Kathryn Janeway is commander of the U.S.S. Voyager. In 2371, the Starship Voyager with Janeway and her crew were abducted and swept into the distant Delta Quadrant of the galaxy, some 70,000 light-years from home, where they were essentially stranded. After the destruction of a Maquis ship that had also been abducted to the Delta Quadrant, Janeway accepted the Maquis crew aboard her ship, and invited its commander, Chakotay, to become her second-in-command. Janeway's courage and leadership were instrumental in the survival of her crew as they made a long and difficult journey back to the Alpha Quadrant. Earlier in her career, Janeway served as science officer aboard the U.S.S. Al-Batani. Prior to the Voyager's disappearance, Janeway had been romantically involved with Mark, who took care of Molly, her pet Irish Setter.
Chakotay is first officer of the Starship Voyager and former member of the Maquis resistance group. Chakotay was of Native American descent and fiercely proud of his heritage. Chakotay graduated of the Starfleet Academy, but later left Starfleet to join the Maquis in defense of his homeworld against the Cardassians. He commanded a Maquis ship that was lost in the Badlands in 2371 while fleeing from a Cardassian ship. Chakotay and his crew were swept into the distant Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker, where they were trapped when their ship was destroyed by the Kazon-Ogla. Chakotay and his fellow Maquis subsequently accepted an invitation to join the crew of the Starship Voyager under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway. Under this arrangement, Chakotay became the ship's first officer, replacing Lieutenant Commander Cavit.
Thomas Paris is a starfleet officer on board the U.S.S. Voyager. Thomas Eugene Paris, the son of a Starfleet admiral, was a graduate of Starfleet Academy and was involved in a fatal accident that claimed the lives of three other Starfleet officers. Paris initially denied responsibility for the accident, but later admitted he had falsified reports to hide his culpability, and was forced to leave Starfleet. Paris became a mercenary for the Maquis, but was arrested by Federation authorities while on his first assignment for the resistance group. He was imprisoned at the Federation Penal Settlement in New Zealand on Earth, but was released in 2371 at the request of Voyager captain Kathryn Janeway. In exchange for his parole, Paris agreed to help the Voyager locate his former colleagues in the Maquis. While carrying out this mission, Paris and all Voyager personnel were swept into the Delta Quadrant, where they were forced to join forces with the Maquis crew in order to survive. Janeway subsequently reinstated Paris's Starfleet commission and assigned him to the ship's Conn. Paris experienced some discomfort at working under Commander Chakotay, a former Maquis officer. Paris chose the Starfleet base outside Marseilles, France for his physical training in his second semester of the academy. He spent most of his time that semester at Chez Sandrine, a bistro that he later re-created in the holodeck of the Starship Voyager.
Harry Kim is a starfleet officer who graduated Starfleet Academy and joined the crew of the Starship Voyager just prior to its disappearance in 2371. Kim's position aboard the Voyager was that of Operations Officer. Family was very important to Kim, born in 2349, who made it a point to call his parents weekly. Harry was his parents' only son, and he had played clarinet in the Julliard Youth Symphony.
Tuvok is security officer on the U.S.S. Voyager. Tuvok taught at the Starfleet Academy for 16 years. He married in 2304. In 2371, Tuvok went undercover and infiltrated the Maquis, ending up on Chakotay's ship. The Maquis ship and later the Voyager were abruptly transported to the Delta Quadrant and Tuvok returned to his regular Starfleet duties. In 2371, a member of the Komar race took control of Tuvok in an attempt to lead Voyager into a dark-matter nebula so that the Komar could extract the crew's neural energy. The attempt was not successful, and the alien left Tuvok's body.
Kes is native of the planet Ocampa who left her homeworld in 2371 to join the crew of the Starship Voyager. Kes, who was both inquisitive and intelligent, escaped her people's underground city in a quest to learn about her world. On the surface, she was abused by the Kazon-Ogla until she escaped to the Starship Voyager, aided by Neelix, with whom she was in love. Kes demonstrated her gratitude and her love for Neelix shortly after stardate 48532, when she donated one of her lungs to save Neelix's life. Shortly thereafter, she began studying to become a medical assistant under the tutelage of Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram. Kes believed there was truth to ancient legends that her people once had extraordinary mental powers. Shortly after joining the Voyager crew, she began to exhibit some such powers, including visions of a planet destroyed in another timeline by polaric ion energy, and evidence of an eidetic memory.
Neelix is a Talaxian trader who joined the crew of the Starship Voyager in 2371. As a child, Neelix lived with his parents and younger brothers on Rinax, a moon of Talax, until Rinax was devastated by the metreon cascade attack by the Haakonian Order. Neelix's entire family was killed in the attack. Neelix survived because he was on Talax at the time, fleeing from military duty in a war he felt was unjust. Neelix, a native of the Delta Quadrant, had been a trader of junk and debris, but prided his skills as a jack-of-all-trades. Neelix helped Captain Janeway deal with the Kazon-Ogla shortly after Voyager's arrival in the Delta Quadrant, and was subsequently invited to join the Voyager crew, in part because of his familiarity with the region of space. Neelix was romantically involved with Kes, who also joined the Voyager crew.
B'Elanna Torres is a former member of the Maquis resistance group who became chief engineer of the U.S.S. Voyager. Half-Klingon and half-human, Torres had great an aggressive personality and had much difficulty controlling her temper, which she attributed to her Klingon background. B'Elanna spent her early years with her parents at the Federation colony on planet Kessik IV. B'Elanna's human father left her and moved to Earth when she was five. She and her Klingon mother subsequently went to live on the Klingon homeworld, but as a result, B'Elanna wasn't close to either of her parents. Torres attended Starfleet Academy but dropped out in her second year because of difficulty with Starfleet discipline. Torres felt that her sometimes-turbulent stint at the Academy was evidence that she was not Starfleet material, but at least one of her instructors, Professor Chapman, was so impressed with her original thinking that he recommended she be accepted if she ever sought readmission to the Academy. She later joined the Maquis and served under Chakotay aboard a Maquis ship, and became a member of the Voyager crew when her ship and the Voyager were stranded in the Delta Quadrant in 2371. After joining the crew of the Voyager she had a violent altercation with Lieutenant Carey, her superior officer in Engineering. Nevertheless, Captain Janeway chose Torres over Carey to be the chief engineer of the Voyager. On stardate 48784, Torres was captured by a Vidiian scientist who used a genotron to split her into two individuals, one fully human, the other completely Klingon. Her Klingon self sacrificed her life so that her human half could live, and Voyager's holographic doctor was subsequently successful in restoring her original genetic structure to her surviving half. The experience helped Torres realize the importance of each half to her personality. Torres once sought Chakotay's help in locating her animal guide. She didn't get along with her guide and tried to kill it.
The Doctor is a holographic program available on some Federation starships, intended as a short-term supplement to medical personnel in emergency situations. The EMH aboard Starship Voyager manifested itself as a humanoid physician, and could treat virtually any injury or known disease, but could only function in areas equipped with holographic projectors. The holographic projectors generated not only an image of a person, but created a magnetic containment field within which electromagnetic energy was trapped, thereby giving the doctor the ability to physically manipulate real objects such as patients and medical instruments. After the entire medical staff of the U.S.S. Voyager were killed in 2371 during the ship's rough passage to the Delta Quadrant, the holographic doctor became the only source of medical treatment for the crew.
Seska is a Cardassian agent who was surgically altered to appear Bajoran, then assigned to infiltrate the Maquis terrorist group. Accepted as a member of the Maquis, Seska joined the crew of the Starship Voyager after her Maquis vessel was destroyed in the Delta Quadrant in 2371. Aboard the Voyager, she worked as an engineering officer. Her role as a Cardassian agent was discovered on stardate 48658, when she was caught selling Federation replicator technology to the Kazon-Nistrim sect. Seska said she had a brother in 'Prime Factors' (VOY), but she may have been lying.
Seven of Nine was possibly amongst the first group humans assimilated by the borg.
