Janeway's first contacts - a record?
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What about the world's of the first quadrant?
That's in the books isn't it?
That's in the books isn't it?
Yes that was in one of the newer relaunch books
Wow, I got 109 off of that list if you give Janeway credit for all Voyager contacts.
Even without all of her first contacts, the exploration that Voyager did and the information they brought back from the Delat Quadrant had to make the Federation estatic, no wonder she was promoted. And unlike Picard apparantly she had no qualms about taking that promotion.
Even without all of her first contacts, the exploration that Voyager did and the information they brought back from the Delat Quadrant had to make the Federation estatic, no wonder she was promoted. And unlike Picard apparantly she had no qualms about taking that promotion.
Why would she have refused that promotion, if she and Starfleet thought she deserved it?
Moreover, after having spent 7 years to be on the alert 24/24 hrs and favored the welfare of others before hers, when Voyager was in the DQ, maybe Janeway felt the need to recuperate and to feel more bonded with home (she is supposed to have still her mother and her sister). It seems to me a rather logical choice.
And eventually, if Starfleet made her understand that she was more useful for them in HQ to share her experience and to provide her expertise, as a disciplined Starfleet brat, she obeys.
(plus, if Starfleet and the Federation still consider Seven as a potential threat for them, it would be easier for Janeway to protect her, like Owen Paris for B'Elena Torres -> I guess that people would have to think twice before attacking the Admiral's protégée, right?)
BTW, Kate Mulgrew had a diffeent opinion about Janeway's future, which is as interesting as the one we know (from 4'29)
She might not have wanted to accept a promotion for the same reason Kirk and Picard didn't. It would be taking a desk job and she wouldn't be a starship captain anymore.
Kirk to Picard in Generations:
Kirk: Well let me tell you something. Don't! Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do *anything* that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
Kirk to Picard in Generations:
Kirk: Well let me tell you something. Don't! Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do *anything* that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
She came home soon after the war with the Dominion ended. Star ships in StarFleet were probably in short supply and TPTB would have taken Voyager from her crew to study it in depth in order to replicate it's new technology into their other ships.
As for refusing a promotion, Janeway didn't have the personal mentoring that Picard had and may have looked at a promotion simply as... a promotion.
I do think that there would have been an inquiry/debriefing after Voyager returned home. In fact, it was a huge part of the trilogy fanfic I wrote in 2000 that predicted how Voyager could have ended.
See my name if you think Janeway wasn't vindicated of all charges.
As for refusing a promotion, Janeway didn't have the personal mentoring that Picard had and may have looked at a promotion simply as... a promotion.
I do think that there would have been an inquiry/debriefing after Voyager returned home. In fact, it was a huge part of the trilogy fanfic I wrote in 2000 that predicted how Voyager could have ended.
See my name if you think Janeway wasn't vindicated of all charges.
I had always assumes the advanced technology they came back was removed and "destroyed". I'm sure it wasn't installed in other ships or we would have seen it on the Enterprise E in the movies.
Somehow I doubt that S31 or DTI wouldn't have at least kept the future stuff preserved in storage while the borg and other alien upgrades, the various modifications and experiments Voyager's crew themselves did would be studied, catalogued, and critiqued before at least some of it would be transferred to other ships.
A part of me believes Janeway made so many contacts, charted so many nebulae, made Neelix ambassador is because she was acting consciously or not in the Federation's interests-she's laying the groundwork for the Federation's expansion and colonization of the DQ just as the wormhole opened up possibilities for expansion, politicking and exploration in DS9 Voyager's unique circumstances allowed Voyager to serve as a sort of forerunner to future Federation interests and expansion into the region, mildly imperialistic don't you say?
I have a theory as to why onscreen canon is always accurate.
Given how often time travel has occured on the series, it is reasonable to assume that other Starfleet ships or installations dealt with it. Who knows how often that happened... even a small fragment changed would affect an event STAR TREK history, which woukd explain why sometimes we get conflicting canon data. Each time we see some contradiction is really a clue that history was SLIGHTLY altered by someone, somewhere in the Federation.
Janeway was the basically the equivalent of a Vasco de Gama, or Fransico de Soto her explorations paved the way(quite likely) for future federation exploration and colonization of the DQ.
Seven really had a point in the Voyager Conspiracy not that her actions were malicious but it does explain Janeway's behavior as much as she wants to get home she is doing a lot of work for the federation trailblazing the least explored part of the Galaxy, making alliances, providing intelligence on the major and minor powers, astronomical phenomena, various technologies, anomalies, and so on.
So yeah she made contact with an impressive amount of species, and layed the groundwork for more intensive Fed engagement in the DQ.
Seven really had a point in the Voyager Conspiracy not that her actions were malicious but it does explain Janeway's behavior as much as she wants to get home she is doing a lot of work for the federation trailblazing the least explored part of the Galaxy, making alliances, providing intelligence on the major and minor powers, astronomical phenomena, various technologies, anomalies, and so on.
So yeah she made contact with an impressive amount of species, and layed the groundwork for more intensive Fed engagement in the DQ.
