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=== Comparative list of masses === |
=== Comparative list of masses === |
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Revision as of 20:17, 22 July 2007
A ton or metric ton is a unit of mass. One metric ton is equal to 1,000 kilograms, whereas one ton (or short ton) is equal to 2,000 pounds.
- Several of the below references are unclear whether they refer to the "U.S. ton" or the "S.I. metric ton."
Comparative list of masses
- A Rectyne monopod can weigh as much as 2 tons. (TNG: "The Icarus Factor")
- The cave-in caused in the caverns by the Son'a on the Ba'ku planet had almost 4 metric tons of rock blocking the entryway. (Star Trek: Insurrection)
- The captain's yacht of the Enterprise-E carried 7 tons of ultritium explosives in 2375 (Star Trek: Insurrection).
- Prior to its destruction, the Bok'Nor delivered 14 metric tons of golside ore to the Regulon system. (DS9: "The Maquis, Part I")
- Humpback whales mass about 40 tons (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
- Fort Knox stored over 50 metric tons of gold prior to the 22nd century. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
- Vosk demanded 86 tons of aluminum plating and 170 tons of carbon steel from his Nazi allies. (ENT: "Storm Front")
- The Ares IV had a mass of 92 metric tons. (VOY: "One Small Step")
- The Vidiian asteroid discovered by Voyager contained "anywhere from 500 to 1,000 metric tons of dilithium. (VOY: "Phage")
- In 2373, Voyager discovered a gallicite vein with "a yield of nearly a kiloton; enough to completely refit the ship's warp coils." (VOY: "Blood Fever")
- Two Bolian freighters carried several thousand tons of selenium and rhodium nitrite when they disappeared near the Badlands in 2373. (DS9: "For the Uniform")
- The USS Equinox had a 2 kiloton supply of kemacite ore. (VOY: "Equinox")
- Balok's cube had a mass of "about 2,000 metric tons." (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
- The Ferengi market price of 2,000 tons of Kohlanese barley was 182 bars of gold-pressed latinum in 2371. (DS9: "Prophet Motive")
- The Xepolite freighter commanded by Drofo Awa claimed to have 5 kilotons of Regrean wheat husks in his cargo hold. (DS9: "The Maquis, Part II")
- Voyager retrieved 8 kilotons of debris from the Borg probe, mostly fragments of its hull. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
- The Quarren facility was capable of producing 8,000 metric tons of tylium per second at 94 percent thermal efficiency. (VOY: "Workforce")
- The Balok's pilot vessel had a "mass, a little under 11,000 metric tons." (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
- Terok Nor processed about 20,000 tons of uridium each day. (DS9: "Civil Defense")
- A Y class freighter can haul at least 20 kilotons. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")
- A J class freighter can haul at least 30 kilotons. (ENT: "Horizon")
- The USS Enterprise had a mass of almost a million tons. (TOS: "Mudd's Women")
- The USS Voyager was a 700,000 metric ton starship. (VOY: "Phage", "Relativity")
- The Tellarite freighter Tezra "could haul a million metric tons at warp 4.5." (ENT: "Bounty")
- A Borg scoutship had a mass of 2.5 million metric tons. (TNG: "I, Borg")
- Penk's starship had a mass of 5 million metric tons. (VOY: "Tsunkatse")