Morgue

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A starbase morgue.

A morgue (also called a mortuary) is a medical facility found primarily in hospitals, but also adjacent to sickbays on starships and space stations. It is used to house the bodies of the recently deceased.

Morgues contain a number of storage slots that employ stasis fields to preserve bodies. Usually, this means storing them until an autopsy can be performed, though they are often also used to hold a body until a funeral can be carried out. Less commonly, living beings can be stored in morgue stasis fields while second and third opinions are sought from other doctors when it is deemed a patient cannot survive.

Morgues are utilised by many cultures, including Humans, Bajorans and Dinaali. Cardassians refer to morgues as stasis rooms.