After her shuttlecraft crash lands, a critically injured Captain Janeway is attacked by Vidiians and has a mysterious near death experience during which she encounters her father, Admiral Janeway. The Admiral tries to convince Janeway that she has died and that she needs to come with him to the afterlife.

Len Cariou (Admiral Edward Janeway)

• After the shuttle crashes, an alien entity invades Janeway's mind. The aliens invade near-death people and cause them to hallucinate in order to lure them into the alien Matrix to serve as nourishment for the alien race. (In the motion picture The Matrix — released two years after this episode aired — the Matrix is a computer simulation for humans that serve as a bioelectric energy source for machines.)