After returning home to the Alpha Quadrant, she is promoted to vice admiral and briefly appears in the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis.

During the development of Star Trek: Voyager, one of the actors considered to play the captain, before it was decided the character would be a woman, was Gary Graham.

[3] After Bujold's departure, Joanna Cassidy, Susan Gibney, Elizabeth Dennehy, Tracy Scoggins, and Lindsay Crouse were considered as replacements.

The two manage to return to their bodies, but Janeway found herself in the brig with seemingly no one willing to believe her explanation of recent events, nor her warning of the Protostar's booby trap before it was too late and the Starfleet ships in the immediate area starting to attack each other out of the crews' control and that promised to be only the beginning of the destruction.

In the second season, Janeway works with the kids to rescue Chakotay from the future, accidentally creating a universe destroying temporal paradox in the process.

As a result of the alterations to time, a younger version of the holographic Janeway returns in the second season, having spent ten years marooned with Chakotay.

At the end of the season, at Chakotay's behest, The Doctor copies the holographic Janeway onto an EMH backup module before her memories are erased and the ship is sent back in time to be found by the kids.

Janeway also grants convicted criminal, former Starfleet officer, and accomplished pilot Tom Paris a field commission, and makes him Voyager's helmsman.

[14] Janeway's other interactions with her crew include helping the de-assimilated Borg Seven of Nine reclaim her individuality and humanity and advocating for the Doctor's status as a sentient being.

With the intervention of a future/alternate version of herself, Janeway leads her crew in using one of the Borg's transwarp conduits to return her ship to Federation space after having traveled through the Delta Quadrant for seven years.

Admiral Janeway also appeared in the Borg Invasion 4-D ride at the Star Trek: The Experience venue in Las Vegas, which closed in 2008.

Seven of Nine, with the aid of Ambassador Spock and the Enterprise-E crew, manages to communicate with Janeway's consciousness, buried deep within the Queen's mind.

Her memorial service sees a vast turnout, and a tall gleaming pillar with a light burning atop it is constructed in tribute to her.

[17] In the 2012 Star Trek: Voyager novel The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer, Janeway returns to human life with the help of young Q, who needs her assistance, and by the book's end resumes her admiralship in Starfleet.

In the 2014 Star Trek: Voyager novel Protectors by Kirsten Beyer, Janeway goes back to Earth per orders of Starfleet Command; by the end of the book she returns to the Delta Quadrant, taking charge of the starships stationed there.

[19] In particular, they note her ability to overcome great challenges despite being on the other side of the Galaxy and commanding a crew in large part consisting of non-Starfleet personnel.

[22] Screen Rant rated her the fifth best captain of the franchise, noting her ability to command in adverse situations; two praises were that she does not give up easily and tries to maintain crew morale.

[25] In 2016, Captain Janeway was ranked as the 8th most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek science fiction universe by Wired magazine.

[33] In 2015, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti – then serving aboard the International Space Station– dressed as Janeway for photographs in which she gestured toward an incoming Dragon cargo spacecraft.

She posted a photo to Twitter with the comment, "‘There’s coffee in that nebula’… ehm, I mean… in that #Dragon," quoting a memorable line by the character from the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Cloud".

[39] An official groundbreaking event took place on June 27, 2020, and the monument was unveiled on October 24, 2020, after being delayed from the planned date of May 20, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.