A Klingon whom B'Elanna Torres meets aboard the Barge of the Dead in 2376, a fellow passenger among the dishonoured souls being ferried across the river of blood to Gre'thor.
Hij'Qa appears in the sixth-season Voyager episode Barge of the Dead, played by Sherman Augustus. He is one of the Klingon dead on the vessel that carries the dishonoured to Gre'thor under the command of the ferryman Kortar.
When B'Elanna Torres finds herself on the barge after a shuttle accident, Hij'Qa is among the first to speak to her. He treats her arrival as nothing unusual and explains the nature of the journey, warning her about the voices that call from the waters to lure souls over the side.
Whether he is a real spirit or a product of B'Elanna's near-death experience is left open, as is everything she sees on the barge. He is part of the vision that pushes her to return and try to redeem her mother Miral.