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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I know, its such a nit pick, but it drives me crazy, when you have a massive Starship, crewed by 400 men and woman, and it maneuver's like a fighter jet.
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In TOS to TNG, the ships moved like giant lumbering freighters but I think that's due to the limitation of the having to film the giant physical models.
Once you got to DS9 and Voyager and they incorporated CGI, ships all became dogfighters.
If anything, my nitpick is that they all operate like Khan - with 2-dimensional thinking. All space battles take place on the same 2D plane and all the ships, despite having weapons that can fire at tremendous distances, all decide they need to park next to each other in a big fight so they can collide with each other dramatically. They also fight like WWII fighter planes with forward momentum only, nothing like the zero-g maneuvers of Babylon 5 spaceships.