Cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber

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In the ficitional Star Trek universe, the cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber is a device created by Dr. Elias Giger (continuing the work of Dr. Bathkin) in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "In the Cards".

Bathkin and Giger's theory holds that people die because their cells get bored; their device is designed to keep a person's cells "entertained," thus preventing "cellular ennui" and, by extension, death.

After Bathkin's death, Giger in 2373 brings the device to Deep Space Nine. Unable to obtain on his own the materials needed to complete it, he strikes a bargin with Jake Sisko and Cadet Nog: Giger will give Sisko a 1951 Willie Mays rookie baseball card (which Sisko badly wants to give as a surprise gift to his father) in exchange for supplies.

Giger's time on the station overlaps with a diplomatic visit by the Vorta Weyoun. Weyoun's guest quarters are above Giger's, and noises from the chamber are audible to the Vorta. After overcoming some initial suspicions about Giger and his work, Weyoun spends some time consulting with the doctor and sharing his own perspective on how to obtain immortality through "creative genetics."

No one other than the paranoid Giger seems to believe the cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber does or will work. He believes the work on his chamber is surpressed by disbelievers whom he calls the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy.

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