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The near death experience alien is the main antagonist of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Coda".
It was portrayed by Len Cariou, who also played Sweeney Todd in the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Allard Bunker in Law and Order.
Biography[]
The near death experience alien managed to invade Captain Janeway's cerebral cortex after she was injured in a shuttle crash. He managed to cause a number of hallucinations in which she died, including being killed by the Vidiians, dying when the shuttle exploded and being euthanised by the Doctor after developing an incurable disease. He then presented her with the apparent truth, her lying dead after the shuttle crash.
The alien took the form of Janeway's father, a Starfleet admiral who had drowned fifteen years earlier. He claimed he was there to guide her to "the other side", a place of joy, and that her consciousness only existed as a ghost or spirit. To emthasise the point, he showed her Voyager's crew mourning her death and told her that he had been by her side during the months she had spent shutting herself away mourning her father. He reminded her of the times she had woken up convinced her father had been in the room with her. Despite his repeated attempts to convince her to move on, Janeway insisted she would continue to watch over her crew even if they didn't know she was there.
Janeway then had a flash of Chakotay, Tuvok and the Doctor trying to revive her after the crash and referring to the alien. She realised this was what was really happening and that everything else was a hallucination. The alien produced a vortex which he claimed was the route to the other side. He now claimed that his species appeared to the near dead to guide them over and took the form of loved ones to make them feel more comfortable. He insisted he had told the truth and that the vortex, which he referred to as a matrix, was a place of joy, and that she had no chance of being saved.
Janeway became more and more suspicious of the alien, concluding that he couldn't force her into the matrix and needed to trick her into entering it voluntarily, insisting she would continue to refuse for eternity. Conceding defeat and dropping his pretense of affability, the alien told her that one day she would be close to death again and he would return for her, and once she was in his matrix she would nourish him for a long time. Janeway told him to go back to hell and he entered the matrix himself as Janeway woke up.
