Borhya was theBajoran name for aghost. (TNGepisode: "The Next Phase")
Bajorans believe that Bajorans who do not have theBajoran death chant performed at their time of death do not go theCelestial Temple and instead return as borhyas during theRising. (DS9video game:Harbinger)
In2368 whenRo Laren andGeordi La Forge were accidentally put out of phase Ro thought she had died and remained on theUSSEnterprise as a borhya. (TNGepisode: "The Next Phase")
AfterBenjamin Sisko andKira Nerys travelled back in time to the year2369, no one onTerok Nor could see them. Kira suggested that it was because they were Borhyas, although Sisko, who was aware of the term, believed that they were not dead, but that it was the work of theProphets. (DS9novel:Inferno)
In2376Kira Nerys dreamed she encountered a borhya-like apparition ofBenjamin Sisko. (DS9novels:Avatar, Book One,Avatar, Book Two)
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- TNGepisode: "The Next Phase"
- DS9novel:Inferno
- DS9video game:Harbinger
- TTNnovel:Sword of Damocles
- LDepisode: "Empathological Fallacies"
External link[]
- Borhya article atMemory Alpha, the wiki for canonStar Trek.