That would have been preferable to a holodeck simulation. Ugh, what a weak way to go out, especially considering how great the rest of that last season was. Berman and Braga should've let Manny Coto (the showrunner, whom they hired to run the show, FFS) write and direct the finale, too bad ego had to get in the way.
It was all a holodeck simulation. They are stationed on a ship lower on the pecking order than a Cali class...like a legacy Oberth class that only transports mundane material within our solar system