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The space battles have a different vibe from StarTrek. It's not a matter of floating stationary in mid-space zapping each other with phasers and first to 0% shields loses. Fighters dogfight until one ship gets a clear shot with its Big Zappy Guns of Doom and then ka-pow, it slices the other ship in half, and if the crew are lucky, the fusion plant holds, and they die of vacuum, and if most of the crew are lucky, the fusion plant blows quickly and cleanly.

For instance, there's a subtle point, but watch a big ship pow-pow-powing a little one. It's not that it keeps hitting glancing blows, it keeps not quite hitting it, until it does, when it's dead. It feels much more immediate.

On the other hand, no TV series and few films show space battles really well. Limited encounters and "oh my god, look at the size of that fleet", yes, but actually "we're winning, they're winning" no.

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robhu.livejournal.com

When you've watched all of B5 (or have you seen it before? I forget), you might want to take a look at the fan made parody of ST/B5, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. It start moderately badly but becomes quite amusing if you're a fan.

It also has *lots* of space battles. It's amazing how fans with a few computers in their living room nowadays can render so many space battles when only 10-15 years ago such a large amount of scifi would be the budget for a whole series of B5.

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cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com

I don't think I ever said, but I've seen all of it (bar some of the last season and all of the spin-offs) and been spoiled for some of the remainder, thanks. And thank you -- that looks good, I'll watch at home :)