Stasis Stasis referred to a complete cessation of movement or activity within an area . If used when referring to lifeform s , it was also known as suspended animation and denoted the limiting of bodily functions , inducing a prolonged sleep , in order to slow down the aging process . Most often this was accomplished through cryogenic stasis . Individuals put into stasis were usually placed in a stasis unit , and could result in being successfully suspended for hundreds of years while being less susceptible to environmental hazards . ( ; ; ) Pre - warp civilization s therefore sometimes used sleeper ship s equipped with stasis technology for long - range transport of personnel , usually as colony vessels . ( ; ; ; ) It was necessary for Humans to use this until advances were made in sublight propulsion in the year 2018 . ( ) The Arctic Archaeology Team scientist Doctor Moninger dismissed the suggestion to place the two Borg drones in cold storage what would interfere with his research . ( ) Commander William T . Riker experienced a form of stasis twice in 2364 . He was in stasis when an Echo Papa 607 drone put him into a force field ( ) and when the Ornaran T ' Jon used his natural form of electricity as a threat . ( ) Some years prior to 2372 , Starfleet used artificial environments for people held in stasis on long deep space voyages . The technology held the mind inside a mental landscape to keep it active . In 2353 , members of Viorsa ' s species , in the Delta Quadrant , utilized a similar technology in their hibernation pod s . ( ) Suspended animation was also employed as a security measure . Before the Cardassian s abandoned their space station Empok Nor in 2372 , they left behind in stasis three soldiers of the Third Battalion , First Order . Their stasis tubes , having been programmed to revive them should power be restored to the station , the soldiers – under the influence of psychotropic drug s designed to heighten their natural xenophobia – attempted to kill a Starfleet salvage team sent from Deep Space 9 in 2373 . ( ) In 2371 , following the Kai election , Vedek Bareil joined Kai Winn as her key advisor in negotiating the Bajoran - Cardassian Treaty . Just before the signing of the treaty , he was injured in a plasma explosion on board a Bajoran Transport vessel . Dr . Julian Bashir was able to bring him back from the brink of death . However , Bareil refused life - saving treatment in order to complete the negotiations since Kai Winn was not experienced enough to handle the Cardassians by herself . Dr . Bashir told him that he should be placed in stasis for an undetermined period of time so his injuries could heal . ( ) The Kobliad criminal scientist Rao Vantika was held in stasis of Deep Space 9 ' s morgue after he died in 2369 aboard the Kobliad transport ship " Reyab " . ( ) Croden placed his daughter Yareth in stasis in the 2360s . ( ) The Dominion were known to ship Jem ' Hadar infants in stasis chambers . In 2371 , Quark inadvertently purchased a Jem ' Hadar infant in a stasis chamber that was included in salvage . ( ) Another known application of stasis was to prevent a Changeling from altering its form by use of a quantum stasis field . ( ) In 2375 , Android Lieutenant Commander Data was held in stasis in engineering aboard the following a malfunction on the Ba ' ku planet . ( ) Harry Kim recalled the tale of his uncle Jack , who piloted a mission to Beta Capricus in 2210 while the rest of the crew was in stasis . When he arrived it turned out that Beta Capricus did not exist , but was indeed just the misinterpreted image of a distant galaxy . Jack did not wake his crew because there was nothing to do or see and returned to Earth . When they arrived six months later , Jack brought the crew out of stasis and they wondered why they hadn ' t left Earth ' s orbit . ( ) In a starship ' s sickbay , the morgue was typically equipped with stasis fields to preserve dead bodies until they could be buried or until a postmortem was performed . ( ; ) When their shuttle crash land ed on the Drayan crysata moon in 2372 , Lieutenant Tuvok protected Ensign Bennet ' s body with a stasis field while he awaited rescue . ( )