Kate Mulgrew as Shannon O’Donnel in STAR TREK: VOYAGER 5x23 - 11:59

Kate Mulgrew on Prodigy

"Watch!"

The Seat of Power™️

Kate Mulgrew's progress on her novel

Kate: "You know what else happened in the turbolift? What else happened in the turbolift, Lieutenant Paris?"

Robbie: "So many things, Katie."

Kate: "We copulated... we copulated and I gave birth to 100 little lizards. So sexy."

Kate Mulgrew talks Star Trek: Prodigy

Janeway - Bride.of.Chaotica (1)

Kate Mulgrew being gorgeous because she can.

Janeway's original hair

The Victorian bun was not the original plan. "Caretaker" was initially filmed with a hairdo similar to the one she'd take on later in the series. Someone on the up-and-up didn't like it, and they were forced to refill several scenes of the pilot with the bun.

Images courtesy of TrekCore.

Kathryn Janeway & Seven of Nine l Star Trek: Voyager "Dark Frontier"

When bad writing happens to good actresses…

In 'Scorpion Part I' [Janeway] was becoming a little more risk-taking, and edgy, and frankly, a little bit more like Kate Mulgrew. I've always said, even Jeri Taylor used to always say, 'If Captain Janeway were only more like Kate, we would have a much better captain on our hands.' For whatever reason, our writing and Kate's kind of freewheeling personality seemed to come together a bit more, at the end of the [third] season -Joe Menosky, Star Trek Monthly, issue 33

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We realized we were going too far and too fast and pulled back. It’s a real strange feedback phenomenon. You’ll do an episode, see what works, and adjust with a new character accordingly if you feel as though you’ve gone off track. It’s also true of characters that we felt weren’t working entirely successfully; you find new directions for them based on feedback. Jeri Taylor would say, “If Captain Janeway was only half as cool as Kate Mulgrew, we’d be better off.” So in the third season I specifically remember doing some dialogue for Janeway with Brannon, and Kate just played the hell out of it. We realized we should do it more, because we had done something that allowed Kate to inject her personality even more into it. So we gave her more of those kinds of moments, like in “Scorpion” where she’s making her deal with the devil, actually the Borg.

JOE MENOSKY, The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From the Next Generation to J. J. Abrams

Even Kate Mulgrew felt she played Janeway better when the writers allowed a little more of her personality to inhabit Janeway:

"And when they finally allowed Mulgrew to inhabit Janeway, she took off. I'd say that was about the end of the second/beginning of the third season. Every nuance that I could give to her, all those subtle endowments that were mine, that Mulgrew brought to Janeway. That's when you fall in love. I couldn't do it without her, and she couldn't do it without me." : – Kate Mulgrew

The Voyager writers are so funny.

If Jeri Taylor's been saying: "if Captain Janeway were only more like Kate, we would have a much better captain on our hands."

WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS WRITE JANEWAY LIKE THAT EARLIER?

The moment they finally wrote towards their instincts with Janeway, Janeway began to really sing.

Only Kate could have this much of a powerfully commanding presence while being such a smol 😂

KATHRYN JANEWAY - STAR TREK: VOYAGER S7E13 Repentance

We love a grey undershirt appreciation post

Star Trek: Voyager // S03E12: Macrocosm

Kate Mulgrew as Galina "Red" Reznikov in Orange Is The New Black

It’s okay, I wasn’t ready either. RIP me.