If you want to keep the 'as designed' lok for the SDF instead of grafting on a bunch of surface ships, then just have it successfuoly rendevous with the ARMOR platforms in orbit before fleeing back down to where they have test data to try a fold, and just strip the surface ships as much as they can for crew and materials afterward, or refit one or two (the SIF-BB, say, and subs as mentioned) with drives and have them accompany the SDF seperately, liek a normal carrier group.
Also - the chuck of ocean that got taken along seems unlikely to freeze in a chuck the way it's shown - more likely it would be a battle between surface tension pulling it in a thin layer over everything in contact, vacuum boiling it away and then freezing the vapor into an impenetreble cloud, and evaporative cooling freezing the body.
Once recovery operations have been carried out as much as possible, setting it into a stable solr or plannetary orbit might also be a good idea, for use as a possible refueling point later (all that water ice) and source of materials for later missions, since there's a lot more than they could physically fit into the ship even if they wanted to. Of course, wanting to do so and being able to, or able before the Zentran track their fold signature and pop in agin, that's a different question - on the plus side, unless they're really unlucky and ewd up moving at Earth orbital velocity in the side of Neptune that means they'd crash into it, there's most likely years if not centuries to come back and fix that later.
Character/BG detail moment: Have someone complaining that the cushion on their favorite chair doesn't feel right any more after being exposed to vacuum, because the foam got explosively decompressed inside.
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Also - the chuck of ocean that got taken along seems unlikely to freeze in a chuck the way it's shown - more likely it would be a battle between surface tension pulling it in a thin layer over everything in contact, vacuum boiling it away and then freezing the vapor into an impenetreble cloud, and evaporative cooling freezing the body.
Once recovery operations have been carried out as much as possible, setting it into a stable solr or plannetary orbit might also be a good idea, for use as a possible refueling point later (all that water ice) and source of materials for later missions, since there's a lot more than they could physically fit into the ship even if they wanted to. Of course, wanting to do so and being able to, or able before the Zentran track their fold signature and pop in agin, that's a different question - on the plus side, unless they're really unlucky and ewd up moving at Earth orbital velocity in the side of Neptune that means they'd crash into it, there's most likely years if not centuries to come back and fix that later.
Character/BG detail moment: Have someone complaining that the cushion on their favorite chair doesn't feel right any more after being exposed to vacuum, because the foam got explosively decompressed inside.
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows