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Gahh that episode was boring as hell, like most of the Voyagers...
And I also am miffed with Star Trek having religion and religious references. Wasn't it Roddenberry's original vision to have no religion in ST (Q was after all, just an extremely powerful alien)? Then we get the pathetic bloody 'prophet' sub-story in DS9, and repeated and consistently shite afterlife stories in Voyager...Clear really how things started going bad with DS9 I guess

In fairness to DS9, the Prophets did actually exist. It seems quite reasonable to me that really advanced/powerful beings like the Prophets or Q have cults worshippping them.

And this lot seem to be real set on protecting Bajor, so it's no wonder they got people worshipping them.

The link with that is that "Barge of the Dead" was penned by Ronald D. Moore, I shit you not, and from the sounds of things the somewhat aggressive religious theme (that sometimes featured in DS9 and also in VOY's "Barge of the Dead") had gotten worse in the final season of NuBSG. And I'm with Solauren that the Klingon's Anglo-Saxon/Viking-ish afterlife was most likely all in the injured Torres' scrambled head and as mentioned before about the better "Mortal Coil" when Neelix died for real he experienced nada.