darthy wrote:They may, assuming the fissure is capable of merging an enterprise inside another enterprise. We see no examples of this in the visuals. It may just wait until one of them move out of the way so it has room to put another.
If the fissure can't place one thing inside another, then you still have a mass filled with ships that can't move. If any one of them loses anti-matter containment, you're looking at an explosion that breaches containment on the ships around it. This chain reaction would destroy all the ships.
Since we are talking a growing growth rate, even if ships move, there will be a point where the fissure can fill it's volume within a second or so. Sometime between then and when the Enterprise density is high enough for the chain reaction, there is a chance of a collision violent enough to trigger it.
The chain reaction takes time to propagate and the debris from a ship will take time to clear an area. When the clear long enough for a ship to appear, they are still likely to receive a high speed piece of debris soon after. So the end result is a volume of space filled with explosions and spitting out debris.
Will the Federation get enough ships to damage the SW ships before this happens ?
Will the eternal explosion take the SW ships out before they flee ?
I don't know. I'd need the size of the volume where the fissure throws ships and the rate of production to take a guess.
Since I haven't seen the episode in question, how did they close the fissure ?
Was the fissure natural ?
I'm asking because I want to speculate on if the fissure is a self-terminating effect.
But before that happens, would X number of enterprise-D destroy the imperial fleet?
A better question to ask would be "How many Enterprise-D's would it take to destroy the Imperial Fleet ?"
Don't try to explain how the Federation got so many.