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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bond, James Bond: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by SoundEffect: I always assumed Admiral Hansen was aboard the USS Melbourne given: 1) we see him arrive in an Excelsior Class ship, 2) when he says to Picard it's offered to Riker, he says it so nonchalantly that it sounds like we're to assume he means the ship out the Ready Room window over there, and 3) Shelby seems to pick out the Melbourne from the wreckage with extra emphasis on the word...I assumed not because fate might have delivered Riker there, but rather that the admiral had been aboard. With those assumptions in mind, it sounds funny that Hansen says: "the fight does not go well" when the Saratoga had only taken a couple of shots and the Melbourne was the first of 39 ships torn into! [/QB][/QUOTE]That was always my impression as well. What if the first part of the battle involved getting the Cube to decellerate from Warp? The Borg changed tactics because of Locutus's influence and decided not to bother fighting but instead bypass the fleet and head straight for Earth. The fleet engages the Borg Cube in a running battle near Wolf 359 to try and get it to slow down. This depletes the shields of the Starfleet ships but does little damage to the Cube. Hanson radios the Enterprise during this exchange and tell them things aren't going well. Finally, after a long running battle, they damage the Borg Cube enough to get it to drop out of warp. This is when Locutus makes his "Resistance is Futile..." speech. This is when Hanson in the already shield depleted Melbourne approaches the Cube first and get's promptly destroyed. I mean, I know the Excelsior's and Miranda's shields are supposed to be weaker then the Galaxy Class, but they get destroyed or disabled in one shot while the Galaxy Class could resist Borg shield drainer tractor beams and cutting beams for up to a minute or more continiously? I think the Melbourne and Saratoga (and the other ships) had already been engaging the Cube for a while before that and that's why their shields were depleted. Each group of ships would probably engage the Cube for a minute then back off and the next group would jump in until the Cube slowed down. The Starfleet ships would keep "leapfrogging" into the battle off and on. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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