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* A [[J class]] freighter can haul at least '''30 kilotons'''. ({{ENT|Horizon}})
 
* A [[J class]] freighter can haul at least '''30 kilotons'''. ({{ENT|Horizon}})
   
* An {{ShipClass|Intrepid}} starship has a mass of '''700,000 metric tons'''. ({{VOY|Phage|Relativity}})
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* An {{class|Intrepid}} starship has a mass of '''700,000 metric tons'''. ({{VOY|Phage|Relativity}})
   
* A {{ShipClass|Constitution}} starship has a mass of '''almost 1 million tons'''. ({{TOS|Mudd's Women}})
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* A {{class|Constitution}} starship has a mass of '''almost 1 million tons'''. ({{TOS|Mudd's Women}})
   
 
* The [[freighter]] ''[[Tezra]]'' "could haul '''1 million metric tons''' at [[warp factor|warp 4.5]]." ({{ENT|Bounty}})
 
* The [[freighter]] ''[[Tezra]]'' "could haul '''1 million metric tons''' at [[warp factor|warp 4.5]]." ({{ENT|Bounty}})

Revision as of 13:13, 31 July 2013

A ton, metric ton or tonne is a unit of mass and occasionally of energy. It is equal to 1 megagram ( = 1000 kilograms).

Several of the references below are explicit uses of the S.I. metric unit. Otherwise it is not impossible that what is used is the US/Imperial unit ( = 2000 pounds).

Units of mass

  • The Quarren facility was capable of producing 8,000 metric tons of tylium per second at 94% thermal efficiency. (VOY: "Workforce")

Units of energy

A ton is also a way of indicating the energy released by an explosion of one metric ton of TNT - 4.184 gigajoules. In the 20th century nuclear weapons were graded by megatonnage - by the millions of megagrams of TNT they equalled.

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