Why didnt janeway and chakotay

I thought it was an interesting role reversal? Did they have a romantic relationship before Voyager returned? Every relationship has complications. By the way, the tension between Tuvok and the other officers about contacting the Vidiians was an interesting B plotline.

Felt sorry for Tuvok — surely there were some crewmembers who opposed contacting the Vidiians but I suppose they were overruled in the end. One of my favorite episodes. I felt that was so convenient. I really wanted Janeway with Chakotay. I guess I was being naive. I had never looked this episode in this way. She hallucinated about him once, in "Persistence of Vision," and it was the sort of dream she seemed utterly humiliated by once she came to her senses.

If B'Elanna Torres, the strongest woman we've ever had on Trek, really wants "the Chakotay you've always wanted me to be"--the one who drags her away from duty after disregarding his own reponsibilities, assumes no means yes and kisses her while she's resisting, throws her on a bed before she can speak, and gets her to growl like a Klingon for him--then she needs YEARS of therapy to find out why her oedipus complex is manifesting itself in turn-of-the- 20th -century romance novel conventions.

Not that Janeway looked any better, kissing first a holoimage and then a nasty projection of her former lover when she had a ship to save. I think we have to assume that the alien was NOT projecting the women's deepest desires, but their deep-rooted fears that deep down they ARE only fluff chicks who want nothing more than to be loved by a manly man, even if he's a phony himself An electra complex is daughter-in-love-with-dad. I knew all that studing of greek mythology in high school would come in handy one day.

To nitpick a nitpick: I'd say despite the sex reversal an Oedipus complex is definitely closer than an Electra complex to Torres' feelings.

In the play Electra from what I remember her father is dead at the beginning, she believes, killed by her mother's boyfriend. The play is basically her, and her surviving brother planning to avenge his murder.

I think they end by killing her mother and the boyfriend. Back to the original statement up there - definitely not really B'elanna's sort of relationship. Sunil Uppal. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. The emotional strain on the entire crew of knowing that they will very likely never get home would have sent them running into each other's arms And beds long ago.

For Janeway and Chakotay to have their situation made even more hopeless leaves little doubt that they would have become romantically involved. Remember, even if she did find a cure, Voyager was gone. Sean "Please be gentle, it's my first post. Jeffrey L Weingarten.

Ben Violette. Chakotay effectively captained Voyager for months as it journeyed through an area of space seemingly devoid of life and even planetary objects and stars. During this time, Janeway had confined herself to quarters and was suffering from depression brought on because she felt guilty for stranding her crew far from home.

Chakotay tries to convince her to resume her duties fully but she refuses. Later, as Janeway tried to assuage her guilt by ordering the crew to abandon her at one end of a spatial vortex she will destroy once they have pass safely through, Chakotay leads the crew in refusing her orders, forcing Janeway to reconsider and stay with the crew.

He informs the captain that he "wouldn't be a fine first officer if I hadn't". Moments prior to the crew's confrontation with the cpatain, Chakotay asked for Tuvok's support in refusing her, which may have been a turning point in their relationship. VOY : " Night ". The news, received the previous year, about the defeat of the Maquis and the deaths of their Maquis friends effected the Maquis onboard Voyager in different ways. Months after hearing the news, B'Elanna Torres, who had initially reacted with anger, had become depressed and numb to all feelings in her life and began taking extreme risks in an effort to feel alive: turning the safety protocols off in the holo deck, she would fight Cardassians or go orbital skydiving.

When it became apparent that she was unwell, Chakotay tried to help her. Using rather forceful methods - perhaps because he himself was disturbed by one of Torres' holo programs , which depicted the deaths of their Maquis friends - he made Torres confront her thoughts and actions, reminding her that, while she had lost much of her Maquis family, the crew on Voyager were her family, too, that they would be with her, and that she needed to find other ways to deal with her depression.

Chakotay encountered Species again, when Voyager discovered an Earth-like recreation on a space station. It turned out to be a training facility for a possible invasion of Earth by Species They had assumed various identities of Starfleet officers. While on reconnaissance away missions to the station he became romantically involved with one of the aliens who had assumed the identity of a Starfleet commander named Valerie Archer.

Their mutual respect and trust were important factors in persuading their superiors to come to a diplomatic agreement to avoid conflict. In , Voyager was able to apparently perfect their own version of the Quantum slipstream drive to get them home. However, a potential glitch in the drive meant Chakotay and Harry Kim had to use the Delta Flyer to map the slipstream in advance of Voyager , monitoring potential instabilities in the slipstream matrix as it formed and relaying corrections back to the larger ship.

The night before the voyage, Janeway invited Chakotay to dinner in her quarters , their last night in the Delta Quadrant.

When asked, Chakotay expressed doubts about the plan to use the drive, stating that the risks were so high Starfleet engineers would not allow it.

Janeway said she was willing to take the risk and asked if Chakotay was with her. Chakotay piloted the Flyer while Paris was at Voyager 's helm. The drive destablised shortly into the voyage and did not return the ship to the Alpha Quadrantc, although it did knock ten years off the journey.

VOY : " Timeless ". It was this at point, more than a year since Seven of Nine had been severed from the Borg Collective and joined the crew of Voyager , who were now at risk of loosing her to an illness, that Chakotay expressed to Janeway that she had proved him wrong regarding her decision to integrate Seven into the crew. VOY : " Infinite Regress ". Chakotay's hopes and fears were revealed when Voyager came into contact with a " Telepathic pitcher plant " during this year.

The enormous space-dwelling organism inticed the ship into its digestive tract by making the crew believe it was a wormhole home where they would received their desires. Chakotay imagined he'd received a full pardon for his actions as Maquis and a professorship of Anthropology at Starfleet Academy. VOY : " Bliss ". Chakotay devised the plan for stealing the Borg transwarp coil from a Borg sphere described by Janeway as " Fort Knox ". The heist was successful, except that during the away mission Seven of Nine chose to return to the Collective.

Despite his previous steps to acceptance of Seven of Nine, Chakotay was ready to wondered if she had betrayed Voyager. VOY : " Dark Frontier ". When Voyager became trapped in chaotic space , alien inhabitants of that region communicated with Chakotay by reactivating a medically supressed, defective gene of his responsible for an inherited cognitive disorder called sensory tremens that could cause realistic auditory and visual hallucinations - which the aliens spoke through, appearing to Chakotay in the faces of his friends, family and a boxing opponent.

Chakotay — whose grandfather , Chakotay believed, had become insane because of the gene — was frightened of becoming like his ancestor and resisted the aliens' efforts. Fighting against his fears, he learned from the aliens how to guide the ship out of chaotic space before the ship was destroyed by the anomaly.

While bringing up the rear of an away team escaping a depreasurising deck on a Malon export vessel contaminated with theta radiation , Chakotay was knocked unconscious by flying debris and had to be beamed out of the vaccum to Voyager.

VOY : " Juggernaut ". Ransom and his crew had been using nucleogenic lifeforms as fuel for their special warp drive ; an act that appalled Janeway unimaginably, especially because it was a dishonor to Starfleet, leading her to set upon a relentless hunt until the Equinox and its crew were brought to justice.

In her fury, she not only compromised the safety of the ship on numerous occasions, despite Chakotay's advice, but also wanted to subject one of Ransom's captured crew members to torture to retrieve information out of him. Chakotay was successful at preventing the worst from happening and warned her that he would not tolerate her crossing that line again.

Janeway, angered and determined, relieved Chakotay of duty, so she could pursue Ransom unhindered. When she finally came to her senses she realized how she had crossed the line herself and that Chakotay would certainly have had good reason to have stage a mutiny against her.

Chakotay said he had thought of doing such, but that that would have been crossing the line. VOY : " Equinox ". Towards the start of this year, Seven of Nine learned she was responsible for the condition of three members of her former Borg unimatrix whose minds were still linked despite having escaped the Collective. As they lie unconscious in sickbay , she battles with guilt and their fate: to seperate them into individuals who will die within a month, or return them to the Borg where they will live longer but as part of the Collective.

Chakotay tried to comfort Seven, asks her to think about her experience and to consider the difference between existing and living. Seven's decision is that " Existence is insufficient ". VOY : " Survival Instinct ". Voyager was caught in a conflict begun by the Vaadwaur , a confrontational and treacherous species that was revived after over eight-hundred years in stasis. They had been revived by a crew member with good intentions and, as they were unknown to Voyager and seemed in need, Janeway made an alliance with them.

Chakotay felt uncertain about the Vaadwaur's intentions and was wary of awakening them, recalling an old Greek myth about a dragon killed in battle whose teeth fell to the ground only to spring up as full-grown warriors to continue the fight.

He used this allegory to demonstrate how Voyager might inadvertently be re-instigating a bloody war that had long stopped. VOY : " Dragon's Teeth ". In the same year, Voyager encountered an ancient spaceship from one of Humanity's first manned missions to Mars floating in a gravimetric distortion. Chakotay instantly recognized the phenomenon, recalling how the Ares IV was lost to it in the early 21st century.

He was intrigued by their discovery and more than enthused to be leading the mission to enter the distortion to retrieve the command module. Chakotay remarked that the Mars missions paved the way for the exploration of space and that Lieutenant John Kelly , who piloted the Ares , was one of his favorite childhood heroes.

During the away mission, Chakotay also got to engage in another of his interests, paleontology, discovering things contained within the anomaly. Chakotay's obsession with recovering the command module, however, put the lives of the away team at risk.

Despite being ordered to immediately leave the distortion because it was becoming too dangerous to stay inside, Chakotay insisted the team haul the module with them, inhibiting their escape and causing them to become trapped.

Chakotay was injured when they were trying to leave the anomaly and had to remain on the Delta Flyer while the task of retrieving a component from the command module to fix the Flyer fell on Seven of Nine, who did not share Chakotay's or anyone else's enthusiasm for such sentimental attachments to history. Chakotay expressed his envy when he realized that he could not beam on board the Ares and insisted Seven download the data Kelly had recorded.

While Seven was angry with Chakotay for endangering their lives, his and the rest of the crew's enthusiasm for discovery and remembering history effected her and she began to appreciate learning about, remembering and being inspired by history.

In the same year, when Seven overloaded her Human brain trying to download too much information at once from the ship's logs and became delusional about possible conspiracies aboard the ship, Chakotay and Janeway almost came into conflict when she told them two competing conspiracy theories and they became suspicious of each other. When they discovered what had happened, they realised they had come too far together not to trust each other.

When Voyager weathered a neutronic storm the crew filled their time in one of Paris' holo programs. Janeway begins to fall in love with one of the characters but is uncomfortable and embarrased by that. Chakotay, whilst teasing her a little, also encourages Janeway to enjoy the relationship, saying that it's nice to see her having a little fun, sharing that it's something he did with holo programs himself. Janeway took his advise and that of The Doctor, who advised similarly and countinued to cultivate a relationship with the holo character.

A number of weeks later, when there was a dangerous problem with Paris' program, Janeway wanted to avoid turning off the energy supply to the program, if possible, so the program wouldn't be lost. She said that, while the characters weren't real, the crew's including her own feelings for them were. VOY : " Fair Haven ". Chakotay's love of anthropology brought vital information to Voyager when it was caught in the gravimetric gradient of a planet on which time passes more quickly than in the rest of space.

Chakotay launches a probe that records images every ten milliseconds, enabling the crew to see civilisations develop on the planet and track seismic activity caused by the presence of Voyager.

He says the information provided by the probe could be the greatest anthropological find of his career. With Seven of Nine, he was also the first the find and translate a message from the planet's inhabitants. When a difficulty transporting The Doctor back to the ship from the planet's surface meant The Doctor was trapped on the planet for years by the time frame of the planet and hard to locate, Chakotay, knowing The Doctor's love of opera and concert music, suggests narrowing sensor scans to the arts district.

The Doctor is immediately found. VOY : " Blink of an Eye ". The ship's crew suffered traumatic memories of participating in the massacre of innocent civilians on a nearby planet, believing they had been responsible the atrocity. Chakotay and an away team who first surveyed the planet suffered the most from the memories.

At one point Neelix, suffering from these memories and believing himself to be in a firefight, holed himself up in the mess hall and Chakotay had to talk him out of it. The crew discovered the memories were being transmitted by a synaptic transmitter in a structure on the planet that sent neurogenic pulses that caused memories of the massacre to be implanted in anyone who came near.

It was a memorial to the victims of the massacre and a reminder to never let such a massacre happen again. Most traumatised, Chakotay and other members of the original away team wanted to dismantle the monument so that others wouldn't have to experience the trauma they had. The memories could not be removed and would always stay with them.

Janeway overrulled them, saying that the monument must stand as a testimony to the lives lost. The crew repaiered the structure so that it functioned properly and left a warning buoy orbiting the planet to inform other ships of what to expect.

VOY : " Memorial ". During shore leave on Norcadia Prime , Chakotay and other members of the crew were able to enjoy watching martial combat competitions. Jokingly, he said he was observing it for anthropological research but, being a boxer, he was quite a fan of the local martial art tsunkatse , discussing fighters' statistics with his crewmates.

While watching a match, Seven of Nine entered the combat arena, having been kidnapped, along with Tuvok, and forced to fight. Janeway being away from the ship herself, visiting a planet in the neighboring system, Chakotay lead Voyager in finding the ship on which Seven and Tuvok were held and attacked it, despite the ship being stronger than Voyager - in Torres' words, it was " way out of our weight class ".

As they attacked the ship, Penk , the leader of the kidnappers, commended Chakotay on his fighting spirit. VOY : " Tsunkatse ". Held in an assimilation chamber , Chakotay manages to keep his team calm, despite their fears of impending assimilation , and organises them to try to find a way to escape. Their efforts are foiled but thankfully they are later rescued by Voyager.

VOY : " Collective ". Like others of his former Maquis fellows, Chakotay's sense of being Maquis was never lost, even after six years on Voyager. When Starfleet managed to get a message to Voyager and Admiral Hayes inquires specifically about the status of the Maquis onboard the ship, Janeway is unsettled by it, saying she has forgotten the former antagonism between Starfleet and Maquis. Chakotay confesses that he hasn't. VOY : " Life Line ". Towards the end of this year, in response to a request for help against the Borg, Janeway made a plan to inflitrate a Borg vessel and introduce a nanovirus into the Collective.

She told Chakotay that, despite having forged ahead in the past without Chakotay's support, she wouldn't follow this through unless Chakotay supported it.

Chakotay was unconvinced that Janeway would listen to him even if he didn't support the plan. This time, however, he did supported her, seeing it as a potential way to finally defeat the Borg.

However, when Janeway planned on inflitrating a Borg vessel alone, Chakotay, believing it too risky, insisted Janeway agree to take Tuvok and Torres with her. Janeway resisted and Chakotay pushed back.

Janeway said she thought she had his unconditional support this time; he replied, " This is the best I can do " and indicated he would take measures to stop her from going alone, if he had to.

Janeway agreed to take Tuvok and Torres with her, who were invaluable. As they approached the Borg vessel and Janeway went to join the away team, perhaps realising the seriousness of this mission she reached out a hand to Chakotay, who held it as they both stood and Janeway gave command of the bridge to him.

When the away team, in the Delta Flyer , was approaching the Borg vessel to board it, Chakotay attacked the Borg, drawing fire to Voyager and weakening the Borg's shields so the away team could teleport inside.

While Voyager waited at a distance for the away team to complete their mission, Chakotay experienced a little of what it must have been like for Janeway with him as her first officer. With Janeway and Tuvok away, Lieutenant Paris was technically Chakotay's first officer and he approached Chakotay to offer his opinion, as was first officer's duty.

Chakotay wasn't immediately interested in listening to Paris who, worried about the away team - especially because his partner, Torres, was part of it - said Voyager should return to the Borg cube immediately to rescue them. Chakotay said they would wait until the away team's mission was complete.

Paris, like Chakotay to Janeway, was insistant but overruled by Chakotay, who told him that, for the mission to work, he needed the support of his "first officer", Paris.

Paris agreed. At the right moment, initiating the next stage of the plan, Chakotay commanded Voyager back to the Borg vessel and rescued the away team with the help of an allied ship - and the support of his "first officer". Chakotay's body in a state of temporal flux in Chakotay's identity as Maquis was still present in his seventh year after being taken from the stuggle in the Demilitarized Zone.

When members of Voyager 's crew who were Maquis were being attacked one by one, Chakotay became defensive of them and suspicious of the Starfleet part of the crew. In words that caught both Janeway and himself off guard, he referred to the Starfleed part of the crew as " your [i. He organised the Maquis to work in pairs and to carry sidearms. It transpired that the attacks were being carried out by Tuvok, who, during his time undercover in the Maquis, had had supressed memory commands implanted into him, and now activated, by Bajoran fanatic Teero Anaydis.

During the attacks Tuvok mind melded with the Maquis and implanted in them the command to mutiny. Under this mind control , Chakotay and the other Maquis whom Tuvok had attacked successfully hijacked Voyager until Tuvok, awakened by Janeway, performed another meld with Chakotay to free him from Anaydis' influence.

VOY : " Repression ". When The Doctor betrayed Voyager and joined a group of holograms intent on liberating other holograms from organic species and setting up their own homeworld , Janeway believed his program must have been tampered with by the holograms. Chakotay, perhaps because of his experiences joining the Maquis, suggested another possibility: that The Doctor " may have done what he did because he genuinely believes in their cause " and that maybe he had started thinking of the other holograms as his family.

As it turned out, Chakotay's perception was correct, but Janeway was unwilling to believe it or that the holograms should be regarded as people. Later, Chakotay piloted the Delta Flyer through the atmosphere of a Demon planet , with Paris and Tuvok in tactical support, and attacked the holograms' ship, saving Torres, The Doctor and five Hirogen from the them.

When back on Voyager , Janeway is lenient with The Doctor, feeling partly responsible for his development into someone who could make mistakes, and counts his time with the holograms as an "away mission". VOY : " Flesh and Blood ". Twice around this time in the journey, Chakotay approached Janeway with Tuvok to express the same concerns they had about possible actions the captain might take.

Once, they approached her when she wanted to make an alliance with the Hirogen to find the holograms The Doctor has joined - Tuvok was concerned about the security risk; Chakotay questioned the level of responsibility they had towards this potentially dangerous mission. A few months later, they approached Janeway when she wanted to make an alliance with other ships who were trapped with them in an area of space devoid of stars, planets, or any other source of energy.

They both wondered whether Voyager 's tactics should rather be like that of the ships that have survived in the void for years: to take supplies from other ships.

Janeway overruled them both both times: the first time because she felt partly responsbile for the holograms because she had been the one to give the technology to the Hirogen; the second time because of her committment to Startfleet principles.

Chakotay's trustworthiness and respectability - and the vital nature as a unifying presence on the ship - was shown later that year when he restored Voyager to its proper timeline after it was hit by a chronokinetic surge from a spatial rift that shattered the ship into 37 different timeframes seperated by temporal barriers. Some of the timeframes were from before Voyager was in the Delta Quadrant, some up to 17 years into Voyager 's future.

In order to fix the timeline, Chakotay had to convince members of the crew - most importantly, Janeway, who was from the time they were still enemies - of their predicament and to work together.

The task was made harder by the presense of Seska in one of the timeframes, who was working against him yet again. When Janeway realised she might be able to stop Voyager from ever getting trapped in the Delta Quadrant, Chakotay convinced her not to change the timeline, for the sake of all the positive things that had happened to Voyager 's crew over the past six years - for example, the liberation of Seven of Nine.

When he had finished convincing her, Janeway asked him if, in their shared future, he always lectured her like that, to which Chakotay replied that she needn't worry, she would always have the last word. Chakotay made such an impact on Janeway that, as the parted, she asked if their closeness had ever become romantic. Chakotay said that there were some barriers that they never crossed. When the timeline was restored, Chakotay diverted all of Voyager's power to its deflector system and setting it to a specific frequency, thus using the deflector array as a lightning rod for the energy surge from the spatial rift, burning it out, but avoiding the timeframe shattering.

Due to the Temporal Prime Directive , Chakotay, the only one who knows what's happened, couldn't tell anyone about it and Janeway and the crew have to trust him, which they readily do.

VOY : " Shattered ". B'Elanna Torres became pregnant this year, which made Chakotay happy. When Torres was annoyed that people were offering parental advice all the time, Chakotay was there for her, offering some normality, which she appreciated.

Chakotay suggested himself as the child's godfather, an offer Torres declined, choosing The Doctor instead, in part because she believed Chakotay didn't really know about raising children. VOY : " Lineage ". While on an away mission with Kim and Neelix, the rest of the crew were kipnapped and made to work on a planet with a labor shortage. The crew were brainwashed so that they could not remeber their past and believed they had lives on the planet. Chakotay and Neelix carried out reconnaissance on the planet, Chakotay assuming the false identity of Amal Kotay and working in the factory where many of the crew were.

Together, they managed to liberate Torres, but Chakotay, injured by guards, became trapped on the planet, a fugitive. He then tried to convince Janeway of who she really was, but she turned him over to the authorities.

Chakotay appeared saddened when he learned that Janeway was falling in love with someone who lived on the planet. Once caught by the authorities he was brainwashed and order Voyager to return to the planet, where it was ambused. Thankfully, the skeleton crew were able to escape and Chakotay had done just enough to help his brainwashed crew mates begin to question their situation on the planet, find each other and expose those who are performing the brainwashing.

Chakotay, with Kim, look for Friendship 1 at its final destination. After Starfleet worked out a way to communicate with Voyager on a regular basis, they gave the crew their first official mission in seven years: to find Friendship 1 , a deep space probe launched by the United Earth Space Probe Agency in with the purpose of finding other species. The last known location of the prode was close to Voyager 's route and, after tracing it to a seemingly uninhabited planet, Chakotay lead an away team to retrive the probe.

It turned out the planet was inhabited - by people who had suffered a devastating disaster after using the technology they learned from Friendship 1 , and they blamed Humans for it. The inhabitants attacked the away team and Paris, Neelix and Joe Carey were take hostage and Carey was murdered. Chakotay and Kim had to retreat from the planet. Later, Chakotay returned with an away team to rescue the remaining hostages. Dispite now not being compelled to help the planet's inhabitants because the hostages had been rescued , Voyager reversed the worsed effects of the disaster before resuming its course.

VOY : " Friendship One ". On the way to a scientific conference on Ledos , Chakotay and Seven of Nine became stranded under an energy barrier on the planet's surface after their shuttle crashed into it. The barrier protected a primative people, the Ventu , from the other inhabitants of the planet but needed lowering in order for Chakotay and Seven escape. Chakotay was fascinated by the Ventu from an anthropological perspective but he and Seven kept their distance because of the Prime Directive.

However, Vendu found Chakotay as he rested under a tree, his leg injured during the crash. While with them, he received their hospitality and medicine and learned some of their language. He became concerned about the influence his presence was having on them, however, after members of the tribe started immitating him and incorporating scavaged parts of the shuttle into their dress.

Finding themselves with no other choice, Seven and Chakotay asked the Ventu to help them move a large part of the crashed shuttle so it could be positioned correctly and adapted to lower the barrier. They managed to get in contact with Voyager and returned to the ship where they talked about what they thought would now be best for the Ventu: Chakotay advocated for restoring the barrier to allow the people to carry on living undistured by those outside; Seven, while concerned that a culture might be lost, suggested that maybe the outside influence could help a resourceful and intelligent people develop positively.

Chakotay questioned how she might know what it best for the people. Janeway agreed with Chakotay and the barrier was raised. VOY : " Natural Law ". Chakotay was the first to realise things weren't right after Janeway returned from a trip with The Doctor. She was acting unusually and being secerative and Chakotay suspected someone might be impersonating her. He invented a story about her past, mentioning it to her, and when Janeway acted as if it was something that had happened, he knew it wasn't really her.

He tried to contact security but was overpowered, sedated and hidden in the morgue. It transpired that The Doctor was the one impersonating Janeway, who had been kidnapped by two Overlookers when she was travelling back to Voyager in the Delta Flyer with The Doctor. The Doctor kept this secret from the crew for fear for the captain's life and was attempting to outwit the crew and take Voyager 's warp core to the Overlookers in exchange for Janeway.

Thankfully, Tuvok and Paris were able to attack the ship Janeway was hostage on and bring her back to Voyager. VOY : " Renaissance Man ". During the visit to Ledos a few months previously, Chakotay and Seven became closer. Seven had been attracted to Chakotay for some time but had never told him. Prior to the trip to Ledos, Chakotay had expressed interest in Seven, but very gently, inviting her to a social event hosted in the mess hall. Their closeness increased over the last few months they were in the Delta Quadrant and they became romantically involved with each other.

Seven of Nine tried to end the relationship, however, when she learned that Chakotay's growing love for her could cause him pain should she be injured or killed - a pain she didn't want to inflict on him.

Chakotay argued with her, reassuring her that the only thing that was certain in the relationship was the love they felt in the present, not a potential future event. It was during this time that Admiral Janeway arrived on the ship and helped Voyager return to the Alpha Quadrant. Unsurprisingly, Chakotay got on well with the Admiral, joking together as they worked.

Admiral Janeway had come from what was to become an alternative future. For her, Voyager had taken a further 16 years to get home, experiencing tragedy along the way, and she had traveled back in time to help Voyager get home quicker.

Admiral Janeway wanted to avoid the tragedies, but her plan was risky, involving traveling through a nebula with high Borg activity. Chakotay trusted the Janeways could be successful, though, telling Seven, " Our chances would be good with one Kathryn Janeway on the bridge, but with two, I'd bet on this ship any day ". At one point, the crew felt deceived by Admiral Janeway, who hadn't told them they would be using a Borg transwarp hub to get home they believed they'd be using a wormhole.

Captain Janeway said they should destroy the hub because it would stop the Borg traveling and assimilating people so easily, saving lives, and Voyager would continue on its route through the Delta Quadrant. The whole crew, including Chakotay, were behind her, recognising the family they had on the ship and the value of the journey. Thankfully for them, the two Janeways devised another plan, involving Admiral Janeway sacrificing herself to blow up the Borg in the hub, allowing Voyager to use traverse the transwarp conduits home, destroying the conduits along the way.

VOY : " Endgame ". Chakotay became one of the central figures in the conflict with the Kazon. One of the first encounters took place during the time he was performing the Pakra, a ritual to honor his father's death. A young Kazon, Kar , who was being initiated as a warrior, attacked him while he was alone in the shuttlecraft performing the ceremony. Chakotay destroyed his ship, and both were captured by the Kazon and condemned to die. After escaping their death sentence, Kar killed the maje and was proclaimed a warrior, thanks in part to Chakotay's help.

However, Chakotay was warned that next time he met the Kazon, they would not be as lenient and kill him. His next meeting with the Kazon also was a reunion with Seska , who had defected to the Kazon-Nistrim , led by Maje Culluh. They had stolen a module that enabled them to penetrate Voyager 's shields. Chakotay was able to board the Kazon ship and destroy the module; however, he was captured and tortured by the Kazon. He was rescued by Voyager , but shortly thereafter, Seska told him that she had extracted his DNA and impregnated herself with it.

VOY : " Initiations ", " Maneuvers ". During a constant series of attacks on Voyager by the Kazon, Chakotay suggested to Captain Janeway that Voyager form alliances with some of the Kazon factions and others in the quadrant. This failed when the Trabe , the Kazon's enemies, under the guise of cooperation with Voyager and the Kazon, attempted to assassinate the Kazon leaders at a conference and otherwise didn't show much interest for diplomacy and building coalitions.

VOY : " Alliances ". Shortly after that, Chakotay received a message from Seska that she had given birth to his child, and that Culluh planned to kill her and take the child. Conflicted as to whether he should accept this child into his heart and life given that it was conceived against his will and through deception, he sought the wisdom of his father through a vision quest.

In his vision, his father appeared to him saying that the child knows nothing of deception, that it is innocent and that Chakotay must accept him just as centuries ago his ancestors accepted the children of the white conquerors who had forced themselves upon their women; one of whom was a direct ancestor of theirs.

Chakotay recognized the wisdom in his father's words and decided to go find his son. Although Seska was not trustworthy, Janeway agreed to try and help him. It turned out to be a trap, however, and Voyager ended up being captured, and the crew stranded on a barren planet with nothing to survive on while the Kazon took the ship and left. Chakotay's knowledge of nature and his Maquis training helped the crew survive.

He rescued Kes from the primitive tribe that inhabited the planet. He also helped the crew to elude an enormous eel-like creature that lived inside a cave that they sought shelter in by sealing off the opening as they exited.

He also won the friendship of the tribe when he saved one of them from a lava flow. In , he encountered a group of former Borg drones , who, due to an accident in space, were released from the Collective , and attempted to regain their original identities.

Chakotay was seriously injured on this away mission. The group, headed by a Human called Riley Frazier , still maintained the ability to link. They used their link to help heal Chakotay. Frazier told him that there was another group of former drones with whom they were in conflict.