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| - Metreons are a type of particle. In 2371, after scanning an energy barrier surrounding a Class L planet the USS Olympia was struck by a surge of metreon radiation. This radiation disabled the ship's engines and resulted in the death of all the crew in main engineering. With no engines the ship fell into the planet's atmosphere and crashed. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
- Metreons are particles that can take the form of either gas or radiation. Metreon particles react with dark matter, while metreon gas is extrememly volatile and easily weaponized. In 2153, Captain Jonathan Archer and his science officer T'Pol were able to excite a dark matter nebula using spatial charges that spread metreons throughout the nebula. (ENT episode: "First Flight") In 2154, the Enterprise used a pocket of metreon gas to reflect the ship's engine signature and create multiple sensor ghosts when entering a nebula controlled by the Korvaalans. (ENT episode: "E²")
- Prior to 2153, Vulcan scientists had successfully excited small quantities of dark matter by bombarding it with metreon particles. In that year, Jonathan Archer, captain of Enterprise NX-01, expanded upon those experiments and, with his science officer, Sub-Commander T'Pol, was able to illuminate a dark matter nebula using spatial charges rigged to spread the particles over a wide area. (ENT: "First Flight")
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| - Metreons are particles that can take the form of either gas or radiation. Metreon particles react with dark matter, while metreon gas is extrememly volatile and easily weaponized. In 2153, Captain Jonathan Archer and his science officer T'Pol were able to excite a dark matter nebula using spatial charges that spread metreons throughout the nebula. (ENT episode: "First Flight") In 2154, the Enterprise used a pocket of metreon gas to reflect the ship's engine signature and create multiple sensor ghosts when entering a nebula controlled by the Korvaalans. (ENT episode: "E²") In 2356, Haakonian scientist Ma'Bor Jetrel created the metreon wave, a devastating weapon that his people deployed against the Talaxian moon Rinax, killing all of its inhabitants. Jetrel and others exposed to the metreons developed a fatal disorder known as metremia. (VOY episode: "Jetrel") In 2371, Jetrel encountered the USS Voyager and attempted to use its transporter to reintegrate the remains of the victims of Rinax, who had been held in a state of animate suspension. Unfortunately, the remains were too fragmented for this method to work. (VOY episode: "Jetrel") In 2375, the USS Enterprise-E was able to escape from the Son'a in the Briar Patch by using the ship's ramscoops to collect metreon gas and then deploy it in front of the Son'a warships. When one of the ships fired on Enterprise, the metreon gas ignited, destroying one ship and damaging the other. (TNG movie & novelization: Star Trek: Insurrection) Later that year, Voyager became trapped in a cloud of metreon gas. The ship was then attacked by Hazari, forcing Captain Kathryn Janeway to ignite the cloud of gas using the ship's phasers in order to escape. (VOY episode: "Think Tank") In 2402, Toral, son of Duras used a metreon wave to destroy Federation Outpost 15. He then threatened to destroy Cygnus III the same way if the Ambassador Alexander Rozhenko did not commit ritual suicide. Rozhenko did commit suicide and Starfleet was able to apprehend Toral and his group of terrorists before they used the weapon again. (TNG short story: "Staying the Course")
- Prior to 2153, Vulcan scientists had successfully excited small quantities of dark matter by bombarding it with metreon particles. In that year, Jonathan Archer, captain of Enterprise NX-01, expanded upon those experiments and, with his science officer, Sub-Commander T'Pol, was able to illuminate a dark matter nebula using spatial charges rigged to spread the particles over a wide area. (ENT: "First Flight") A year later, while attempting to reach a subspace corridor located in a nebula controlled by the aggressive Kovaalans, Enterprise and a temporally-displaced counterpart entered the nebula above a layer of metreon gas. This had the effect of reflecting the ships' engine signatures, creating multiple sensor ghosts and false readings. This gave the two crews a decisive advantage, initially leading the Kovaalans to believe that the appearance of two Enterprises was simply a result of the reflections. (ENT: "E²") In 2356, the Haakonian scientist Ma'Bor Jetrel designed a devastating weapon known as the "metreon cascade," to be used against the Talaxians, with whom the the Haakonians were at war. The weapon was deployed on the Talaxian moon of Rinax, killing all inhabitants, and leaving Rinax enveloped in a poisonous metreon cloud. Jetrel and others who were exposed to high levels of metreon isotopes developed a fatal blood disorder, which Jetrel came to call "metremia." Fifteen years later, in an attempt to appease his conscience, Jetrel conceived of an idea whereby he could restore the victims of the cascade, in a process to which Jetrel referred as "regenerative fusion." Claiming that the electrostatic properties of the remaining cloud were such that the disassembled biomatter had been held in a state of animated suspension, Jetrel used medical records to identify the genetic coding of a specific victim. He then used the USS Voyager's transporter to target the identified atomic fragments, and attempted to rematerialize him. Jetrel's experiment failed, however, as the degree of fragmentation was too great. (VOY: "Jetrel") In 2371, the USS Olympia, which had been on an extended, long-range exploration of the Beta Quadrant, crashed on a planet surrounded by an exogenic field composed of subspace metreon radiation, which disabled the vessel's engines. The only survivor of the crash was Lisa Cusak, the Olympia's commanding officer. Cusak transmitted a distress signal, but when her subspace radio signal passed through the metreon radiation, it was shifted forward in time three years, where it was picked up by the crew of the USS Defiant. Responding to the distress call, the Defiant crew was able to communicate with Cusak, although neither party realized that a time shift was occurring, until the Defiant arrived at the planet, only to find that Cusak had died three years previously. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice") In 2375, in a tactic which Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge referred to as "the Riker Maneuver," Commander William T. Riker utilized metreon gas to evade two Son'a battle cruisers while in the area of space known as "the Briar Patch." In command of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E, Riker ordered the ship's ramscoops utilized to collect as much unstable metreon gas as possible. Upon filling the storage cells to maximum capacity, Riker activated the ship's manual steering column to perform precision maneuvering, and ordered the ramscoops released. Riker then piloted the Enterprise in close proximity to the Son'a ships, leaving a cloud of metreon gas between them and the Enterprise. Subsequent to one of the pursuing vessels firing at the Enterprise, the gas ignited, destroying one of the ships and disabling the other. (Star Trek: Insurrection) Later that year, in a trap laid by the group of aliens known as "the Think Tank," Voyager became trapped in a cloud of metreon gas upon the explosion of a small planetoid, resulting in the collapse of their warp field and the disabling of their impulse engines. Upon coming under attack by the Hazari, Captain Janeway ordered ship's phasers utilized to ignite the gas cloud, escaping at warp speed as soon as the blast threw Voyager clear of the cloud. (VOY: "Think Tank")
- Metreons are a type of particle. In 2371, after scanning an energy barrier surrounding a Class L planet the USS Olympia was struck by a surge of metreon radiation. This radiation disabled the ship's engines and resulted in the death of all the crew in main engineering. With no engines the ship fell into the planet's atmosphere and crashed. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
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