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Cryosleep Chamber

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Bruce Leban
The flavor says the pods are assigned by title and some condensation is expected. The five-letter words are all condensations of the titles, each containing at least a three letter subsequence to make them a bit easier to notice. 

PURSE  Plot coURSE              2 P  (A PRIME DIRECTIVE)
REVEL  REViEw Liftoff           9 R  (TRAJECTORY)
LATER  moduLATE sensoRs        10 E  (EXTRATERRESTRIAL)
ISLES  shIft ScheduLES          8 C  (PURGE AI CODE)
MINUS  exaMINe nUtS & bolts     2 I  (FILBERT)
TROUT  Take tRash OUT           4 O  (BEGONE)
TATER  roTATE tiRes             2 U  (QUINOA)
ALIAS  initiALIze ip AddreSses  5 S  (MAJESTIC)