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83-397: Although other female captains had appeared in previous Star Trek episodes and other media, Janeway was the first to serve as the central character of a live-action Star Trek television series. She has also appeared in other media including books and video games. In all of her screen appearances, she has been played by Kate Mulgrew . During the development of Star Trek: Voyager , one of

166-464: A deus ex machina plot device. Commentators have observed at least seven times in which Crusher, "who has trouble getting into the Starfleet Academy" and is on a ship "filled with Starfleet's best and brightest crew members", has come up with "the needed solution". Fans' dislike for Crusher has become something of a pop-culture meme , reflected in other TV shows such as The Big Bang Theory ,

249-538: A call from the daughter she had placed for adoption. Her name is Danielle, and she had started searching for Mulgrew a year earlier. In her 2015 memoir Born with Teeth (which refers to Mulgrew having been born with a full set of neonatal teeth ), Mulgrew tells of her reunion with her daughter in 2001. In 2019, Mulgrew released a second memoir titled How to Forget . Mulgrew married Robert Egan in 1982. They have two children. The couple separated in 1993. Their divorce became final in 1995. Mulgrew married Tim Hagan ,

332-512: A cameo in the film Star Trek: Nemesis , now-Admiral Janeway instructs Captain Jean-Luc Picard to travel to Romulus at the invitation of the film's antagonist. A few years after Voyager 's return to Federation space and Janeway's subsequent promotion to Admiral, Janeway commands the USS Dauntless in an effort to locate her former first officer Chakotay who disappeared while commanding

415-492: A combination of competency and managerial style. In particular, they note her ability to overcome great challenges despite being on the other side of the Galaxy and commanding a crew in large part consisting of non- Starfleet personnel. One of her interesting relationships is noted as with the former Maquis B'Elanna Torres (played by Roxann Dawson), and the former Borg Seven of Nine (played by Jeri Ryan). Space.com rated Janeway as

498-478: A documentary film, The Principle , that aims to promote the discredited idea of the geocentric model . Mulgrew said that she was misinformed as to the purpose of the documentary, going on to say "I am not a geocentrist, nor am I in any way a proponent of geocentrism... I do not subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written regarding science and history, and had I known of his involvement, would most certainly have avoided this documentary." Mulgrew starred in

581-461: A former Ohio gubernatorial candidate and a former commissioner of Cuyahoga County, Ohio , in April 1999. In an interview on April 15, 2015, Mulgrew stated that she and Hagan were divorced in 2014. Mulgrew is Catholic and an opponent of capital punishment. She has previously stated that she is an opponent of abortion and received an award from Feminists for Life , an anti-abortion feminist group and

664-534: A long battle with the disease. Wesley Crusher Wesley Crusher is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. He appears regularly in the first four seasons of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( TNG ), and sporadically in its next three seasons. He also appeared in the feature film Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) in one episode apiece of the television series Star Trek: Picard (2022) and Star Trek: Lower Decks (2023), and as

747-651: A memorable line by the character from the Star Trek: Voyager episode " The Cloud ". The craft was carrying an ISSpresso machine and coffee for the crew. In 2019, a group of Bloomington, Indiana residents formed what is now The Janeway Collective with the goal of building a Captain Kathryn Janeway birthplace monument  [ d ] such as the one existing for James T. Kirk in Riverside, Iowa. Through attending local events and raising awareness, and with

830-481: A recurring character in season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy (2024). He is the son of Beverly Crusher and Jack Crusher and is portrayed by actor Wil Wheaton . In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation , Wesley Crusher first arrives on the Enterprise -D with his mother, soon after Captain Jean-Luc Picard assumes command. Crusher's father was killed while under Picard's command, with Picard delivering

913-511: A run of Cheers episodes as Janet Eldridge. In 1987, she appeared in Throw Momma from the Train as Margaret, Billy Crystal 's character's ex-wife. In 1992, Mulgrew appeared on Murphy Brown as Hillary Wheaton, a Toronto -based anchorwoman brought in to replace Murphy during her maternity leave, but who turned out to have the same problem with alcoholism as Brown dealt with at the beginning of

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996-550: A sentient being. During the course of the TV series, Voyager has contact with the Q Continuum on three occasions, and repeated contact with the Borg. With the intervention of a future/alternate version of herself, Janeway leads her crew in using one of the Borg's transwarp conduits to return her ship to Federation space after having traveled through the Delta Quadrant for seven years. In

1079-514: A videotaped audition which she made in New York City in August 1994. Unhappy with the tape, she auditioned in person a few weeks later. That day, film actress Geneviève Bujold was selected to play Janeway (suggesting Nicole as the character's new first name), but left the role after two days of filming, realizing that the amount of work required for an episodic television show was too demanding. Mulgrew

1162-549: A waitress. She left NYU after one year. Mulgrew's early career included portraying Mary Ryan for two years in the ABC soap Ryan's Hope (1975). She became a fan favorite and remained associated with the show long after its cancellation. She remained friends with former co-star Ilene Kristen and presented a special Soap Opera Digest Award to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine in 1995. While in Ryan's Hope , she also played Emily Webb in

1245-404: Is killed. Her memorial service sees a vast turnout, and a tall gleaming pillar with a light burning atop it is constructed in tribute to her. The Q female appears to Janeway's spirit, and tells her that Q and the Q Continuum had taken an interest in her. Telling her that she has a destiny, Lady Q takes Janeway by the hand, and disappears with her into realms unknown. Writer Peter David explained

1328-563: Is only one where life in the galaxy doesn't end in endless suffering and that involves the seven cadets sticking together. As extra-dimensional scavengers called the Loom move to destroy the universe, Crusher helps the cadets find the Protostar and vanishes after promising to distract the Loom to buy them time. In the second half of the season, Crusher is captured by Asencia and his mind probed to create temporal weaponry that she intends to use to destroy

1411-413: Is quoted as saying, "Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary", "Life is sacred to me on all levels", and "Abortion does not compute with my philosophy." However, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , Mulgrew came out with the following statement about women's choice: "Choice is what lifts us above other animals. If that fundamental right

1494-431: Is restricted or removed we are then reduced as a species. For myself, abortion was not an alternative, but neither was the possibility of living in a society and under the jurisdiction of a coterie of aging Republican men who somehow think they can understand what it is to have a womb. They can't. We must fight for nationwide access to contraception, especially in communities where poverty and race dictate privation. Choice

1577-551: Is set after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis , Janeway is assimilated by a rogue faction of the Borg , and becomes their new Borg Queen. Seven of Nine , with the aid of Ambassador Spock and the Enterprise -E crew, manages to communicate with Janeway's consciousness, buried deep within the Queen's mind. During a brief moment of contact, Janeway helps them destroy the Borg cube, with all hands on board. Although Seven manages to escape, Janeway

1660-609: Is the fundamental right of every human being, especially women and people who are able to give birth. We also need more women on the Supreme Court, and we need the conversation between men and women to be better curated than it has ever been before." Mulgrew is a rape survivor. Mulgrew is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Alzheimer's Association . Her mother, Joan Mulgrew, died on July 27, 2006, after

1743-407: Is the recipient of a Critics' Choice Award , a Saturn Award , and an Obie Award , and has also received Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She is a member of the Alzheimer's Association National Advisory Council and the voice of Cleveland's MetroHealth System . Beginning in 2021, Mulgrew reprised her role as Janeway in the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy . Mulgrew

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1826-583: The American Shakespeare Theatre production of Our Town in Stratford, Connecticut . She played ambitious country singer Garnet McGee in a November 1978 episode of Dallas . In 1979–1980, she played Kate Columbo in Mrs. Columbo , a spin-off of the detective series Columbo created specifically for her, which lasted 13 episodes. In 1981, Mulgrew co-starred with Richard Burton and Nicholas Clay in

1909-730: The Badlands . While there, the Maquis ship and Voyager are transported against their will into the Delta Quadrant , 70,000 light-years away, by a massive displacement wave. The Maquis ship is destroyed while fighting the Kazon-Ogla , and although Voyager survives, there are numerous casualties. In order to protect the Ocampa , who live on a planet Voyager visits, Janeway destroys the Caretaker Array,

1992-582: The COVID-19 pandemic . Kate Mulgrew attended the unveiling virtually due to the pandemic. The monument is constructed of a cast bronze bust with a limestone base with stainless steel plate, and was sculpted by Aaron Eby. It is located on the B-Line Trail immediately next to the WonderLab science museum. On October 23, 2022, almost two years after the unveiling, Kate Mulgrew visited the monument in person, fulfilling

2075-514: The Obie Award for outstanding performance. In June 2008, Mulgrew appeared in Equus on Broadway, playing Hesther Saloman, a public official who is empathetic toward the play's central character. The play opened on September 5, 2008, for a limited 22-week engagement through February 8, 2009. Also in 2008, Mulgrew filmed the 30-minute courtroom drama The Response , which is based on actual transcripts of

2158-582: The Traveler tells Captain Picard that Wesley possesses a unique intelligence and great potential when provided encouragement and opportunity, comparing him to a child prodigy like Mozart . Picard soon appoints Crusher as acting ensign . In the episode " Coming of Age ", Crusher takes the Starfleet Academy entrance exam, but fails to pass it. In the episode " Ménage à Troi ", he misses his second chance to take

2241-493: The USS Dauntless and USS Voyager-A ) in the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy . When Voyager came to an end after seven full seasons, Mulgrew returned to theater, and in 2003 starred in a one-woman play called Tea at Five , a monologue reminiscence based on Katharine Hepburn 's memoir Me: Stories of My Life . Tea at Five was a critical success and Mulgrew received two awards, one from Carbonell (Best Actress) and

2324-460: The 2014 Star Trek: Voyager novel Protectors by Kirsten Beyer, Janeway goes back to Earth per orders of Starfleet Command; by the end of the book she returns to the Delta Quadrant, taking charge of the starships stationed there. She continues this mission in Beyer's second 2014 Star Trek: Voyager novel, Acts of Contrition . In Cryptic Studios ' online role-playing game, Star Trek Online , Janeway

2407-574: The 4th best Starfleet character of Star Trek . In 2017, Screen Rant ranked Kathryn Janeway as the 18th most attractive person in the Star Trek universe. In 2018, The Gamer ranked Janeway as one of the top fifteen starship captains of the Star Trek franchise. Captain Janeway was rated as one of the top seven time travelers, in the whole Star Trek franchise by Nerdist in 2019, for her exploits in " Endgame ". In July 2019, Screen Rant ranked Janeway

2490-520: The 4th smartest character of Star Trek . In May 2024, CBR ranked Janeway as the best Star Trek captain to lead a series. In 2015, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti – then serving aboard the International Space Station – dressed as Janeway for photographs in which she gestured toward an incoming Dragon cargo spacecraft . She posted a photo to Twitter with the comment, "‘There’s coffee in that nebula’… ehm, I mean… in that #Dragon," quoting

2573-537: The Arthurian love triangle Lovespell as Irish princess Isolt, who casts a spell on Mark, King of Cornwall, and his surrogate son, Tristan. In the same year she also co-starred with Pierce Brosnan in the six-hour miniseries Manions of America , about Irish immigrants in 19th-century America. In 1985, she appeared in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins as Major Fleming. In 1986, she appeared in

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2656-460: The Borg (" Hope and Fear "). She tries to keep up with the Protostar and its protowarp capability. The kids, desperate for a means of explaining the situation to their pursuers without setting off the "living construct" booby trap, since using regular communications with the Starfleet ships would do that, attempt a telepathic communication with Admiral Janeway. In the attempt, the effort goes awry with

2739-567: The Emergency Command Hologram of the new USS Prodigy . In the Star Trek universe, Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20, 2336 in Bloomington, Indiana on Earth . She was the daughter of Vice Admiral Janeway and has a sister named Phoebe, who is the artist in the family. Phoebe never chose to join Starfleet and stayed close to home with her mother, Gretchen Janeway. Kathryn Janeway was very close to her father, who taught her to look at

2822-615: The English dub of Steins;Gate , and in a 2009 Family Guy episode, " Not All Dogs Go to Heaven ", which included the main The Next Generation cast and featured Wil Wheaton in character as Crusher being bullied by Patrick Stewart . Wheaton wrote: "When I was younger, people gave me such a hard time about Wesley Crusher, there was a time in my late teens and early twenties when I resented Star Trek . It felt so unfair that people who had never met me were so cruel and hateful toward me as

2905-545: The Federation in a war. Crusher is eventually rescued by the cadets, but reveals that he had allowed himself to be captured in order to guide Asencia into creating the technology that they will need to send the Protostar back in time and restore the timeline. Although the Doctor is able to treat Crusher's injuries, the damage to his brain puts Crusher's Traveler powers out of commission for the time being. Working with Janeway to rescue

2988-594: The Guantanamo Bay tribunals. It was researched and fully vetted in conjunction with the University of Maryland School of Law and was shot in three days. Mulgrew portrays Colonel Sims and the other cast members, the crew, and she agreed to defer their salaries to cover the production costs. The film has been screened at a number of sites and is available on DVD. In 2009, Mulgrew appeared in the NBC medical series Mercy , playing

3071-463: The Protostar's booby trap before it was too late and the Starfleet ships in the immediate area starting to attack each other out of the crews' control and that promised to be only the beginning of the destruction. The events of "Supernova, Part 2" caused Mulgrew's primary role in the series to shift to Admiral Janeway. Within this episode, the holographic Janeway stays on the Protostar in order to enact

3154-685: The Riverside Studios in London, England. In early 2007, she appeared in the NBC television series The Black Donnellys as Helen Donnelly, which lasted for one season. She also performed the lead role in an off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch in which she earned a nomination from the Drama League for her performance. Also in that year, Mulgrew played Clytemnestra in New York for Charles L. Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 . She won

3237-601: The Saturn Award for "Best TV Actress" in 1998 for her performances as Janeway. Mulgrew voiced the character of Janeway for various Star Trek video games: Star Trek: Captain's Chair , a virtual-reality tour of various Starfleet vessels for home computers; the Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force series; Star Trek: Legacy , which featured all of the captains up to that point (2006); and Star Trek Online . About her years on Voyager , Mulgrew said: I'm proud of it. It

3320-670: The Traveler to explore other planes of reality. Crusher is next seen sitting next to his mother in the background of the wedding scenes in the feature film Star Trek: Nemesis . In a scene deleted from the film, Captain Picard asks Crusher if he is excited to serve on board the USS Titan (Captain Riker's ship). Crusher tells him that he will be running the night shift in Engineering, which would have indicated that Wesley returned to Starfleet prior to

3403-696: The USS Protostar . Admiral Janeway also appeared in the Borg Invasion 4-D ride at the Star Trek: The Experience venue in Las Vegas, which closed in 2008. In the ride, Janeway leads Voyager to the rescue of ride participants who are ostensibly trapped first on a space station and later on a shuttlecraft that come under attack by a Borg Cube commanded by the Borg Queen . At the ride's end, Janeway tells

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3486-462: The actors considered to play the captain, before it was decided the character would be a woman, was Gary Graham . Kate Mulgrew , Geneviève Bujold , Erin Gray , Patty Duke and Susan Gibney were all considered or auditioned during development, with Bujold being initially cast. The character was originally named Elizabeth Janeway, after the noted writer of the same name . However, after Geneviève Bujold

3569-424: The actors who succeeded him playing a lead-role Starfleet captain within the Star Trek franchise. During that same year, on another science-fiction series, she began a recurring guest-starring role on the third season of the series Warehouse 13 , as the mother of one of the main characters. From July 2011 to December 2013, Mulgrew appeared as the main cast member on Adult Swim 's NTSF:SD:SUV:: as Kove,

3652-422: The animated series Gargoyles (with fellow Star Trek actors Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes ) and Victoria Riddler in the television film Riddler's Moon . Since Voyager and her subsequent Star Trek appearances, Mulgrew has appeared at Star Trek conventions and events around the world. She returned to voice the role of Janeway as a training hologram and the real Vice-Admiral Janeway (commanding

3735-410: The ante and stay at it, in a way that may not ordinarily be necessary. I have to work at changing and constantly reinventing myself in a way that probably would not have happened had Star Trek not come along. I knew that going in, and I think that all of the perks attached to this journey have been really inexpressively great. So the negatives are small. During Voyager , Mulgrew also played Titania in

3818-400: The behest of Wesley Crusher , Janeway reluctantly allows the kids to go after Chakotay alone and they find and rescue him and the Protostar . At the end of the season, at Chakotay's behest, The Doctor copies the holographic Janeway onto an EMH backup module before her memories are erased and the ship is sent back in time to be found by the kids. In the present, the holographic Janeway becomes

3901-400: The book was conceived by Pocket Books editorial as one in which Janeway would die, and that he was brought in to write it in order to give her a reportedly heroic send-off. In the 2012 Star Trek: Voyager novel The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer , Janeway returns to human life with the help of young Q, who needs her assistance, and by the book's end resumes her admiralship in Starfleet. In

3984-493: The cadets, Crusher struggles to adjust to not being able to rely on his powers before Janeway reminds him that Crusher was a Starfleet officer before he was a Traveler and his natural talents are more valuable to them than his space-time powers. Given a confidence boost, Crusher plays a pivotal role in the rescue mission using his skills as a pilot and later his intellect to reprogram a tricorder to remotely bring their ship in for departure. Crusher later helps to figure out how to open

4067-450: The choice, "We can think of no better captain to inspire the next generation of dreamers on Nickelodeon, than she." In April 2021, it was revealed that Mulgrew would voice an emergency training hologram based on Janeway. Though initially announced as a series for Nickelodeon, the show premiered on Paramount+ in October 2021, with later airings on Nickelodeon. The real Janeway first appears in

4150-454: The consciousnesses of the kids' leader, Dal and Admiral Janeway being inadvertently exchanged in their bodies. While this development allows Janeway to learn the full situation from the kids, Dal's struggles in Janeway's body leads to the crew to believe she had lost her sanity. The two manage to return to their bodies, but Janeway found herself in the brig with seemingly no one willing to believe her explanation of recent events, nor her warning of

4233-458: The deceased Lieutenant Commander Cavit as her first officer. Janeway also grants convicted criminal, former Starfleet officer, and accomplished pilot Tom Paris a field commission, and makes him Voyager ' s helmsman. Janeway's other interactions with her crew include helping the de-assimilated Borg Seven of Nine reclaim her individuality and humanity and advocating for the Doctor 's status as

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4316-513: The episode "A Moral Star, Part 2". Janeway is searching for her former first officer, Captain Chakotay, of the USS Protostar . She commands the USS Dauntless, which features a quantum slip-stream drive. The ship is based on schematics the crew of the USS Voyager obtained under Janeway's command in the Delta Quadrant of another USS Dauntless , a ship used to bait the crew into getting assimilated by

4399-619: The events of the film and held the rank of Lieutenant. Crusher returns in the Star Trek: Picard season 2 episode Farewell . In the years since Star Trek: Nemesis , he has rejoined the Travelers, traveling across space and time. In the year 2024, he approaches Kore Soong and reveals that he and his fellow Travelers were responsible for creating the Supervisors and the Watchers to help ensure

4482-502: The exam; but when he helps the Enterprise -D crew rescue Riker, Deanna Troi and Lwaxana Troi from hostile Ferengi , Picard grants him a field promotion to full ensign. In the third-season episode " The Bonding ", Crusher reveals that following his father's death, he felt animosity towards Picard, because Picard was in command of the Stargazer during the mission in which Wesley's father

4565-626: The fall 2024 Off-Broadway production by the Irish Repertory Theatre of The Beacon by playwright Nancy Harris . Mulgrew became pregnant while acting in the lead role of Mary Ryan in Ryan's Hope . "I was single, alone, and flooded with terror. But I knew I would have that baby", Mulgrew said. She placed her daughter for adoption three days after giving birth in 1977, then in later years, searched for her. "The first man who wanted to explore this with me", said Mulgrew, "was Tim Hagan, who later became my husband." In 1998, Mulgrew received

4648-456: The first program airing on the newly-launching United Paramount Network (UPN), and over $ 20 million was being spent on the pilot. Kate Mulgrew, who had previously auditioned for the role, was cast on September 17, 1994. She suggested that the name be changed to "Kathryn", to which the producers agreed. In October 2020, Mulgrew confirmed she would voice Janeway in the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy . Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman said of

4731-452: The kids reach Starfleet Headquarters, Admiral Janeway vouches for them and takes them under her wing as warrant officers. In the second season, Janeway works with the kids to rescue Chakotay from the future, accidentally creating a universe destroying temporal paradox in the process. As a result of the alterations to time, a younger version of the holographic Janeway returns in the second season, having spent ten years marooned with Chakotay. At

4814-583: The leader of the titular terrorism-fighting unit and ex-wife of series lead Paul Scheer 's character. Mulgrew starred as inmate Galina "Red" Reznikov in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black , the role for which she was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy Award in 2014. The popular character was re-signed for seasons two through seven. On working in the series, she was reunited with her Mercy co-star Taylor Schilling . In 2014, Mulgrew narrated

4897-555: The message to Wesley and to his mother, Beverly. Picard initially found Wesley irritating, as he is often uncomfortable around children, a fact he discloses to his first officer, Commander William Riker , in the pilot episode " Encounter at Farpoint ". In early episodes of the series, Picard does not allow Wesley on the ship's bridge. However, during the first season, Picard comes to realize that Wesley understands many things beyond his age, having inherited his mother's intelligence, and grants him more opportunities onboard. An alien known as

4980-425: The number three best captain of Star Trek . In 2017, The Washington Post ranked Janeway as the third best Captain of Star Trek . Screen Rant rated her the fifth best captain of the franchise, noting her ability to command in adverse situations; two praises were that she does not give up easily and tries to maintain crew morale. In a review of female characters from science fiction television and film, Janeway

5063-528: The other from Broadway.com (Audience Award for Favorite Solo Performance). Mulgrew kept active in doing voice-over work for video games, most notably voicing the mysterious Flemeth in the Dragon Age video game series, a role she described as "delicious". Mulgrew returned to television in 2006, guest-starring in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . Mulgrew performed in The Exonerated at

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5146-485: The participants, "Congratulations. You've defeated the Borg with one thing the Queen can never assimilate: the human spirit. As long as we have that, resistance will never be futile." Janeway continued as a major character in the Star Trek novels that depict the events in the lives of the Voyager characters after the end of that series. In Peter David 's 2007 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Before Dishonor , which

5229-483: The permission of CBS, they were able to successfully raise funds through a crowdsourcing campaign on the platform Patronicity and received a matching grant from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority's CreatINg Place program. An official groundbreaking event took place on June 27, 2020, and the monument was unveiled on October 24, 2020, after being delayed from the planned date of May 20, 2020 due to

5312-458: The promise she made when the statue was unveiled. Kate Mulgrew Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew (born April 29, 1955) is an American actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager and Red in Orange Is the New Black . She first came to attention in the role of Mary Ryan in the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope . Mulgrew

5395-649: The recurring role of Jeannie Flanagan (the mother of the show's lead, Veronica). Released in 2010, the film The Best and Brightest , a comedy based in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, featured Mulgrew as the Player's wife. Also in 2010, she starred as Cleopatra in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at Hartford Stage. In 2011, Mulgrew appeared in the feature-length documentary The Captains . The film, written and directed by William Shatner , follows Shatner as he interviews each of

5478-456: The self-destruct to destroy a "living construct" installed on the Protostar threatening to obliterate Starfleet. Though she promises to copy herself so she can join her young protégés, she is unable to do so due to the vastly increased complexity of her program, meaning her program is lost when the Protostar is destroyed, something she makes sure the kids only discover when it is too late so they would not delay their escape arguing with her. When

5561-481: The series. After Bujold's departure, Joanna Cassidy , Susan Gibney , Elizabeth Dennehy , Tracy Scoggins , and Lindsay Crouse were considered as replacements. Erin Gray and Chelsea Field (wife of future Star Trek captain Scott Bakula ) auditioned for the role. Not only was shooting already behind schedule, but the episode had to be ready by January 1995. It was not only the launch of series, but would also be

5644-532: The series. Also in 1992, Mulgrew had a guest-starring role as a soap opera star in Murder, She Wrote , episode number 170, "Ever After". At around the same time she guest-starred in three episodes of Batman: The Animated Series as the terrorist Red Claw. In 1994, Mulgrew received a call to take the part of Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager . She had auditioned for the role (originally named Elizabeth Janeway) when producers announced casting. She submitted

5727-438: The shadows, sending disguised messages to the crew. Crusher eventually brings the young cadets to meet him in person, explaining that the temporal paradox is destroying their universe and while the other Travelers have abandoned it as a lost cause, Crusher is unwilling to give up on the universe that was his home and more importantly where his mother still lives. Crusher reveals that having studied billions of possible futures, there

5810-507: The space station that transported the two ships to the Delta Quadrant, which provides energy to the Ocampa's planet, despite the fact that the Array may be the two ships' only chance to return home. In doing this, Janeway strands her ship and crew seven decades' travel from home. Her first major task is integrating the surviving Maquis and Voyager crews. Chakotay , captain of the Maquis ship, succeeds

5893-437: The squadron's efforts to cover up the truth. Although the Enterprise crew's intervention and Crusher's own testimony saves him from expulsion, Crusher's academic credits for the year are revoked; he is required to repeat the year and graduate after most of the rest of his class. He remains in the Academy until the Traveler recontacts him in a later season 7 episode, " Journey's End ", where he resigns his commission and goes with

5976-571: The universe with a scientist's eye; she was devastated by his death. Her first mission after graduating the academy was as a science officer on the USS Al-Batani , where she served as Chief Science Officer during the Arias mission. Captain Janeway takes command of the Intrepid -class USS Voyager in 2371. Their first mission is to locate and capture a Maquis vessel last seen in the area of space known as

6059-412: The universe's survival. He offers Kore a position with the Travelers, although he can't guarantee her safety, and she accepts. Crusher returns in the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy where he tries to help the young crew of the Protostar rescue Captain Chakotay from the future and then to deal with their inadvertent alterations to the timeline. In the first half of the season, Crusher acts from

6142-496: The wormhole and chooses to accompany the Protostar along with the crew to see the mission through. Privately, Crusher reveals to Dal R'El that the important thing that he had predicted for the group to do that will shape the future of the galaxy is still yet to come. After the crisis is over, Crusher visits his mother for the first time in years and is introduced to his little brother Jack, having been rebuked by Janeway for not seeing his mother more often. The Wesley Crusher character

6225-635: Was born in 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa , to Thomas James "T.J." Mulgrew Jr., a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew (née Kiernan), an artist and painter. She was the second of eight children. She attended Wahlert High School in Dubuque. She was born with a full set of teeth. At the age of 17, Mulgrew was accepted at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York, conjoined with New York University in New York City. She supported herself by working as

6308-421: Was cast, she requested the character be renamed "Nicole Janeway". Bujold was initially very positive, saying in an interview, "This role is a challenge but it feels right." Bujold, whose acting experience was mainly in feature films, was unprepared for the schedule demanded by television and was unwilling to do news interviews. After the second day of filming for the first episode " Caretaker ", Bujold dropped out of

6391-402: Was difficult; it was hard work. I'm proud of the work because I think I made some minor difference in women in science . I grew to really love Star Trek: Voyager , and out of a cast of nine, I've made three great friends, I managed to raise two children. I think, "It's good. I used myself well." Speaking about the best and worst part about playing a Star Trek captain, she said: The best thing

6474-464: Was in the top ten. Captain Janeway was ranked as the 18th best character of all Star Trek by IGN in 2009. In 2016, Captain Janeway was ranked as the 8th most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek science fiction universe by Wired magazine . The romance between Janeway and Kashyk in " Counterpoint " was praised by Screen Rant , which they rated as one of the ten best episodes of Star Trek: Voyager . In 2018, CBR ranked Janeway as

6557-470: Was killed. By the end of the episode, he no longer harbors these feelings. The following year, Crusher is invited to re-take the Academy exam. He is accepted, and joins an elite group of cadets known as Nova Squadron. In the fifth-season episode " The First Duty ", a squadron-mate is killed attempting a dangerous and prohibited flight maneuver and, under pressure from the team's leader, Nick Locarno, Crusher abets

6640-457: Was physically added to game in January 2022 along with voiceover work by Kate Mulgrew as part of the game's twelfth anniversary. Prior to her addition, Janeway was only occasionally mentioned in the game. She was also retroactively added to the game's 2014 Delta Rising expansion. In 2019, Vulture.com ranked Captain Kathryn Janeway as the number one Star Trek captain by their selection criterion,

6723-408: Was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I was very familiar with. I was able to do that in front of millions of viewers. That was a remarkable experience—and it continues to resonate. The downside of that is also that it continues to resonate, and threatens to eclipse all else in one's long career if one does not up

6806-437: Was then offered the role, which she accepted, and later suggested Kathryn as the character's final first name. Mulgrew made history in the Star Trek franchise when she became the first female captain as a series regular in a leading role. Voyager was the first show broadcast on the new UPN channel, the only series renewed after the channel's first programming season, and its only show to run for seven seasons. Mulgrew won

6889-408: Was unpopular among some Star Trek fans. Many considered the character a Mary Sue , and a stand-in for Gene Roddenberry (whose middle name was Wesley). The character's role in the show was greatly downplayed after the first season when Roddenberry's involvement in the show's production became more peripheral. Some fans disliked the idea of a boy who seemed to regularly save the whole ship using

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