Talk: Stasis chamber

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Merge with[]

Merge with Stasis unit, or whichever term was most common, as the term was used interchangeably in "Dragon's Teeth" to describe the same device. --Alan 22:55, 2 May 2008 (UTC) My mistake, bio-pod, which redirects to stasis unit, was used interchangeably with stasis pod.

Otherwise, in terms of references:

Stasis chamber had 10 references, and redirects to "Stasis unit".
Stasis pod/Bio-pod was only referenced in VOY: "Dragon's Teeth", ENT: "Precious Cargo"
Stasis unit: TNG: "Starship Mine", "Frame of Mind", VOY: "One", ENT: "Home"

So still merge to "stasis unit" and move that to "stasis chamber", the most popular term of the bunch. --Alan 23:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Merge - it's all pretty much the same thing, so a single article would be best.– Cleanse 00:23, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Merged and moved. :) --From Andoria with Love 08:43, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

More merges?[]

There are still cryogenic chamber and cryo-stasis chamber (aka cryo-chamber, cryostasis tube, cryo-tube) out there. Aren't these all the same thing. --Pseudohuman (talk) 21:15, June 19, 2013 (UTC)

It should maybe merge with cryo-stasis chamber but not with cryogenic chamber. i mean i think that cryo-stasis chamber is the same as stasis chamber but cryogenic chamber is like a morgue, just for storage of something dead like a body for spy work.--CC-1990 (talk) 19:40, January 24, 2014 (UTC)

The term seems synonymous to me, Khan for example says in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan "...myself and the ship's company in cryogenic freeze" and the corpses in TNG: "The Neutral Zone" were frozen in containers "designed solely for refrigeration" but were still revivable like with a stasis chamber. --Pseudohuman (talk) 20:09, January 24, 2014 (UTC)

Merge, Part III[]

Maybe we should have an article combined of stasis and cryo-stasis as the "process" and another article which is featuring all the chambersand pods as "technology"? This would include stasis chamber, cryogenic chamber, cryo-stasis chamber, and stasis room and also including all the redirects. Tom (talk) 15:52, July 31, 2015 (UTC)

I'm opposed. From all the examples it's pretty clear that stasis is a general term for "pausing" life, which can be accomplished using a variety of methods, some quite different from cryo-stasis, whereas cryo-stasis is one specific such method. Merging those would be like merging impulse engine into propulsion. And as much as it would be nice to have all stasis-like tech on one page, they just seem like a wide range of different things. Stasis room in particular doesn't fit well in that list; it is an actual room in which machines stand in which people are put into stasis, rather then one of these machines. As a general principle, it's unfortunate that there's all these confusingly similar terms, but if the writers can't keep their terminology straight I don't think we should or even can just editorialize about what is equivalent to what. -- Capricorn (talk) 05:05, August 1, 2015 (UTC)