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For more information and to follow the progress of the project, join the Captain Janeway Bloomington Collective, a public group on Facebook, at www.facebook.com/groups/JanewayBloomington.

Here's what a few of the members had to say about what Captain Kathryn Janeway means to them.

"I adore how her decisions are based on science and love."

"Although I didn't come to Trek until adulthood, I was enamored with Capt. Janeway since I first saw her. I wish I would've seen it as a child, when strong female leads were very few and far between, let alone one with red hair! In Janeway, I see who I aspire to be: caring, compassionate, warm, motherly, a confidante, intelligent, strong, passionate, unflappable and beautiful. Her insecurities are also why I love her: They make her real."

"I grew up idolizing women like Princess Leia and Captain Janeway because they weren't the princesses in the tower who waited to be saved. They did the saving themselves."

"Captain Janeway embodies what I would hope future mankind to be... intelligent, assertive, yet yielding."