraged her to explore things, to ask questions and - of course - to try and find answers. This lead to her decision, to enroll at Starfleet Academy after her highschool. During her time at the academy she discovered that she also liked the command training and layed her focus on the command path to become - one day - a Starfleet captain. All went well for Kathryn until this fateful day when all went wrong...
It should have been just a test flight with a new vessel. With her aboard of the experimental shuttle "Terra Nova" were her father and Lt. Justin Tighe, her fiancé. The flight path was clear, there were no irregular readings, all seemed to be fine. They had just entered the orbit of Tau Ceti Prime as suddenly the alarm klaxons sounded and the shuttle was unmaneuverable. It was obvious that they would go down on the planet´s surface, although the crew tried all to avoid a crash and land the shuttle. But it was too late. The ship crashed and was torn into two pieces.
As Kathryn regained again consciousness she saw that the cockpit section of the shuttle has crashed into the icecover of a nearby lake. And inside the cockpit her father and Justin were trapped. Although she was seriously injured herself, she tried everything to save them. The part of the shuttle which had landed on hard ground had still energy, so she started to work on a transporter device to beam them both out. But time ran out. As she finally got the device to work the cockpit was drown. Her father and Justin were dead. Kathryn was rescued two days later. An orefreighter picked up the signal which was sent from the automated distress beacon.
After the accident Kathryn suffered from a severe depression for months. She blamed herself for her father´s and Justin´s death. She was conviced that, if she had worked faster, both could have been saved. It was her sister Phoebe who finally brought her back to life, even with a theurapeutical inappropriate method. Over six months after the accident Kathryn accepted that it wasn´t her fault and that blaming herself much longer wouldn´t help anybody. She decided to continue her studies at Starfleet Academy and to follow her father´s footsteps. Kathryn gratuated in 2353 from the Academy with degrees in quantum cosmology and astrophysics. Several assignments followed. She was promoted to Captain in 2364. In 2371 she became Commmanding Officer of the U.S.S. Voyager, a Intrepid class vessel. The ship´s maiden voyage should lead them to the Badlands. Kathryn´s mission was to search for a Maquis ship, which had her security chief Tuvok as an undercover agent aboard.
On their arrival at the Badlands the ship´s sensors showed some strange readings. Obviously the ship was scanned by a tetryon beam and in the next moment it was struck by a forceful wave, which caused heavy damage to the ship and the crew. Many crewmembers were injured, the first officer, helmsman, chief engineer and the whole medical crew were killed. And - if this wouldn´t be worse enough - they weren´t in the Badlands anymore. They weren´t even in the Alpha Quadrant, but in an uncharted space named the Delta Quadrant, 70000 light years away from earth. 70000 light years away from their homes, families and friends. The Maquis ship they were searching for in the first place, suffered the same fate. It was also pulled into the same area of space and had lost many members of its crew as well.
There would have been a fast way back through an array, which belonged to an alien entity. The entity, named The Caretaker, protected the Ocampa, a species from the Delta Quadrant, against their enemies, the Kazon. But The Caretaker was dying - which was the reason why he pulled ships into the Delta Quadrant. He was searching for a mate. He hoped that their offspring would proceed to fulfill the duty as a protector for the Ocampa. Kathryn had to make a decision: Using the array to get fast back to the Alpha Quadrant would have meant to leave the Ocampa without protection. Or destroying it to make it impossible for the Kazon to use its advanced technology. It wasn´t an easy decision for Kathryn, after all she was the captain and had a responsibility for her crew. But she also was a
Starfleet captain who had to protect the weak and she remembered the words of ambassador Spock "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". Kathryn ordered the destruction of the array.
Both stranded ships faced now a 70-year-journey back to the Alpha Quadrant. Kathryn and Chakotay, the Maquis captain, decided to combine the two crews on Voyager under Kathryn´s command. It wasn´t easy in the beginning but over time the Maquis and Starfleet crewmembers got along. The next years were eventful, they charted and explored the areas they travelled through, they made friends but more often they met enemies who attacked Voyager without reason. There were times when Kathryn just wanted to give up and settle down on a suitable planet. The responsibility for almost 150 crewmembers and her ship, travelling with always tight resources through a more often hostile than friendly quadrant without backup from Starfleet and her loneliless took it´s toll. Starfleet knew that they were out there - Voyager was able to contact them through a Hirogen communications array - but of course couldn´t send any help. The possibility to contact Earth raised at least the crew´s morale. Not so Kathryn´s. She learned that Mark, her fiancé, had married his office assistant because he thought Kathryn was dead. Kathryn felt utterly lonely.
All changed when Voyager encountered the Borg which were at war with Species 8472. All changed when Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One, came aboard Voyager.
to be continued...
