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Ok on the range thing, you guys are forgetting a lot. The Enterprise has been traveling at top speed for a lot of the period since they've left from Earth. I think that like the ships of the 24th century, Enterprise has a lower speed at which they normally travel, cruise... that is optimum for fuel consuption... perhaps Warp 3. This probably significantly increases the ship's range of Enterprise's current range.
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the ship has to dodge anamolies, not just rips in space, but gravity flux that is quite deadly created by the spheres. Then there is the dodging of Xindi patrols [they've done that a couple times, right? well, if not on screen they've had to do it off screen].
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"So if Archer wasn't under the influence of the Stuff, he would've let the hatchlings die?"
I think he still would have gone through the whole "we must try to save them so we can prove we aren't barbarians" bit. But, I don't think he would have sacrificed a third of the ship's antimatter to do it.
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quote:Ok on the range thing, you guys are forgetting a lot. The Enterprise has been traveling at top speed for a lot of the period since they've left from Earth. I think that like the ships of the 24th century, Enterprise has a lower speed at which they normally travel, cruise... that is optimum for fuel consuption... perhaps Warp 3. This probably significantly increases the ship's range of Enterprise's current range.
That may be true, but Trip figured out to compress the antimatter stream. Their range was increased because they were using their fuel more efficiently
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