The Enterprise getting home...

[SeerSGB]

Plecostomus said:
Try this on for size. Damage control and reactor operation are two of my favorite subjects.

First and foremost there would be an effort to stabilize the ship as much as possible and evacuate all but essential crew, like a reactor watch crew and some security. Damage control would be cutting away loose pieces of the hull and welding in temporary patches so they don't have to rely on force-fields. The temp-patches would also include shunts for the SIF system as well as diverters for the deflector shields.

Once these jury-rigs are in place they'd tow her ass-backwards to a secure location and bring in a huge-ass heavy-lift ship or mobile-drydock and move her back to a proper shipyard.

From there the ship would spend time being rebuilt and upgraded for it's next misadventure, including a special helm console with DNA sensors that shuts down and locks out if Troi gets within a meter of the control surface.

That's pretty much how I've always thought of it. Though, I'd go as far as them shutting down life-support and other subsystems on all of the most essential decks and keeping an arm security team on board in case someone got the bright idea to try to snatch the ship as she was being towed to a shipyard.

 

[Timo]

Just as an aside:

Often enough, we see the various Enterprises diverted to run all sorts of strange, menial errands. So Starfleet probably wouldn't hesitate to send another such big ship to do the actual towing (instead of employing a dedicated tugship, that is). I doubt there would be many villains out there brave enough to try and steal the E-E if she were being towed by one of her sister starships!

Then again, many a two-bit villain has succeeded in capturing a fully operational Enterprise...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[LeadHead]

Here's my wager on these situations,
Since Riker had taken the Enterprise far enough to send a signal to the Federation Council, he could have sent a message to starfleet, asking for a lift. Which woud go right along with the Deleted reference to the Ticonderoga.
Also, they had the option on the play to make a temporary warp core, something they did for the Romulan Scout ship in "The Next Phase" using one of their Subspace resonators, if I am not mistaken. To qoute Riker from that episode, "It won't do more than Warp 2, but it'll get them home."

As for Nemesis, presumably after the destruction of the scimitar, they would have sealed the forward sections of the saucer section with Emergency bulkheads and reinforced the damaged areas to allow the ship to handle warp stresses. Being that so much of the ship was going to need to be overhauled, they miht not have focused any energy at all on the damaged areas and just let them break away, or in a more drastic, but possibly necessary move, they could have simply sliced off the damaged areas by having on of the Romulan ships or one of the Starfleet task force use it's phasers to simply get rid of the unsaveable areas.