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Sleeper ship

A sleeper ship was a late 20th to early 21st century Earth space vessel in which the crew could be placed into suspended animation for all or part of the journey. At least some DY-100-class ships were sleeper ships. As Marla McGivers put it in 2267, sleeper ships were "necessary because of the time involved in space travel until about the year 2018. It took years just to travel from one planet to another." (TOS: "Space Seed") Despite this, around 2210, Harry Kim's "uncle" Jack piloted a...

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Good news, folks. According to Star Trek, starting next year we’ll no longer need to put spaceship crews into suspended animation for interplanetary travel.