Heaven is a paradise like location in many religions and the mythology of certain cultures, it is often a locale in the afterlife.

In Rajathan culture heaven is of equal status to the underworld and Rajathan monuments have ceremonial entrances into both. (TNG comic: "Captain's Pleasure")

The concepts of Purgatory (a soul between salvation and condemnation) and Perdition (hellbound, but a deed of sacrifice may grant entrance into Heaven) have also been addressed by many religions-including Earth's. Including the ideal of death not being the end of life; as it neither ends nor begins. Only the continuation of an afterlife, whether by re-incarnation, or more celestial in nature.

(ENT episode: "Kir'Shara"; TOS episode: "The Alternative Factor"; TNG episode: "Where Silence Has Lease"; TNG episode: "The Schizoid Man"; TNG episode: "Tapestry"; VOY episode: "Ashes to Ashes"; VOY episode: "Mortal Coil"; DS9 episode: "Rapture"; DS9 episode: "Shadows and Symbols"; DS9 episode: "What You Leave Behind")

ConnectionsEdit

• Heaven article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Underworld article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.