A meter (m) was a Human unit of length. On Earth, it was almost 40 inches long, and was considered part of the metric system (to distinguish from the system of inches, feet, miles). As a measure of length, the meter was often used to describe such factors as height, range, distance, thickness, depth, diameter or radius.
Malcolm Reed described the Novan he saw in the forest as a "couple of meters tall, biped, odd-looking scales." (ENT: "Terra Nova")
Trip Tucker told Captain Archer to pilot Enterprise a few meters port, closer to the crack on Archer's Comet where Shuttlepod 1 fell down. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
When Trip Tucker was reading off of the Retellian escape pod's gauges, he began calling out the altitude initially in assumed meters, admitting out loud, "I think they're meters," before continuing the countdown to the pod's crash landing. (ENT: "Precious Cargo")
Comparative values
- According to Miles O'Brien, the legs of a Talarian hook spider measured half a meter in length. (TNG: "Realm Of Fear")
- Trip Tucker saw a stairwell in the catacombs beneath the monastery at P'Jem which was a meter wide. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")
- The disaster recorder launched from the SS Valiant was said to measure about a meter in diameter. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
- In describing Fenna to Odo, Benjamin Sisko described her as being about 1.6 meters. (DS9: "Second Sight")
- Geordi La Forge described his height as being about 1.7 meters. (TNG: "Identity Crisis")
- Jean-Luc Picard was once described as a "Human, about two meters tall, smooth-headed." (TNG: "Gambit, Part I") When Picard later met with his clone, Shinzon, Shinzon told Picard that wasn't as tall as he had expected, then both agreed that they had always hoped to be two meters. (Star Trek Nemesis)
- A photon torpedo casing measured two meters in length. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
- A Federation class 8 probe measured just over two meters in length. (TNG: "The Emissary")
- Trip Tucker told Captain Archer to pilot Enterprise two meters starboard, closer to the crack on Archer's Comet where Shuttlepod 1 fell down. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
- When T'Pol guided Captain Archer out of a tunnel system on Terra Nova, she told him that a tunnel will branch off to his left in about three meters. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- The cockpit of Earth's first warp ship, the Phoenix, measured four meters in length. Lily Sloane claimed that it took her six months to scrounge up enough titanium for that construction. (Star Trek: First Contact)
- A man in Canton, Ohio had once rolled a ball of string over six meters in diameter. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")
- The escape pods carried aboard Angosian police shuttles had the dimensions of approximately seven meters in length and 3 meters in diameter. (TNG: "The Hunted")
- The Cardassian escape pod carrying Joret Dal to the edge of the Cardassian border with the Federation measured five meters in length. (TNG: "Lower Decks")
- In 2151, Shuttlepod 1 fell eight meters down through the surface of Terra Nova and landed in an underground cave. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- In 2151, Enterprise NX-01 detected an antimatter reactor eight meters beneath the surface on the Akaali homeworld. (ENT: "Civilization")
- During the rescue attempt on Shuttlepod 1 beneath the surface on Archer's Comet, the shuttlepod dropped another nine meters down. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
- T'Pol corrected her previous measurement of three meters to state ten meters when telling Captain Archer that a tunnel will branch off to his left. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- Matthew Ryan doubted that Keene could throw a football ten meters at Earth sea level. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")
- Shuttlepod 1 dropped down eighteen meters beneath the surface of Archer's Comet. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
- During a rescue plan briefing for Malcolm Reed from within the tunnel and cavern system below the surface of Terra Nova, T'Pol suggested to take an empty tunnel and clear the obstruction with phase-pistols. This woould place the landing party less than twenty meters from Reed. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- The Andorian soldier Keval detected three new Human life signs within twenty meters while standing in the atrium of the monastery at P'Jem. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")
- Most of the eisillium deposits on Archer's Comet were located twenty meters beneath the crust. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
- A marble statue of Zefram Cochran stood in Bozeman, Montana on Earth, that was said to be about twenty meters tall. (Star Trek: First Contact)
- Twenty-seven meters was the complete depth, Shuttlepod 1 dropped down beneath the surface on Archer's Comet in 2151. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
- Lysian sentry pods measured twenty-nine meters in length. (TNG: "Conundrum")
- When the landing party from Enterprise followed the Andorians into the catacombs beneath the monastery at P'Jem, T'Pol located them thirty meters down the passage to the reliquary. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")
- Trip Tucker told Captain Archer to pilot Enterprise fifty meters closer to the crack on Archer's Comet where Shuttlepod 1 fell down. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
- Enterprise detected Malcolm Reed ninety meters below the surface on Terra Nova after he was abducted by the Novans. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- The measurement of each edge of Balok's cube was 107 meters. (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
- While testing the range of the transporter aboard the USS Protostar, Zero noted that their attempt to beam a piece of pie from the transporter room to warp core was at least 200 meters. (PRO: "First Con-tact")
- The first occurrence of the mysterious disease on the Akaali homeworld was located a few hundred meters away from Garos' curio shop. (ENT: "Civilization")
- According to T'Pol, the network of caverns and tunnels beneath the surface on Terra Nova extended for several hundred meters. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- The Sovereign-class USS Enterprise-E measured almost 700 meters in length. (Star Trek: First Contact)
- The Providers did not use meters as a unit of measure, however, upon allowing James T. Kirk to visit their location, Provider 1 noted to Kirk that he was now "1,000 of your meters beneath the surface." (TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion")
- T'Pol detected impact fractures nearly 2,000 meters down in the asteroid crater, filled with erosion over the years. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- Enterprise NX-01 was 10,000 meters off the starboard bow of the ECS Fortunate when they contacted the freighter. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")
See also
- Kilometer
- Meters per second
- Meters per minute
- Metric tons per meter
- Micrometer
- Millimeter
- Nanometer
- Square meter
- Two meter man