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Did writers forget about “Barge of the Dead” in season 7? During “Imperfection”, Seven ask B’Elanna if she believes in afterlife. Her response is ‘I hope so.

She literally went to hell and back. How does that not make her believe in it?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

B'Elanna had an experience, that at the time she very strongly believed to be real, but she's also a person of science. I feel like it would be out of character for her to not have some questions, even after her journey to Gre'thor.

In "Tapestry", when Q tells him, "I told you. You're dead. This is the afterlife, and I'm God," what is Picard's response? "You are not God."

B'Elanna's in a similar situation. She's informed that she's on the barge of the dead, but is that necessarily divine? Perhaps Gre'thor is an alternate dimension, or something like inside of the Nexus. Fek'lhr could be a powerful being, not wholly dissimilar from Q. In "Homefront", Worf claims that Klingons killed their gods for being "more trouble than they were worth," perhaps that was more than just Klingon myth. We know that aliens visited Earth and were perceived to be deities. The Greek pantheon in "Who Mourns for Adonias", Kukulkan was believed to be the Quetzalcoatl as per "How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth", and even Satan from Christian mythology was the being Lucien depicted in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".

Given everything B'Elanna should be aware of regarding the nature of the galaxy, blind faith in an afterlife, even one she's ostensibly experienced first hand, does seem like a big ask.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

I think B’Elanna’s not sure what to think of her “Barge of the Dead” experience and can’t tell if it was real or just some weird hallucination.

“I hope so” indicates that uncertainty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Interesting take that feels dismissive to me, what about the episode makes you draw that conclusion? It strongly felt to me like her experience was being presented as outside the bounds of what can be measured by science.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hallucinations often appear quite real to the ones experiencing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I think you can even draw a defining distinction there because if it is not believed then pseudohalucination would be the better description.