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  SF Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
State of low biological activity in a human body, achieved by preserving the body in a cooling chamber.
Cryostasis was is usually used as a technology for long-range spacetravel or to preserve a genetic pool.
Another method is cryonics, meaning that the bodies of patients with incurable diseases are frozen after their deaths, hoping they might be revived in the future.
www.ussfreedom.net /Encyclopedia.htm   (15546 words)

  
 DS9 Encyclopedia & Lexicon - Medical
A drug Bashir called for when trying to revive Quark.
When a dying Klingon, Hon'Tihl, beamed into Ops, Bashir was going to put him into cryostasis, but Hon'Tihl died before anything could be done.
Dax caught Bashir boning up on them in preparation for Dr. Elizabeth Lense's visit.
ds9encyclopedia.0catch.com /medical.htm   (2834 words)

  
 Cryonics Institute -- Reading, Film, and Other Informational Resources
The Discovery Channel's Immortality On Ice, a one-hour documentary of the cryonics movement, is accurate and informative; and Woody Allen's Sleeper is as absurd as it is delightful.
One of the greatest achievements of Japanese animation, Neon Genesis Evangelion, is not a cryonics film per se, but does have references to cryostasis, and to technical capacities that can only be nanotechnological.
Mel Gibson rises from cryostasis to find amour in the near-future in Forever Young.
www.cryonics.org /biblio.html   (2619 words)

  
 Ex Astris Scientia - Treknology Encyclopedia A-K
State of low biological activity in a human body, achieved by preserving the body in a cooling chamber (generic).
Cryostasis was featured in a number of episodes, usually as a technology for long-range space travel (TOS: "Space Seed", TNG: "The Emissary", VOY: "11:59") or to preserve a genetic pool (VOY: "The 37's").
A related technology is cryonics, meaning that the bodies of patients with incurable diseases are frozen after their deaths (TNG: "The Neutral Zone"), hoping they might be revived in the future.
www.ex-astris-scientia.org /treknology1.htm   (7165 words)

  
 The Original Wold Newton Universe Crossover Chronology Part XII
Star Trek: The Next Generation one-shot comic by Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, Dave Hoover, Troy Hubbs, and Jason Martin.
Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the Starship U.S.S. Voyager discover aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, who both disappeared without a trace in 1937, in cryostasis on a planet on the other side of the galaxy.
Both Indiana Jones and The Shadow met Earhart in the 1930s.
www.pjfarmer.com /woldnewton/Chron12.htm   (5081 words)

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