History Characters / SFDebrisStarTrekVoyager

* CastingCouch: As Chief Engineer Torres has the highest amounts of justifying the {{Critical Research Failure}}s that pass for plot, Chuck often jokes that the only reason she got this spot was by sleeping with the captain.

* AwesomeMcCoolName

** When [[Series/{{StarTrekPicard}} revealed that the Borg disconnect cubes that are severely fucked up, he theorizes the one in the show which happens to be somewhat near the Federation, and thus Janeway, the Borg abandoned them because they already wasted too many cubes on her.

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--->'''Flemeth:''' I may be old, but dwarves, elves, mages, and who knows what else; this sounds like an army to me.\\
'''Janeway:''' And I want in on that!

* TheForce: Kes sometimes uses it, having premonitions or telekinetically calling hyposprays to her hand.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Calls her out in "Friendship One" for wanting to go on the away mission to a highly radioactive wasteland despite being heavily pregnant, apparently ignoring the danger this would put her baby in. Particularly when we later see the inhabitants of said world, including a woman who has suffered several miscarriages already and a ''heavily'' mutated young girl.

->Embodiement of just about every Hollywood stereotype concerning American Indians, even managing to invent a few new ones. Admittedly, he does not run a casino (yet). More or less useless outside of the ship, as he insists on not even scanning burial sites to avoid violating their "sanctity." Proves irresistible to the ladies for some unknowable reason.

* BackstoryOfTheDay[=/=]DecisionDarts:
** Several episodes feature him having "always" been a big fan of whatever the crew's currently doing, represented by the writers picking his interest of the week with twelve-sided dice or a roulette wheel.
** Which inevitably peaked with, "Chakotay's ''always'' been into... ''*roll roll roll*'' --Seven of Nine!

->Unlike most of the crew, he seems to be one of the few (including Tom Paris) to not accept Neelix immediately with open arms. This, of course, backfired on him by convincing Neelix to befriend Tuvok at all costs.

->The best engineer the Maquis could muster, thus explaining their eventual defeat. A menace in Engineering, hopeless as a scout (even using a tricorder, she failed to identify ''manure''.) Virtually anything she builds will result in catastrophe – the dreadnought missile she programmed to hit the Cardassians wound up in the Delta Quadrant, ignoring all other sensor data (stars in the wrong positions, non-Federation/Cardassian ships in the vicinity, etc.), allowing it to backfire on her own vessel years later.

->An ex-member of a [[SmarterThanYouLook chain gang for the gifted]], turned acting helmsmen aboard the ''USS Voyager''. Tom claims only his piloting skills but proves to be good at almost ''everything'' – He has acted as a commando, pilot, field medic, engineer, scientist, historian, and more. Also invented, designed, and built the universe's first Warp-10 reactor (discarded by Janeway in one of many plots to thwart VOY's return). Easily considered to be the third most competant person in Starfleet, which is excusable considering the first two are Kirk and THE Sisko.

->Voyager's hologrammatic Emergency Medical Hologram, and one of the few people on the ship with no major personality disorders to speak of. If only because by comparison his lack of bedside manner is nothing compared to the rest of the crew.

* DeweyDefeatsTruman: Paramount's prediction that, "like Quark, [Neelix] is a meddling scavenger predicted to be ''Voyager'''s {{breakout character}}." ("Caretaker")

* BrutalHonesty: In a hypothetical situation about the crew trying to cure Harry's hiccups, Seven manages it just by telling Harry he'll die alone and unloved. ("Someone to Watch Over Me")

-->'''Chuck:''' "Now, how many of you thought I was using hyperbole when I called him a paranoid psychopath?"

* CrazyAwesome: Janeway is complete and utterly mad. However, this does have the fortunate side effect of making Janeway a Memetic Badass almost on par with Sisko. She knows her way around a bat'leth even better than a ''Klingon'' does ("Unimatrix Zero"), and in Chuck's GagDub of 'Splashdown' she's willing to shoot down an entire fleet just to protect her stash of Romulan Marijuana.

** Even Chef Ramsay would run screaming from this kitchen. A running gag in the VOY reviews is Neelix recycling by-products from the ship's galley, cadavers, and his own secretions into badly-conceived dishes (such as a cupcake made of gristle and grease). This invariably ends up flooding the galley with food poisoning, the symptoms of which outrank most [=STDs.=] ("Message in a Bottle", et al.)

'''Janeway:''' Who told you to stop dancing? ''Dance'', you little bitch! Dance!

-->"This could be reality OR a nightmare, and there's no way to tell. Because for Harry Kim, the two are one and the same."

* InTheBlood: It's gotten to the point where some viewers see Janeway's malignant influence even outside of Star Trek. Chuck's ''Wonder Woman'' review was all about a blood thirsty, bat-shit crazy tyrant who was worshiped by her people as a god. No mention of Janeway in his review... but that didn't stop fans from thinking that the two of them must be related somehow.
** Chuck himself laughingly suggested that stone-cold stormtrooper [[Series/{{Farscape}} Aeryn Sun]] is one of Janeway's illegitimate children (as indeed she was, in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''). No word yet on Shiva Shepard though.

->[[WaxingLyrical Still crazy after all these years]], the inimitable Captain Kathryn Janeway spent her childhood ducking her drunken father's lobbed beer bottles and clawing out of dry sand pits, contributing greatly to her resourcefulness as an adult. She began her Starfleet career as a [[{{mad scientist}} "scientist"]] and Johnny-Come-Lately cyberneticist, but decided that a life of petri dishes and homicidal albino androids wasn't for her. After handing in her blueshirt, Janeway slept – er, climbed her way up the command structure, culminating in her hijacking of the ''USS Voyager''. Her name soon become synonymous with slavery, genetic mutation, and destruction across the expanse of the Delta Quadrant. Her ship eventually did make it back home, though it was [[ShootTheShaggyDog struck by a meteor while passing over the Golden Gate Bridge]], so points for effort.

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** Janeway presiding over Tom's wedding goes down about as well as you'd expect. "Not so fast. I have to deflower ''both'' of you first! *chuckles* It's the law of the Delta Quadrant." Note also Replicant-Harry seething with jealousy after he's made Tom's "best man".

* OrwellianEditor: Considers Janeway's decision to erase all traces of Jetal in "Latent Image" to actually be ''crazier'' than his version of Janeway.

* YourCheatingHeart: Chuck points out that for somebody who says he wants to get home to his family so bad that he was willing to mutiny in ''Prime Factors'', he sure seems to be trying real hard to sleep with Seven of Nine in ''Relativity''.
-->"Might want to wear some latex contacts if you're gonna keep eyehumping her like that, Lt. Family Man."

--->'''Chuck''': Harry, it's a wedding, [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace not a roast]].

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** Chuck noted in "Body and Soul" that we never actually see ''Voyager'' return home (the series finale cut immediately to credits), and that for all we know, [[YankTheDogsChain the ship got hit by a meteor]] over San Francisco, [[KarmaHoudini leaving Janeway as the only survivor]].

-->'''Chuck:''' I guess if [the baby] has a big waffle iron burn on its face, we'll know the truth.

* HitlerCam: Chuck notes the show's tendency to make Janeway and/or Kate Mulgrew seem taller than she really is in his review of the episode "Parallax", showing a montage of such shots as Alphaville's "Big in Japan" plays.

--->'''EMH''': [piqued interest] Think ''you'' can find a cure?\\
'''Janeway''': Uhh? [[ExpendableClone I thought they were expendable now.]] I always wanted to find out how far a human can fly in space powered only by a potato gun.