Power was a term used in physics to describe the amount of energy required or expended per a given unit of time. The power aboard a starship was also known as energy reserves. (TNG: "Booby Trap"; VOY: "The Cloud") Its source was called a power source.
Power aboard starships could be re-routed from one system to another. In August of 2151, the power from the internal sensors was re-routed to the weapons system aboard the ECS Fortunate. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")
During the early 2250s, Constitution-class heavy cruisers were armed with a complement of directed energy weapons, that possessed enough power to destroy half a continent in a concentrated bombardment. (TOS: "The Cage")
Aboard the USS Enterprise in 2267, Earth probe Nomad increased engine efficiency by fifty-seven percent but this would destroy the ship if not stopped as its structure could not handle the stress of that much power. (TOS: "The Changeling")
A starship can be identified on sensors by its power utilization curve, as a vessel utilizing 100% power has the ability to skew sensor readings. (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
It was discovered that the use of power disturbed the dimensional structure of universes that co-existed with one another – the use of too much power could close the interphasic bridge between intersecting universes. (TOS: "The Tholian Web")
Units of power
- See: Measurements
See also
- Auxiliary power
- Emergency power
- Impulse power
- Ion power
- Lateral power
- Phaser power
- Reserve power
- Shielding power
- Structural integrity power
- Warp power
