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Jonah was a Biblical figure said to have been swallowed by a whale.

In 2371, when Neelix requested permission to leave the USS Voyager when the crew encountered a nucleogenic cloud being, Captain Janeway denied his request, stating "find yourself a seat with a good view, because just like Jonah and the whale, you're going in." (VOY: "The Cloud")

In a log entry made by Lieutenant John Kelly of the Earth spaceship Ares IV in 2032, the lost astronaut remarked that he was beginning to feel like Jonah; Kelly remarked that he had been trapped in the vessel longer than Jonah was in the "belly of that whale" - at least one or two days longer than Jonah's three. Kelly's log was lost for centuries until it was discovered in the Delta Quadrant by Voyager in 2376. (VOY: "One Small Step")

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