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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I must agree that the look on Sisko's face at the beginning was one of a person who's seen a lot of comrades die. Why should he feel "emotionally involved" if the battle had not yet started? AFAWK, he had no relatives on the colonies lost to the Borg so far. He was unfamiliar with the horrors of assimilation. His brother wasn't serving on the Lalo. He hadn't just been told that his request for leave next week had been turned down. I must also agree that the battle didn't start or end with Hanson dying. His words suggest lots of prior fighting, and Locutus would be sure to take him out at a relatively early stage of the battle. Would this be a running battle, though? The ships were all at impulse. The Cube had chosen to navigate into a star system, and seemed not to be interested in moving. Was this behavior something that Starfleet had expected, as it had assembled the fleet in this system? Or had Starfleet been expecting a running battle, with Wolf 359 merely a convenient base of operations? I could see the battle (or its low-intensity tail end) dragging on for several hours, really. It would be very difficult for the E-D to catch up with the Cube on the final run otherwise. After the first fifteen minutes to half an hour had deprived the starships of mobility, the Drones would move in and begin assimilating the crews, while the Cube carved up some souvenirs. It would take some time to sweep up every lifepod and extinguish every lifesign, as had obviously happened by the time the E-D reached the scene. And the crews wouldn't give up without a fight, so the endgame would be a "battle" as much as the torpedo-lobbing had been. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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