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For other dependent, non-integrated versions of Janeway as a hologram, please see: Kathryn Janeway (holographic duplicate); for the superorganism posing as Hologram Janeway, please see Kathryn Janeway (superorganism).
"I'm Hologram Janeway, your training advisor for exploring the greater galaxy. On behalf of Starfleet, welcome aboard."
– Kathryn Janeway, 2383 ("Lost and Found")

The hologram of Kathryn Janeway, also known as Hologram Janeway, was a holographic training advisor on the USS Protostar based on Captain Kathryn Janeway and modeled on Janeway's physical appearance in the early 2370s, complete with uniform. She was programmed to assist the crew of the Protostar and was design-intended to only offer advice and maintain the ship's lower-level functions. She initially had some limits to her reasoning capabilities, unable to determine that a group of alien youths in control of the ship were not in fact Starfleet cadets, and simply fit the facts she could determine within her operating parameters. (PRO: "Starstruck")

Origins[]

This holographic duplicate of Janeway was intended to accompany Captain Chakotay and his crew on the Protostar's journey to the Delta Quadrant, with the real Janeway joking that this was the only way a version of her would willingly travel back to the Delta Quadrant after her time there as captain of the USS Voyager. (PRO: "Asylum")

The Janeway hologram initially had access only to non-essential systems and lacked command level authorization but was able to manually use consoles to inform herself of the status of the ship and its systems. (PRO: "Dream Catcher", "Terror Firma") She was eventually given command authorization by acting captain Dal R'El. (PRO: "Ghost in the Machine")

She was programmed with idiosyncrasies that Janeway was known for, particularly drinking coffee. At times she could have a holographic coffee mug appear in her hand and take a 'drink' from it. She would also sometimes stand with her hands on her hips as the real Janeway often did, particularly when giving instructions. She also was programmed with several memories of Admiral Janeway about her Irish Setter, Mollie, as well memories of Janeway's family members, including her father and her sister. (PRO: "Starstruck", "Preludes", "Mindwalk")

Aboard the Protostar[]

Hologram Janeway was unintentionally activated for regular service in 2383, when the computer overheard Rok-Tahk utter the word "help". (PRO: "Lost and Found") Holo Janeway mistook the young crew for Starfleet cadets and explained the history of the Federation and Starfleet to them. However, Dal R'El, worried about submitting to Starfleet's authority, repeatedly rejected her help until the ship got stuck in the gravity well of a white dwarf star. After the escape, Hologram Janeway taught her young crew how to use the Protostar's systems properly and the joys of autopilot. (PRO: "Starstruck", "Dream Catcher")

After finding a previously uncharted Class-M planet, she insisted upon exploration with Dal only agreeing after Hologram Janeway threatened to report the "cadets'" behavior to Starfleet. However, Gwyn was able to escape while they were gone and take control of the ship's systems, including Hologram Janeway, before being forced to abandon ship by Murder Planet's superorganism. Hologram Janeway managed to use the Protostar's photonic ship scrubbers to clear the tendrils off of the ship and discovered a system that she had no knowledge of. Under attack by The Diviner, the crew managed to use the protostar drive to escape. (PRO: "Dream Catcher", "Terror Firma")

After their escape, Hologram Janeway was stunned to discover that they had crossed 4,000 light years into the Gamma Quadrant, something that Hologram Janeway couldn't explain. She later introduced Dal and Jankom Pog to the ship's holodeck, but Hologram Janeway warned Dal that the Kobayashi Maru scenario was too advanced for him. Seeking answers about the drive, Gwyn and Zero questioned the hologram, but she fritzed out in the middle of explaining the ship's purpose and discovered that all of her memories about the ship and its purpose were classified. Hacking the data, Gwyn discovered that it was encrypted in Vau N'Akat language despite Starfleet seemingly never encountering the species which Gwyn believed to be extinct aside from herself and the Diviner. Gwyn managed to unlock the data which proved to be corrupted but readable, though it would take months to get through it all. From the data, the crew learned that the Protostar was a prototype ship, the fastest in Starfleet. Rok-Tahk triggered a recording of Captain Chakotay's distress call, much to Hologram Janeway's shock. In the recording, Hologram Janeway informed Chakotay that they were being boarded and she realized that the "cadets" weren't her first crew. (PRO: "Kobayashi")

While she initially failed to realize the youths who had commandeered the Protostar were not in fact Starfleet cadets, she nevertheless continued to teach this crew about the ideals of Starfleet and provided guidance, even after she determined their real nature. (PRO: "Time Amok") Unfortunately, her program became corrupted by the living construct weapon that the Vau N'Akat had hidden on the Protostar in order to turn the ship into a Trojan horse when it connected to any Starfleet system. When the crew decided to abandon their search for Starfleet, a secret Subroutine was triggered in her programming which caused her to lock the crew in the Holodeck. Believing that the holodeck was malfunctioning, Dal gave Holo Janeway his command code in the hopes that she'd fix it. Ultimately, they realized that the malfunction was caused by Hologram Janeway as a failsafe to ensure that they'd enter Federation space. Security logs indicated that Hologram Janeway did, unknowingly, use the command codes to gain control of the Protostar and set it on a course for the Terran system. (PRO: "Ghost in the Machine")

As the crew tried to come up with ideas on how to stop their ship, Holo Janeway decided to deactivate herself, explaining that she couldn't sabotage them if she didn't know what they were doing. Soon after, she was reinitialized by Dal, who, in reality, was the actual Admiral Janeway in Dal's body. After she proved her identity by telling Holo Janeway something that her father once said to her, Janeway explained that her neural pattern was switched with Dal's while he was attempting to contact her telepathically. While the admiral wasn't able to disable the living construct, she was able to restore Hologram Janway's original program which removed the construct corruption. Hologram Janeway then showed the admiral the logs of what happened to Captain Chakotay. (PRO: "Mindwalk")

Though they were able to get both Dal and Admiral Janeway back into their own bodies, they were too late to stop the Protostar from automatically engaging a Starfleet armada near Gamma Serpentis. As Starfleet vessels were destroyed all around them, Dal decided that the only viable solution was to destroy the Protostar to destroy the living construct. When Jankom pointed out that the destruction of the proto-core would destroy the entire star system, Rok countered that if they detonated the core at the moment of the jump, then the blast's effect would be minimal since it would be distributed equally across space along the trajectory of the jump. However, since the self-destruct was off-line, the core needed to be detonated manually. Dal volunteered to go down with the ship, but Hologram Janeway declared that she should be the one to stay behind. Though she intended to load a copy of her program onto a isolinear chip so that the Protostar crew could take an instance of her with them, she discovered that there wasn't enough space on the chip, since her programming had grown too much.

Hologram Janeway kept this information to herself to prevent her charges from wasting time protesting when they must escape and saw the crew off when they boarded a bare-bones shuttle that Rok built from the vehicle replicator. The chip that she gave them before they launched contained a holo-recording of her saying goodbye and telling them what an honor it had been to serve with them. With the crew safely on board the shuttle, Hologram Janeway took command of the Protostar and, echoing Dal's command directive, ordered it to "go fast." As expected, the Protostar exploded as it proto-jumped. With the Protostar and living construct destroyed, the ships of the Starfleet armada were able to regain control of their systems. In addition, she intentionally created a new temporal anomaly and a message from Chakotay was thus able to pass through from 2436, confirming that he and half his crew were still alive in an alternate future.

As for her young crew, their grief at losing their mother figure and mentor was mitigated when they are taken under the wing of the actual Admiral Janeway upon reaching Starfleet Headquarters, making them warrant officers-in-training under her direct command. (PRO: "Supernova, Part 2")

Memorable quotes[]

"I'm Kathryn Janeway, your training advisor. I'm a hologram based on one of the most decorated captains in Starfleet history. Programed to assist the Protostar's crew on their journey back to Federation space."

- Hologram Janeway, introducing herself to the Protostar crew (PRO: "Starstruck")


"I must say, when the Federation first formed, it wasn't pretty. A collection of species, entirely unfamiliar to each other, different languages, different cultures, but with one shared aspiration: to be better. I've seen my share of wayward crews, and I can tell you this– you've got potential."

- Hologram Janeway, to the Protostar crew (PRO: "Starstruck")


"I just wanna say, I know you never thought you were Starfleet material, but today, you're risking everything on a seemingly impossible mission to save others, to bring hope to a hopeless cause. Nothing's more Starfleet than that."

- Hologram Janeway, to the Protostar crew as they head back to Tars Lamora (PRO: "A Moral Star, Part 1")


"You aren't actually considering boarding that ship? I'm an advisor. I advise you to run away as fast as you can."

- Hologram Janeway, to the Protostar crew who want to check out a dormant Borg cube (PRO: "Let Sleeping Borg Lie")


"The real me is hunting us with a quantum slipstream Dauntless-class starship? Good luck with that."
"Thanks for your support."

- Hologram Janeway and Dal R'El (PRO: "Crossroads")


"It's really you. I mean me. How?"
"Dal tried to use telepathy to contact me, but we swapped neural patterns."
"Sounds like something Dal would do."

- Hologram Janeway and Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway (in Dal R'El's body) (PRO: "Mindwalk")


"On my mark. Ready? Go fast!"

- Hologram Janeway, activating the proto-drive and sacrificing herself and the Protostar (PRO: "Supernova, Part 2")

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Appearances[]

Background information[]

Hologram Janeway was voiced by Kate Mulgrew.

She was listed as "Captain Janeway" in the series' credits until the episode "Terror Firma", where her credit was updated to "Hologram Janeway."

According to her official Nickelodeon profile:

Kathryn Janeway, one of the most decorated captains in Starfleet history, provides the basis for this built-in Emergency Training Hologram (ETH, for short). She’s programmed to assist the U.S.S. Protostar's crew on their journey back to Federation Space. Yes, she can control the ship and assist with its functions, but Hologram Janeway is a mentor to our heroes, not their captain. [1](X)

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