The Best Space Battles

[M.A.C.O.]

Help me list all and discuss the greatest space battles in Star Trek.

TOS:
Balance of Terror
The Doomsday Machine
Wrath of Khan
The Undiscovered Country

TNG:
Q Who
The Survivors
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Best of Both Worlds
Generations
First Contact
Insurrection
Nemesis

DS9:
The Jam'Hadar
The Search
Way of the Warrior
Paradise Lost
Sacrifice of Angels
Valiant
Tears of the Prophets
Changing Face of Evil
What You Leave Behind

VOY:
Basics
Scorpion
Year of Hell
Drone
Dark Frontier
Unimatrix Zero
Endgame

ENT:
Regeneration
The Expanse
Azati Prime
Countdown
Zero Hour
The Aenar
In A Mirror Darkly

Kelvin:
Star Trek
Beyond

Discovery:
Battle At The Binary Star

 

[Jetboogieman]

I really like:

Sector 001 ST:FC

Wolf 359 as depicted in both DS9 and TNG could be so much better, man if you did that battle today, it'd be something really special.

Insurrection is ok, not amazing but not terrible either.

Sacrifice of Angels obviously takes the cake though, 100%, Tears of the Prophets is a close second but What You Leave Behind could have had the best, but far too many re-used assets, I don't hold it against the makers, I know they had to save time and money, just wish there could have been more to it.

 

[Henoch]

TOS:
Balance of Terror
The Doomsday Machine
Wrath of Khan
The Undiscovered Country

I don't know if you would call them "great battles" but Journey to Babel, The Ultimate Computer and Elaan of Troyius had some decent ship to ship battles, but they weren't the main scope of the show. I don't think The Corbomite Maneuver applies; big ball shows up and little Enterprise neutralized and towed.

 

[Delta Vega]

"Azati Prime"
"Zero Hour"
"Countdown"
Don't remember the exact order of the showings, but Enterprise took an absolute tanking during that sequence.
The battle sequences were excellent.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I don't know if you would call them "great battles" but Journey to Babel, The Ultimate Computer and Elaan of Troyius had some decent ship to ship battles, but they weren't the main scope of the show. I don't think The Corbomite Maneuver applies; big ball shows up and little Enterprise neutralized and towed.

Henoch, were you envious of the Fesarius?

 

[Henoch]

Henoch, were you envious of the Fesarius?

Not at all. It was made of a big bunch of plastic balls held together with glue, with only a small 5 ball mother ship hiding inside it driven by a tiny drunk guy with bad teeth. It was all a facade. A fake. I can't believe you fell for it, Mitchell. At the peak of my civilization, we spanned the entire galaxy in ships twice that size, and ours were real.

Now, you're interrupting a visit from my new friend, mirror universe Spock.

 

[marsh8472]

DS9 "The Die Is Cast"

 

[CorporalCaptain]

My favorites:

"The Doomsday Machine" (original VFX)
"Journey to Babel"

"The Survivors"
"The Best of Both Worlds" (part 1)

"Paradise Lost"
"Sacrifice of Angels"

"Azati Prime"
"In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II"

The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek (2009)

 

[johnnybear]

Not at all. It was made of a big bunch of plastic balls held together with glue, with only a small 5 ball mother ship hiding inside it driven by a tiny drunk guy with bad teeth. It was all a facade. A fake. I can't believe you fell for it, Mitchell. At the peak of my civilization, we spanned the entire galaxy in ships twice that size, and ours were real.

Now, you're interrupting a visit from my new friend, mirror universe Spock.

I don't think Mr.Mitchell was on board the Enterprise at that time, Henoch?
JB

 

[Henoch]

I don't think Mr.Mitchell was on board the Enterprise at that time, Henoch?
JB

Gary Mitchell gained a level of clairvoyance in his godhood. It's part of the "god" package.

 

[johnnybear]

Nah, he was already dead on Delta Vega, Henoch!
JB

 

[Henoch]

Nah, he was already dead on Delta Vega, Henoch!
JB

For a "dead" man, he seems very active on this web site. His "death" was just a deception, just like mine.

 

[johnnybear]

No you're not dead, Henoch! Just a little bit out 'there' as they call it! Don't forget Sargon came back from wherever to deal with you when you got nasty with the Enterprise crew!
JB

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Need to be added to the list:

Future Tense (Ent)
Once More Unto The Breach (DS9)

and my favorite

Call to Arms (DS9)

 

[ALF]

This is a great resource, thank you M.A.C.O.!
Could you consider adding Discovery's Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum? There is a kick ass battle scene with some Klingons and the USS Gagarin.

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[USS Firefly]

I miss Lorca

 

[MacLeod]

There is also

The First Battle of Deep Space Nine
The Second Battle of Deep Space Nine

 

[F. King Daniel]

I have a soft spot fot the kerb stomping the Enterprise recieved at the hands of the USS Vengeance in Into Darkness. That noise when the Vengeance flew up behind them!

And also the whupping NX-01 recieved in "Azati Prime"

 

[MacLeod]

Battle of the Mutura Nebula

 

[USS Firefly]

DS9 vs the Klingons
DS9 vs the Dominion
Sacrifice of Angels
Tears of the Prophets