History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS4E11MortalCoil

Neelix dies during an away mission, struck by an energy discharge, but in such a way that all of his brain's neural pathways are still fully intact; this allows Seven of Nine to revive him using her Borg nanoprobes - despite Neelix being "dead on the slab" with no heartbeat or brain activity for a full 19 hours.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Seven of Nine brought Neelix back from the freakin' dead after several hours via (what else?) nanoprobes. Apparently, the technology must only work on main cast members. Only that one time...
** They specifically said this was an unusual case, that his brain's neural pathways were basically frozen fully intact, allowing the nanoprobes to essentially just turn them back on. It wouldn't help getting killed by a phaser.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Chakotay helps Neelix go on a VisionQuest as requested, yet he doesn't consider that Neelix isn't a human and may not have the slightest idea what the visions mean or how to cope with them. He apparently assumed Neelix had this knowledge and doesn't explain any of it until Neelix is attempting suicide. On top of that, Neelix is exhibiting obvious signs of a profound emotional crisis. Chakotay IS aware that these emotions would be reflected in the visions.

Neelix dies during an away mission, struck by an energy discharge, but in such a way that all of his brain's neural pathways are still fully intact, which allows Seven of Nine to revive him using her Borg nanoprobes - despite Neelix being "dead on the slab" with no heartbeat or brain activity for a full 19 hours.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Chakotay helps Neelix go on a VisionQuest as requested yet he doesn't consider that Neelix isn't a human and may not have the slightest idea what the visions mean or how to cope with them. He apparently assumed Neelix had this knowledge and doesn't explain any of it until Neelix is attempting suicide. On top of that, Neelix is exhibiting obvious signs of a profound emotional crisis. Chakotay IS aware that these emotions would be reflected in the visions.

* StepfordSmiler: Neelix tries to maintain his cheery facade, but it doesn't last.

* TruthInTelevision: Neelix insisting he's at peace shortly before his attempted suicide. For individuals in RealLife who are known to suffer from depression or other forms of mental or emotional distress, a sudden sense of peace and contenment is a ''major'' warning sign that they intend to take drastic action.

* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: This is the first time the audience really sees Naomi since she was an infant, and canonically she should be no more than two years old. However, she appears to be at least four or five in this episode (although Justified as a result of being half Ktarian.)

[[caption-width-right:350:As we saw in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E14Coda Coda]]," if it's an episode where a character sees their own corpse, shit gets ''real.'']]

* HopeSpot: During his vision quest, Neelix sees the Great Forest and his deceased sister Alixia there. So, he's starting to feel better about the prospect of the afterlife. That is, till she mockingly tells him that this is all a lie

** FunnyAneurysmMoment: It's a long speech listing off how happy everyone is to be gathered in the presence of all their relatives: "Father, mother, sister, brother. Father's father, father's mother, father's brother, mother's brother..." - But in the scene immediately before that, Neelix brings up that his ''entire family'' died in the war (his parents, his sisters, and all his cousins). So Neelix is cheerfully sitting through a painful reminder of all he's lost, because he wants everyone else to have a good time.