Goddess Janeway?

[albion432]

TOS, TNG, and DS9 all have something in common; the captain in each series is, at some point, deemed either a god or a religious leader. Kirk is taken as a god in “The Paradise Syndrome,” and to a lesser degree in “The Omega Glory.” Picard gets his turn in “Who Watches the Watchers.” And the Bajorians viewed Sisko as “The Emissary” of the Prophets and a religious figure. Was there ever a time when Janeway was likewise hailed as an alien goddess or became a religious figure on some alien world that she visited?

 

[Ragitsu]

The closest analog that comes to mind is Voyager revered as "The Sky Ship" ("Blink of an Eye"). In "Living Witness", thanks to a heavily flawed reconstruction of historical events, the crew of Voyager was posthumously demonized; would that have made Janeway a Satan figure?

 

[Oddish]

Goddess? Probably not.
Cult leader? Definitely.

 

[at Quark's]

She enjoyed that kind of reverence on her own ship already, so no need for her to find the substitute of a primitive world

OK, lame jokes aside, no, I don't recall anything quite like that. The first thing that comes to my mind is Muse though that pictures them as 'the Eternals', including Janeway, but Janeway herself is never on the receiving end of that.

 

[at Quark's]

The closest analog that comes to mind is Voyager revered as "The Sky Ship" ("Blink of an Eye"). In "Living Witness", thanks to a heavily flawed reconstruction of historical events, the crew of Voyager was posthumously demonized; would that have made Janeway a Satan figure?

They never considered Janeway herself a goddess though. That is, in the eras that saw 'The Sky Ship' as the abode of gods and goddesses that shook their world, they would not have known of Janeway (or any other crewmember) herself. And by the time they were capable of visiting Voyager, they wouldn't have considered Janeway a goddess anymore.

As for Living Witness Janeway, I don't think she was seen as a supernatural figure. Just as an unbelievably evil person. (So no Satan, but a Hitler, or Stalin or <take your pick> )

 

[Oddish]

Plenty of genocidal maniacs in human history.

 

[Ragitsu]

They never considered Janeway herself a goddess though. That is, in the eras that saw 'The Sky Ship' as the abode of gods and goddesses that shook their world, they would not have known of Janeway (or any other crewmember) herself. And by the time they were capable of visiting Voyager, they wouldn't have considered Janeway a goddess anymore.

As for Living Witness Janeway, I don't think she was seen as a supernatural figure. Just as an unbelievably evil person. (So no Satan, but a Hitler, or Stalin or <take your pick> )

The operative word being "closest" .

 

[at Quark's]

The operative word being "closest" .

True. I don't think there any honest-to-god examples of the trope in Voyager - at least I don't recall any right now.

 

[Ragitsu]

Well, um, uh...Q is kind of a god, right? Didn't Q want to mingle essences with Janeway? I suppose - in a way - he briefly viewed her as the Athena to his Loki.

 

[at Quark's]

In a way Q viewed her as both superior (in experience) and inferior (in being).

Still, I think that's a fundamentally different trope from 'captain has thrust the role of 'God' upon him/her'.

 

[Ragitsu]

Don't mind me trying out my best Reed Richards impression over here.

 

[Oddish]

Well, um, uh...Q is kind of a god, right? Didn't Q want to mingle essences with Janeway? I suppose - in a way - he briefly viewed her as the Athena to his Loki.

It's conceivable that if Janeway had agreed to have his child, Q would have understood that to bring the kid up properly, Janeway would need Q powers of her own. And we already know that he can bestow them.