Bio-polymer residue - The away team discovers this organic residue in the caverns when they beam down to one of the asteroid rings; the Doctor says that the residue is a byproduct of the alien's natural decomposition process; as their tissue decays, the residue is excreted by the epidermal layer. (Emanations)
Burial site - The away team discovers that the cavern on the asteroid ring they are exploring is really a burial site. (Emanations)
Cararian Mountains - Hatil says that he has friends in these mountains who would be willing to let him stay with them if he decided not to go through with the transference ritual. (Emanations)
Centotaph - This device terminates a person's life just before the appearance of a spectral rupture and allows the person's body to be taken to the next Emanation. (Emanations)
Ceremonial shroud - The Vhnori wrap themselves in a ceremonial shroud before undergoing the transference ritual; Hatil used the shroud that his father and grandfather used; it has been in his family for 5 generations; Hatil tells Kim it must be wrapped a certain way. (Emanations)
Class five humanoid - The bodies on the asteroids appear to be this type of humanoid. (Emanations)
Comra - Kes tells Ptera that the Ocampa believe that their comra, or soul, is released into the afterlife when they die. (Emanations)
Cordrazine - The Doctor uses 2cc's of this drug to revive Kim after he has been killed by the centotaph. (Emanations)
Dimensional distortion - A dimensional distortion is detected just before a subspace vacuole forms. (Emanations)
Element - The Voyager crew thinks that they have discovered the 247th element inside the rings of one of the asteroids of a class D planet; the element appears to be stable and has 550 nucleons; it is a stable transuranic element inside a natural environment; Torres believes that this element can be used for probe casings and ultrathin reactor shielding. (Emanations)
Eler'atah - This word is chanted by the people at Ptera's pod during her transference ritual. (Emanations)
Emanation - A Vhnori word for another dimension or "afterlife".
Emergency Transport 21 Alpha - Seska tried this type of beam out when she has trouble transporting the away team from the asteroid. (Emanations)
Garan, Araya (Robin Graves) - Wife of Hatil Garan; she blames Kim after Hatil begins to have doubts that he should go through with the transference ritual. (Emanations)
Garan, Hatil (Jeffery Alan Chandler) - Hatil meets Kim shortly before his transference ritual; he tells Kim that ever since his accident he has been a burden to his family and that at a family meeting it was agreed that he move on to the next emanation; Hatil begins to have doubts that he should go through with the ritual after learning that Kim has seen the bodies of his people on the asteroid rings; Kim convinces him to go stay with his friends in the Cararian Mountains while Kim takes his place in the centotaph. (Emanations)
Garili tree - Araya tells Hatil to tell his father that these trees that his father planted have been in bloom for 3 years straight. (Emanations)
Ktania 7 - Chakotay says that this was the site of his first tomb excavation and that he picked up a rock from the burial site as a memento of the experience; later he learned that the rock was a sacred stone that represented a special prayer and that he had unknowningly desecrated a grave. (Emanations)
Neria (Jerry Hardin) - This doctor is the chief thanatologist at the complex where the transference ritual occurs. (Emanations)
Netinaline - The Doctor used 2 cc's of this drug to revive Ptera. (Emanations)
Paffran - Doctor Neria wants to send Kim to the complex at Paffran for a more detailed scan of his microcellular structures and a complete exam of his neuro-chemistry. (Emanations)
Ptera (Cecile Callan) - Ptera's body is left on Voyager by a subspace vacuole when the vacuole takes Kim to Vhnori; she had been dying of a cancerous growth on the midbrain when she was killed by the centotaph during the transference ritual; the Doctor was able to revive her since she had only been dead a couple minutes; he replicates new neural tissue and then uses standard Starfleet post mortem resusitation techniques; Ptera is killed again when they attempt to beam her back to Vhnori with a subspace transponder in order to use it to find Kim. (Emanations)
Ranora - Doctor Neria tells Kim to go with Dr. Ranora so that he can start a more detailed bioanalysis on him. (Emanations)
Seska (Martha Hackett) - Former Maquis; Female Ensign on Voyager; works in transporter room. (Emanations)
Spectral rupture - This natural occurence appears once every 6 hours; Dr. Neria says that the complex is built at the place where these spectral ruptures occur so that the centotaph can transport people into the next emanation; these spectral ruptures occur at thousands of different sites on the Vhnori homeworld. (Emanations)
Subspace transponder - Ptera takes a subspace transponder with her when they try to transport her back to Vhnori; Torres hopes that this will be able to penetrate the dimensional barrier and allow them to lock onto Kim with a transporter beam. (Emanantions)
Subspace vacuole - These vacuoles occur at the site of the spectral ruptures and transport dead bodies of the Vhnori to the asteroid rings; Kim gets transported to the Vhnori homeworld through one of these vacuoles. (Emanations)
Thanatologist - A specialist in the study of death on the Vhnori homeworld; Dr. Neria is the chief thanatologist of the facility in which Kim is taken after he is found in the centotaph. (Emanations)
Tomb excavation - Chakotay's first tomb excavation was on Ktania 7; he inadvertantly desecrated a grave by removing a sacred stone and taking it with him. (Emanations)
Toyan - Araya tells Hatil to say hello to Toyan when he is in the next Emanation. (Emanations)
Transference ritual - The Vhnori go through this ritual in order to go on to the next Emanation; Ptera goes through this ritual when she is dying from a cancerous growth on the brainstem; Hatil prepares to go through this ritual since he has become a burden to his family since his accident; Kim goes through the ritual hoping that it will help him get back to Voyager. (Emanations)
Tricorder - Janeway tells the away team to use passive scans only with the tricorder in order not to disturb anything at the burial site on the asteroid; Chakotay recommends that they only use visual observations and no tricorders at all. (Emanations)
Varel - Araya tells Hatil to say hello to Varel when he is in the next Emanation. (Emanations)
Vhnori - This race of people believe in an afterlife in which they evolve to a higher level of consciousness and gain a greater understanding of the universe; they call this afterlife the next Emanation; Kim is accidently transported to their world. (Emanations)
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