BN> Well, SF's plan *did* blow up in their face & cause quite a few
 BN> deaths (very possibly unnecessarily) & Picard *does* have a rep in
 BN> the fleet for being *extremely* knowledgeable when it comes to
 BN> dealing with the Borg, so my guess'd be that the captains wouldn't
 BN> say squat about it, especially since it would be obvious by then
 BN> that SF command didn't know its tail from s hole in the galaxy when
 BN> it came to strategy. };)
I think the only reasonable way to interpret the first few minutes of
First Contact is that there were *two* battles.
Battles with Borg ships don't take very long.  An hour would be a long
fight.  There is no *way* The E-E could make it to Earth from the
Neutral Zone while the initial battle was under way.
I'd have to watch the movie again for details, but wasn't it clearly
labled where Starfleet intercepted the Borg?  Was it the Typhong
Sector, or was that songthing else?  At least it was somewhere other
than Earth.
The Enterprise left the Neutral Zone during the first battle but
diverted to Earth, where a second task force confronted the Borg ship.
During the hours or days it would have taken for the Enterprise to reach
Earth, Picard's orders were likely changed, so Starfleet would have the
benefit of an additional Soverign Class ship.   Given that, the other
Captains would not be in the position of accepting orders from an
officer who was AWOL from his assigned duty.
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