Janeway did fight, kill, destroy, intimidate, threaten, battle and overcome many enemies and completely use an authoritarian hand for the love of her life ...
Coffee
If earth, the human race and the federation had stood in her way for a carafe of Columbian coffee, she would have destroyed us all.
When they established communications with Starfleet again and got the letter that Mark moved on she was just like "Meh, I knew he would probably move on" lmfao
If we are doing the whole strong female characters BS I present you Kira Nerys.
Fought a genocidal occupation all her youth
Became one of the leading figures in a massive space station orbiting her world
Fought the dominion
Placed aside her hatred for the Cardassians
Matured and grew to be a wise woman
On a different note, what surprised me the most afted rewatching voyager's pilot after a good 15 years is that Janeway had a boyfriend/husband/partner. I mean he was mentioned in at least another episode during 1st season but I'm pretty sure he has been forgotten by then
There’s light commentary later before she finds companionship in fair haven, but essentially she sees how stranded she is and it’s posed to her as inappropriate to partner with someone under her command.
For the most part though, we do forget about her boyfriend and she has flings with a few guys along her way.
While I know this is done for humor's sake, I really love this critique.
Similar to the Bechdel Test, this comesvery close to perfectly illustrating the Mako Mori Test:
The requirements of the Mako Mori test are that a film or television show has at least one female character and that this character has an independent plot arc and that the character or her arc does not simply exist to support a male character's plot arc.[2]