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Favourite Star Trek canon battle and why
theraven2378
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I'm going to have to pick both battles from the Wrath of Khan, they felt more tactical in nature.
In terms of how the scenes were paced, it was perfect and executed with precision.
In terms of how the scenes were paced, it was perfect and executed with precision.
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It still makes me tear up a little whenever I watch it, and was a pretty good depiction of how even a tiny ship (and her captain) can make the ultimate sacrifice to save lives.
For more conventional battles, I'd go with the Battle of the Omarion Nebula in "The Die is Cast". Even though we didn't see a lot of the actual fighting, seeing a Romulan warbird fighting to the death from the inside was something we hadn't seen before, and they did a great job conveying the scope of the fleet battle outside.
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It was hopeless and Sisko knew it, but they had to try.
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TWOK came close but Kirk still felt the need to "resurface" to the same "altitude" as Khan before opening fire instead of just hitting him from underneath. In contrast, Nemesis had Enterprise doing barrel rolls to protect damaged shields and otherwise all four ships were crisscrossing each other at wild angles, firing all the while, and there's an awesome shot in '09 of Enterprise exiting the debris field upside-down relative to Narada.
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"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
The entirety of TWOK was a single engagement, not like the 2 ships split from each other into different systems, sectors. A stand up fight and a cat & mouse game. Once Enterprise encountered Reliant, they were never really that far away from each other for the remainder of the movie when you think about it
Though I'm surprised no one's yet brought up Enterprise-A and Excelsior versus Chang's Bird-of-Prey from STVI: Undiscovered Country; the way the BoP is winning, Uhura's idea, the comments between Spock and McCoy while they're working on the Torpedo, Chang's reaction as he realizes the torpedo is homing in on him; Sulu's "Target that explosion and fire!" command (something that I find myself quoting at times) and the finale as Enterprise and Excelsior's torpedoes blast the BoP from either side until it's destroyed - it's very nicely cinematic in my opinion.
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And the Andorian rescue of Archer and T'pol on Coridan for being the second step toward forming the Federation's top four(just meeting the Vulcans in TNG:F.C. was the first step, btw)
The battle was internal as well as external, with the suspicions, and prejudice, and then the tragedy in victory as the only one to die on the Enterprise had just gotten married.
In all the battle kept me in suspense since I knew Kirk etc, would win, but not how. Even years later I still get the same feeling.
Runner up; "Wrath of Khan" for the pacing, the themes of revenge and settling old scores, the in your face fury of it as cadets panicked and Scotty lost one of his kin because the kid stayed at his post.(yes! he did) and Khan! Old school Khan!
Speaking of Khan ... Third place goes to "Space Seed" for the battle at the end where the superior mind of Khan is beat down with a club by Kirk! Manufactured genes go up against natural cunning and get whipped! I do so love that.
This was a fun topic.
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Ok, you got me. I have to add this to my list as at least an honorary mention.
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Thanks to human and android ingenuity, yes. Continued martial resistance would, however, have resulted in the 1701-D being destroyed, and earth being assimilated.