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* An {{class|Intrepid}} starship has a mass of '''700,000 metric tons'''. ({{VOY|Phage|Relativity}})
 
* An {{class|Intrepid}} starship has a mass of '''700,000 metric tons'''. ({{VOY|Phage|Relativity}})
   
* A {{class|Constitution}} starship has a mass of '''almost 1 million tons'''. ({{TOS|Mudd's Women}})
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* The {{dis|Tellarite freighter|22nd century}} ''[[Tezra]]'' "''could haul '''1 million metric tons''' at [[warp factor|warp 4.5]].''" ({{ENT|Bounty}})
 
* The {{dis|Tellarite freighter|22nd century}} ''[[Tezra]]'' "could haul '''1 million metric tons''' at [[warp factor|warp 4.5]]." ({{ENT|Bounty}})
 
   
 
* A [[Borg scout ship]] had a mass of '''2.5 million metric tons'''. ({{TNG|I Borg}})
 
* A [[Borg scout ship]] had a mass of '''2.5 million metric tons'''. ({{TNG|I Borg}})

Revision as of 13:54, 4 April 2017

A ton, metric ton, or tonne was a unit of mass and occasionally of energy. It was equal to 1 megagram (1,000 kilograms).

Several of the references below are explicit uses of the SI metric unit. Otherwise, it is not impossible that what is used is the US/Imperial unit (2,000 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 was 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 in megatons - by the millions of megagrams of TNT they equaled.

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