Being in Stasis...

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I think in all Trek series they have put crew and/or indivuals in stasis. What is the longest that anyone has been in stasis and did not suffer any bad side effects, or did not survive the process. I can't recall any real long term stasis conditions that went well, do you???

 

[JNG]

I know this is a Voyager forum thread, but still I must ask, does Scotty's transporter trick in TNG: "Relics" count? That was a pretty long time indeed.

Of course, I don't think his transporter suspension bears much resemblance at all to what doctors mean when they say they will put someone in stasis, as in say VGR: "One" or other incidents like that.

 

[Bacl]

Considering how long Kahn was in stasis using ancient technology, I would think that Voyager would have been capable of damn near total suspended animation where a crewmember could be frozen for centuries if the power held out.

I wish Voyager would have addressed the idea of turning their 70 year trip home into a 7-year trip perspective by use of stasis containers. Divide the crew into 10 groups. One group is in command for 7 years, then goes into stasis after thawing out the next group. 70 years would have passed in 7 for them. And on the odd chance they found a wormhole or friendly advanced species, then the active crew still could have used it to get everyone home even faster.

Even if this method would be unsuitable for them, Voyager should have at least talked about it. Some episodes you'd think they were just cruising endlessly through space, and not stranded on the other end of the universe and possibly forever lost.

 

[number6]

^It wouldn't have been much of a show if they did that. Besides I'm sure they never discussed it because they needed all those people anyway to run the ship, perform diagnostics, protect from hostile situations and sacrifice the occasional "red shirt."

 

[jgdst]

It's been a while since I watched Dragon's Teeth, but weren't the Vaadwaur in stasis for 900 years?

 

[Akiraprise]

That's about right.

There was one time I remember for sure when the VOY crew went into stasis. When they had to go through a toxic nebula, leaving only 7 and the Doc.

There was also the species who attacked the VOY crew in their dreams. The entire species was in stasis.

 

[Timo]

As noted in the parallel thread over at the Tech sub-forum, the technological record would probably go to the Slavers of TAS "Slaver Weapon". They could completely stop time for a billion years at least! Granted, the stasis chamber shown in the episode did not contain any live sapients, but there was an artificially intelligent device there that was in working and thinking order after a billion years, and some fresh meat...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tom]

In 'The 37's' Janeway is talking to Chakotay and says we have 152 people, Chakotay they states that he does not think thay can run the ship with 100 or less.

 

[Finn]

What happened to my post about Amelia Earhart and the guys from TNG's The Neutral Zone?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Rimmer in red dwarf was going into stasis on his off time, and went into stasis rather than sleep sometimes in an effort to be younger (and thus prettier) by tiny increments...

Janeway had a crew surplus of 50 plus crewmen.

Surely if they had some sort of rotor, they could have crew disappearing into and out of stasis constantly, that no one would be too ultimately geriatric by the time they got to earth if they permanently had 30, to 40 crewmen living in suspended animation missing out on huge stretches of the tedious journey.

 

[Timo]

That would depend a bit on how much stress is involved in going in and out of stasis, though. Unless they could re-thaw a given person at least every five to ten years or so, the crew couldn't evenly enjoy the benefits of staying young and healthy and in working order.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Red Ranger]

It's an interesting idea, and one I think they should've explored. But since Voyager was a new ship with previously untried technology under such conditions -- bio-neural gel packs with no way of replacing them so far away from the Federation -- perhaps they couldn't run the ship on what amounts to rotating skeleton crews. Still, in a book I'm working on with a similarly long, albeit intentional journey, I "stole" an idea from the TOS ep By Any Other Name -- the main crew has been transformed into microscopic packages and easily stored in a secure "vault," and rotated out every 10 years. -- RR

 

[jgdst]

Rimmer in red dwarf was going into stasis on his off time, and went into stasis rather than sleep sometimes in an effort to be younger (and thus prettier) by tiny increments...

Slightly off topic, but is that in Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers or not?

Still kinda off topic, but a question about stasis in general If you were going in and out of stasis, you'd still need to sleep, wouldn't you? As time isn't passing for you, then from your point of view, you go in wide awake, and you come out almost the same instant (though it could be x number of years later), still wide awake.

Anyone got any thoughts on that?

 

[Timo]

Yeah, if the stasis technology in question was one of those that stops the progression of time at the push of a button, and restores it just as effortlessly, without creating any fatigue of its own in the process...

...Why, it would be the perfect way to fight jet lag! You could adjust your body to the local rhythm as simply as you could adjust your wristwatch.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Guy Gardener]

Rimmer in red dwarf was going into stasis on his off time, and went into stasis rather than sleep sometimes in an effort to be younger (and thus prettier) by tiny increments...

Slightly off topic, but is that in Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers or not?

Still kinda off topic, but a question about stasis in general If you were going in and out of stasis, you'd still need to sleep, wouldn't you? As time isn't passing for you, then from your point of view, you go in wide awake, and you come out almost the same instant (though it could be x number of years later), still wide awake.

Anyone got any thoughts on that?

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