Grafting was the process whereby tissue from one lifeform was encouraged to grow on the body of another. It could be used in medicine or botany.
During her youth, Michael Burnham's life was saved when Sarek used the healing power of his katra, in what she would later describe as "a kind of soul graft". (DIS: "Lethe")
Tuvok created a new hybrid by grafting a cutting from a South American orchid to a favinit plant. (VOY: "Alliances")
After The Doctor suffered a level 4 memory fragmentation, Kes saved his program by "grafting" the program of the Jupiter Station Diagnostic Program Alpha-11 onto it. (VOY: "The Swarm")
Types of grafts[]
- Aortal graft
- Dermoplastic graft
- Skin graft