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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I watched BoBWII on the weekend actually, and the dialogue went something like: "The fight does not go well, Enterprise. We're attempting to withdraw and regroup. Rendevous with fleet-- <bzzt>" From Hanson's dialogue, it certainly seems that Hanson had ordered the fleet to retreat to some point away from the scene of battle. As the fleet started to retreat (or started trying), Hanson got on the phone with the Enterprise and that's the last we see of him. In any case, assuming the scenes from "Emissary" are indeed at the beginning of the fight, there's no plausible way he'd be on the Melbourne. Since there was at least one other Excelsior-class ship at Wolf 359 (the Roosevelt), he could have easily been on that one or any other older ship; we know that Admirals like to ride around on Excelsiors (and "All Good Things" says that Admirals get to choose their own ship) so it needn't be the ONLY Excelsior we actually see. So what was hanson trying to say when he was cut off? Almost anything, really... "Rendezvous with fleet at coordinates..." "Rendezvous with fleet task force two..." "Rendezvous with fleet support ships at..." This last one poses an interesting quesiton - what if there was a number of unarmed fleet tenders or repair ships that were not part of the combat line? What if there were ships there to help repair ships in the event of a prolonged battle? This also leads to the question of how long Starfleet was EXPECTING the battle to be. Most people think that the fight was over in a matter of minutes - but what if Starfleet was banking on the Enterprise's previous experience and expecting a long battle broken up by frequent pauses for repair and conferences? Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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