MM> BN> dealing with the Borg, so my guess'd be that the captains wouldn't
MM> BN> say squat about it, especially since it would be obvious by then
MM> BN> that SF command didn't know its tail from a hole in the
MM> BN>galaxy
MM>I think the only reasonable way to interpret the first few minutes of
MM>First Contact is that there were *two* battles.
MM>Battles with Borg ships don't take very long.  An hour would be a long
"Don't be square, mon cher; movies is magic!" -- Jocephus
MM>I'd have to watch the movie again for details, but wasn't it clearly
MM>labled where Starfleet intercepted the Borg?  Was it the Typhong
MM>Sector, or was that songthing else?  At least it was somewhere other
GOK -- I'm not one to get into the most excruciating of details
like some folks is. 
MM>During the hours or days it would have taken for the Enterprise to reach
MM>Earth, Picard's orders were likely changed, so Starfleet would have the
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Evidence in support of?  Nope? OK, then we fall back on the standard
rule of thumb -- have the basic plot line make basic sense.  It did
& thus there's no reason to make assumptive extrapolations &
stretches, now, is there? }:)
MM>benefit of an additional Soverign Class ship.   Given that, the other
MM>Captains would not be in the position of accepting orders from an
MM>officer who was AWOL from his assigned duty.
Except, of course, for the fact that that's an assumption based
on an assumption, & if the premise is invalid, by definition the
conclusion must be also.  A certain amount of latitude has to be
given for the sake of plot, otherwise we all get to be like, uh, hmm,
I don't think I'll be going any further with this one.... 
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