A Vhnori doctor and thanatologist who examines Harry Kim after the ensign appears inside a burial pod on the Vhnori homeworld, shaking his people's faith in the Next Emanation.
Doctor Neria is a Vhnori physician who specialises in thanatology, the study of death. He appears in the first-season Voyager episode Emanations.
The Vhnori send their dying through spatial vacuoles in the belief that they will be reborn in a higher state called the Next Emanation. When Harry Kim is accidentally swept back through a vacuole and wakes inside a cenotaph, Neria is called in to study him. Kim's account of bodies simply lying on an asteroid alarms the authorities, and Neria is torn between scientific curiosity and pressure to keep the visitor hidden.
Neria treats Kim with courtesy, but his reluctance to let him go pushes Kim to arrange his own escape with the help of Hatil Garan.