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The morgue at Starbase 32

Brattain personnel

A temporary morgue aboard the USS Enterprise-D

You might also be looking for the humanoid group, the Morgs.

A morgue is a facility or specific area used to store the bodily remains of the recently deceased for purposes of identification of the body, autopsy, and other postmortem activities.

On many starships, sickbay or another medical facility contains storage areas that use stasis fields to preserve the dead until autospy, transport, or burial. In 2369, Doctor Crusher used such a device to hold the body of Reyga while she attempted to gain approval from the deceased's family to perform an autopsy. (TNG: "Suspicions")

The storage devices can also be used to keep living beings in stasis, which might mask their lifesigns from sensors. (VOY: "Renaissance Man", "Basics, Part II")

On starbases, the infirmary normally contains the morgue, which can also be called a stasis room. The corpse of the Kobliad criminal Rao Vantika was stored in the infirmary of Deep Space 9. (DS9: "The Passenger")

Starfleet officer Jean-Luc Picard visited the corpse of his dead friend, Jack Crusher in the morgue of Starbase 32 in 2353. (TNG: "Violations")

In 2367, the medical team aboard the USS Enterprise-D set up a room as a temporary morgue for the bodies of USS Brattain personnel. (TNG: "Night Terrors")

In 2369, Commander William T. Riker and Dr. Beverly Crusher, having traveled back in time to 1893, visited a makeshift morgue in San Francisco that housed the bodies of supposed cholera epidemic victims. (TNG: "Time's Arrow, Part II")

When Vhnori corpses began appearing onboard the USS Voyager in 2371, the bodies were sent to the morgue. (VOY: "Emanations")

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