1.08 emanations

Investigating high energy readings, Chakotay leads an away mission to the source: an asteroid. Dead alien bodies are found there, with more appearing every minute. While Chakotay is lecturing the away team on proper etiquette in burial grounds, an energy wave permeates the cabin. An emergency beam-out only nets Chakotay, B’Elanna, and a new dead body; Kim finds himself on a planet, inside a pod. The doctor is able to revive the freshly deceased body. The alien believed it was going to an afterlife, a ‘second life’, where she would maintain corporeal shape and continue to live, and to see all those who ‘died’ before her. Kim, meanwhile, is believed to have come from this emanation, although he tries to explain carefully that in his reality, all he saw were a bunch of dead bodies. Considered a threat by the people in charge, he begins to influence one alien who has just been convinced to die by family pressure. As Kim is about to be whisked even further away for more study, he devises a plan whereby he will take the place of the alien, allowing the alien to escape into the hills and continue to live; Kim will die, but is banking on the doctor being able to revive him. Fortunately, it works, and Kim also gets a few days off, and is advised by Janeway to take the time to think about what has happened.