Even better:
Lando: You’ve got to be able to get a reading on that shield, up or down!
Nib Nub: <alien speech>
Lando: How can they be jamming us if they don’t know…that we’re coming?
Too bad the actor who played Lando in X-Wing Alliance completely botched all of his lines.
ug, imho possibly the dumbest line ever regarding space battle. before they ever got to that point I was wondering what the Frak was up with the drive in circles crap that was going on and I havent ever been Involved in a space battle. totaly blew my suspension of disbelief, there is simple no way an experienced captain of a space ship wouldnt have resorted to 3d tactics instantly.
best battle ever? not sure.
Uh, you chopped off half the quote there, dude:
Spock: He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates 2 dimensional thinking.
Khan had never piloted a spaceship before, or at least, he’d only had a fraction of the time in the seat as Kirk, and so made mistakes like that despite his vastly greater intellectual and physical properties.
Of course, the problem is that except for that battle, Almost every star trek battle is entirely 2-dimensional.
I’m going to cinch my position as a total blasphemer and nominate the battle above Coruscant in Revenge of the Sith.
C’mon. That was cool.
Pretty much what I posted earlier.
I already did, but then again, I’m already one.
One of the few battles that really works with the 3-D’ness of space, and truely huge in scope.
CRAP! Sorry. Slipped in under the ol’ radar, there. :smack:
The last battle of Deep Space Nine wasn’t bad,
but it was somewhat spoilt by the Deus Ex Machina
And, oh yeah, I got my fix of space battles from the Homeworld computer game.
Thanks for mentioning both of those. Homeworld immediatly came to mind, but I didn’t think they were in play for some reason.
They were certainly cinematic. In Homeworld: Cataclysm you could get a camera view from the front of the ships, if you did that on a ship in a fighter squadron during a large battle it was a really cool experience. Course, then I usually lost since I couldn’t give any orders…
you’re right about Kahn…so explain why Kirk, a seasoned vetran of many space battles didnt take directly to 3d tactics? it took Spock to point out the current 2d tactics the enterprise was employing were stupid. simply not something I can buy.
(and this is from friggin ST, where suspension of disbelief should be the name of the theme song)
Maybe because he’s so used to his enemy’s using 3D tactics, that he didn’t think something as simple as going below the other ship would trick him.
:smack: :smack: :smack: enemies
I’m not sure that’s a fair complaint for WoK, at least not in the Mutara Nebula sequence. The point of Kirk’s tactics there were that Enterprise was lacking long-range sensors and shields. He had to lure Khan, on the Reliant (oh god i’m such a geek) into the nebula so that his sensors wouldn’t work either and they’d be even.
Best definitely has to be The Wrath of Khan. Classic, had me on the edge of my seat.
In that particular movie, you’re right. In the Mutara Nebula battle, everybody’s sensors are out and everything is within visual range. And in the earlier battle, Kirk and Co. don’t know Khan has taken over the Reliant so they have no reason not to let it pass right alongside.
But lots of other Trek battles have established that it’s SOP to hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes.