Burial

Burial is one of the methods used to dispose of the remains of a deceased individual. It involves burying the deceased underneath the surface of a planet, or sealing the deceased inside a tomb. A variation of this was space burial in which the decedent was sealed inside a photon torpedo tube, and the tube was then fired into space.

Following his death on Veridian III in 2371, Captain James T. Kirk was buried in a simple grave by Captain Jean-Luc Picard. About one month after his death, Starfleet sent a team to recover the remains of the Enterprise-D and the remains of Captain Kirk from the planet. Kirk's body was taken from its grave by a Romulan ship, and he was then revived.

After her death at the hands of Skrain Dukat the body of Jadzia Dax was returned to the Trill home world, and buried in a cemetery in the capital city. Her marker had her original name, Jadzia Idaris.

In alternate version of the future in which the USS Voyager returned to Earth 20 years after being launched, Chakotay eventually died, and was buried near Starfleet Command.