# the giga meter in star trek

**URL:** <https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-giga-meter-in-star-trek/628>\
**Category:** Giga Meters\
**Created:** [March 13, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-giga-meter-in-star-trek/628 "2006-03-13T15:48:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![ALUCARD](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@ALUCARD](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/ALUCARD)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-giga-meter-in-star-trek/628/1 "2006-03-13T15:48:55Z")

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hi ,

today i was watching star trek VI: the undiscovered contry and i was amazed

in one scene they are looking in ppls uniform to find some clue and you see the GIGAMETER in use i was stuned .any one saw that??

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**Author:** ![Funkzilla](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Funkzilla](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Funkzilla)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-giga-meter-in-star-trek/628/2 "2006-03-13T16:09:54Z")

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Yeah, it’s been known for some time that it pops up in The Undiscovered Country.

Good eye though.

-Eric

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**Author:** ![Frosted](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Frosted](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Frosted)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-giga-meter-in-star-trek/628/3 "2007-02-13T15:42:20Z")

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Also, If you watch the movie “They Live” with Roddy Piper and Keith David, there are some military guys in the news station that use a PKE like a communication device.

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**Author:** ![ectoneon](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@ectoneon](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/ectoneon)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-giga-meter-in-star-trek/628/4 "2007-04-05T21:48:13Z")

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its funny now that you mention this i vividly remember the scene your talking about, but as many times i have seen that movie i never registered it was a [giga meter](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/giga-meter). weird how the mind works