Ensign Janeway is a junior Enterprise-D crew member who comes to Deanna Troi for counselling in Man of the People and is harshly dismissed by a counsellor under an alien's influence.
Ensign Janeway appears in the sixth-season episode Man of the People. She visits Troi's office to talk through her difficulties with a superior and her feeling that she is not being treated fairly.
Troi, normally the most patient of listeners, has by then been made the receptacle for the negative emotions of the mediator Ves Alkar. Instead of sympathy she offers contempt, telling the ensign in effect to stop complaining and that a transfer might be best if she cannot cope. Janeway leaves shaken.
The scene is one of the first clear signs to the audience that Troi is changing. The character shares her surname with the later captain of Voyager, a coincidence, since this episode was made well before that series was devised.