The stasis technology was far more primitive than anything Starfleet's current technology offered, the stasis chambers on DS9 would have released him immediately. Cryonics was a slow reversal, properly done it would take hours, as the cryoprotectants were stripped from his blood and cells and the temperature slowly normalized.
His eyes flicker open a few hours after Garak input the code, hazy and confused. And still stuck in the tube--that for some reason he recognizes, like he's been here before.
Except he knows he hasn't.
There's a latch on the inside, he pulls it--the space is far too tight and too cold yet to be anything even approaching comfortable, and he wants out.]