Ton

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

 * A Rectyne monopod can weigh as much as 2 tons.


 * A humpback whale consumes "2 tons of shrimp per day."


 * In 2268, Deep Space K-7 had 2 tons of quadrotriticale in its silos, on hold for Sherman's Planet.


 * The captain's yacht of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) carried 7 tons of ultritium explosives in 2375.


 * 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.


 * Prior to its destruction, the Bok'Nor delivered 14 metric tons of golside ore to the Regulon system.


 * A single humpback whale has a mass of "about 40 tons."


 * Fort Knox stored over 50 metric tons of gold prior to the 22nd century.


 * Vosk demanded 86 tons of aluminum plating and 170 tons of carbon steel from his Nazi allies.


 * The Ares IV had a mass of 92 metric tons.


 * The Vidiian asteroid discovered by Voyager contained "anywhere from 500 to 1,000 metric tons of dilithium.


 * In 2373, Voyager discovered a gallicite vein with "a yield of nearly a kiloton; enough to completely refit the ship's warp coils."


 * Balok's cube had a mass of "about 2,000 metric tons."


 * Two Bolian freighters carried several thousand tons of selenium and rhodium nitrite when they disappeared near the Badlands in 2373.


 * The Ferengi market price of 2,000 tons of Kohlanese barley was 182 bars of gold-pressed latinum in 2371.


 * The USS Equinox had a 2 kiloton supply of kemacite ore.


 * The Xepolite freighter commanded by Drofo Awa claimed to have 5 kilotons of Regrean wheat husks in his cargo hold.


 * Voyager retrieved 8 kilotons of debris from the Borg probe, mostly fragments of its hull.


 * The Quarren facility was capable of producing 8,000 metric tons of tylium per second at 94% thermal efficiency.


 * The Balok's pilot vessel had a "mass, a little under 11,000 metric tons."


 * Terok Nor processed about 20,000 tons of uridium each day.


 * A Y class freighter can haul at least 20 kilotons.


 * A J class freighter can haul at least 30 kilotons.


 * An starship has a mass of 700,000 metric tons.


 * A starship has a mass of almost 1 million tons.


 * The freighter Tezra "could haul 1 million metric tons at warp 4.5."


 * A Borg scout ship had a mass of 2.5 million metric tons.


 * Penk's starship had a mass of 5 million metric tons.

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.


 * 250 tons was yield of the thermokinetic explosion produced by Romulan tricobalt mines used in the 22nd century.
 * A fusion explosion of 97.835 megatons will result if the impulse engine of a Constitution-class starship is overloaded.