Strong Female Characters in Science Fiction

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re Janeway
Janeway was written to be a rather poor 'strong female' character, and it often shows (episode "The Thaw" being the sole exception).

As for strong female characters in 'Trek, we see Kira, Sela, Troi, Crusher, and T'Pol.

• In TNG's "Face of the Enemy", Troi is a major powerpuff lady as the Romulan Major Rakal (undercover, though).
• In TNG:Descent (Part II, I recall), Dr. Crusher shines as a very capable combat commander.

In 'Trek, several Romulan characters depicted as important people are female.

In other franchises, Farscape gets the most points, as it's replete with strong female characters, such as Aeryn Sun, Zhaan, Chiana, Noranti ("Grandma"), Commandant Grayza, War Minister Akhna; not to mention a large trove of episodes with very strong women as guest characters.

Of all things, Farscape managed to show very capable women of all ages and all walks of life.

Whereas TNG had mostly sexy/entertainer types and tough commanders/lieutenants.

The reimagined Battlestar Galactica is somewhat comparable to Farscape, but usually vascillates between sexy and tough.

Interestingly, Stargate Universe (SGU) was structured in a very different fashion, and this show was well ahead of time in many, many ways.

At first, there is strife onboard Destiny between who gets to head the ship, as the base that the crew escaped from in the first two episodes appears to have been run like a civilian operation, headed by Camile Wray (Ming-Na). There was some strife on Destiny about that, but the situation slowly reversed in favour of the military guys running the ship, and Wray perhaps formally taking over the rest.

I could posit, that eventually there was a fair distribution of powers.

What I finally saw by the end of SGU, was, that the primary crew made big decisions based on a consensus, being flexible as the situation required, and not pulling rank on one another.

Unfortunately, this movie-quality series was cut short.