Despite her repairs she was proving a desperately slow ship.
They wouldn't be caught dead in a ship as slow as that.
We are therefore looking at a very slow, ponderous ship.
The slow ships could be stupid machines left behind by some lost species.
And using massive slow ships, they constantly sent little pieces of themselves from one warm world to another.
Parliament wouldn't have bothered commandeering a slow ship, not for a direct message.
Then they switched to their slow little ships, and came crawling in the rest of the way to Earth.
It's precious slow in this ship, don't you find?
This was no time for slow ships, or anything that would cause delay.
Because Voyager was pretty much the slowest ship out here right now.