Coda ( episode ) After her apparent death , Captain Janeway ' s journey to the afterlife , guided by her father , leaves her with suspicions . Summary . Teaser . Captain Kathryn Janeway and Commander Chakotay are traveling on an away mission from in a shuttlecraft , chatting about a recent talent show on board the ship , when they are forced down by electrical interference from a nearby planet . Janeway is critically injured in the crash . Act One . Chakotay gets her out of the shuttle and revives her via CPR and cordrazine . Janeway activates their homing signal and unwittingly shows the Vidiian s ( who Chakotay discovers have shot them down ) right where to find them . They are then captured and killed by the Vidiians ( Chakotay is shot , Janeway is strangled ) . Suddenly , Janeway finds herself back on the shuttle , again talking about the talent show , when she and her first officer both realize they are re - living an event that already occurred . Supposing they had been caught in some kind of time loop , and determined not to make the same mistake as before , they use the shuttlecraft ' s sensors to track Vidiian ships on a intercept course . They start having problems with the warp core in the resulting firefight , and the shuttle explodes before they can eject the core or take any other preventive measures for their new predicament . Janeway and Chakotay are once again in the shuttle , and they look at each other , now remembering again . Act Two . They once again see Vidiian ships on an intercept course , but this time they can contact " Voyager " . Janeway tries to use a tachyon burst to disrupt the time loop , and suddenly the ships disappear . They are contacted by " Voyager " and brought back safe and sound . Oddly , as Janeway describes what happened , no one , including Chakotay , remember any mention of a time loop , so she ' s the only one who remembers things differently . The Doctor scans her and determines that she has been infected by Vidiian phage . He promises to continue looking into a cure and quarantine s her in sickbay . Later , she wakes up and sees the sores on her skin , asking for the next step . Unfortunately , he sees the virus is very aggressive and , claiming to be acting in the most humane way possible , euthanizes her , over her protests , with nerve gas . Once more , she and Chakotay are back on the shuttle . They see a strange bright light in front of them that is coming towards their shuttle ; as they figure out a course of action it suddenly it engulfs them . Next , she finds herself in an out - of - body experience . She seems to be standing next to Chakotay , watching as he tries , unsuccessfully , to revive her . Act Three . Crew members arrive and transport her straight to sickbay and her " spirit " follows , trying unsuccessfully to contact the crew . The Doctor and Kes at first get some signs of life but ultimately are unable to revive the Captain . Knowing Kes possesses telepathic abilities , Janeway tries to get her attention in the corridor until Kes walks right through her . It seems to work ; Kes stops and turns around and says to what her appears to be an empty corridor " Captain ? " Later , Kes informs the crew about her experience , saying that she has the strongest feeling that the captain was in the corridor with her . Believing that the captain might still be alive in some alternate dimension in subspace , the crew begins to scan for her mind . Lieutenant Tuvok offers to work with Kes in order to help her increase the range of her perceptions . While in engineering following the crew ' s activities with respect to their investigations , Janeway is encountered by the " spirit " of her late father , Vice Admiral . Act Four . Her father says he is there to transfer her to the " next world . " He claims that she actually died in the shuttlecraft . He also tells her that he went through the same thing after his accident : returning home to his wife and children for a long time , until he finally realized it was futile . Apparently , when death is unexpected , ones consciousness is not prepared to let go . Janeway is not convinced , stating that if he was a hallucination , a part of her , he would certainly know all the things he claims to know about her . However , he states that it really does not matter and that eventually she will crossover to that other state of consciousness . He informs her that even though her crewmembers and friends are looking for her now , they will give up eventually , accept what ' s happened and that she will eventually accept it too . But Janeway is not convinced and wants to help Kes " sense " her again . In Tuvok ' s quarters , Tuvok and Kes are meditating in order to be able to sense Janeway again but Kes is not getting anything . She feels empty and alone , now doubting that she actually ever felt the captain at all , even though the " spirit " Janeway is sitting right there . Kes now concludes that it might have been her own desire that wanted to believe the captain wasn ' t dead . Tuvok agrees with her , stating that he also does not sense anything and that after three days , the efforts by Lt . jg B ' Elanna Torres and Ensign Harry Kim have also been unsuccessful . He suggests that maybe it was time they accepted the inevitability of her death . The next day , during her memorial service at the mess hall , Janeway and her " father " are present as Torres and Kim give two rather touching speeches as they remember Kathryn Janeway , what she meant to them and taught them as well as the great loss the whole crew will experience now that she is gone . Harry ' s speech , in particular , brings tears to Janeway ' s eyes and Tom Paris calms Harry down after Harry finishes his speech . Chakotay concludes the service by honoring the captain one last time with a moment of silence as her pod is released into space . Knowing that the captain would not want them to sit around and mope , Chakotay suggests that they should be gathering together and sharing the good times they had with her and Chakotay also tells everybody that Neelix has prepared some food for them to comfort the loss of the captain . The " ghost " tells Janeway it ' s over . Act Five . The ghost of Janeway ' s " father " continues trying to convince her that it is over and that there is nothing left there for her anymore . But Janeway is still not ready to accept it . Her " father " tries to convince her that all her attempts to deny the reality of her situation will only hurt her more for as time wears on , she will realize how potent and destructive loneliness is ; seeing the people she loves move on with their lives without her in it , being forever shut out of their existence . But Janeway is still not convinced , insisting that she is just not ready , that she ' d rather be there in spirit than not at all because " " a captain doesn ' t abandon ship . " " As the ghost of her " father " keeps pushing her into making the decision to finally leave this world behind , Janeway suddenly and briefly experiences looking up at Chakotay and The Doctor , still on the surface of the planet , as if they are still trying to revive her . She accuses her " father " of being an alien of some kind , knowing that her real father always respected her inclination to find things out for herself , rather than just taking someone else ' s word for it . A second and third vision makes it obvious her experiences in the " afterlife " are not reality . She realizes that the person lying on the ground on that planet is the real Janeway and that all the things she has been experiencing since her alleged death is a hallucination . The alien being finally reveals its true identity . It claims that its species , at the moment of death , comes to help the dying understand what is happening in order to make the crossing - over an occasion of joy . It states that it was being truthful when it said that it was a place of wonder , for it can be whatever she wants it to be . Disguising as her father or generally as someone ' s loved ones makes the crossing over a much less fearful occasion . Janeway doubts that the alien ' s real reasons for wanting her in its world have anything to do with everlasting joy and demands to know what it really wants from her . The alien grabs her , telling her that she must go with it but Janeway realizes that if the alien could force her to go , it would have done so already . She finally understands that the alien needs her to " voluntarily " agree to go with it ; something she refuses to do . The alien being becomes visibly upset , returning to it own realm but as a last warning states that there will be another time and that the alien will be waiting , for eventually she would come into its Matrix and nourish it for a long , long time . The captain finally wakes up on the planet , revived by The Doctor and Chakotay beside her , who explains that they were caught in a magnetic storm and crashed there . The Doctor and Tuvok took a shuttlecraft down to the planet to begin treating her but as they were doing so , an alien presence was detected within her cerebral cortex . Its presence prevented all of their attempts to heal her but that it was eventually dislodged . Janeway tells them about the alien who appeared to her in the image of her father , trying to take her into its realm . She tells them that from what she saw , that certainly was not where she would like to spend eternity . Back on " Voyager " , Janeway tries to recover by going back to her routine , when Chakotay walks into her ready room and gives her a rose . They discuss what she experienced down on the planet and Chakotay mentions how this alien and its matrix remind him of a spider who has to lure a fly into its web . She wonders whether each of the near - death experiences they heard about might be the result of an alien inhabitation . Chakotay finds that hard to believe and Janeway hopes he is right . She expresses her hope that his species was native to the Delta Quadrant and that they ' ve seen the last of them . Janeway jokes that , after all , they cheated death which is certainly worth a celebration with a bottle of Champagne and a moonlight sail on Lake George . Chakotay wholeheartedly agrees and off they head off to the holodeck together . Memorable quotes . " " Maybe I could stand with an apple on my head and you could phaser it off . " " " " Sounds great . If I miss , I get to be captain . " " " " Go back to Hell , coward . " " " " You can ' t die ! " " " " Breathe , damn it ! Breathe ! " " " " Nice aim ! " " " " It didn ' t stop them . " " " " I ' m the captain ! Delete the EMH ! " " " " She saw something in me that I didn ' t see . She saw a worthwhile person where I saw a lost and hostile misfit . And because she had faith in me , I began to have faith in myself . And when she died , the first thing I thought was that I couldn ' t do this without her , that I needed her too badly – her strength and her compassion . But then I realized that the gift that she gave me , and gave a lot of us here , was the knowledge that we are better and stronger than we think . " " " " I know Captain Janeway wouldn ' t want us to be sitting around moping . She ' d want us to be cheering each other up remembering the good times , like that away mission when we found all those bushes of overripe fruit . I must have eaten half a kilo . My hands and mouth were all purple , and the captain . . . the captain came and sat down next to me , and her mouth was all stained too . She put her arm around my shoulder and she said . . . she said . . . ' Ensign , these are the times we have to remember . " " Links and references . References . antigrav thruster ; apple ; ballet ; Beginning Ballet ; boatswain ' s whistle ; cerebral cortex ; cerebrovascular collapse ; champagne ; chroniton ; clarinet ; consciousness parasite ; cortical stimulator ; cordrazine ; cranial swelling ; Delta Quadrant ; dementia ; direct synaptic stimulation ; euthanasia ; evasive maneuvers ; fruit ; gas flow separator ; ghost ; gravito - magnetic force ; headache ; hydrazine ; ice cap ; inaprovaline ; ion lightning ; Lake George ; lesion ; magnetic storm ; magneton scanner ; matrix ; memorial service ; microcellular scan ; midbrain ; near - death experience ; neural toxin ; nitrogenase compound ; Kashimuro Nozawa ; Klingon ; phage ; poetry ; " Sacajawea " ; security access code ; shock ; ; subspace ; tachyon ; Talent Night ; Tau Ceti Prime ; temporal scan ; temporal signature ; temporal field ; temporal flux ; temporal loop ; " The Dying Swan " ; thalamus ; thoron ; Unnamed planet ; Vidiian ; Vidiian warship ; Vulcan