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After the battle in the Nebula how did the Enterprise get back to Earth so quickly? The warp core was offline, they used the last of their energy to ram Shinzon's ship, and they have no way to communicate out of the nebula. Even if they did get their warp drive up and running, what is the maximum warp they would be able to go with the structural damage they had? Earth is also quite far from the Romulan NZ, there must be other places they could repair the ship between the RNZ and Earth.
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did they say they got back quickly? couldve taken weeks..
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Yah... they never really gave an indication of how long it took. Though, the senior staff standing around talking about Data seems like it would be something they'd do relavtively sson after his death. So, my vote would be that they got towed back to Earth in a relatively short period of time. The Hemingway explanation makes sense. It's not like the rest of the fleet had no idea where they were.
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"Though, the senior staff standing around talking about Data seems like it would be something they'd do relavtively sson after his death. So, my vote would be that they got towed back to Earth in a relatively short period of time."
They were on the bridge right after Data died. Then they were drinking that wine and talking about Data. Then the ship was shown in orbit at Earth. There's no indication that the towing took place between those first two scenes, and not between the second two.
"Earth is also quite far from the Romulan NZ..."
Actually, I think it's been implied often that Earth is relatively close to the RNZ. Not right on the edge, or anything, but fairly close. Not the least of these implications is the recent ENT episode w/ Romulans. The ship isn't too far from Earth, and they're already running into Romulan-claimed planets.
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Um... the Enterprise was already on its way to meet six starships when they were attacked by the Scimitar. Surely they would've shown up pretty soon after the battle.
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But those ships were already at the meeting point. The nebula is not where they were supposed to meet. I understand they would probably start looking for the Enterprise after a while but they wouldn't know exactly where to look.
Also, I would think that the Enterprise would have to have gotten back to Earth fairly fast because Riker left for his assignment on the Titan from Earth.
Also, even with a tow ship how fast could the Enterprise be towed with the damage it had?
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The Enterprise-E had a comm uplink with the Starfleet Stellar Cartography system which showed it's current path to the small fleet. I would say that is enough for those ships to calculate the last known location before the Enterprise entered the nebula. I'm sure that there was also an ETA given out.
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Not only that, but one could also assume that they were flying in a straight line from Romulus to the rendezvous point, no?
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Even with no direct communications there is still Subspace Transponders that work over several light years (as per STVI).
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Actually, I think it's been implied often that Earth is relatively close to the RNZ. Not right on the edge, or anything, but fairly close. Not the least of these implications is the recent ENT episode w/ Romulans. The ship isn't too far from Earth, and they're already running into Romulan-claimed planets.
I'm not saying you're wrong, necessarily, but don't forget to take into account that the extent of the Romulans' Empire may have been much greater in 2152---before the War---than later times.
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The Romulan Neutral Zone
first, we know that its farther out that UFP realtime communications capacity in both the 2260s (Balance of Terror) and in the 2360s (The Neutral Zone; The Defector)..
we know its probably not too far from Vulcan. It increases the believability of Vulcans colonizing Romulus in ancient times to believe they are distant. Plus the fact that the Romulans thought they could invade Vulcan without the Federation doing much in "Unification" probably relies on that plot point establishing the Vulcan is one of the closest major UFP members worlds to the Romulan homeowrlds and the RNZ.
but then for Earth to have fought a War with the Romulans when their warp flights were still relativity short range indicates Earth must be pretty darn close too, but then again the border could have changed. how much of their empire did we lop off with the first treaty of Cheron?
oh, and BTW, the Nemesis novel adds a 'weeks later' caption to the dock scene..
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