Stasis chamber A stasis chamber ( also called a stasis unit , stasis pod , stasis tube , or bio - pod ) was a device used to preserve life . It was often a coffin - shaped device designed for the preservation of critically injured or terminally ill patients until their conditions could be stabilized in a fully equipped medical facility . The stasis unit suspended all ular activity and disease processes , keeping the patient from succumbing to their illness or injury for an indefinite period . The device was not meant for saving a dead patient . However , it could preserve brain activity for a few hours at most . Time was required to get the ailing patient into the unit before they succumbed , presumably so that more time was available as they came out of stasis to effect proper treatment . ( ; ; ) T ' Les had a stasis unit in her home on . She used it to keep fruit s , such as gespar , fresh . When T ' Les ' daughter T ' Pol and Charles Tucker III visited the residence in 2154 , the stasis unit was broken , though Tucker soon managed to repair it . ( ) The stasis chamber at Cold Station 12 contained over eighteen thousand stasis globe s , each containing an Augment embryo . An access code was required in order to enter the stasis chamber . The chamber was breached by Doctor Arik Soong and the Augment Lokesh in 2154 . ( ) Stasis units became standard equipment on Starfleet vessels , including the and starship s . The Rakhari Croden held his daughter Yareth in a stasis pod in a cavern on an asteroid in the Chamra Vortex to prevent her being killed by the Rakhari government . ( ) The last of the Vaadwaur species placed themselves into underground stasis units , which they called bio - pods , in the 15th century to survive the destruction of their civilization . The pods malfunctioned , and so the Vaadwaur did not awaken until Seven of Nine activated the pods in 2376 . ( ) The subjects of a failed Cardassian experiment involving psychotropic drug s were left in stasis tubes aboard Empok Nor when the station was abandoned . The soldiers were accidentally reawakened when a salvage team from Deep Space 9 arrived in 2373 . ( ) When Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay were infected with an insect - transmitted virus on a planet in the Delta Quadrant in 2372 , The Doctor kept them in stasis chambers while he searched for a cure . After he was unsuccessful , the chambers were sent down to the planet so that the infection would not spread to the rest of the crew . ( ) In late 2374 , the entire crew of " Voyager " entered stasis units for protection , while " Voyager " crossed a Mutara class nebula that emitted lethal levels of subnucleonic radiation . Only The Doctor and Seven of Nine remained awake to operate the ship . ( ) The crew of the modified a stasis chamber into a multiphasic chamber in the 2370s to first study , then exploit nucleogenic lifeform s . ( ) Lyndsay Ballard reported that after her death in 2374 , she woke up in a stasis chamber surrounded by aliens , who had told her they had reanimated her body . ( ) Background information . The stasis chamber seen in the episode " Vortex " was designed by Rick Sternbach who drew the sketch . ( DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature " Deep Space Nine Sketchbook " )