Collector (tool)
A collector was an engineering tool that could gather and store energy.

In 1986, it was used by Nyota Uhura and Pavel Chekov for collecting high energy photons from a nuclear fission reactor on board the . Later, the photons from this device were streamed back into the dilithium chamber of the . This was done to re-crystallize the dilithium crystals. ()

See also 
 Bussard collector
 Bussard collection coil
 Hydrogen collector
 Electromagnetic collector
 Energy collector
 Isomagnetic collector
 Son'a collector

Engineering tools