lordjedi said:
One of the things I liked most about Kirk, and to a lesser extent Picard, is that they were willing to break the rules in order to protect their crew. That's something Janeway didn't seem willing to do and it was obvious from the start. She had a chance to get everyone back home in the first episode of Voyager and turned it down. I can't remember the exact reasons, but all I could think was "Your crew comes first!" Obviously that would've ended the series, which is why they needed better writers from the start.

Maybe in the pilot Janeway follows the rules, but as time goes on I think she breaks the rules far more than any other Captain on any of the other shows, makes Kirk look like a boy scout. I think in one episode Tuvok reminds her that she has already broken the Prime Directive 47 times in that month alone. The show ends with her illegally going back in time and altering events to get the Voyager home safely.