A long distance transporter is a device (or class of devices) which operates in a manner at least superficially similar to conventional transporters, only over interstellar, even galactic, distances.
Races or entities known to possess some form of long distance transporter:
- Aegis
- Dominion (DS9 episode: "Covenant")
- Faramond Old Culture
- Kalandan (for starship-sized objects, TOS episode: "That Which Survives")
- Nacene (for starship-sized objects, at least)
- Nevisian (TOS novel: Mudd in Your Eye)
- Providers