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Baltar
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I think the obvious explanation is that the equipment only works of extremely short distances so that the torpedo had to 'sniff around' to eventually find the target. That would rule out setting up the ship with said sensors because then they'd have to drive around until they'd practically collided with the target.
But then an even better explanation: WHO THE FRAK CARES!?!?!!
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Deus Siddis
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Only with Solitaire, you don't have to listen to the other idiots talk.
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But, you see, that's what screwed up Voyager. It was unwise to nerf the Borg.
I was watching a ST:TNG re-run, realized something, and thought of this thread....what made me realize this is the show happened to be the one where they wrote Ro Lauren out. What happened in the process? Picard and the Enterprise got nerfed. His big plan to wipe out the Maqui got spoiled by her...
And I got to thinking, and I honestly can't think of any other show in any of the series where the main characters got nerfed in any way (Original Star Trek, TNG, DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise)...so I would expect it if they were to put the Borg up against Voyager for Voyager to nerf the Borg...
The last scene of the TNG show I saw was a classic too. Riker comes in, really tip toes around Picard (here's my report sir), acting like he's protecting himself. Then the camera pans to Picard with this look on his face like he wants to tear the ship apart in a rage.
Classic because it was so unique and so good.
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Arne
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Check out the finnish movie 'Star Wreck' (free to DL). It has a huge battle between StarTrek ships and Babylon 5 ships.
The Battlestar Galactica battles are pretty good, especially the flak scenes.
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Death 999
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OK, I watched Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning.
That has to have been one of the best space battles ever made!
Wow.
I'm not so enamoured of the film as a whole (too depressingly incompetence-strewn) but those space battles were awesome. WIth one exception: if the twinklers weren't effective against the Excavator, why did they keep trying?
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Death 999
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Well, yeah, but it seemed that they fired the twinklers at the Excavator even when the rest of the fleet was intact. I would have mopped up the rest of the fleet, THEN figured out what to do with the flagship.
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jack_cloudy
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Good, I finally saw the movie. I guess they weren't under strict orders (,,Kill, kill, kill!" ,,Ignore the previous order.") and basically all ran around blasting at stuff (with the exception of Fukov.) As for firing at the Excavator while they were close, I bet they were hoping to actually hit a weak spot in the armour. The guns might not be made of the anti twinkler stuff. I also remember seeing a lightball knock out a chunk of the back of one of the big wings. Hitting the internals that became visible there with Twinklers probably would have allowed them to dig deeper. Most ships are though on the outside, soft on the inside.
And there are tons of ways of killing the Excavator that don't involve swarms of Lightballs (or beer to knock out the controls  ). Ramming them with the Kickstart is one way, but why not drag Babel 13 over for a really big club  ? The defense grid was deactivated anyway (otherwise they couldn't hide behind it.).
While the battle was fantastic, the overwhelming amount of incompetence is rather depressing.
And a last thing. I think they actually went to an ice age in the future instead of one in the past. I thought I could see the remains of the p-fleet station, which wouldn't be there if it was the past (maybe humanity blew itself up, completely.) So, sorry Info, but your plan won't work.
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,,That was the worst and most boring movie I’ve ever seen. Lousy special effects.” Sergeant ironhead. The real reason why the alien brain on Cydonia was destroyed while in the middle of displaying a message telling the X-com operatives not to fire.
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I thought that 'future' part was just a mistranslation. Otherwise, the cold is already getting to Info's circuits.
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Favorite space battles, I think Freespace takes the cake, just the whole game, from cinematics to the dog fights, it was truely spectacular. And fighting in hyperspace at the end against that mammoth ship was cool (I hid in its launch bay for a little).
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