Star Trek: 10 Times Captain Janeway Was Right And Everyone Else Was Wrong
3. Flying The Ship Through A Binary Pulsar
She may have been driven to the edge by alien experiments, but she’s a badass!
In the episode Scientific Method, Voyager’s crew are experimented upon by a group of aliens who are using microscopic tags to inflict ever more severe genetic mutations. When the plan to disable the tags fails, and a Voyager crewmember dies horrendously on the bridge, Captain Janeway is pushed to breaking point and flies the ship between a binary pulsar.
This ends NOW!
Not only is this one hell of an epic scene, but Janeway is proven right to the likes of Tuvok, Kim, and the aliens themselves (one of whom materialises on the bridge in an attempt to stop the Captain). Tuvok, after suggesting a course change to avoid the pulsars, comments that "this is a far more reckless course of action" than he has come to expect. (WRONG!) Kim suggests diverting all remaining power to shields when things get really sticky. (WRONG!) The aliens’ interventions come to nought as Janeway has locked in the ship’s course with her access codes. Neither can the aliens kill everyone, because the work of the entire crew will be needed to get through the stars’ gravity.
With a decisive speech – "[...] you are not in control here anymore" – Janeway vanquishes the aliens, transfers all remaining power to engines (sorry, Kim!), and leaves the pulsars in the dust.
If she’d listened to anyone else, Voyager might still be a flying laboratory or, worse, the third wheel of a binary system.