Wolf 359 Casualties

[Tenacity]

Gertting back to numbers, 11,000 people "lost" (dead/assimilated/still missing after all those years) would mean about 275-300 per ship in the low-end estimate of ship numbers

But if the average compliment of the 39 starships was say about 400 then that means a fair number of people survived the destruction of their particular starship and any assimilation that took place.

From the time of the battle, until the Enterprise arrived was something like two or three hours, plenty of time for crews to abandon the useless hulks of their starship and leave the area.

Why stay?

Since Sisko's escape pod was not found by USS Enterprise, someone had to have picked them up.

Or the rather large life boat possessed a warp drive.

 

[USS Firefly]

The surviving ship could be quite badly damaged. But was salvagable and maybe even returned to service. Much like the Enterprise B in Yesterday's Enterprise.

I think you mean the Enterprise-C

But if the average compliment of the 39 starships was say about 400 then that means a fair number of people survived the destruction of their particular starship and any assimilation that took place.

From the time of the battle, until the Enterprise arrived was something like two or three hours, plenty of time for crews to abandon the useless hulks of their starship and leave the area.

Why stay? Or the rather large life boat possessed a warp drive.

Or they where close to a habitable planet?

 

[Tenacity]

Wolf 359 is a red dwarf, I don't know if they can have habitable planets, or even planets at all.

 

[Ithekro]

I am under the impression there were no planets around Wolf 359. Possibly why Starfleet decided to stage its line against the Borg there.

 

[DonIago]

^Doesn't seem like it has planets... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_359

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The surviving ship could be quite badly damaged. But was salvagable and maybe even returned to service. Much like the Enterprise B in Yesterday's Enterprise.

Some of the 'destroyed' ships at Wolf359 were also returned to service, such as the Ahwahnee.

 

[Crazyewok]

Survivors seem very thin on the ground when the Enterprise eventually arrives first on the scene. They don't seem to detect or pick up any survivors. Presumably the radiation or whatever obscures their presence. The escape pods may also want to hide lest they get picked off and picked up by the borg.

A medical ship could gave bern holding back from the battle and when the carnage was over swooped in to pick up the suvivors.