Cold Station 12

Cold Station 12 (or C12) was a top-secret facility located on an asteroid and jointly operated and staffed by Star Fleet and the Denobulans under the auspices of the Interspecies Medical Exchange.

The facility was used to store hazardous viruses and pathogens for research purposes, as well as over 1,800 embryos of 20th century Augments from the Eugenics Wars.

Historical significance

• Nineteen of the Augment embryos were stolen in the 2130s by facility chief of staff Doctor Arik Soong. Soong intended to create a new race of "supermen," and raised them as his children.

• Doctor Phlox served a few months on C-12 at some point during his time with the Medical Exchange.

• In 2154, Doctor Lucas became the facility's chief of staff. Soong returned to C-12 in May of that year in a Klingon Bird of Prey to take the remaining embryos.
  Soong and his followers escaped with the embryos, despite the intervention of the Enterprise NX-01.
  In the incident, several staff members were killed and the entire station was flooded with pathogens except for the command center.
  Doctor Lucas estimated it would take a year to decontaminate the station.