Despite all of Starfleet's technological advances, impressive armadas of ships at their disposal and the highly trained crews under their command, space is still a wild and untamed frontier. None experienced this quite like Captain Katheryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her crew in Star Trek: Voyager, who were stranded in the unknown regions of the Delta Quadrant and must travel 70,000 light-years to get back to Earth. The journey home took place over the Star Trek spinoff's seven seasons and pitted Janeway and her crew against dangerous and never-before-seen foes like the Vidiians, the Krenim and the Species 8472.

Without Starfleet's backing, diminishing supplies and half a complement of defectors, Janeway had her work cut out for her and steered her ship through one crisis after the other, but she didn't always come through unscathed. If you thought Deep Space Nine's Miles O'Brian had it bad and earned the wrath of the powers that be, just wait -- Janeway died a ridiculous 17 times throughout Voyager's run.

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Voyager's Captain Janeway (played by Kate Mulgrew) holds a phaser rifle alongside Tuvok (Tim Russ) with B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) in the background

Since this is Star Trek and death among lead characters is as permanent as stable overhauls of the holodeck, the series always found a way to bring Janeway back from the dead. Most of her "resurrections" are a result of time travel and alternate timelines. An example of this is seen as early as Season 1, Episode 4, "Time and Again," when Janeway and Lieutenant Tom Paris investigate a massive explosion on a planet and are thrust back in time to prevent the disaster, while Janeway's crew learns that their captain was lost in the present day. In Episode 21 of Season 2, an alternate version of Janeway and her crew encounter their mirror selves after an accident in a plasma field and find themselves at the mercy of recurring villains, the Vidiians. Janeway's alternate self sacrifices her ship and crew, killing the Vidiians onboard and allowing Voyager's original crew to escape with their lives.

Season 3 Episode 15, "Coda," sees Janeway trapped in a loop of reoccurring deaths after a shuttlecraft incident. She's strangled, blown up, shot and poisoned and wakes up in the shuttlecraft over and over again, all while she sees visions of her dead father. It's later revealed that these are all visions, and a non-corporeal being is responsible and trying to feed off Janeway's spirit. One of Janeway's most famous deaths, though, comes in the two-part episode, "The Year of Hell," which pits the Voyager crew against the time-altering villains, the Krenim, who are attempting to rewrite history and return their empire to its former glory. The Krenim battle Voyager for a hellish year of tragedy and loss and Janeway finally ends the crisis by crashing Voyager into the Krenim's ship, resetting the timeline in the process.

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Ensign Harry Kim then gets a chance to reset the timeline when Voyager crashes and most of the crew, including Janeway, perishes in one of the most well-received episodes of the series, Season 5's "Timeless." Kim and Commander Chakotay defy Starfleet and attempt to change Voyager's fate, returning to the scene of an accident 15 years later. By the end of the episode, they succeed in their mission, and Janway and the crew continue the journey to Earth. Voyager makes it home in the Season 7 finale, but their success comes at a cost, and it weighs heavily on the now Admiral Janeway. She travels back in time to warn Voyager and help them defeat their greatest enemies, the Borg, sacrificing herself to ensure every single member of the crew gets home.

Temporarily killing off their characters is nothing new to Star Trek, but poor Janeway got the worst of it with her numerous deaths. She proved, however, that you can't keep a good captain down, especially when they have a loyal crew at their back.

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