The whole ship's senior staff disagreed with that. So you're basically calling Picard and his team incompetent.
No, they're officers in the quasi-military that is Starfleet and follow their orders even if they don't agree with it. Also, there's the *drama* of it all, with then defying said orders and saving the day.
Since it goes both ways as said previously, that makes Picard a liability but for some reason, the god of movie plot convenience wasn't on the borg's side at that time...
That would've been an interesting plot element, if the Borg were shown to be aware of this connection and using it against Picard and the crew, though with plenty else going on in the film then it's something that was best left a bit more undefined. Does raise the question of if the Queen allowed him to hear Data in order to lure him down to engineering, as it definitely seemed as though he were expected.
I wholeheartedly disagree. The formidable release of energy by exploding antimatter dwarfs to a ridiculous level the tiny energy of a ship's collision. It would be like a fireman spitting on the fire while throwing water on it with his equipment.
A course collision with a starship is nothing compared to throwing all your torpedoes and even your warp core at it if you want while it would spare the lives of the crew idiotically sacrificed.
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Defiant had no weapons available so firing torpedoes was unavailable, though her magazines could still be holding a few warheads, jettisoning the warp core would only detonate the matter/antimatter inside the core and not the vast tanks still on the ship. Once the ship crashes into them all that would rupture and detonate, so you'd have the physical impact of the ship (which would pass through the Borg's shields) any torpedoes still left onboard, the warp core, and deuterium tanks and antimatter pods, add to that the self-destruct command and that is one big bomb (the Defiant-Class was after all outfitted with the forward "warhead" module to do just that as a last ditched tactic). Some of the crew might be able to escape with the lifeboats, but as they're all officers and crew of the quasi-military that is Starfleet they all know that they may be called upon to give their lives to safeguard others. It's not something they'd be thrilled about (except maybe Worf for the honour of it all), but it is a price they'd all be willing to pay as the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
It's well shown in "Nemesis" where Picard is willing to blow up his ship yet later when Shinzon's ship explodes (it was much bigger than Enterprise at that) It doesn't do much to the enterprise itself. I mean it goes both ways!!!
The E-E was already heavily damaged and may not have been able to get enough speed behind her in the very short distance between both ships, and it was only the front of the saucer that ploughed into the
Scimitar, her main ordnance, reactor core and fuel tanks were nowhere near the point of impact. Some misogynists might throw out a comment about Troi driving the ship once again, but I won't touch that with a barge pole.
As far as I know, the borg don't have egos, they don't even have selves. They do everything from a logical standpoint (with what data they have)
Where is the logic in only sending one ship to target Earth when that plan previously failed? When the Collective have thousands of Cubes and billions of drones at their disposal why send just one ship? The belief in Borg Perfection is their core principle and operating system, they are driven by that self-inflated sense of ego, that no one can best them. They would've been wiped out by Species 8472 because they underestimated their opponent and couldn't assimilate it to understand it and develop countermeasures, whilst they've assimilated who knows how many Starfleet ships and personnel that leads them to believe they can handle whatever is thrown at them.
Torpedoes don't become weak because the ship that's firing them is damaged.
Borg ships have only ever been shown using energy weapons, Cubes do seem to be equipped with magnetometric guided charges/missiles, though this may not be included on Spheres which instead rely on beam- or pulse-firing energy weapons, which could be affected by damage. Even if they did have torpedoes, loss of targeting might not be able to pinpoint the exact area and so just blanketed the area from space (though looking at the effects on the ground it would seem that they were using energy and not projectile weapons).
These are still a handful of people in rags. Don't tell me that they live in poverty by choice. They're as likely to build a warp drive as a bunch of vagrants today to make a nuclear device, that is, not very.
No one lives in poverty by choice. Earth has just experienced a devastating nuclear world war which has gone on for 27 years, seen 600 million dead, the destruction of almost all major cities and population centres, and left civilisation in ruins for a decade. Look at how badly the world has been hit by a global pandemic, the ramifications of which will linger for a very long time to come once we're all vaccinated and can finally breath a sigh of relief without having to wear masks. Devastation from war isn't just gone overnight, it takes organisation and money and time to build was was torn down, but after witnessing cities destroyed many people would fear grouping together in large groups lest they make themselves a target, or out of fear of diseases spreading as a pandemic after a nuclear holocaust would probably be more devastating than the war itself (just like the Spanish Flu in 1918/19), whilst nuclear fallout and winter would also make life miserable for the survivors, with conditions being next to impossible to grow crops and cases of cancer going through the ramshackle tin roof.
But in the midst of all that was a physicist with a dream, a dream of retiring to a tropical island somewhere with naked women. He managed to find a few other scientists and engineers, and over the span of a decade managed to develop Earth's first warp drive and change history. Is if far-fetched? Yes, but so is the idea of warp drive or magic mushrooms that make a starship spin. Are huge technological breakthroughs made during/due to wartime advancements? Yes, life would be very different without the work of the likes of Alan Turing.
