O script deixa claro que o unidade de estase solicitada por Picard não é normalmente destinada a uso médico, mas é de fato algum tipo de aparato de estudo científico (talvez para armazenar gases ou amostras de nebulosas) e que a unidade pode ser jerry-rigged para funcionar como uma câmara de estase médica , presumivelmente porque ambos trabalham com os mesmos princípios científicos;
BEVERLY : Captain... Arkaria Base does not have the medical storage units I requested. I have seven living tissue samples that won't survive the baryon sweep anymore than you or I would. I've tried to reason with them, but --
PICARD : Have Mister LaForge transport a stasis unit from the astrophysics lab. You should be able to convert it to store tissue samples.
A palavra chave aqui é convert.
O excelente (e moderadamente canônico) Manual Técnico da Star Trek TNG indica que a tecnologia "stasis" funciona com lentidão movimento atômico, algo que seria inestimável no estudo de várias formas de matéria e antimatéria encontradas em fenômenos astrofísicos;
The technology that has given rise to the QCRD is similar to that of the transporter, SIF, IDF, and other devices that manipulate matter on the quantum level. The conversion process sees the inlet of normal matter, stretched out into thin rivulets no more than 0.000003 cm across. The rivulets are pressure-fed into the QCRD under magnetic suspension, where groups of them are chilled to within 0.001 degree of absolute zero, and exposed to a short-period stasis field to further limit molecular vibration. As the stasis field decays, focused subspace fields drive deep within the subatomic structure to flip the charges and spins of the "frozen" protons, neutrons, and electrons. The flipped matter, now antimatter, is magnetically removed for storage. The system can normally process 0.08 m3/hr.