Janeway ( Male Admiral ) Vice Admiral Janeway was a Starfleet flag officer and father of two daughters . One of his daughters , Kathryn , was the former captain of the . The admiral died under the ice cap of Tau Ceti Prime in 2358 . ( ) His widow was still alive as of 2378 . ( ) When Kathryn was a child , Janeway and his wife took Kathryn and her sister on backpacking trips . They considered it was important that they should all keep a connection to their pioneer roots . Similarly , Janeway and Kathryn hiked the north rim of the Grand Canyon when the latter was nine years old , which he called " Earth ' s biggest ditch . " ( ) When Kathryn was in high school she left their home late at night on occasion , and years later could recall tiptoeing past her parents ' bedroom . ( ) " Faux " Admiral Janeway . In 2373 , an alien lifeform assumed the admiral ' s identity and tried to lure Janeway to her own death after she had crash land ed on a planet with Chakotay . The alien had invaded her cerebral cortex , causing hallucinations . It told her that she had died in the shuttle crash , and tried to convince her that she should accept her death . It pretended to be the spirit of her father , come to help her cross over to the afterlife . Unbeknownst to Janeway , the non - corporeal being wanted to coax her spirit away from her body in order to feed on it . Janeway however sensed that she was really still alive and that The Doctor was trying to save her . The alien told her that this was an hallucination and urged her to give up on her former life . Janeway knew that her real father would have wanted her to struggle to survive , and thus realized that the apparition was not who he claimed to be . She refused to go , the alien left her cerebral cortex and she regained consciousness . Before departing the alien swore that Janeway would inevitably come to his Matrix one day , and that then her essence would feed him for a very long time . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Vice Admiral Janeway was played by Len Cariou . Admiral Janeway ' s death was also featured in " Mosaic " , a novel by Jeri Taylor . Taylor created the character of Janeway , and established in the book that his first name was Edward and that he drowned during the testing of a prototype ship , an accident which also claimed the life of Janeway ' s fiancé . Admiral Janeway also appears in " The Lives of Dax " short story " The Music Between the Notes " . His first name was given on an okudagram in ; see for more information . He is given a different and longer first name at where he was named Edward Janeway . A wardrobe error incorrectly placed a 2370s combadge on the admiral ' s uniform Janeway supposedly wore in the 2350s . His Starfleet uniform was unlike any we had ever seen in " Star Trek " , but other admirals of the same era wore different uniforms , as evidenced by Mark Jameson and Gregory Quinn in TNG Season 1 , circa 2364 . Apocrypha . In the anthology series " Distant Shores " , the framing story looks at Admiral Janeway experiencing what appears to be a vision of Seska encouraging her to look back on her life , eventually apparently offering Janeway the chance to avoid " Voyager " being trapped in the Delta Quadrant in the first place , but she eventually rejects this illusion , recognizing it as another attack by this creature .