suspended animation theme
Technology that can considerably slow basic life processes, e.g., breathing or a heartbeat, in a manner that allows for subjects to be later revived.
Examples
Kamala the Metamorph was kept in a stasis device so that she wouldn't upset the crew with her erotic powers in tng5x21 "The Perfect Mate".
48 total · 7 major · 41 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Genesis II (1973) | major | Astronaut Dylan Hunt was put into suspended animation and woke up in the year 2133. |
| movie: The Black Sleep (1956) | major | Sir Joel Cadman used suspended animation to save Dr. Gordon Ramsay from being hanged in order that he might assist Cadman in his experiments. He also placed subjects in suspended animation and performed exploratory surgeries on their brains. |
| movie: The Man from Beyond (1922) | major | Howard Hillary is found frozen for a hundred years in the arctic ice and is thawed out and awoken |
| tz1959e2x24 | major | Four men placed themselves in suspended animation boxes with designs of being revived 100 years in the future. |
| tz1959e5x15 | major | Douglas was supposed to have been put into stasis for the better part of his 40 year mission to another star system, but he turned it off six months into the flight, so that he'd physically aged the full 40 years by the time he returned to Earth. Sandra put herself into stasis for a period of 40 years. |
| voy4x25 | major | crew placed in suspended animation in order to traverse toxic nebula |
| voy6x07 | major | Gedrin was in suspended animation for 900 years |
| ds95x24 | minor | Cardassian soldiers left in stasis on Empok Nor space station MO: for all intents and purposes this is just cryogenics |
| ent2x11 | minor | Princess Kaitaama was kept in stasis while she was being transported by the Retellians. |
| futurama4x01 | minor | The Planet Express crew was put into hibernative naptosis during the long trip to Nigel 7. |