Who was the captain of the USS Voyager?

Who was the captain of the USS Voyager? Kathryn Janeway was the ship’s commanding officer.

Janeway commanded Voyager throughout its seven-year journey in the Delta Quadrant after the ship was stranded there in 2371. She was a Starfleet vice admiral later in life, but held the rank of captain during the series and most of Voyager’s return voyage.

The character was created for Star Trek: Voyager after the franchise’s producers decided the new series should feature a woman as captain. Kate Mulgrew played Janeway, making her the first female captain to lead a Star Trek television series.

A common mix-up is confusing Janeway with Chakotay, Voyager’s first officer, or with Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Enterprise-D. Janeway also briefly encountered alternate versions of herself and assumed different ranks in time-travel and alternate-reality stories, but Kathryn Janeway is the canonical captain of the USS Voyager in the main storyline.