Janeway inconsistencies

[tomalak301]

She should have demoted herself...and then thrown herself in the brig.

Or went a little easier on Tom. Or just given Harry a promotion.

 

[Lynx]

Not to mention that she demoted Tuvok every time she lost a game of Kal-Toh during the first months on board Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. Next time they played and Tuvok let her win, then he was promoted back to his old grade. That happened some times during Voyager's first months in the Delta Quadrant, thats why we see Tuvok with different pips on his collar in some episodes.

Later on she found a better way. Every time she lost a Kal-Toh game, she did send Tuvok on an away mission. With Neelix!

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Or went a little easier on Tom. Or just given Harry a promotion.

To go easier on Tom, ABSOLUTELY (Even if he was in fault - risk of a diplomatic crisis if he had reached his purposes -, a condemnation to 1 month of brig would have been amply sufficient. Fortuantely for him, he got back his rank of lieutenant later).
As for Harry KIM, he would more have been lucky to gain his second pip at a competition of shooting in the plastic ducks. It is a pity Tom didn't think of a holodeck program going in this way! Poor Harry!

 

[MacLeod]

Or went a little easier on Tom. Or just given Harry a promotion.

Actually when she demoted Tom, Harry should have got a promotion, as it would have changed the character dyanmic between the two. But alas another missed opportunity.

 

[Drone]

The one I didn't like was punishing Paris for 30 Days for doing something she kinda did in Counterpoint. She was trying to protect telepathic refugees, he was trying to protect an entire water planet. Both broke Voyagers concept of the Prime Directive.

Kinda did? First, he broke direct orders, which it wasn't in his capacity to try and parse. In the second instance, as captain, she is charged with the protection of her crew and the safety of her ship. Both were in existential threat because of the Devore's dictate. If Janeway was not going to simply surrender her three crewmen, then there is no reason not to protect the Brenari and provide them a means of escaping the same fate. Does the Prime Directive apply here? I don't believe that the Brenari aren't warp capable. Does circumventing the internal policy of another warp capable society, if it does not involve mitigating on behalf of its own citizens, constitute a breach of the Directive? Additionally, as the episode develops, Janeway is solicited for help to do the very same thing that she is planning, by an authority of some not inconsiderable rank within that society. I suppose one can point back to Prime Factors, in making a distinction between a representative of a culture's power structure bending the rules on one's behalf or having to depend on the actual decision maker of those regulations doing so.

In any event, Counterpoint would seem to be a situation in which anything less than total capitulation, puts Voyager in a very perilous position, if not one that would almost guarantee destruction or the permanent acceptance of the crew being parceled out to penal facilities and the loss of the ship regardless. What other captains that we have seen and know of, would actually quiescently submit themselves to such a fate?

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Actually when she demoted Tom, Harry should have got a promotion, as it would have changed the character dyanmic between the two. But alas another missed opportunity.

I don't think that to see Tom demoted and Harry promoted would have change the dynamic between them. Harry is a good guy and very loyal towards his friends (Paris, Torres and Seven) & his captain.
Between Harry and Tom, it was never a question of rank but rather, a sincere and brotherly friendship.
He was one of the rare people (with Torres) to have visited Tom during his stay in the brig.
And, in fact, I think that he supported Tom's decision to intervene even if he knew that there would be consequences.