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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DaddyDragon: [QB] Trek lore does indeed paint of a picture of the close proximity of the Romulan Neutral Zone. The original Earth/Romulan war was fought before the Romulans aquired warp drive against a fledgling interstellar United Earth. Based on the assumption that the Neutral Zone is somewhere within 20 light years of Earth (which would take a warp 2 capable ship 3 years to reach), it would have taken the Big E-E four days to travel that distance at warp 9.6, four days to get to Earth (even pushing the engines to its limits, 20 light years would take two days a warp 9.9, I don't know if Scotty could have kept her together at that speed for two straight days). [Rigel, BTW is 905 light years from Earth, and would technically take 181 days to reach at that speed, but we all know what kind of creative license the writers have taken regarding warp travel times. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG] ] That being said, I do have to agree with others on this list that the battle may have actually been a protracted series of meeting engagements, over a period of two to four days. A can see small task groups of 3 to 50 vessels, using every dirty trick in the book to disrupt the Borg Cube's warp fields, lay traps to force course corrections, harassing the Cube at every opportunity, inflicting as much damage as possible and then breaking off (perhaps hoping in vain to draw the Borg off of their intended target), all in a dedicated effort to allow other ships to reach the Sol System for the final stand, the very end of which we witness in those early scenes of ST:FC. I don't know if I can buy the loss of 400 ships, especially in light of the vast quantities of ships we see later being fielded in the Dominion War. Or maybe, this is in spite of it. YMMV, Larry [/QB][/QUOTE]
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