Why does star trek use the metric system

Play Sound. The reference from "The Defector" would be one of a small number of instances that might suggest otherwise. The needs to make a necessary conversions was implied by statements such as the one where Kirk remarks to Abraham Lincoln that the Enterprise could convert to minutes in TOS : " The Savage Curtain ", and who also spoke the Lincoln figure using Imperial measurements. Categories Measurements.

Universal Conquest Wiki. Show 12 more comments. Xalorous Xalorous 2 2 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Do you have any Vulcan relatives? I am an analytical person, studied mechanical engineering and I work with computers.

I like "logical". Always thought that the characters were archetypes, some of them out of proportion. Spock as the ultimate scientist, following logic like a cultmember. Bones as a grumpy old guy. Scotty as the epitome of an engineer needs to drink more beer. Kirk as the dashing hero Good points, but if the units system were derived by scientists more advanced than those at the time of Napoleon, Kelvin would be used instead of Celsius.

Celsius is a degree sic better than Fahrenheit, but of course still a historical artefact. Now we are stuck by using Celsius and Kelvin both as recognized metric units.

Or Celsius should be re defined as Kelvin minus exactly In my old flat I updated my oven to read temperature in proper Kelvin. It's not that hard to get used to. Add a comment. Whether the imperial system is more intuitive is probably a matter of what was the first thing you learnt. Sweden has been metric since looong before I was born, so in my lifetime there hasn't even been a remnant of older systems.

And although I have a basic understanding of the imperial system, the metric system is more intuitive to me. Excellent point Sixth. Britain switched in the early Seventies. Huge improvement, trust me - and I have had pretty equal chunks of experience with both. I still think about distances in terms of feet and yards, though.

Strangely the same is not true for all the other measures whether currency or Temp. I do not know why. SixthOfFour Couldn't agree more! In SI, Water freezes at 0 and boils at Atmospheric pressure is exactly 1atm.

Avogadro number belongs to SI. One could use any SI unit and scale it as they wish just by multiplying with powers of 10 - no need to change names or switch units. All my life the rulers the measuring implements, not monarchs in my country have always had both inches and centimetres, but because I've never had to use inches and never been told to use them, I never do and they feel incredibly unnatural.

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Actually, US uses metric, mostly. Main place US hasn't converted, is consumer products. But they all have metric measurements on them. And I saw a ml bottled drink yesterday. My first comment was to ask if it was imported. Pepsi is evidently trying expanding its metric sized packaging. Also, you'll find metric is taught in Science and Engineering classes in colleges and that those disciplines use metric wherever possible in industry as well.

The military uses metric for many things also. I'm Canadian so If another intelligent species would have a power of two fingers, that would match more with Imperial, with a unit of length divided in 2 parts, or 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. Show 1 more comment. Roland Roland 4 4 bronze badges. So that gives you the time period for the change-over - between the 2nd and 3rd year of their mission.

This exercise is left to the reader. I had forgotten about that. Makes sense, I think. I thought a KelliKam was like a JenniCam. Thank god! That said, everyone who uses units, from the present up until the Enterprise era, is some kind of astronaut or scientist who might very well be using metric even if they were a present day American.

So this is all kind of shaky. It's really too bad "Past Tense" doesn't have any units in it, as none of its past characters are scientists or astronauts. There is a scene where Sisko and Bashir are filling out forms in Sanctuary District A, when Sisko realizes what day it is. As he's explaining the events that will occur a few days later, we get this shot of a screen on the wall:. As you can see, the temperature is listed in degrees Celsius. Since they are in a US government building, I think it's reasonable to assume that the US had switched to using Celsius at least by Friday, August 30th, Since this predates the formation of the United Earth government, I think it's reasonable to assume they always used the metric system, at least for temperature.

For now, only two or three countries uses the Imperial system. In the future, probably no one is going to. As United Earth was the unification of Earth, It's probably that they chose the most used - the metric system over other systems.

So I presume when It was created either all countries already used the metric system or It was chosen as the official one after it's creation. I sincerely hope I could give you some information.

Bear in mind that the Imperial system is completely useless in engineering applications, and never used or taught in science or engineering courses at college or university. So in answer to your question, Earth already uses the metric system in serious applications. While the general public may still use imperial measurements on a united Earth, we only ever see starship crews and being trained in a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, they'd all be used to metric anyway.

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