Stasis
Stasis referred to a complete cessation of movement or activity within an area.

If used when referring to lifeforms, it was also known as suspended animation or animated suspension, 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 civilizations therefore sometimes used sleeper ships 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. ()

In 2269, the immortal Flint suspended the crew of the , with the intention of keeping them there for a thousand to two-thousand years. ()

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. ()

In 2367, the Paxans used an energy field to send the crew of the  into a type of biochemical stasis. ()

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 pods. ()

Suspended animation was also employed as a security measure. Before the Cardassians 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 drugs 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. 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 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 , 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 landed on the Drayan crysata moon in 2372, Lieutenant Tuvok protected Ensign Bennet's body with a stasis field while he awaited rescue. ()

See also 
 Cryogenics
 Cryogenic stasis
 Cryo-stasis chamber
 Homeostasis
 Regenestasis
 Stasis box
 Stasis chamber
 Stasis field
 Stasis room
 Suspended animation device
 Transporter suspension

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