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Actually, if you look at the Starcharts book, the BoBW borg attack actually comes from close to the Romulan border, which is consistant with the position of the Wolf system. Although it is in the "southern" area of the border, close to Klingon space.
Perhaps the Borg took advantage of the apparant absence of both Federation and Romulan activity and simply traveled "down" the neutral zone.
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Oh and about Jupiter station - maybe it was assimilated!?! Maybe Jupiter Station we see in Voyager is relatively new?
Uh... No. It was a Jupiter Outpost... number 92 I think, or something like that. And the Jupiter Station in "Lifeline" is very old from what the episode implies because Dr. Zimmerman has been working there for many years.
And you're all forgetting something [and I haven't checked this either so I'm no authority either]. The chances are extremely rare that Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars will be near alignment at any point in time. While the flight path of the Borg *MUST* go near Mars [because we saw it] it does not have to go anywhere near Jupiter or Saturn. Saturn wasn't even mentioned and could be on the other side of the solar system [someone can research that]... and the same can be true for Jupiter. All we know concerning Jupiter is that Jupiter Outpost #Something was the first to spot the Borg--- with so many outposts [one would think if it had a number higher than 1, there is more than 1!] they might simply all be spread out over Jupiter's orbit.
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um.. thats not true.
the cube enters the Sol System, it is clearly shown passing Saturn.
after the commercial break, Shelby reports Jupiter Outpost 92 made visual contact.. and that they didnt expect defenses to be effective.. theres no mention of any Borg attack on anything, only that defenses were failing to halt the advance.. theres also no mention that the outpost is necesarily on or in orbit of Jupiter
then, Mars is shown, and the drones are destroyed.. the Borg are not shown passing Mars closely, and it isnt mentioned if they stopped to assault the planet or any stations.. but its assumed the Borg are making a beeline towards Earth and arent assimilating other stuff in the Sol System..
(after this, the 1701-D is shown dropping out of warp next to Saturn)
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Have you guys ever thought that the writers of this particular ep probably didn't think of Borg flight path? That they might have just picked out system names out of random?
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quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike: ...after the commercial break, Shelby reports Jupiter Outpost 92 made visual contact.. and that they didnt expect defenses to be effective.. theres no mention of any Borg attack on anything, only that defenses were failing to halt the advance.. theres also no mention that the outpost is necesarily on or in orbit of Jupiter
Exactly! There's no reason to assume that Jupiter Station has to be in orbit around Jupiter itself. It could very easily be a station that moves along Jupiter's orbit, possibly at a L4 or L5 Lagrange Point.
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quote:Originally posted by David Templar: Bah, I'm sure that if we weren't doing Trek, we'd be doing something else equally pointless and life-shortening.
Hmmm.... Shortening.
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Well, if we're going by the visual effects, then the Borg clearly weren't heading straight towards Earth anyway. When the cube is shown passing Saturn, the planet it lit off to one side. If the cube was passing Saturn on the way directly towards Earth, then the back of the planet (the part we were looking at) should have been completely in shadow.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Well, if we're going by the visual effects, then the Borg clearly weren't heading straight towards Earth anyway. When the cube is shown passing Saturn, the planet it lit off to one side. If the cube was passing Saturn on the way directly towards Earth, then the back of the planet (the part we were looking at) should have been completely in shadow.
Okay, so they filmed it LEAVING Earth and played it backwards....
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