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A Major Star Trek: Voyager Cameo Didn't Make The Cut For Picard Season 3

The showrunner of the third season of "Star Trek: Picard," Terry Matalas, began the season with a few cute references and cameos to whet the appetites of nostalgia-hungry Trekkies. One of the first shots of the season was a slow pan over the belongings of Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden), and sharp-eyed fans would likely recognize several trinkets and pictures and audio logs left over from "Star Trek: The Next Generation." For five episodes, Matalas played light and fair with additional nostalgic references, focusing instead on new characters, a new ship, and the story at hand.

In the back half of the season, however, the dam burst, and the cameos and references began coming fast and furious. There were small notable roles for Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes), Tuvok (Tim Russ), and Commander Shelby (Elizabeth Dennehy). The eighth episode saw the entire central cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in the same room at the same time, and it was revealed that the Borg were once again the villains of the piece. The final episode of the series, called "The Last Generation," featured an audio cameo from Walter Koenig, playing Anton Chekov, the son of Pavel Chekov. And, of course, the finale centered the Enterprise-D, the ship that was destroyed in "Star Trek: Generations."

In a roundtable discussion, attended by /Film's own Vanessa Armstrong, Matalas revealed that he actually wanted to cram in even more references and cameo appearances. He mentioned that he wanted justice for Harry Kim , the eternal ensign, by giving him a captaincy. He also wanted to establish that two characters, presumed dead or imprisoned, were alive and well, and he wanted a cameo from the first two seasons of "Picard." Notably, he wanted an on-camera appearance from Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), the captain of the U.S.S. Voyager.

The reason he couldn't have the cameos, Terry Matalas said, was an issue of both budget and of scheduling. Getting all his intended actors in the room at the same time would have been a logistical nightmare, and not everyone he wanted was available during the "Picard" shooting window. Additionally, he noted that Paramount didn't have the budget to pay all the actors in question; it seemed getting the "Next Generation" cast back was expensive enough. He also wanted to link this season of "Picard" — which largely stands apart from the previous two seasons — back to the first. It seems Soji (Isa Briones) was a part of Matalas' original ideas. He explained: 

"[T]here were characters I really wanted to see again. In the original finale script ... look, it was a giant movie that we were building on a television time schedule. The fact that you saw what we saw was miraculous that we pulled it off. It nearly killed us all. But there was a scene with Soji and Data that we could not afford to do. And another actor."

Matalas was coy about who "another actor" might have been. 

Soji, for those who forgot, was a central character in the early episodes of "Picard." It seems that a Federation scientist salvaged a particle of Data's android brain, left exploded after the events of "Star Trek: Nemesis." Someone then essentially "cloned" Data from the particle, not only re-growing his consciousness and memories (!), but also creating a pair of organic android twins. Even for "Star Trek," the pseudoscience was far-fetched, but it resulted in a character, Soji, who found herself struggling with the revelation that she was an artificial being with false childhood memories. 

Because she is technically Data's daughter, Matalas wanted Soji to meet Data.

Janeway herself

At the end of "The Last Generation," Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) is recommended for a promotion to captain. Terry Matalas wanted an additional Starfleet officer present for her promotion, an officer that Seven served with for many years aboard the U.S.S. Voyager. Yes, Matalas wanted Admiral Janeway to be there. He also mentioned that he wanted to resurrect Tuvok and Ro and Harry Kim. Sadly, none of this was in the budget. In his words:

"Ro, there was a scene in which they found Ro Laren in the dungeons of the Intrepid with Tuvok, and that she had survived. We weren't able to pull off. Harry Kim had appeared at one point. We really wanted to bring back ... we wanted Kate Mulgrew to be part of Seven of Nine's promotion. These are all things that ... they're all in the first script, and then your line producer says 'Are you out of your f***in' mind? You can't afford these things. You are not 'Avengers: Endgame.” So they got to go away. And so those are our regrets. But I'm very happy with what we were able to pull off."

While a scene between Mulgrew and Ryan would have pleased the many "Voyager" fans, it should be noted that modern "Trek" is not absent Captain Janeway. The character appears — in two different forms — on the animated series "Star Trek: Prodigy." One version of Janeway is an instructional hologram that constantly instructs and subtly mothers a crew of non-Federation teenagers. Later in the series, after the teens manage to fly their ship into the outer edges of Federation space, they run into the real Janeway, now grumpy after switching from coffee to tea. 

She might not have been in "Picard," but she is present in "Trek."

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The (In)fallible Janeway

'Come on, Kate, make something great out of that mess.'

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One thing I learned watching Janeway growing up is how leadership means being responsible for working through dilemmas [with] no clear answers. All the easy decisions are made before it gets to the top. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , November 4, 2022

“What would the real Janeway do?,” asks Hologram Janeway in the sixth episode of Star Trek: Prodigy , “Terror Firma.” With this line, the Emergency Training Hologram aboard the U.S.S Protostar underscores that while she may look and sound like Captain Janeway as we remember her from seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager , she is her own entity. And, while Hologram Janeway may look to the “real Janeway” for inspiration, she has come into her own as a hero by the time the first season of Prodigy has concluded.

Captain/Admiral Janeway

Although certainly not the first time we’d seen a woman in the captain’s seat in Star Trek , when Voyager first made its debut in 1994, it was the first time a woman served as the lead character of a Star Trek series. While the Earth society under the Federation in the 24th Century may have eradicated sexism, Earth society in the 20th and 21st Centuries still shows plenty of “room for growth.” As such, it was inevitable that Janeway would face inherent skepticism from certain groups of the audience.

This meant that, especially in the series' earliest episodes, Captain Kathryn Janeway had to be “The Infallible Janeway” – and according to Voyager ’s first season show bible , although she was by no means the only woman captain in Starfleet, “it is generally acknowledged that she is among the best – male or female.” Because of this, even making a decision considered by some as controversial could result in an outsized amount of attention. For example, we can look to the Voyager Season 2 episode “ Tuvix ,” a 1996 episode that continues to be so heavily discussed that even U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a conversation about it on Twitter in 2020 (in contrast, there’s little discussion about the death of Trip Tucker’s clone in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “ Similitude ”).

But, over the course of Voyager , Janeway won over the hearts of even the most skeptical audience members. In fact, by the time Star Trek: Nemesis arrived on the big screen in 2002, Janeway had grown so popular that the character received a cameo appearance in the movie. This was true, in 2001 when the Voyager series finale, “Endgame, Parts I and II,” was also released — Janeway had reached a point where she could make more controversial decisions.

In “ Endgame ,” this means violating the Temporal Prime Directive to ensure that Voyager would reach Earth much more quickly than it might have otherwise. Traveling back in time over two decades from a parallel 2404, the future Admiral Janeway not only guided her younger self and crew through a path that cut 17 years off their travel time, but also brought technology developed at a high cost in that timeline, including advanced ablative ship armor and transphasic torpedoes.

However, in traveling back to offer this guidance, Admiral Janeway sacrifices her life and eradicates the future timeline from which she originated. While the Admiral can easily justify this thanks to the deaths of Seven of Nine, Tuvok, and Chakotay, the timeline wasn’t bad for everyone on the Voyager crew. For one thing, this is the only canon timeline where Captain Harry Kim is given the promotion he’s always deserved. And for another, The Doctor – who, after more than 30 years, has chosen the name “Joe” – is happily married to a human and seems to enjoy not only practical benefits like those granted by the long-lost mobile emitter, but also increasing societal respect for holographic sentience. And finally, consider Professor Reggie, the apotheosis of a character who had a very long road getting from Star Trek: The Next Generation ’s “ The Nth Degree ” to here – and it’s a future in which he seems well adjusted and happy.

“The sharp edges of loneliness were very much in play for Janeway [generally],” Mulgrew said in the July 2002 issue of Star Trek Monthly . “And that made the ultimate sacrifice that much more delicious. The Admiral sacrificed her life so that the Captain could persevere. That's who I really was as Janeway.”

“Endgame” not only saves Janeway from her own loneliness, but her decision to change the timeline also affords survival for Seven, Chakotay, and Tuvok, demonstrating how allowing the woman captain to make a controversial decision can have lasting and unpredictable effects. Without Admiral Janeway’s decision to violate the Temporal Prime Directive, Seven would not be involved in the ongoing events of Star Trek: Picard , a role that has proven integral to the survival of the eponymous character more than once, and the Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 premiere, “Grounded,” could not have featured Tuvok in his integral role where he gathered exonerating evidence for Captain Carol Freeman’s highly publicized trial (you probably heard about this; they talked about it on FNN nonstop for a minute). And, of course, Chakotay’s survival ensures he’s alive to get lost in a parallel future timeline himself, spurring Vice Admiral Janeway’s involvement in Prodigy and eventually leading to her involvement with the Protostar crew.

Hologram Janeway

When we are first introduced to Hologram Janeway in “ Starstruck ,” she’s more or less an echo of the “real Janeway” as we might best remember her from Voyager ; she’s even wearing a similar style of uniform (albeit without her captain’s pips). She even possesses the same personal preferences as this remembered version of Janeway, including her affinity for coffee and gothic Bildungsroman holonovels (as demonstrated by program Janeway Lambda one, first seen in Voyagers ’s “ Cathexis ,” and through Jane Eyre in Prodigy ’s “ Kobayashi ”).

Furthermore, Hologram Janeway can draw on many of Janeway’s memories, including those that proceeded the events of Voyager , and can even offer Dal guidance through a historical nonfiction parable from Earth — the true story of Apollo 13 (“ Time Amok ”). Her presence as the ship’s Emergency Training Hologram demonstrates that the advancements brought back to Earth from the Delta Quadrant by Voyager weren’t limited to the parallel future tech furbished by Admiral Janeway. This sophisticated recreation of the "real Captain Janeway” is likely only possible thanks to the tech advancements achieved by The Doctor during his tenure on Voyager .

But, when we are introduced to Hologram Janeway, while she may appear to have the experiences of the "real Janeway,” it's worth noting that she’s as old as the recently christened (but subsequently time-traveled) Protostar , and during the span of her existence, her programming has been corrupted by the machinations of The Order (although we don’t know that until the final quarter of the first season).

Nevertheless, Hologram Janeway experiences significant growth thanks to her time with Captain Dal R’El, Gwyn, Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog, Zero, and Murf. At the midpoint of Prodigy ’s first season, she has become so integrated into the crew that she even shifts her appearance from the Voyager -era uniforms to better match the style the Protostar ’s current crew wears – an affectation she hadn’t initiated under the command of Captain Chakotay. In “ A Moral Star, Part 2 ,” it is revealed that Hologram Janeway’s programming was even upgraded by Gwyn, allowing her to both deceive The Diviner and Dreadnok in “ A Moral Star, Part 1 ” and physically interact with non-holograms (allowing her to be embraced by Dal in “ Asylum ,” which she describes as “a new experience”).

Over the first sixteen episodes of Prodigy , Hologram Janeway is an impeccable ally to the Protostar crew. She grows alongside them, her programming becoming too complex to be loaded onto an isolinear chip. But, throughout the tenure of their relationship with her, Hologram Janeway reminds the crew that she is a different character than the “real Janeway,” a fact that becomes especially clear over the course of the back half of Prodigy 's first season, as Vice Admiral Janeway undertakes a hunt for Chakotay and the Protostar .

We know from “Endgame” how far Janeway will go to rescue Chakotay. As expressed in “ Crossroads ,” even Hologram Janeway doubts the Protostar can stay ahead of the incredibly persistent clutches of the Vice Admiral.

Vice Admiral Janeway

But, when the "real Janeway” does appear in the back half of Prodigy Season 1, she isn’t exactly there to provide a good example to the Protostar crew. Instead, she’s there to apprehend them!

Whereas “Hologram Janeway has to follow a certain structure,” Mulgrew said in an interview , “Vice Admiral Janeway gets to play the Stradivarius.” Although Vice Admiral Janeway isn’t exactly a villain, running “the gamut of emotions” and “the gamut of command” in doing the job that Starfleet assigned her – the Hageman brothers compare her narrative function to the part Tommy Lee Jones plays in The Fugitive – it’s hard to argue that she isn’t playing something of an antagonistic role to our young protagonists aboard the Protostar crew.

Some impressive institutional Starfleet power further backs the real Janeway. Both the ship and the Bridge crew she commands underscore this — the Dauntless , based on scientific developments brought back to the Alpha Quadrant aboard Voyager . And, while the Protostar crew may be comprised of inexperienced outsiders, Janeway is backed by a team whose pedigree is underscored by the all-star team of actors who portray them — Daveed Diggs as Commander Tysess, Jameela Jamil as “Ensign Ascencia,” and Voyager alum Jason Alexander as Doctor Noum.

At first, Vice Admiral Janeway assumes the Protostar crew is in cahoots with whoever abducted Chakotay. This initial (and erroneous) assumption is obviously augmented by her feelings regarding her one-time First Officer. While this influence is not unprecedented – Chakotay’s untimely death is part of the reason the parallel-timeline Janeway elected to violate the Temporal Prime Directive in “Endgame,” after all – the extended duration over which Janeway believes the Protostar crew to be antagonist shows the type of imperfect narrative that Captain Janeway was rarely permitted to explore during Voyager 's seven seasons on-air.

With Hologram Janeway filling the role of “perfect role model,” the real Janeway is free to expand beyond the confines of a “STEM Barbie” archetype and become a more complicated, nuanced, and imperfect character. Through this, Prodigy can bring us the most human version of our beloved Janeway yet.

A Tale of Two Janeways

After examining the bounties that Tysess proffers her in “ Preludes ,” Vice Admiral Janeway has begun re-evaluating her perspective on the Protostar crew. Thanks to the additional information (and her boundless empathy), the real Janeway soon begins to suspect that there’s more to the stolen Protostar situation than meets the eye.

These suspicions are confirmed thanks to her swapping minds with Protostar Captain Dal R’El during the events of “ Mindwalk .” This allows her to meet the rest of the crew — including the idealized version of herself, Hologram Janeway.

This ostensibly impeccable role model has been corrupted by clandestine programming, implanted by the Order as part of the future Vau N’Akat’s machinations against Starfleet. In a sense, this makes the Hologram analogous to the '90s incarnation of Janeway, who was obligated to provide a façade of perfection to gain acceptance.

However, while Hologram Janeway may be a “perfect” version of the legendary Starfleet leader, it takes the real (and imperfect) Janeway to help reconnect her with her true mission. Because the ETH is classified as a “non-essential system” in the ship’s computer, Vice Admiral Janeway can purge the corrosive programming. This allows Hologram Janeway to once again assume the position for which she had been designed — a role model for the up-and-coming crew of the Protostar .

When Vice Admiral Janeway has returned to her actual body aboard the Dauntless , she finds that Dal’s actions while occupying her mind have confined her to the Brig just as the Living Construct is about to activate and set The Order’s plan into motion. It’s a real mess. Fortunately, Vice Admiral Janeway used her father’s words (" Come on, Kate, make something great out of that mess .") to help provide Hologram Janeway guidance in the previous episode, reminding both Janeways that there’s power in taking a mess and making something great.

While Hologram Janeway may have represented an “idealized” Janeway, it is only through the actions of the imperfect “real Janeway” that she can purge her corrosive programming and play her integral role in the climax of “ Supernova, Part 2 .”

Avery Kaplan (she/her) is the Features Editor at Comics Beat. You can also find her writing on NeoText, Geek Girl Authority, Comics Bookcase, and in many issues of the Eisner Award-winning PanelxPanel. She is the co-host of the Matrix 404 podcast and the Comm Officer at Prism Comics. Find her on Twitter @averykaplan6

Rebecca "Ollie" Kaplan (she/he) is a bigender comic critic and judicial scholar and co-author of Double Challenge: Being LGBTQ and a Minority with his wife, Avery Kaplan. His work can regularly be found at Geek Girl Authority, Comics Beat, Prism Comics, PanelxPanel, and MovieWeb. His Twitter is @RebeccaKaplan6.

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Star Trek Picard: Cameo von "Voyager"-Liebling - nun muss auch Janeway auftauchen, oder?

In "Star Trek: Picard" Staffel 3 wird Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) erneut erwähnt. Außerdem ist ein anderer "Voyager"-Liebling zurückgekehrt. Das heißt, Janeway muss auch bald auftreten, oder?

Achtung, es folgen Spoiler zur siebten Folge von "Star Trek: Picard" Staffel 3 !

• In " Star Trek: Picard " Staffel 3 ist Tim Russ als Tuvok aus "Voyager" zurückgekehrt.
• Im Gespräch zwischen Seven of Nine und Tuvok wird der Name von Admiral Janeway genannt.
• Wiederholt ist ihr Name diese Staffel schon gefallen - mittlerweile ist ein Auftritt von Janeway unvermeidbar, oder?

In der Episode "Dominion" von "Star Trek: Picard" kehrt ein Liebling aus " Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager " zurück. Es handelt sich um Tim Russ als Vulkanier Tuvok. Dieser hat eine kurze Reunion mit Seven (Jeri Ryan), ehe sich herausstellt, dass es sich in Wahrheit um ein Wechselbalg und nicht um Tuvok handelt.

Gleichwohl diese kurze Szene wie ein Schlag in die Magengrube wirkt, als wir erfahren, dass es nicht Tuvok ist, tat es doch gut, Tim Russ wiederzusehen und zumindest kurz zu glauben, dass Tuvok zurück sei. Auch ist Tuvok nun Captain, das ist anhand der Pins am Kragen seiner Uniform zu sehen. Da Wechselbälger authentisch bleiben wollen, wird auch der echte Tuvok den Rang eines Captains tragen.

Darüber hinaus wird in dem Gespräch zwischen Tuvok und Seven erneut Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) genannt. Dies geschieht im Verlauf von "Star Trek: Picard" Staffel 3 nun schon zum wiederholten Mal. Seven erklärt, dass sie versucht habe, Janeway zu erreichen.

Zuvor wurde Janeway erwähnt, als geklärt wurde, wer Seven überzeugte, sich der Sternenflotte endgültig anzuschließen. Sie spielt vor allem für Seven eine wichtige Rolle und bei so vielen Andeutungen und auch dem Kurzauftritt der USS Voyager im Sternenflottenmuseum , würde es fast schon ein Verrat an den "Star Trek"-Fans sein, wenn sie so oft erwähnt, aber nicht auftauchen wird.

Star Trek Picard: Darum muss Janeway eigentlich auftauchen!

In der Dramaturgie bei Filmen und Serien gibt es das Konzept von Tschechows Gewehr . Wenn eine Pistole in einer Szene zu Beginn eines Films oder einer Folge/Serie gezeigt wird, dann wird sie im finalen Akt auch abgefeuert. Das ist im Grunde ein simples Drehbuchschreibgesetz.

Sollten Terry Matalas und sein Team sich also nicht vollends mit Name-Dropping verzettelt haben, um Fans mit Pseudo-Nostalgie bei Laune zu halten, können wir uns eigentlich sicher sein, dass Admiral Kathryn Janeway in den letzten drei Folgen noch auftauchen wird!

Derzeit ist Janeway außerdem eine Hauptfigur in der Animationsserie " Star Trek: Prodigy ". Im englischsprachigen Original wird sie auch von Kate Mulgrew synchronisiert. Für die Schauspielerin wäre es also nicht einmal eine Rückkehr ins "Star Trek"-Universum , sondern vielmehr ein kurzes Umsiedeln in eine andere Serie.

"Star Trek: Picard" Staffel 3 sorgt mit Folge 7 für einige neue Wendungen und Offenbarungen. Wir erklären euch das Ende der aktuellen Folge!

Immer freitags gibt es je eine neue Folge von "Star Trek: Picard" Staffel 3 bei Amazon Prime Video und Paramount+ . Vor allem bei Paramount+ gibt es dieses Jahr für Trekkies noch so einiges zu entdecken. Wir listen euch alle "Star Trek"-Neuerscheinungen !

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The Star Trek: Voyager Cameo We Almost Got To See In Picard

Between its January 2020 pilot and its April 2023 finale, "Star Trek: Picard" nods not just to Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart)'s past in "The Next Generation," but virtually all of "Star Trek" history. This includes, of course, '90s TV series "Star Trek: Voyager." For instance, among some "Picard" Season 2 Easter eggs is a distinct comms sound effect well familiar to "Voyager" fans. Similarly, Easter eggs in "Picard" Season 3 include a scene in which Picard recounts meeting a species of alien called the Hirogen. Here, he even mentions "Voyager" protagonist Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) due to her "Voyager" storyline featuring the very same Hirogen group.

In fact, Season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas originally intended for Admiral Janeway to appear in the final season of "Star Trek: Picard," only for the show's producers to turn this idea down. Matalas revealed his plans for a Janeway cameo during a roundtable discussion that /Film attended. "There were characters I really wanted to see again. In the original finale script.. look, it was a giant movie that we were building on a television time schedule. The fact that you saw what we saw was miraculous that we pulled it off. It nearly killed us all," he said. "We wanted Kate Mulgrew to be part of Seven of Nine's promotion."

According to Matalas, then, "Picard" nearly reunited Mulgrew's Janeway and crew member Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) for the first time since "Voyager."

A Star Trek: Picard producer turned down the Janeway cameo

During that same roundtable discussion, Terry Matalas went on to explain that a "Star Trek: Picard" line producer ultimately had final say over the scope of Season 3's conclusion and axed some of Matalas' planned cameos, including his idea for an appearance by Admiral Kathryn Janeway.

"They're all in the first script, and then your line producer says 'Are you out of your f***in' mind? You can't afford these things. You are not "Avengers: Endgame."' So they got to go away. And so those are our regrets," Matalas said.

Understandably, then, Janeway's absence from "Picard" isn't due to a lack of trying, but rather an ambition that the series' budget was unable to realize. Janeway, for what it's worth, is still actively a part of "Star Trek" in its current incarnation, appearing in animated form on both seasons of "Star Trek: Prodigy" released thus far. A return for Janeway in live-action, then, may well still be a possibility as the "Star Trek" franchise continues.

Fans are interested in more Janeway

"Star Trek: Picard" first gestures at the possibility of an Admiral Janeway cameo in Season 3 during its sixth episode, in a scene where Seven of Nine tells Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) about the USS Voyager during a visit to the Fleet Museum. Underscoring her recollection of her time on the ship is an interpolation of the "Star Trek: Voyager" theme.

After Season 3, Episode 6 first premiered, Janeway actor Kate Mulgrew herself reposted a clip of this moment on Twitter with the caption "To the USS Voyager," accompanied by clinking champagne glass and heart emojis. In response to Mulgrew's acknowledgment of the "Voyager" shout-out, a number of fans openly wished for Janeway to make a "Picard" appearance. For example, @cozycroftman replied, "still rooting for Janeway to be on Picard."

Meanwhile, users like @Bulbacats and @JaredRonis wrote that they want to see Janeway make a return to live-action at some point in the "Star Trek" franchise's future, "Picard" or not. Since "Picard" is over, the cameo Terry Matalas originally had planned for Janeway is, of course, now an impossibility. Nevertheless, with interest in Janeway still high, it's entirely likely that there will eventually be a "Star Trek" role for her moving forward.

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First look at Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy

We’ve got our first peek at Captain Kathryn Janeway in animated form.

As part of the Paramount+ First Contact Day virtual event on Monday, Janeway herself, Kate Mulgrew , along with Star Trek: Prodigy creators and executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman showed off the character’s look in the upcoming animated series.

Janeway will be an Emergency Training Hologram on the series, which takes place in the Delta Quadrant in the year 2383— five years after the events of  Star Trek: Voyager ‘s finale “Endgame.”

Animated Janeway

The Prodigy bridge crew photo, which was first revealed in February , has now been updated to include Janeway.

You check out the Star Trek: Prodigy First Contact Day panel embedded below.

Star Trek: Prodigy was first teased in 2019 and announced in July 2020, with Mulgrew’s inclusion in the series being revealed in October . The series is set to premiere on the Paramount+ streaming service, prior to being broadcast on Nickelodeon.

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Scott D Olson

April 8, 2021 at 1:15 pm

I love this! I’m going to watch it with my grandkids! Captain janeway was always my favorite of all the Captains

April 9, 2021 at 9:10 am

Horrible journalism. It doesn’t say even with the shows about. So who cares?

April 21, 2021 at 6:42 am

It makes more sense than your comment and I think it says enough about what the show is. Watching the video may enlighten you too.

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Kate Mulgrew Sees Possibility Of Return As Live-Action Janeway After Star Trek After ‘Picard’ Wraps Up

| June 14, 2022 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 69 comments so far

Star Trek: Voyager star Kate Mulgrew returned to the role of Janeway for the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy , which is set to run for years to come . But now the actress is  wondering if there could be even more Trek in her future.

Looking at Janeway’s future

In an interview promoting her work on the Showtime series The Man Who Fell to Earth , Kate Mulgrew responded to comicbook.com when asked if she sees any chance of a return to live-action Star Trek:

Well, I think Picard is done, unless I’m quite mistaken… I think they’ve finished, but it’s not likely that Janeway will show up on Picard . But who knows what will happen to her in the future? There seems to be, as I said to you earlier, a tremendous resurgence here, a rather vital one. So for the first time, I’m actually looking at it with new eyes. I wonder what would happen if Janeway were to come back to live-action.

Picard’s third season, which brings back the stars of TNG, will wrap up the series, and it is expected to debut in early 2023. Showrunner Terry Matalas has actively promoted the idea of a follow-up spinoff series set in the early 25th century.

Mulgrew’s openness to a return to live-action Star Trek has evolved in recent years. In 2019, before the launch of Picard , she told TrekMovie she was “ surprised ” Stewart had decided to do a new Trek series, adding “I don’t know what to say about Janeway. Seven years is a long time to play a character. I’m not sure that she would enjoy resuscitation.” However, in a 2020 interview with TrekMovie , Mulgrew changed course, saying “I think it would be wonderful to explore Janeway’s continued love of adventure and perhaps even, love of power,” but also noting, “I don’t think it is going to happen.”

Vice Admiral Janeway speaking to Jean-Luc Picard in 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis

Surprises in store for Janeway and Prodigy

Regardless of her future in live-action Star Trek, Mulgrew is returning in Star Trek: Prodigy , and she’s now playing multiple characters, including Vice Admiral Janeway , as she tries to find the USS Protostar and Captain Chakotay on board her slipstream drive ship the USS Dauntless. Mulgrew spoke briefly about what’s to come for Janeway on Prodigy :

She is an admiral, but she is capable of surprising even herself, and what is coming will be entirely unexpected and will then turn into something pretty wonderful, taking this into an altogether new season for Janeway in her several incarnations.

Admiral Janeway in Prodigy episode 10

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She’s doing fine on Prodigy. I think that fully checks the box for her involvement in the new franchise.

I respectfully disagree. If it’s done well, I’m sure Trek lore has plenty of room for live action and animated Admiral Janeway.

I could go for a 3-season Star Trek: Janeway revival with all the cast back.

To be followed by a 5-season DS9 revival, of course.

Make it so!

DS9 is a little tricky because Brooks is never going to say yes to a return and losing Auberjonois and Eisenberg does hurt. But it’s at least reassuring to know we live in a time where there’s serious consideration for spin-off shows formed around individual characters, so if someone has a great idea for a show with Kira, Bashir or O’Brien, it would likely get more consideration these days. Contrast that to how hard fans clamored for Star Trek: Excelsior to no avail.

Absolutely! I would love to learn the story of how O’Brien becomes the greatest Starfleet officer of all time! LoL

Bashir in charge of Section 31, and newly widowed O’Brien reconnects with Ambassador Kira.

I love this!!!

Oh yeah I would love a Star Trek: Janeway show! :)

a serious animated show could resolve the various DS9 casting problems

Ometiklan: “I could go for a 3-season Star Trek: Janeway revival with all the cast back.”

The Doctor: “I adjusted my program so I wouldn’t look so much younger than the rest of you.”

Star Trek: Starfleet Command featuring Fleet Admiral Janeway.

A Voyager reunion show would be very exciting, perhaps in the same vein as Picard S3 rather than Picard S1-S2. I think most of the cast would be up for it.

I wouldn’t be too surprised if a mini Voyager reunion happens on season 3 of Picard.

Didn’t Robert Picardo say he shot scenes for Picard about a year ago?

No he said that the producers were talking to him about joining season 2 when they probably had a different story in mind. It sounds like they went a different direction and that idea probably died since the story we got in season 2 made it very hard for anyone to return.

I have a feeling we will get a mini-Voyager reunion on Prodigy too. Of course we know we will see Chakotay soon but I think in season two we will see more Voyager characters (fingers crossed). I still think it’s crazy the Doctor isn’t involved at all. It seems like he would be a hologram along with Janeway; at least another version of him.

I think a live action Voyager reunion would obviously be great. I’m not holding my breath for it but with the TNG cast all coming back (which I never thought we would see again until the Picard show was announced), it opens the door for anything now.

Would love to watch Janeway Season 1. 

I think shows should not be named after characters. I wish they had chosen a different title for PIC, something like “Aftermath”… It’s just cheap to name a series after a character. So comic-book-ish…

If we go for a VOY reunion, just call it Voyager Phase 2 or New Voyager :-)

Agreed. Especially since the stories they are telling branch outside of just him. This title really never made sense

The Last Picard would’ve at least been more poetic. I don’t dig your specific example but more broadly agree with your point: I think naming all these shows Star Trek COLON Whatever is pretty stupid, too. The Mandalorian is right there as a perfect example — if P+ is going to keep ripping off Disney’s exploitation of the Star Wars IP, at least go all the way!

When you’re speaking of cheep titles I have to be straight and tell you that “Voyager Phase 2” or “New Voyager” are almost not to top in cheep quality 😅 Sorry about it 😄

I agree, to this day I still hate they named the show after Picard. It still feels awkward to me as a title. But I’m also happy that the new shows aren’t just making titles out of the hero ships anymore. That was fine, but also felt a bit lazy after awhile. I’m glad we have titles like Lower Decks, Prodigy and SNW instead of Cerritos, Protostar and um, yeah, Enterprise. OK, they didn’t really have a choice with SNW! ;D

STAR TREK: JUSTICE FOR TUVIX would be a great ten episode story. Janeway on trial, Fleet Admiral Kim presiding over a Federation tribunal, maybe some time travel, a nuBorg Queen character witness (“Janeway is a menace!”). Coming soon to Par Plus!

Her actions on that alliance with the Borg did sell out hundreds of millions of souls to the Borg. I doubted that Starfleet would prosecute her in a court martial proceeding for that, but I was astounded she still got promoted to Admiral with that cluster-F on her record.

Didn’t you see Picard? Borg are forgiven for genocide against all these races and just really want to be your friend now. They don’t even care if robo-Picard has tech more advanced their V’ger that replaces organic life. OK?

Actually you might unintentionally have something there!

I think a story arc that covers V’ger and the Borg, with also the Doomsday Machine thrown in — and shows the relation between all of these — would make for a great story arc on a future Trek series season.

Don’t put all your IP in one miniseries.

Or…. we you could just ignore that Picard is now AI tech more advanced than V’ger, ignore why Picard ditched his friends for decades and make the Borg decide to be good and instead play technobabble holodeck time loops and maybe have some soap opera reunion.

Lord help us all if S3 uses a Dixon Hill holodeck theme as the plot construct. lol

Mmmm… I feel like Captain Proton has a role in here somewhere.

Par for the course with Starfleet admirals.

Yep, you are correct.

You had me until Fleet Admiral Kim. Harry is probably still off being an Ensign somewhere.

Yo…I was thinking the same

I love Prodigy. I can’t speak on what impact it’s had on a new generation but for an old fan I’m so impressed to the point I wonder if Prodigy was really made for a younger audience or for us.

No matter what the medium it has me hooked. I hope it lasts for a long time and I know it will.

I do find it a shame that the people in charge of the animation side of Trek ‘get it’ more than those giving us in my opinion the horrendous DSC that I’ve given up on and PIC which was just terrible.

I’m callin’ it right now, we’re gonna get Star Trek: Janeway as our next 25th-century show with Terry Matalas as the sole show runner and it will either be unveiled this year or next year during the Star Trek Day celebration or at ST:LV. That’s why they left that cliffhanger about the Borg in the season 2 finale of Picard. They’re trying to set up some of what the Janeway show will deal with. It makes sense now, especially if that’s to be resolved in a Janeway spinoff because Voyager mainly dealt with the Borg after season 4.

I’ve got my fingers crossed 🤞! I hope Kate Mulgrew does return 🙂. I’m definitely onboard for it! Live long and prosper, Trekmovie 🖖.

I hope you’re right.

Me too 🤞🙂. Live long and prosper, Silvereyes 🖖.

I wouldn’t be against this either but do people think they would have two shows with Janeway on at the same time (assuming Prodigy goes longer than two seasons)? And Prodigy already has an Admiral Janeway in a similar time period, maybe a decade off from present day Picard. It may get a little confusing lol.

Yeah, it could be “brand confusion”, that’s what it’s called. That’s how come you’ll never see two versions of the Enterprise on screen at the same time because Paramount doesn’t want to cause confusion. But I think Prodigy is almost over, I’m not sure. The brothers signed on to do 40 episodes, two 20 episode seasons, of which they’re halfway through season two already.

There have been hints that there could be a Prodigy movie down the line but that’s all speculation right now. So if they’re nearly at their 40 episode mark already, then why can’t Kate Mulgrew do a Janeway TV show? If Kate Mulgrew wants to come back, they will find a way to bring her back. See, before, she was against coming back in live action.

But she saw Picard and she loved it and now she wants to do something similar with Kathryn Janeway, if it could be done. I mean it’s not like she’s locked in for seven years on Prodigy. No one knows how long her deal is at all. Prodigy might end with the real Janeway offering the kids a place at Starfleet.

I mean people can’t honestly think that Starfleet is just going to let their experimental ship, the Protostar, go traipsing around the galaxy with a bunch of kids running it forever, right? Starfleet’s eventually going to want that ship and it’s technology back so that has to be the eventual endgame (no pun intended) for Prodigy. So when Prodigy ends, why isn’t it feasible for Janeway to segue back into live-action? If you go back over my reply, Tiger2, I said that they will announce the return of Kate Mulgrew to live-action either this year or next, probably next since they’re still doing Prodigy.

But who knows, right? They started teasing SNW all the way back in 2019. So they could start teasing a Janeway show soon. It’s all speculation right now, that’s it.

I understand what you’re saying and if Alex Kurtzman does this the way I think he will, then there will be no brand confusion at all. Janeway herself is the one who brought it up. If there was going to be some type of “brand confusion” possibility, then wouldn’t she know about it and say then that it’s not feasible to see Janeway in live-action right now because she’s on Prodigy? Live long and prosper, Tiger2 🖖.

I’m not sure where you got the idea Prodigy is only meant to go two seasons? So far it’s been renewed for two, but it sounds like the plan is for the show to go on for years if it’s successful enough. All these shows sound like they will go at least five seasons minus Picard of course and that is under a different circumstance.

But of course they can either wait until Prodigy is done but Mulgrew is not a spring chicken herself anymore, if she plays Janeway again it probably will be within the next few years. Yeah its all speculation, Mulgrew isn’t saying she signed on to be in a live action show or anything just that she is now open to playing her again.

But I agree, they would definitely figure something out. Janeway has become a very iconic figure in the fanbase like Picard and Kirk. It’s the only reason she’s on Prodigy now. My guess is they would do everything they can to bring her back in a future show. It doesn’t mean it will be her OWN show but I think we will see her back sooner than later in some form.

I didn’t say that Prodigy’s supposed to last only two seasons, Tiger2. I said that the two brothers who created the show have only been contracted to do 2 seasons, so far. They were hired to do two 20 episode seasons, which is very unheard of in today’s animation. I heard this straight from the brothers own mouths during the Star Trek Day festival last year on Paramount+.

I also read from Brian Robbins, who is overseeing the film franchise aspect of Star Trek, last year that if Prodigy was a hit, which it was, that they were gonna push for a feature film for it and that we could see that film , by the earliest, 2024. Now, if they’re pushing for a Prodigy feature film, then that means that the show must have a set end date. They’re not gonna be doing a show and a movie at the same time for one Star Trek series. So, obviously, the show would have to end in order to get the feature film made.

Now, I’m not gonna sit here and type out links so you could see what I’m talking about. You wanna find it, go and Google Brian Robbins and go watch the Paramount+ Star Trek Day celebration and you can hear the brothers say that they’ve only been contracted to do 40 episodes so far. I don’t know where you get this idea that these shows are meant to last five seasons from? It’s streaming, nothing is guaranteed to last years anymore. Discovery has even been cited as a rarity of a show in today’s era for having the longevity that it’s had.

No shows are guaranteed to last years anymore. When the story they’re telling is done, the show ends. Discovery may just go 7 years just to prove to all the haters out there that the show would last, despite the hate and negativity towards it. But nothing is guaranteed with any of these shows.

Also, as for Janeway having her own show, if it’s in the vein of Picard, then they will probably name it Janeway. I’m open to other possibilities the writers might come up with. But I think each Captain might be getting their own show, like Picard, and that’s why they’ll be named as such after each Captain. I think that that’s what Alex Kurtzman really is intending to do here.

One last adventure for each Captain. I believe that’s why they went out and got another Kirk. All they have to do is wait a few years and Paul Wesley will be old enough to play Admiral Kirk. Then maybe they’ll change it so that Captain Kirk doesn’t die on Veridian III, you know?

This Kirk’s story will end a different way. And I didn’t say the show would be solely about Kathryn Janeway either in reference to Captain Janeway having her own show. I believe Seven and Raffi will be a part of this show. Borg Juratti might be a part of it.

Terry Matalas will be the sole show runner. It’ll be the next 25th century show that we get, that’s what I believe anyways. But I never said Prodigy was ending with two years. If they’re gonna make a movie about it, of course, it’s gonna end then.

But, like I said earlier, this is all just speculation. Nobody knows anything for sure, except for Alex Kurtzman. Live long and prosper, Tiger2 🖖.

OK I understand your point about Prodigy and the two season issue. I didn’t know that but I believe you lol!

And yes I know about the potential Prodigy movie. That was heavily reported everywhere including here. I think it was a shock they came out so soon about it since it was only after the first episode aired they mentioned it. But I will disagree with one thing you said and that is the show would end if it did make it to a film. Usually yes, but animated shows are done a little differently. These obviously are older examples now but you had the South Park and Simpsons movies come out in theaters and the shows still carried on after those. It’s crazy those shows are STILL running today lol. The show could end if they are doing a movie, but I actually suspect it would be made in addition to the show IF they plan to keep running 5+ years but yeah who knows?

As far as the Captain centric shows, that’s a possibility too. As I said I can see a Star Trek Janeway show for sure at this point. And then a Star Trek Archer show and so on. And we know Goldsman has thrown around the anthology idea and those can obviously fit into that.

But even if none of this happens, the one thing does seem to be is nothing is off the table anymore. I think they are open to anyone coming back because they know there is a big enough audience to support anything they do. That must be the case if you have five shows on now and they are all getting renewed. It won’t last forever but for the next 5 years at least they can probably do anything and get people to watch it….as long as its GOOD! And even when it’s not so good most will watch anyway. ;)

Yes, it was shocking to me too, Tiger2, when the announcement for the Prodigy movie came out. But when I read about why the movie was being announced so early and what Brian Robbins and Paramount intend to do with Prodigy, I understood it from a financial point of view. They believe they have the chance to make Disney-level money with Prodigy, if they were to do a movie with it. So that’s why there’s a movie coming so fast.

They want to capitalize on the audience that’s gonna grow immensely because Prodigy is not just on Paramount+ anymore, it’s on Nickelodeon now too. That’s it’s new home and that’s originally where it was supposed to go anyways. I don’t even know if or when we’re gonna get to see the second season on Paramount+, Tiger2, because the second season of Prodigy has now been made a Nickelodeon exclusive and that sucks because I don’t have Nickelodeon. Oh, you also mentioned the Simpsons and South Park as examples for TV shows to movies in regards to Prodigy doing the same transition.

Those are comedic sitcoms, not situation dramas like Star Trek is so there is a difference there. What’s going on in Prodigy is part of an overarching story that has a beginning, middle, and end. The Simpsons and South Park don’t involve long-form storytelling so those examples don’t apply when it comes to Star Trek. Also, you mentioned an Archer show in your reply, I think that’s a possibility now, especially since Scott Bakula’s not doing Quantum Leap.

Yes, it’s a possibility. I still want my Sisko show, though, first 🙂. I do agree with you too about everything being on the table right now. I think a lot of what’s coming has to do with the success of Prodigy and Strange New Worlds. Those two shows having legacy characters on them and being the successes that they are are definitely going to dictate what’s to come in the future.

Live long and prosper, Tiger2 🖖

It’s kinda sitting right there that Old Janeway is presented with a situation wherein she must do something very close to what she did in “Endgame” and go back to Voyager’s past. OR, maybe more to fully utilize “the brand,” jump to different points in the Berman era to correct or prevent certain things in the other Trek shows. Only now Mulgrew won’t even have to do the old age makeup.

Yes, please.

Unless they muck Janeway up as badly as they’ve mucked Picard up, in which case, please no.

Poor holo Janeway, kicked to the curb by the real thing. HOLOGRAPHIC LIFE FORM RIGHTS NOW!!!! Just kidding, I am hoping that Admiral Janeway escapes the snoozefest back home and somehow replaces holo Janeway lost with the kids somewhere anywhere but any quadrant filled with preachy humans, holodecks and free energy. Mulgrew/Janeway deserve some good plots for once.

Id they make it, my only wish is that they don’t give it to Akiva Goldsman who’s behind everything wrong with Picard S1 and S2.

If we’re going to keep going to the existing characters well, then why not?

The fact that Picard has FINALLY turned into a TNG reunion makes me hopeful that we will receive Star Trek Voyager – Season 8

I think it’s pretty inevitable now. For years Mulgrew, like Stewart, didn’t seem too interested to return to her character or Star Trek. But being in Prodigy was a nice compromise and was a way to get her to return in some form. But I knew it was definitely a chance we would see her in live action at some point now. It may not happen but it’s possible at least and I’m super excited!

And I don’t know if people are watching the show The Man Who Fell to Earth (also made by Alex Kurtzman) but she’s in that too and really good. Very anti-Janeway lol.

The Sisko first or we riot!! Lol

I think many really want to see Sisko back, including me. But I think Avery Brooks is semi-retired at this point. I can’t remember the last time he’s appeared in any shows or films. And he’s made it clear he was done with Star Trek when DS9 ended. It’s not say he can’t come back since they talked Stewart and Mulgrew to do it, but the chances definitely feel much slimmer than those were.

I got it, the Sisko returns inhabiting the body of… Jake Sisko! ;)

What’s Cirroc Lofton doing these days anyway?

Wait, wait, wait, or if Lofton isn’t available, you jump ahead to Jake as an old man and get Tony Todd back. Or bring both of them back.

I got ideas. Call me, CBS. ;)

Star Trek: Janeway.

Kathryn comes out of retirement on her Indiana farm at the behest of the Sisko, who has suddenly re-appeared. “Go to DS9. Find Kira Nerys…and my son”…

…a new adventure begins.

If we get a Seven and Raffi spinoff after Picard, what’s to stopping the Voyager crew from bumping into the Borg Babe from the Beta quadrant? Throwing in a few guest stars from Voyager along the way, including one Admiral Janeway, would certainly give Star Trek:Seven a boost.

The Picard spin-off should be Star Trek: Janeway. People would love it. Seven and Rafi could be on that too :)

Cool, but can’t be Star Trek: Janeway, Would look like Sisko/Brooks has been slighted.

I think they were lazy calling Picard’s show “Star Trek: Picard”. Should have been Star Trek: Legacies. Three seasons each to catch up on what’s happening with the TNG era captains/crews.

Next, it should be Sisko, though we know Avery Brooks is currently travelling “where no one has bong before”, so might be quite aloof. Still, I would be down.

Then have three seasons with Janeway and crew post Prodigy. The final season of Legacies could be a multi-crew crossover event, leading to a feature film. Would be epic.

Why would it looks like Brooks would be slighted?? The guy said long ago he was done with Star Trek. I really don’t even think he acts anymore. Brooks doesn’t care. DS9 was just a role for him, he’s moved on from it long long ago now.

I do like your Legacies idea though but they probably weren’t thinking beyond just getting Stewart back at the time.

Edit: I finally just went and looked at his list of current roles and I was right. Boy I was more than right lol. The last real role Brooks has done was back in 2001 for a movie called ’15 minutes’. The last thing he was credited for anything, period, was back in 2006 as Sisko in a voice role for a video game. It’s been nothing ever since. Now he was acting in plays so he didn’t just stop acting altogether but he left the TV/Film roles behind literally over 20 years ago now.

So I think fans have to let go of the idea Brooks will ever be involved in Star Trek again and if he is, it would probably just be in an episode or something. He’s not in the same place like Mulgrew and Stewart, who have been working steadily for decades now. Unlike them, Brooks basically left Hollywood behind once DS9 wrapped up.

As long as they ask him. If Brooks says no, fair enough, then move straight to Janeway and mix the season with the DS9 crew too. However, Brooks must be at least asked, who knows? He may feels he is ready to return and start a new challenge. I always expected to see the Emissary return one day in universe, whether it was a show or a film etc.

Sorry I don’t really think he must be asked. Did they ask Shatner to do a Stark Trek Kirk show before they asked Stewart to do one? It’s a business, they will create whatever they think appeals to audiences the most. If they think a Janeway show will be more popular than a Sisko one, then that’s all that matters. This is only something fans would even think about.

And as said, Avery Brooks is not even acting anymore. I will say if he has expressed interest in wanting to at least play Sisko again, then it might be a reason to do something with him again. But as I ALSO said, he said he was done with Star Trek over 20 years ago. Sure they can ask him, but when you already have so many other legacy actors who DOES want to do Star Trek again (and more popular than Sisko), it’s not exactly a big issue anymore either. When it was just TOS and you frankly had 3 actors to rely on to continue the franchise, that’s one ting. Obviously not the case today.

Shatner is 90 years old / would want more money than Stewart, Kirk is dead and doubt they would ask him back due to Shatner’s controversial opinions on Twitter. You honestly think they’ll pass up on the first black captain to reprise his role? Wouldn’t look good at all for Paramount/Kurtzman et al. I feel they must ask him as a professional courtesy.

“ you already have so many other legacy actors who DOES want to do Star Trek again (and more popular than Sisko) “

Popularity is subjective, though who are we to say who deserves it more? If that was the case, Stewart, who was indifferent to Trek and hated signing anything from the franchise (as see by my own eyes at Theatre Royal UK, Ian McKellen was the complete opposite with LOTR fans), wouldn’t have been my first pick if we’re going by that criteria.

But here we are. I will say however, giving the actors creative input is a massive mistake IMO. ST: Picard is definitely a good example for that not to happen again.

Sure but Stewart is 80 years old, he’s not exactly a spring chicken himself at this point.

As I said, Avery Brooks has said he is DONE with Star Trek over 20 years ago. He hasn’t acted in anything in about the same time either. It has nothing to do with his race, the guy has moved on from Hollywood.

And of course popularity is subjective, I’m only saying they are going to go with what they think is more popular, period. That could be Sisko, that could be someone else.

I’m just saying the obvious, Avery Brooks might reprise the role in some form, I just don’t think he’s waiting by the phone for anyone to call him about it either and you have a lot of other actors who would do it in a heartbeat if asked. Those are the people they are actually calling to be in future shows or episodes. But of course I would love to see Sisko again, just not holding my breath for it.

Its funny to think the last time Shatner might have played Kirk was in a videogame Starfleet Academy. I mean really in a physical role not just as a voiceover like for Star Trek Legacy, or voicing his Kirk novels on audiobooks.

I would love to see more janeway, and voyager crew! I’m currently getting some of my fix from STO, I haven’t checked out prodigy yet, but soon!

Yes, please, please, please do Star Trek: Janeway!! If not, a voyager update? Janeway is so important!she showed so many young women that you can be smart, a scientist, and in charge and still be female! The scene in parallax (Voager, s1e2) between Janeway and Torres (the chief engineer, also female) changed my life! It showed me it was ok for me to be smart (yup, I’m female). Please, we need more trek with the voyager cast!

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Star Trek Stole From TNG Finale To Make Janeway A Better Captain

Posted: May 28, 2024 | Last updated: May 29, 2024

One of the things both the biggest fans and biggest haters of Star Trek: Voyager like to point out is that the show is very different from earlier series like The Next Generation. While that is true in many ways, the early episode “The Cloud” revealed how the show stole from the TNG series finale in order to make Janeway a better captain.

This episode introduced a trendy pool hall as Voyager’s version of the Enterprise poker table and deliberately had Janeway play with her crew to illustrate that she had the kind of crew relationship that it took Picard years to cultivate.

One Of The Best Final Scenes In History

For this Star Trek story about making Janeway a better captain to make sense, we must first revisit “All Good Things,” the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

After having a timey-wimey adventure in which he saved humanity and possibly the universe, Captain Picard ends the episode and the series by finally sitting down and playing poker with the crew. He had always been invited, but it took him seven long years to become comfortable with the idea of just relaxing and playing cards with the crew that had basically become his family.

Pool Replaced Poker

What does that story about Star Trek: The Next Generation have to do with Janeway? First of all, the Voyager episode “The Cloud” introduced Chez Sandrine, a trendy French bistro and pool hall. According to longtime franchise writer Brannon Braga, one of the big motivations for creating this ambitious new set is that “we…wanted to create our version of the Enterprise‘s poker table.”

Janeway Was Close To Her Crew

The problematic script for “The Cloud” was handed to then-showrunner Michael Piller so that he could turn it into a viable episode. However, he quickly realized that the sci-fi plot about a living nebula and Voyager’s interactions with it would only take about 20 pages to fully resolve.

Rather than abandon the Star Trek episode for its flimsy plot, Piller decided to fill the rest of the ep with fun character scenes for Janeway and other key crew members.

At the very end of the episode, Kim invites Janeway to come play pool, and she agrees to do so while demurely acting as if she had never played before. She proceeds to kick all kinds of butt, sinking one ball after another and proving that pool sharks are alive and well in the 24th century, even if money is a thing of the past. As a fun bit of trivia, it was Janeway actor Kate Mulgrew and not a stunt actor who so skillfully sunk the 8-ball onscreen.

Voyager’s Unique Situation Changed The Equation

According to Star Trek: Voyager writer and future showrunner Jeri Taylor, the final scene of “The Cloud” was meant to separate Janeway from earlier captains like Picard. “When she comes in to play pool, we show that she’s not necessarily going to be the captain of captains past,” she said. “She is willing to have a different kind of relationship with the crew than Kirk or Picard.

Taylor believed that Voyager’s unique situation–being stranded on the other side of the galaxy with no Federation support–”would force Janeway to try to be closer to her crew.” She felt (and we agree) that it would have been weird if Janeway had been as remote with her crew as Picard was with his. It was a huge deal when Picard finally played poker with the crew at the end of TNG, but this early Voyager ep went out of its way to demonstrate that Janeway is “already out playing pool with the guys and strolling around making friends.”

A Different Type Of Captain

It may sound like a small choice on the part of Star Trek’s creative team, but it was a real game-changer having Janeway begin the show with the emotional intelligence that it took Picard the better part of a decade to attain. She instantly presented herself as a different kind of captain, and this helped present Voyager as a very different kind of spinoff.

It’s certainly a better way for the character to live her life…as we can see from the title character’s initial isolation and loneliness in Picard, being aloof from everyone leads to nothing but a lifetime of lost love, career misery, and really, really bad wine.

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Star Trek Confirms Captain Shaw's Story Isn't Over

Star trek fleet command codes (june 2024), star trek confirms the harsh reality of seven of nine's life after starfleet.

Star Trek: Picard had a prime opportunity to showcase Star Trek: Voyager's Kathryn Janeway, but smartly went in another direction. In the series' second episode, "Maps and Legends," Jean-Luc Picard finally decides to seek help from Starfleet in his new mission to find Bruce Maddox and save Soji. Picard meets with the Starfleet Commander in Chief, Admiral Kirsten Clancy, a middle aged woman with more than a few surface similarities to Janeway.

However, Clancy strongly rebuffs Picard's request to be reinstated, justifiably angered at his interview in which he lashed out at Starfleet for their inaction in the Romulan supernova catastrophe following a synth attack on Mars. It's a jarring scene, with Clancy actually dropping an F-bomb at Jean-Luc's perceived arrogance, assuming he could waltz into Starfleet Command over a decade after resigning in protest and grab a quick starship and crew. But more than that, Clancy is the embodiment of Starfleet's newfound cowardice, hiding behind the pretense of bureaucracy to justify the inaction that caused the deaths of countless millions.

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Picard loses his cool when met with Clancy's amoral rhetoric and is unceremoniously thrown out, signaling that Starfleet are not going to be the heroes of the story  Star Trek: Picard  is interested in telling. So why not bring in Janeway for that scene? There are answers that are both obvious and a little bit complicated for that.

Janeway Isn't A Villain

Kathryn Janeway is a unique figure in Star Trek lore. Not only was she the first female captain to anchor a series, she also had a slightly different moral code than most of her fellow starship commanders. Trapped decades away from home in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway and her Voyager crew became more like a family than a military unit, occasionally shirking Starfleet regulations in an effort to protect their own and get home. Captain Janeway was also known to bend the rules on occasion, even making a cabal of former Maquis soldiers integral parts of her crew, including her first officer, Chakotay. And it's hard to imagine Stafleet signing off on bringing in a former Borg clone, Seven of Nine, as a full on member of Voyager's crew.

Janeway also stepped right up to the line of irresponsibility on numerous occasions, often making wild gambles at her own expense in desperate situations, all in an effort to guarantee the safety of her crew. She is perhaps the biggest wild card in Star Trek history, taking risks that seemed unnecessary on more than one occasion, but always with a benevolent purpose. She represented the free wheeling, cowboy diplomacy of Captain Kirk much more than the measured, intellectual approach of Captain Picard.

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We do know that Janeway and Picard have something of a pre-existing relationship. In Star Trek: Nemesis , the final film to feature the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation , newly promoted Admiral Janeway issues Picard and the Enterprise their orders to meet Shinzon on Romulus. The relationship was obviously one of respect and warmth, a million miles way from the open contempt Clancy clearly holds for Picard. It's hard to imagine Janeway signing off on Starfleet's cowardice in the face of Romulus' destruction, or dressing down Picard in such utterly devastating fashion when his mission is clearly one designed to save lives, even if it might be politically inconvenient.

Starfleet Admirals Are Usually Jerks

For such a Utopian organization, Starfleet really has a tough time finding competent leaders. There's a long, rich history of the Starfleet admiralty being stocked with incompetents and outright corrupt criminals. In the TNG episode "Ensign Ro," Admiral Kennelly very nearly bathed Starfleet's hands in Bajoran blood because he was too dumb to realize he was being manipulated by the Cardassians. In "The Offspring," Admiral Haftel threatens to separate Data from his first daughter, Lal, for specious reasons; Captain Picard was ready to sacrifice his career to keep Data and Lal together, but the latter tragically died before the matter was settled, though obviously that episode foreshadows the situation Picard now finds himself in with Soji and Starfleet. Admrial Pressman let countless crew members die in an effort to develop an illegal cloaking device in "The Pegasus." Admiral Nechayev was seemingly invented as an obnoxious human roadblock for Picard in TNG 's later seasons. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country revolves entirely around a criminal conspiracy involving the higher ranks of both Starfleet and the Klingon Empire.

But perhaps most pointed here is the classic TNG episode "The Drumhead." After Admiral Norah Satie is dispatched to look into an explosion on the Enterprise, her investigation quickly devolves into a paranoid, McCarthy-esque witch hunt, finding phantom Romulan conspiracies around every corner. Picard is eventually able to expose Satie for what she is, but not after one man's Starfleet career was needlessly left in tatters when it was revealed that he had a Romulan grandfather. In the aftermath, Worf  is left disgusted with his own actions, as he helped Satie wrongly persecute a man. Picard's words in that scene echo loudly through Star Trek: " She or someone like her will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish – spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we have to continually pay."

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Somewhere along the way, Starfleet lost sight of that vigilance, and has allowed itself to be hollowed out by fear and mistrust. Some fans may take umbrage at the idea of Starfleet and the Federation stumbling into isolationism, but the notion of a Utopian future was never something Star Trek said was guaranteed or would require no work. Clearly there have been bad actors throughout Starfleet's history, back to the days when Kirk scoffed at the bureaucratic leanings of his superiors. It's not a huge leap to think a galactic catastrophe, like the attack on Mars, could shake a Utopian society to its core, resulting in some unfortunate knee jerk reactions that led to the dismissal of men of good conscience like Picard.

But it's too much of a stretch to think Kathryn Janeway would allow such moral rot if she were still in a position of power in Starfleet. Janeway may have been happy to bend the occasional rule or even break one of it meant saving the lives of those she cared about, but signing off on what essentially boiled down to the passive genocide of the Romulan people is something she would never stand for. Fans certainly would have been delighted to see Kate Mulgrew in uniform for that scene with Picard - they are equally excited to see a seemingly much different Seven of Nine in upcoming episodes - but it would have betrayed what the character was really about in favor of cheap fan service. Janeway deserves better than that, and the creation of a new character to dole out Starfleet's new questionable ethos was the right choice for all involved. It shows that the producers of Star Trek: Picard understand these characters and aren't willing to throw nostalgia against the wall in an effort to foster goodwill. Star Trek: Picard is good enough and honors what's come before in respectful ways so that it doesn't have to use such cheap tricks. Sometimes restraint is the best path forward, especially when it comes to reintroducing - and perhaps redefining - some of the characters from previous iterations of Star Trek .

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