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* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' has The Nexus. It's not explicitly Heaven... but it is functionally. It's essentially a HappyPlace in physical space that can give you your hearts deepest desire, free of any {{Aesoptinum}} fees.
** Except that you ''probably'' kill a ''lot'' of people getting there. Notably, no one from the Enterprise is shown in the Nexus...only Picard and Guinan (who probably has superpowers, let's be honest).
*** There is no cost per se, you just need to be in a place that intersects with it. Unfortunately, one way to get it to intersect with you is to blow up stars so you can deflect it into your path.
*** Which is just one of the many things about that particular movie that highlights the IdiotBall being carried by the villain. It says a lot about your mental state when your first thought isn't "steal a shuttlecraft" or "bribe some transporter operator" but instead "Maybe if I put out a sun ..."

* Oddly enough, despite the general belief of many Christians, Literature/TheBible DOES have fairly detailed descriptions of the Christian heaven from a physical point of view. The ''Literature/BookOfRevelation'' includes dimensions, structures, geographical features, and the normal attire its residents generally wear. What's more, taking the descriptions literally makes more sense than strictly symbolically, which is unusual of John's visions. In particular, the New Jerusalem, the "capital" of the post-Doomsday Heaven and Earth, is described in Revelation 21-22 as a cubical golden box several thousand miles on a side, its walls supported by foundation stones of precious minerals, twelve gates made from a single (titanically large) pearl each (the original "pearly gates")[[note]]Must have been some amazing oysters, or God created the pearls separately just for this[[/note]]. Inside is Christ's throne, a golden thoroughfare down which flows a river of the water of life, and ever-bearing Trees of Life.

-->''this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.''

->''this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.''

{{Hell}}, of course, doesn't have this problem and is ''aaall'' about the visceral and gory {{Discretion Shot}}s, so you'll see absolutely [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Dante-esque hellscapes]] to put {{Mordor}} to shame. TheUnderworld, being neither particularly pleasant or unpleasant, likewise doesn't have this problem, though if sections of it are equivalent to {{Heaven}}, we probably won't see the whole thing.

* An odd instance of 'not quite heaven' that obeys similar rules happens in the [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Astral diner]] from the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Threads". It's basically the [[EnergyBeing ascended]] realm boiled down to a level that Daniel's unprepared mind can accept (because he hasn't yet made his final choice whether to ascend or stay mortal).

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E84TheHunt The Hunt]]", an Appalachian mountain man named Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip died, and the afterlife was just like his everyday world. [[spoiler:On a dirt road, a gatekeeper at what was ostensibly Heaven told him no dogs were allowed, so Hyder refused to enter a place that wouldn't take his dog too. Later on, another traveler informs him that was the gate to Hell (and [[EvilDetectingDog dogs know]]), while Heaven was a way up further.]]

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. In "Body Parts", after apparently dying in his sleep Quark wakes up in the Divine Treasury, which due to the limited budget of a TV series isn't quite as splendiferous as you'd expect Ferengi heaven to be.
--->'''First Grand Negus:''' That's because this is a dream, you imbecile!
--->'''Quark:''' So I'm not dead, I'm asleep. That explains why this place looks so tacky.
--->'''First Grand Negus:''' Don't blame me for your limited imagination!
** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Talaxian heaven is a beautiful forest in which there is a large tree called the Guiding Tree. In the episode "Mortal Coil" where it is mentioned, Neelix dies and after he is resurrected he is disappointed that he didn't see anything, even the Guiding Tree. It drives him into a deep depression as he'd lost his family in a war and hoped to see them again. He nearly decides on suicide in despair before being talked out of the idea by his friends.
* There's a definite afterlife in ''{{Series/Charmed|1998}}'', though it seems that certain spirits can return to Earth whenever they please. Penny and Patty routinely make appearances to check up on the sisters. Whether it's due to their Charmed powers or the house being on a spiritual nexus is never stated. It's a common joke among fans that the afterlife has hair salons, given that the hairstyles of the two change in every appearance. The series does feature FluffyCloudHeaven as well - but it's merely the headquarters for the Elders and not the actual afterlife.