Scifi space stations and suns

[Bad Thoughts]

ships would tend to be too far apart and too fast-moving to share the screen with each other

Let alone dogfight.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Why is it the designers of scifi space stations never seem to think of it, or do they think of it and purposefully ignore it for aesthetics?

Because reasons. Case closed

Exterior shots need to show the location for the audience, similar as to how the ships travelling at warp are always as illuminated as they are when in a planetary system.

 

[Timo]

Let alone dogfight.

Then again, dogfighting was declared obsolete and absurd a couple of times in real history already. And then stuff happened. Or failed to happen. This weird world just works like that. Or then fails to work.

And if Trek carries any qualifier, it's "weirder than this world", and rightly so.

Timo Saloniemi