I need that information, to calculate the velocity of the USS Enterprise-E at maximum warp, considering SDN logic.
In Star Trek: First Contact, despite orders relegating them to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone, Picard and the crew of the new USS Enterprise-E disobey their superiors and set a course for Earth with maximum warp, where they join a fleet of vessels repelling an advancing Borg cube, after they have heard via subspace radio, that the Starfleet task force, led by Vice Admiral Hayes, has failed to stop the Borg cube in the Typhon sector.
In the movie, the Enterprise goes at warp at time index 09:05 and arrives at Earth at time index 09:50, only 45 seconds later.
The Battle of Earth is showed from time index 09:07, the first torpedos are hitting the Borg cube at time index 09:19, the Borg cube explodes at time index 11:16. The observed part of the Battle of Earth has lasted altogether 129 seconds.
During the few scenes, in which the Borg cube is showed, [Defiant attack run [09:25 - 09:30], Enterprise arrives [09:57 - 01:04], Borg cube on the screen [10:22 - 10:25], Fleet on stand by [10:53 - 10:56], Fire! [10:57 - 11:16]], in only 37 seconds, it has observable destroyed at least six Starfleet vessels.
It is to assume, that the Borg cube has destroyed other vessels during that 37 seconds, but that couldn't be observed because it has happened of screen or behind the cube, where we couldn't look.
Extrapolated to the 129 seconds, the observed part of the Battle of Earth has lasted, the Borg cube would have destroyed at least 20 Starfleet vessels.
That shows, that we have to assume, that the Enterprise - according to SDN logic - has not needed far more time to reach Earth than these 45 seconds.
That is, what every normal person, watching that scene would think.
- Darth Wong wrote:Most of their arguments are like this: they look for loopholes in the evidence through which to fit their claims, and then act as if one must prove their claims impossible or they win by default. That is totally unlike any kind of reasonable approach. No normal person watches that scene and thinks "I wonder what they did during the several days they waited for the Rebel fleet to arrive after Leia said they would be here any moment"; they must realize on some level that they're off in la-la land, but they figure they've got loopholes, and you can't dislodge them from those loopholes so they win.
That would mean, that the Starfleet task force, that has an engagement with the Borg cube already in the Typhon sector, would have had also more time to fight the Borg cube all the way from the Typhon sector to Earth.
If the trip would have needed one day, that would mean, that the crew of the ships of the task force would have been in battle for a whole day. Don't they need sleep?
And during a day, the Borg cube would have destroyed 14'000 Starfleet vessels. Or do we have to assume, that the fleet wouldn't have attacked the Borg cube during the travel to Earth, that both have traveled amicable side by side until they have reached Earth?
Maybe there is an explanation, that could explain, why the Enterprise would have needed more time to reach Earth, than was showed in the movie. But we don't want to reach for loopholes.