Another potential angle is that you probably don't want to advertise on the bridge, in the middle of a battle, when your ship is half renegade Maquis that the Federation can build torpedoes from scratch on any new starship.
If they'd made it back home as quickly as they hoped, every Intrepid class would become a massive target.
Another potential angle is that you probably don't want to advertise on the bridge, in the middle of a battle, when your ship is half renegade Maquis that the Federation can build torpedoes from scratch on any new starship.
If they'd made it back home as quickly as they hoped, every Intrepid class would become a massive target.