Kate Mulgrew on real-life drama in new book 

Wow, thats such a spencer thing to say!! Im a janeway fan too, and spencer is my fave PLL.. LOL

Captain Janeway gave me unrealistic expectations on woman.

Most likely my favorite captain, she was amazing

I don't have the nostalgia for Janeway that I have for Kirk and Picard, but only because I never watched Voyager as it aired. When I caught up with it years later, though, she immediately became verrrrrrrrrry close to being their equal in my eyes.

same here!

Yep, she did a one person play, as Katharine Hepburn about a decade ago. The resemblance has been noted her whole life. :) I think the play was filmed, or at least an audio version is out there, check it out.

I was one of those early fans from her Ryan’s Hope days. I’ve always wanted to grow up to be her. I didn’t even come close. 😂 We all have our own paths and mine was simply a different direction. I really wanted to be her, though!

Yes very Kate Hepburn. But I always thought she had an uncanny resemblance, accent and mannerisms of Patricia Neal as well. Check it out. Love Kate Mulgrew.

Is she a lesbian like Hepburn then?😂

rockey rocket- Yessss! I was trying to figure out who she looked like. You hit it right on the nose👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

agreed!! what she brings to a character is truly unique.

"There's something they never told you...I am your mother!" HA! Yeah, Star Wars joke, but I couldn't resist. Mulgrew is a great actor, and Janeway was my second favorite after Sisko of the five T.V. captains.

I agree!

While I agree that Kate Mulgrew did her level best as an actress to make Janeway seem real and approachable... and she did a stunning job most of the time, the Voyager writers did their level best to sabotage this captain who ended up writing Janeway as one of the weakest captain characters to ever command a Star Trek bridge. Seska had a very valid point about Janeway's ability to command. The Janeway character made incredibly questionable and reckless decisions as captain all along the way, putting Voyager in harm's way more often than I dare count (from the very first episode). Heck, it was Janeway's fault they got stranded in the Delta quadrant. Kate certainly accomplished some of her best acting to downplay Janeway's irrational and reckless behavior and make it seem like Janeway was 'doing the right thing', but ultimately the stories tell of Janeway's weakness as a leader in the end. Janeway's weak command ability easily explains why she ended up commanding an Intrepid class starship (half the size of a Galaxy class, like Enterprise). This class starship is intended for scientific exploration, not battles. Voyager is easily the weakest of any of the Star Trek series produced with Janeway the weakest captain of any of the series. This is not the fault of Mulgrew, but of the Voyager writers and producers. Though, Discovery is certainly shaping up to try and beat Voyager out of the worst Star Trek series title.

Did you guys watch the entire interview? It seems like the adoption has really had a severe impact on the daughter's psyche.

Jennifer Castaldo She isn't afraid of weakness.. and doesn't see it as such, just truthfulness.. and at the same time is very strong willed, yet not so much she forgets kindness.

I find it so odd people are like "omg I can't hear her with out the accent" ....errrr excuse me She's JANEWAY! Star Trek was huge and yes Voyager was kinda ...meh to many people but still The first female captain and one who had the toughest ride To me it's weird watching Orange is the New Black and Red not saying "computer : end program" and leaving the holo deck

But I think it shows how great her acting really is if fans of one of her shows think it's weird to hear her in her own accent. As a Trekkie who watched USS Voyager from the moment it departed DS9 and until the moment it blasted it's way out of a Borg sphere, when I watched OITNB her accent was immediately convincing to me. Similarly though I kept expecting Walter Koenig to talk with a Russian accent in Babylon 5 as Bester.

Ben Attwood shut up

I watched both series. It was strange to hear her put on a Russian accent on OITNB considering I saw her in Voyager first. She's great in both series, either way.

SAME!!!!!!

What did you do at Paramount?

Wally Banter Yes because no one who works on TV shows/movies comments on RU-vid videos

Shawn Michael I am Polish, her accent is not convincing :) but my american, british and irish accents also suck

Did you have a idea that she was from Star Trek Voyager first?

Expecting authentic Russian accent from Star Tek? *cough*Chekov*cough* What were you thinking?

I think they were referring to her role in Orange is the new black. Her star trek character was a midwesterner also

Aren't all good starship captains from Iowa in one way or another??? ;-)

I love this. I am going to plan to spend a weekend in exactly this manner. it sounds completely perfect. I fell in love with her as a child as Kathryn Janeway. I used to write her letters, sometimes several a week, begging her to write me back and tell me how to grow up to be like her. what a pleasure and privilege to be able to spend time with her, and know her, like this.

I have only started watching Voyager in 2019 with my boyfriend. I am in awe of Janeway and wish I had her strength, courage, grace, integrity, and compassion. I am ordering the book tonight.

agreed, sickening

not only that, but made her keep the baby! its cruel to write the pregnancy in in the first place, but if they absolutely had to do it, why wouldn't they have her give it up for adoption on the show? how horrible must it have been to have to act like new mother with so much love when you just had to forfeit that same scenario? so terrible. ive read her book, kate is so ridiculously strong.

It is but you also have to take under consideration, back then, they really didn't have many ways of making her not look pregnant. So, it was probably write it in or she's out of a job.

It was absolutely sickening to hear that this woman who just gave up her baby, had to now act as a woman giving birth on a freaking tv show for ratings.

They didn't know she was giving it up.

She has a voice like Kathrine Hepburn I would think. Even similar in facial appearence.

The daughter fixes her mouth just like her birth mother.

I supposed it many years ago but recently saw that young picture of her sitting down with a cigarette with me going “I KNEW SHE SMOKED!”

Hepburn

+Miss Kelly Renee That depends on who you ask, as a LOT of people think she has a rather gruff voice. While some don't exactly dislike it, it isn't a favorite of many but hey, whatever floats your boat...

I could listen to her all day. Her voice is strength, passion, and a touch of "motherlyness". I used to watch her in Voyager.

@@MrTmax74 Captain Janeway in a nutshell

She smoked for many years. Had she not smoked her voice probably sounded more pleasant

+machbauer132 Exactly what I thought too.

machbauer132 YES! I wonder if she treated her like a daughter on the set.

YES EXACTLY

Haha. My first reaction when the daughter was shown.

machbauer132 first thing that pop in my head cool

Well now i have nothing to type, you just said word for word what i was going to say, almost made me cry, ugg i hate being a dork!

stclairstclair Sorry, from a fellow dork :) I think it's time to revisit 'Timeless'...'Scorpion'....or maybe 'The Year of Hell'. Whadaya think?

Scorpion...(i had to look it up) was indeed remarkable, who doesn't love species 8472 and the lushes Borg, but damn for the life of me i dont remember Timeless, I just watched what i would consider to be one of the best Star Trek performances and writing I've seen,----Star trek Enterprise S4-E6, "The Augments" With Brent Spiner Playing Young Arik Soong. This was even better than (TNG: "Inheritance" Data meets his dad) I've seen a few episodes of Brent doing data that where so good that Tom Hanks has nothing on him, But In The Augments he plays the bad guy as good as the day Data chewed Warf a new asshole in Picards ready room! Go watch it and tell me you dont agree.

stclairstclair Will do...I'll get back to you on that. As for Timeless, it's the episode where Harry Kim sends Voyager coordinates from the Delta Flyer while in a slipstream...Voyager crashes and everyone dies. Then the headache of playing with time and the future..past..and present come into play. It's a good one.

sounds pretty good.

Yesss

YES.

DUDE YES

Omg I cant..just thinking about it ...yesssss

_YESSSSSS_

the producers wrote it into the show because she didn’t want to give up her role as mary ryan. it was completely consensual

ME TOO MAN.

Favorite comment on this thread.

"Commander, set a new course. There's coffee in that nebula."

Tuvok: I have a name .

And then the food replicator replies "Make it yourself!" in a russian accent.

Catholic church, enough said.

@@thangvuong9196 Yup...

@@thangvuong9196 they sold the baby and there was no way they wanted to give the money back.

What about the family that adopted the baby? Did you think about them? They prepared for a baby, was given a baby, a baby they had been planning for, hungering for, preparing for, for probably over nine months. She could have changed her mind at ANY time before birth. Now the child is placed in a loving home and THEN she changes her mind to disrupt the child and tear the heart up of a probably a great family. Speaking as a woman who cannot have children and who was constantly asked "well, why don't you adopt?" This is why. THANK GOD the Catholic Church refused to help in her endeavor. Too bad that doesn't happen today. If I was ever courageous enough to become an adoptive parent, I would move as soon as I recieved my child with no forwarding address to anyone. It is MUCH more brave to be an adoptive parent in today's society. Thought and consideration is given to the birth mother and no one else. Adoptive mothers are mothers too.

@tacotony24 she said it was one week later.

I was in the service at the time, and we would all flock to watch Capt. Janeway once a week, wishing she was our Capt. Lol!

She'll always be Mary Ryan to me from the 1970s ABC-TV soap, RYAN'S HOPE. And I told her that when I worked in production in the STAR TREK TV-show universe.

Mrs. Columbo & Red Claw. But I am not a woman. I have not seen everything she has done, but what I have seen , I have liked and enjoyed Kate's performances.

Raiken Xion I’m a woman and I agree and never even seen orange and black stuff.

Same here. I tried watching the Orange is the new black never got into it fully. I mostly watched her as Captain Janeway and I was a kid watching Star Trek Re-Runs and Voyager became my favorite because of her being a Captain and the story of the voyager crew. I'm 21 years old. My parents saw her as Captain Janeway to I think,I am not sure if they ever saw Ryans Hope plus she is a little more older than my parents lol and my parent's are somewhere in their 50's. I do wish I can see the other roles that Kate Mulgrew played in.

Raiken Xion Mary Ryan, for me.

i just finished reading it, it's so good. she's such a strong woman and is an excellent writer

+Captain Nice Indeed, as soon as they flashed her daughters picture on the screen you could clearly tell she was a product of Kate. The likeness to her mother was overwhelming...

BitGridTV actually Captain Janeway is from Indiana.

Captain Kirk (the actor) is from Canada

@@mf7482 but Kirk the character is from Iowa which is BitGrid's point.

Thanks! I’ll have to get into them! Long a Star Trek fan as the first sf to really play the human/entity interactions and imply some depth, the first moments of Kate Mulgrew stole me away. I love strong women who take charge with wisdom (my wife is that indeed and we raised such a daughter). Why takes the leadership role like the best male might, adding the fullness that only a true female can do.

Easy, you can stream on Hulu, CBS access etc. Watch on Hero channel.

Mike Anderson not everyone is a Star Trek fan. Don't be ignorant.

@@TheIndigoSystem He is WORLDY, You all are ignorant, that's the point. We (Trekkies) know about all her roles (and all of science and history and....I digress) These Orange watchers are such closed, limited and primitive creatures they don't seem to recognize her humanity. No, HE WAS SPOT ON ACCURATE, IT WAS YOUR STATMENT, THAT WAS IGNORANT! (and; non Star Trek fans SHOULD BE PURGED. We don't need people who can't embrace a better way for Humanity!

Rodney Spears She reminds me of Katherine Hepburn. I didn't realise until recently that she played Katherine years ago in the play that Faye Dunaway was recently sacked from,

Absolutely!!!

Did you get a chance to meet you rbirth mom?

Seriously wasn't she one of the few, that had bankable talent?

Robbert van Eijndhoven LMAO you're right!!

I have been a huge fan of hers from when she played Mary Ryan on Ryan's Hope. She is an excellent actress and my favorite character on OITNB.

Kate is proud of her roles. Especially Janeway, and she's loved playing Red. You're reading too much into that. Fans followed her to Play at Five.. she knows it's more than just her characters.

Then being an actress is not the smartest thing to do if she wanted to be known for being Kate Mulgrew, and not a character, especially in the trek universe.

Beth Campbell Yes, that was the only show which I saw Kate appear on to date, because I did not watch television often nor have one in my home for over 20 years. I never forgot her name and the role she played on "Ryan's Hope" which I would sometimes watch in one Summer as a young teen girl.

isn't she one of the few actors from that show, that still had skill to succeed any where else?

Under-rated and unfortunately forgotten. There are some episodes floating around on RU-vid and DailyMotion luckily. Good stuff.

So, how can she be loved or can she love anyone else, then?