Okay, it's always called a fleet. However Picard was certain the Enterprise E would be tipping the scale in federation favor. So obviously the fleet is small.
Yes, it must be a small fleet, because God knows that Picard would think that the most heavily armed starship in the fleet probably wouldn't have any effect if it was only a handful of ships.:m:
Your claim is making an assumption upon why Picard made a choice. There isn't even any evidence that he thought it was a small fleet so his ship would make a difference. Why would it no longer matter if it was a full fleet?
1: Yes they drop out of warp nine to start fighting the fleet as ships can;t really fight at warp and Borg us sublight tractor beams and laser cutters. So obviously the Cube dropped to sublight.
False. UFP ships have been shown to fight at FTL speeds in every series. It isn't as often as it was in TOS, but it still happens. Furthermore, in order for the Cube to have reached Earth before the Enterprise E, she would have needed to be at high warp. Second, if the fleet wasn't engaging the cube, then she wouldn't have been heavily damaged; her shield generators and hull would have regenerated.
2: True, however we are not told how close the point in the nuetral zone is to earth. Remeber some parts are so far away it takes days via subspace, yet they were listening to the battle at earth in real time
It's called a sub-space channel you twat. It's much faster than even Warp 9.
3: The rest of your points are conjecture. For all we know Typhoon sector is somewhere inside Sol system or just outside. A high speed warp fight favors the Federation who could quite simply use ships like the Intrpid class, Defiant class and the faster vessels to stay infront of the cube and pepper it with luanched torpedoes. Hell they could simply drop explosive ordinances and create havoc. The Borg ship could not use it STL tracotr beams or laser cutters at such speeds.
More inaccuracies. First off, the cube had just arrived at Earth; about five to ten minutes before the Enterprise E had. In order for your claim to be true, the Borg ship would have just sat in space five minutes from Earth for no apparent reason, despite the fact that she was just strolling on her way while fighting the ships.
4: Picard orders the Entperpise to red alert and warps toward home with the Soveriegns maximum of Warp 9 he still makes it fast enough that nobody has gone new duty stations and hell, he is sitting in the same position as when he made the order. Antoeher indication it was nearby.
This is the map of the Federation (more or less). Sol is our system. According to Alpha wiki, Vulcan is just over 16 lightyears from earth. The distance on the map is 59 pixels. The distance from the Romulan Neutral Zone to Earth is 204 pixels, which gives us 55.3220339 lightyears from Earth. By that claim, it would take the Enterprise E 75 days to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other if she was consistently moving at her top speeds. Even going with only twelve hours, she'd still cover 660 lightyears before being forced to drop out of warp.
Rather, the journey likely took around six hours. The Cube was blasting a UFP ship every five seconds or so. Given a time frame of five seconds and six hours, that's 4,320 ships...but that's more than a fleet. Thus, it would be more productive to work backwards. We all saw that about ten ships were left. For here, we'll say twenty. A fleet has a thousand ships. That's (5 seconds x 980 ships=) 4,900 seconds. 4,900 divided by 60 = 81.67. That's one hour and thirty-six minutes.
That means that the Enterprise E is able to traverse about fifty lightyears in the span of about hour and a half.
Bravo.
