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* The [[Balok's pilot vessel]] had a "mass, a '''little under 11,000 metric tons'''." ({{TOS|The Corbomite Maneuver}})
 
* The [[Balok's pilot vessel]] had a "mass, a '''little under 11,000 metric tons'''." ({{TOS|The Corbomite Maneuver}})
   
* An [[Intrepid class|''Intrepid''-class]] starship has a mass of '''700,000 metric tons'''. ({{VOY|Phage|Relativity}})
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* An {{ShipClass|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}})
 
* A {{ShipClass|Constitution}} starship has a mass of '''almost 1 million tons'''. ({{TOS|Mudd's Women}})

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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

  • An Template:ShipClass starship has a mass of 700,000 metric tons. (VOY: "Phage", "Relativity")
  • A Template:ShipClass starship has a mass of almost 1 million tons. (TOS: "Mudd's Women")
  • A Borg scoutship had a mass of 2.5 million metric tons. (TNG: "I, Borg")
  • 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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