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Author: Arivne

Mar 5th 2013 at 3:49:46 AM

^^ When you put an apostrophe in the title or Laconic the system automatically inserts a slash.

I suggest that this be re-written to include all passengers who are in suspended animation, not just frozen, as they're both really the same trope.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''. In the 1968 film the astronauts are in suspended animation during their trip. They are awakened automatically when they arrive.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* ''The Legacy of Heorot''. The Earth colonists aboard the starship Geographic are kept in frozen suspended animation for the trip. Unfortunately, being frozen and thawed (which happened repeatedly) caused brain damage, which the colonists' children called "ice on their minds".

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Space Seed". The Enterprise encounters the S.S. Botany Bay, a "sleeper ship" with seventy two people in suspended animation. They turn out to be genetic supermen from the period of the Eugenics Wars on Earth.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Long Morrow". An astronaut will be in frozen suspended animation during his forty year trip to a distant star and return.

[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}''. One common way to travel between star systems was "cold sleep", using drugs to slow down the passenger's metabolism. It was much cheaper than normal passage but had a risk of death during revival.
** Book 5 ''High Guard''. Military ships sometimes carried a "frozen watch", consisting of sailors in cold sleep who could be awakened to make up for crew losses in battle.
** Adventure 3 ''Trillion Credit Squadron''. Before the development of the jump drive cold sleep was used to settle far off solar systems. The Island Clusters subsectors were settled by three colonization ships, each carrying 100,000 colonists in cold sleep.