Battlestar Galactica | Best Space Battles
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Some of the best battles of season 1 and season 2.
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Man, the way that Adama just calmly says "See if he had time to eject" concerning his own son is true command of the situation and one's emotions.
Don't worry if it had been Admiral Burnham from ST:Discovery she would be crying mid battle lol
Ice is in their veins when it comes to combat. If I recall correctly Lee was made acting CAG after being imprisoned for mutiny, and his father was on the operating table from being shot by his friend.
@@darkorion69 IF you are shortening a title, shorten it completely that means instead of "ST:Discovery" you write ST:D
@@grigss3027 Well like that it just sounds like something you get from a very bad night.
@@Fau1ted yes, just like the shows early seasons
I can't believe this show didn't single handedly bring back the space-sim gaming genre
The only game I know that took BSG as inspiration is House of the Dying Sun. Space dogfights with drums.
Well there is EVE online.
@@biocapsule7311 There is also battlestar galactica online....
@@Dave-gu3zj actually, 10 yrs now... quote: "Pre-production of Star Citizen began in 2010 with production starting in 2011" - Wiki
@@biocapsule7311 eve is a space spreadsheet
The space Combat was the best part of this show in my opinion. The fact they used Space Physics to dogfight was, to me, Revolutionary in Sci-Fi movies/shows.
Dustin Blaise Babylon 5 did it a decade before BSG on top of having cohesive plot with a good ending.
@@ashaffold; "cohesive plot".
Less, man.... Less....
But the arcs are great and was a great show.
@Adrian Q It's just a lot of people find it unsatisfying or confusing. Didn't find any of these problems when I watched.
except some of those maneuvers they portraied were absolutely unrealistic ... especially those full throttle, swing reverse, full throttle where the pilot would be under such overload he/she would have to be hosed out of the cockpit after they recovered the wreck ...
@@Asghaad and you know the specs on the trust of the viper engines
it would be stupid and unnecessary(extra cost) to give them engines with so much trust that it can kill the pilot
the Battle of the Resurrection Ship remains by far and away, the most beautiful space battle I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing
So Say We All!!
As an Ace Combat veteran, that tunnel flight spoke to me on an emotional level.
Haha I just commented on that too
I know right, reminds me of fires of liberation mission 20 lol
Bear McCreary was the perfect choice to score the soundtrack to nBSG. Also, whoever was in charge of sound effects is a pro!
Gotta admit watching those two Battlestars shred multiple Cylon baseships was satisfying.
For some reason the cylons may advance rapidly in genetics and cybernetics but their ship building falls dangerously short compared to the twelve colonies. If the colonial fleet was fully up and operational they could have torn the entire cylon fleet to pieces.
It was almost beautiful watching them get shredded. Even in death and destruction, there is beauty if you know where to look.
Baseships were more like aircraft carriers, and Battlestars more like battleships. GIven the vast distances in space, the Baseship concept would probably work better, but as a TV show, you need to have the ships close together slugging it out.
The basestars were built for surprise attacks due to the colonial computers being compromised, so they are all offense & no defense.
That was always something the Battlestars where EXTREMELY good at because they where designet for battles like this. One Battlestar could easily take on half a dozen or more Baseships because the Battlestars always have more armor, and more firepower. I mean, even the old aged Galactica still packed a punch like the much newer Pegasus.
Galactica vs Pegasus was in my opinion the most intense part of the series. Just imagine being on one of those civilian ships, Galactica keeping you safe until now and when you are glad that second battlestar appears, they are going at each other and you have no idea why, maybe you even heard the rumours about Pegasus's former civilian fleet already and over all it's not looking good...
thats what i thought back in the day when i first saw this episode! was nightmare fuel for me! haha
Imagine if they did fire... Well it would end up as the Homeworld BSG mod simulates it. Lets just say the show wouldn't be called Battlestar Galactica after that fight if it was to the death.
@@alduintheanti-dragonborn Pegasus has better weapons and better armour but Galactica has plot armour.
@@novy9032 While it is true that Pegasus has overall better technology when it comes to both the ship and fighters I wouldn't ignore what Adama said when Ms. President implied that Pegasus would most likely win, "I'm not so sure about that.". Adama (in comparison to Cain) is vastly much more experienced, as well as his pilots are. He knows the weakness and strengths of both Galactica and Pegasus as he worked with these ships for much longer. It is also not a bad bet to say that a mutiny would have taken place on board of the Pegasus if she would have given the order to fire firs (not just by her crew but also and most likely by Galactica crew that was transferred)
I know, you are Soo correct!
From someone who watched the original BSG as a child with the same battle scenes being recycled over and over again, this is beautiful.
This show is a cinematic masterpiece.
The space battles were really amazing
A cinematic masterpiece!? Why? Because of close-ups half of the time? Because of cuts every few seconds? It rather looks like a cinematic cr*p to me.
@@heniohenrykowski3571 just don’t
Battlestar Galactica is the only show I know where warships don't explode after 1 missile hit.
KAI PETERSON that’s not a warship.. it’s a civilian cruise liner.
And where consoles on the bridge don't explode because the outer hull got hit.
And where ships can't maneuver in space like airplanes.
Stink Wrinkles I'd say the Galactica has anything but pissant armor, what with being able to survive nuclear missile hits.
@Stink Wrinkles Of course having shields and armor is the best option, but BSG is unique in that it is futuristic without using the classic "lasers and shields". Regardless of where the nuke detonates there is still a smashing of atoms and the disintegration of pretty much everything for a good distance surrounding the point of impact.
Gotta love the real physics used here. None of that swooping and banking like an airplane in atmosphere.
to be frank some of these maneuvers you see them pull would instantly at least knock out the pilots more likely kill them ...
They're all realistic when it comes to combat, it's just that sometimes they have Computer-controlled RCS helping them out. The one time they actually got it wrong was when the SAR raptors de-orbit above Kobol by pointing straight down towards the planet instead of pointing retrograde like you really would in a spacecraft. Besides that one little error, BSG is fine. It is one of the few sci-fi portrayals of space travel that don't get completely ruined when you watch the Expanse or play KSP
@@Asghaad I'm assuming the fighters have some kind of inertial dampening to help out with the crazy G-s they'd be pulling. They clearly had the technology, as everyone on the Galactica would have been bloody paste on the bulkheads the moment the ship started flying around at high speed.
@@Gunnar001 High speed means nothing, G-s are generated by acceleration. Inertial dampeners would solve G problems, but AFAIK they were never mentioned in Galactica.
@@Bizzon666 I'm sure it was just left unsaid and just down to the viewer to suspend disbelief.
All hail Bear McCreary! The visuals on their own are stunning but the soundtrack makes it.
something dark is coming is the best song of his when it comes to this show.
So Say We All!!
It is marvellous how we get the feeling for no or little gravity combined with the mass and the agility of the Viper in the scene where Apollo sneakes through the tunnel and brings himself in a position to fire.
I personally love space warfare but with raw armor and firepower, no energy shields or lasers, just steel and flak
its all based around "no computers" rule, lasers are kinda hard to use when aimed without computer support
Agreed! Check out The Expanse if you haven't yet.
@@Asghaad
Ballistics weapons would be even harder to fire without computers. At least lasers travel pretty straight in space unless around a black hole or something so point and shoot would still work with them, unlike ballistics weapons.
@RingSight91
What? Here is the definition of ballistic.
Ballistic
adjective
1.
relating to projectiles or their flight.
2.
moving under the force of gravity only.
There is nothing in space but gravity to affect it. A cannon shell or a flak fragment would only be under the effects of gravity once it is fired. It would not travel in a straight line at all, it would fly in a curved line, like everything in space does, as the saying goes, there is no straight lines in space.
Just out of cutiosity, in your last statement, what makes you think that the planet's gravity was not a factor even when they are close enough that they might hit the atmosphere?
check out the Expanse! it's on Amazon
The moment at 08:12 is such a real heart attack!! 😰 The music scoring of Bear Mccreary was absolutelly the best in space combats ever seen and eared.
The music score of this show was so good...
The entire soundscape really. I can't listen to a passing freight train without thinking about a Raider.
Bear McCreary. He went on to work on Walking Dead, Outlander and lots of cool projects. He is fantastic.
Love Battlestars going toe to toe with Basestars.
The Galactica (an almost 60 year old ship) went toe to toe with base stars. The Pegasus ripped them to shreds.
@@Kalenz1234 If Galactica didnt have to screen the civvie fleet all the time she would have shredded them too, but she was always stuck acting like a wall between Cylons and the rest of the fleet.
@Fabian Kirchgessner old doesnt mean bad ... sometimes older builds are more durable and have more firepower than newer ones but are cheaper to produce and have other qualities , like here Pegasus having its own Viper factory onboard. That doesnt mean Pegasus would be better ship in stand up fight.
@AKUJIRULE 1. those guns would not make it through the Galacticas flak screen
2. Galactica has similar armament, the main difference between two models was speed, Pegasus having non retractable landing bays and armor. Pegasus was faster but MUCH more fragile ship
3. you do remember that Galactica tanked two nukes like it was nothing right ?
@AKUJIRULE 1. doesnt matter its still physical projectile going through the massive field of shrapnel in space where the speed doesnt diminish ...
2. would love source on that but even if that is the case the power of Galactica was always in its dual Battleship/Carrier role, its designed to wither out Basestar defense fighter screen then go in for easy kill while being almost impossible to destroy
3. where, how about Galactica taking pounding from THREE basestars with power offline for extended amount of time where Pegasus getting obliterated within SECONDS of TWO remaining Basestars switching focus on it
Galactica was designed and commisioned at a time where each colony could only afford to build ONE and it was build to take punishment, Pegasus was fielded when colonies were producing them in number (if i remember correctly they talked about there being about 80+ of the class Pegasus belonged to) and they were designed in such a way that emphasised forward firepower with relative lack of defensive armament because they counted on several basestars covering each other unlike the original ones that were designed to fight on theyr own against superior numbers.
In short original basestars were designed as Battleships with carrier capability where modern Mercury class Basestars were more of a cruiser or destroyer with carrier capability. Also you can imagine how much of internal space Viper factory of Mercury class would take away from such a ship.
In direct fight id say the two would be at stalemate where Pegasus wouldnt dare to get withing gunrange of Galactica but it would be able to outrun it so the result of the battle would hinge on CAG combat result (Pegasus had better fighters but Galactica had far FAR more experienced pilots and vastly superior command crew) which could go either way.
dont get me wrong im sure in absolute terms Pegasus was decently armored, but compared to Galactica it was obviously much less durable design which was result of change in a doctrine under which it was supposed to engage the enemy. Im sure 2-3 mercury class Basestars would be much more threatening than 3 original ones, but alone they had serious design flaws that could be exploited.
I've said it before but it really would be awesome to see the battle from that distance @ 6:24. It's beautifully deadly. Like watching a tornado in the middle of a massive storm. Almost hypnotic.
that bit where they are shooting the ressurection ship and all the cylon bodies are just floating away is horrifying.
That's actually based on a real event. During the battle of Midway a pilot, Ensign George Henry Gay Jr, was shot down and landed right in the middle of the Japanese fleet. He floated there watching as the American dive bombers came down and took out three of the Japanese carriers, death and explosions all around him. He actually put his seat cover over his head to give him some kind of protection from shrapnel. He was picked up by a Catalina floatplane the next day and taken back home.
Still one of the best (if not the) best sci-fi shows of all time
Star trek the next generation, DS9, mass effect and battlestar Galactica, top of the building!🥰🤩😀
I wonder what did the sentient Cylon ships think of the battlestars. Sure they were more advanced, sophisticated and even more elegant ... but unless they managed to catch a battlestar by surprise - their weapons were pretty much ineffective against them. Many missiles did not hit at all due to the sheer amount of flak fire, and the ones that did, caused only miniscule damage. And no amount of simple instinctively acting Raiders were enough to deal with their veteran Viper pilots. In return the battlestars had relentless ballistic cannons that tore a base star apart in the matter of seconds.
I'm curious how did the hybrids see them ... maybe as simple, primitive beasts? Clad in a thick steel hide? Maybe just like hunters view big game? You can hunt them, but if they turn around and charge at you, you are done for ...
Whenever we see basestars attacking Galactica it seems like they're almost always holding back, this is because the show is about Galactica and she has plot armour but we almost never see basestars attacking all out. If 2 or 3 basestars put nukes in all their missile tubes and launched them all at once Galactica would have been completely destroyed within minutes. As it is we only see them fire a few at a time very slowly except at the battle of New Caprica where they wanted to make us think Galactica was about to be destroyed.
@@asvarien Galactica actually takes a pair of nukes into one of her flight pods - you can see the dent they make throughout the series. Caused some fire and decompression, but otherwise it didn't do too much damage
@@asvarien launching swarm of nukes at long range is pointless, they will NEVER get through the flak screens ... the Basestars are holding back simply because Battlestar would tear them asunder at closer range ... so they hang outside the range of main guns and lob missiles and swarms of fighters to whittle them down looking for an opening in the deense.
@@Asghaad That's not entirely true, flak screens aren't perfect, we see during the show that some missiles make it through and hit the ship. If the missiles were actually programmed intelligently, i.e. not flying in a straight line directly into the flak, but instead took an arcing path around the flak and into the unprotected side. Missiles would be a lot more effective.
@@asvarien only time those missiles got through was after the double jump Galactica which was severely crippled in all aspects or Pegasus that was stripped of all crew and basically defenseless at CLOSE RANGE ... in normal engagemant such close range against functional Battlestar it would be suicidal to the basestars
and no, Battlestars do not have any "blindspots in flak cover, whole surface of those ships is covered with those things ...
I loved both . It was so cool in 1980. They totally changed the vibe for the 21st century.👽👽
Forgot how good this show was. Can't believe it's been 10 years already since it ended.
this show isn't about sci-fi its about a incredible journey from hate to love and it was a incredible show
It's a drama set in a military sci fi universe..... Good stuff
And I bet you are one of those people that think Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. :)
Just messing with.
Peace
So fracking good! This show doesn't get the fame it deserves
This contains one of my favorite scenes - it's at 2:12 - Apollo flips his Viper around 180 and zips down the canyon...! Awesome!
Yeah when he flies into the conveyor tunnel--Man, if the Return of the Jedi had the attack on the second Death Star's reactor core look as nerve racking, the audience would have died of a heart attack. And you can tell Lee is just scared to death cuz he knows it's suicide but, somehow he does it.
I can’t get over how it uses 3 big engines to move the viper forward but only 2 small thrusters to stop it. They should have put 1 engine in the nose for stopping. It would have made a great purpose for the design.
yeah pulling something like 30g overload that would instantly kill him and tore his fighter in two ...
The biggest trope in sci-fi is the helmet with a full glass facade and lights on the inside to see the actor's expressions
Bears, beats, battlestar galactica,
Beets
false! bears eat beets
Bears do not - What is going on?.......What are you doing?
MICHAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Identity theft is not a joke jim, millions of people suffer each year
I love this series but tried so hard to get others to watch it with little success. Their lose. Looking at these clips am reminded how absolutely brilliant the soundtrack is.
I was hoping to see the one clip of Pegasus charging in with her guns firing (with Lee in command).
Still waiting for the day this show is fully released on Netflix. I haven't seen it in it's entirety in over 10 years.
This show was so good it's ashamed it ended the way it did...
IKR
sixstringsmark No I did not know that, but thanks for letting me know! Unfortunately I don't think I have that service where I live :/
I think it ended the way It should have. It closed as many holes as possible and made you rethink the origin of humanity on earth. That's more than ALOT of other shows can claim. Also they ended it before it could be drawn out, milked and murdered.
All 4 seasons used to be on Netflix a few years ago. I have no idea why they took it down.
@@Kelmorcellus Eh, to be honest I didn't like the way they handled the series in Season 4, and I didn't like the send off of so many characters - plus the whole Kara Thrace thing just confused the hell out of me, plus all the religious stuff was something I thought should've been focused on less. I do manage to get SOME closure in the form of a piece of Fanfiction called "Battlestar Prometheus" which tries to tie up those plot holes in a unique way, but even then the ending never sits right with me.
6:59 7:03
Look at how graceful Galactica looks...Yet so deadly.
To Galactica,
Best ship in the fleet.
These special effects still look good today.
Yeah, completely agree. So many great shots in all the space scenes, not just the battles. Admittedly there are some shots where the bullethead Cylons look a little weird and uncanny (the CG toaster Cylons never looked quite right, I guess because there are suit versions to directly compare against), but that's about it. The classic design Vipers make the switch from models to CGI perfectly, and they really went above and beyond in doing things that models simply can't, like Apollo's race in and around the mining facility.
@@Jokie155 It's funny you mentioned the "Hand of God" episode. I'm watching that right now.
Thank you for reminding me why I loved this show.
After watching this I binged watched the whole series during COVID. Absolutely one of the best show I’ve ever watched. I wish i watched it when it when it was released.
I did the same during covid
2:50 Ace Combat? Is that you?
There he is! We've got Apollo on radar!
Great compile. One of the best and most adult shows ever put on television, imo.
For the fans - the weekly podcasts with R.D. Moore during production are fascinating.
God this show was awesome!
Joe Blow still is man
Just sitting here thinking the same thing. It had it all... action, drama, relatable characters, humor, great special effects for the budget. A reboot done right - and I was against it at first. They won me over about an hour into the mini-series.
Samson Crosswood they won everyone in this series this series was mind boggling
_Gods_ you monotheistic skinjob. It's that one true god nonsense that nearly destroyed both our species. Frakking 0/1 mentality with these toasters still! After four long years. 😠
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😉
Fucking CRAP. Yeah only this drama a missile can CURVE its path in emptiness of outer space
The people who did the CGI are called Zoic studios, and frankly, they put industrial light & magic to shame.
They do work well in television budget, but compare to ILM in major movies with hundreds of milion dollars budget?
You don’t know how movie budgeting works. Most of those millions goes to big name actors; and cgi studios have to work little what is left over. That is why some big movies can have bad cgi due to not enough money and/or manpower. This studio worked very limited budget and yet their product is better than what we see today. If they have the hundreds of milllions the show would be still on.
@@jameshaskell4175 Usually time and money, and yes, Zoic work was amazing considering television budget and possibly given time.
2:35 Every Ace Combat player since 2001.
1 - The music is still amazing.
2 - Battlestars are humanity's version of beast mode.
3 - The series needed more exciting scenes like these, particularly towards the end.
Scify had stripped their budget, in the end series, they had to dump zoic as a cost-cutting measure
The space battles were the best part of BSG.
Damn that was good! about time i gave it all a re-watch!
I knew when the Olympic Carrier event led the way, this collection would miss the escape from Ragnar Station.
Agendized gip.
Best series ever!
How is it that more modern Star Wars fails to have a believably realistic space battles than this?
I agree! I was hooked on the space battles in this series! It was realistic to see and amazing! Star Wars...never felt any hype to fly
Everybody is a frackin' Cylon
Lee going through that conveyor tunnel at the Cylon ore refinery is the second from last mission on every Ace Combat game
That second scene, where Lee is flying through the tunnel, it’s very similar to one of the last missions in Star Wars : shadows of the empire. It was a difficult thing to do back as a kid. I can only imagine how intimidating that would be if someone where to do it. Because it was portrayed really well.
At 5:55 Adama is incredible
My son may be dead, finish the mission.
i so miss this show. Loved the characters.
Me too
The best tv sci-fi series.
Damn. It's been so long since I finished this series that I don't remember any of these scenes!!! It's been 9 years.
I love how stuff actually explodes in this show, instead of a cg or practical model being replaced by an explosion as soon as it's "at 0hp"
Stuff here gets damaged, gradually until it suffers catastrophic failure and Cascade explosions start happening.
Except for our amazing Galactica, she can take and shrug off nukes lol
Gawd daymn I love this show so much.
They way the Viper manoeuvres is - for lack of a better word - sexy.
It's realistic
@@Excalibur01 No it's not
Vipers are more real than the X-wing
Chris Walsh I agree👍 and viper is the coolest name
Never watched BG, but from this clip it seems like the fans went through a hell of a lot to get to such a ridiculous Flintstone end.
Yes we did James, yes we did. :(
@The American Dodo I think a better ending would have been if some of the survivors had set up a coastal city which they call Atlantis. Atlantis was destroyed later by a Tsunami. The survivors flee to the Mediterranean mostly to what would be Crete and Greece. The stories of the Lords of Kobol, the 12 Colonies, their Exodus and Atlantis become the basis of Greek mythology.
The ending is good
There's just something satisfying about seeing a bunch of missiles and bullets flying in a space battle. Makes it feel more like something that could happen.
That Resurrection Ship sequence is really something.
Expected the adama maneuver to be on that list, until i noticed season 1 and 2 :P
I loved the music in this show. That beat is intense.
Lt Gaeta: - DRADIS Contact!
Adama: - Sit Rep Mr Gaeta
Lt Gaeta: - There's a big red blobby thing moving towards the big green blobby thing.
Adama: ???
Lt Gaeta: - I think we're the big green blobby thing!
Hahaha. Well played!
“Take a look at this, Johnny! What can you make of it?”
The pilot chuckles is Terry Chen a Canadian actor who would play the character Prax the botanist in The Expanse.
I loved the space battles on this show! Wish there was more.
What happened to the battle when escaping New Caprica? That whole Pegasus saving Galactica and then Pegasus ultimately ramming itself into a Cylon base ship....one of the best scenes.
i've been re-watching certain episodes again and the 4 episodes from when chief tirrel makes the blackbird too the epidodes were admiral kane gets killed is so awesome it should have been made into a film...magnificent storytelling in that 4 episode arc...no sci fi show comes close too this..had Babylon 5 been made much more recently with superior cgi, then that show would be no 1..BSG IS no 1
Even with the lack of budget, Babylon 5 will still be Number 1 forever because of story. Without Babylon 5 and the techniques they pioneered that changed all of TV, this version of Galactica would never have achieved anywhere near the greatness.
Now all you have to do is upload the last battle of the Pegasus, and you’ll instantly win 1mil views. :)
1. Bears
2. Beets
3. Battlestar Galactica
This show! Watching this still gave be goosebumps.
Eu amo esse seriado, quando estava na escola na minha época de adolescente eu desenhava as naves de caças ,da Galactica!! Simplesmente maravilhoso , show!!!
the entire series is well written and well acted with good visual effects even some 15 years later. one of the first shows to use that cgi camera zoom in and out thing they do during the space battles (i don't know what the official name for that effect is). a must see for any scifi fan out there.
Best sci-fi series ever! We need a new one!
@@robd1329 seen the expanse? :)
@@leriku2270 Expanse..no i have to look it up
Guys you gotta do a second part to this. You gotta include The Battle of the Ressurection Hub. Great battle, phenomenal music. Orgasmic eye candy when that nuke went off, making all cylons mortal.
all i can say, and this is a true statement, this shits all over STAR WARS. amazing.
@Michael Colapietro AMEN
God i remember how epic the 3 parter of Pegasus and Resurrection Ship was back in 2005-2006. Those were good times for Science Fiction on TV.
We need a new show already!!!
Battlestar Galactica is a hell of a great Series
I love how Galactica was hit directly by a 10 megaton Nuke and all that happens was the ship shook for about 5 seconds.
People forget that "nukes" are just supper sized explosives. Look back to the "Able" & "Baker" bomb tests at Bikini Atoll after WWII. Some of our decommissioned 30+ year old battleships shook off the effects of the explosions, and besides being covered in radioactive fallout, were still in battle condition!
@@mrpagrant you might have a misapprehension around those tests. The initial operation Crossroads had various ships, certainly not US battleships let alone 30+ year old decommissioned ones, maybe you were thinking about Nagato? That was only (ONLY hahaha) ~25 kilotonnes.
The later Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll unleashed an unfathomable 15 megaton level of energy from a hydrogen bomb, ancient US battleships weren't even there to shake off the effects.
10^16 joules isn't just a super sized explosive, the destructive power is frankly unimaginable.
The battlestars are deserving of respect. Thick armor and some very large guns.
Oh Blackbird, you were too young to die. All that work Tyrol and crew put into it for it to be destroyed on it's second mission.
wish this was out in 4k. I'd get a 4k player and tv just for it.
Starting with the Olympic Carrier?!?! Too soon... ;)
This show was so awesome.
The action in "Hand of God"was amazing, and the first sign that Gayus was truely being spoken to by a deity.
6:00 this is the moment Adama won back Cain. She requested he launches the Vipers, he launched the Vipers. Plain and simple :P
Best scifi show ever.
The mid two engines, the two along the center line, were fired (operational) after Galacta's last jump.
Though not realistic, this show does better than most in showing what combat in space could look like, with ships able to thrust in one direction than pointing their nose in different one, allowing them to "fly" backwards, and move vertically and laterally.
I dont think there are bettter space combats in any other movie or tv show this is just pure masterpiece.
Without Babylon 5 this show wouldn't exist.
@@danielhenderson8316 Battlestar Galatica was made in 1978 so..... nope.
Not only that, the reimagined BSG was made to be the opposite of Star Trek Voyager, which itself had nothing to do with B5.@@ThePianistONE
The resurrection battle is still the best space battle Ive ever seen.
2008 I was in mainland China till 2011. Did not know this existed. Poppa Like.
this is so much better than star wars
All good scenes, but I wanna see the holding action at Ragnar, from when Starbuck sights the Basestars picketing the entrance. Her reaction is priceless.
Not an actual."battle"
I don't watch this show but I do like the space combat scenes but one things been bugging me.... this is supposed to be a human vs AI war and yet from what I heard the AI capital ships are armed with nothing but missile launchers which is effectively countered by the human ships flak batteries. Nothing wrong with it at first but this dragged on for a few years and yet the AI seems incapable of understanding that maybe missiles aren't the answer and ballistic weaponry might work instead like how the humans have been using it to kick their asses time and time again.
I don't know much of the lore.But if I recall they were running from the AI faction across the galaxy and logistic reason they were using want they had logistically to keep up with human at the time.
Well, I guess you already found the answers.
The AIs hought to simply defeat the human battlestars by hijacking them.
So they were created as carriers of riders for hunt human ships and nuke silos for orbittal bombardment, they werent designed to ship vs ship fight.
The battlestars galatica and pegasus were older models harder to hijack.
Once they realised the galactica and pegasus had survived, they simply thought that they could be defeated just with IA numerical superiority, so it wasnt needed to make new ships, just to catch them off guard.
@@adamnesico pegasus was really new it was just not networked at the time of the attack
Pegasus sure had to replace a lot of bridge windows.
I have to say BSG really nailed it in their space battle scenes, or any scene when they're operating outside the ship.
It's just realistic enough to be believable, and just fantastic enough to be exciting.
aaaah frak it, im watching it all over again.
The Olympic Carrier? Is this a list of most harrowing, morally ambiguous space battles?
nothing ambiguous about that and real military pilot wouldnt hesitate or second guess the command the second the nukes were detected onboard...
different thing would be if the ship was simply on collision course and not answering hails, but a nuclear weapon carrying HOSTILE ship would get instantly obliterated without hesitation even if it was full of civvies ...
Nice shooting Apollo.
What about the battle of the ionian nebula? Starbuck returns and flies formation with Apollo, it was awesome!
Apollo flying through the service tunnel reminds me of every Ace Combat game
Such a great show.
Apollo is so dull in this version. Love the production values though and James Olmos as Adama.