thing is though, we can nitpick the strategies of fictional space battles all we want, that's not the point. The battles are emotionally unsatisfying so the stuff that doesn't make sense stands out a lot more. If the battle was actually engaging then these bits wouldn't matter.
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Come to think of it the first big production with CGI space battles, The Last Starfighter, had spinning around in place as the secret special maneuver (the Death Blossom Technique)
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Alex and Grieg spin other times too. That was a very maneuverable ship
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Remember how in Wrath of Kahn (the original one) Spock figured out that they could outmaneuver Kahn because his patterns suggested two-dimensional thinking?
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It's a good moment most of the other Trek stuff ignores
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Although Star Trek VI actually does have the three ships in the last battle moving on different "floors" so to speak.
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B5 gets a lot of credit for realism in ship design and spaceflight but in retrospect that applied mainly to Earth ships. Most of the other ships seemed to fly and behave according to the same sort of space magic you see in most space opera movies/TV shows.
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That's because they had basically inertialess drives which indeed is clarketech.
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