For those wondering, I do have a separate video on solo ship arrivals. If you are interested, the link is at the end of the comment. I'm not doing this as self promotion, but to reduce the comments asking about single ship arrivals, such as the Pegasus's and Enterprise E's. The video: th-cam.com/video/9tstmBYdTTk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tNLzst_DidNXkdMK The link to part two of ship arrivals: th-cam.com/video/vQYjpZhc9dY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kq_es69guSmNiHyu
only ones worth it for me personally was the the rebal fleet at endor,minbari fleet help B5 and Delenn famous words "Be somewhere else", and then the fleets agianst the reapers but where was the geth fleet ?, and finally the firefly reaver fleet, the rest didnt exacly do anything for me
My question for you is why is the fleet that arrives to safe Picard from the romulan fleet in the Picard show not on here? th-cam.com/video/XsM6eJSsiF4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PgppVfu5kb-3MEkQ
The truth is you could probably make a top ten just from Babylon 5 ...i love the one here but my fave from the series is Ivanova facing down the shadow Earth force fleet..
I got to see that scene first run, which was back before all the internet spoilers. When the Minbari and Deleen popped in I remember shouting "YES" loud enough my downstairs neighbor asked the next day if I was ok.
@@saberridge6867 I also got to watch it happen. Similarly, I remember screaming with joy and getting teary eyed at the Enterprise rescuing Picard on the final episode of TNG, "All good things".
Man, I peg the Serenity fleet arrival as number one too simply for how the up-til-now cool-as-a-cucumber Operative completely loses his shit as soon as the Reavers appear.
@@elijahtourtillott7550 It's not that they _outgun_ the alliance fleet (they don't, all they have is converted civilian ships and they're up against actual warships), it's that thanks to the Operative's decision to park right at the edge of the cloud _they're already in knife-fight range_ which is where the alliance a.) can't really bring its tech superiority to bear and b.) the reavers' crude weapons actually stand a good chance of hitting something.
@@GaldirEonai I was thinking they were outgunned because we know that the reavers have a tendency to just ram everything in dust so by tonnage I would consider this fight being "outgunned" because their ships are also weapons
For me, Mass Effect 3 will always be the best Fleet Arrival scene out there. maybe it is because I did not just watch this, I put around 80 hours of work behind this. Every single time.
The music also boosts it to. 1 shot to win and we got everyone ready to fight. Reapers gonna get hit with the full might of the Milkyway and the last of the Protheien Empire.
Same, 3 games and hundreds of hours went into assembling the best fleet. I also think the Alliance Fleet coming in to save the Destiny Ascension shoulda been on the list. Say what you will about the Council, but I personally think that scene has the same energy as the Ride of the Rohirrim.
@@Capt_Dango "Destiny Ascension. You are all clear. Repeat - You are all clear." Yes, that's also a great moment, but I must say that this moment was ruined in some localizations. In german for example Joker says: "Sie sind gerettet. Ich wiederhole: Sie sind gerettet." Which translates to: "You are seved. I repeat: You are saved." That sounds a little... well, obvious, I think and therefore stupid. But the whole german localization of the first part was... mediocre at best.
And also probably the only one on here that loses the battle(not counting Shepard and the Crucible that they didn’t even know how to use), getting absolutely wrecked for their trouble.
Thank you for including the Minbari ships defending B5. The perfect victory, making the enemy leave without firing a shot. The scene from Serenity is indeed one of my favorite fleet arrivals.
The Klingons coming in via the Z axis to save the fleet was so badass, i remember watching it as a kid, jumping around my living room, that's how bad ass it was
Not just that but coming out of the sun. My head canon is that some solar emissions masked their approach or something but it definitely was a callback to WW2 dogfighting tactics.
I fist pumped. I figure they probably were all cloaked, and probably approached from a direction where that many cloaked ships approach would not be detected easily. (a large group of cloaked ships would cause one weird distortion)
My fave are the Rebel Alliance arriving on Scariff and Riker commanding the Federation Fleet facing off against the Zhat Vash over Gulion 4. Close seconds are Janeway commanding the void alliance as they jointly escape the void in Voyager and the Seperatist fleet arriving over Cristophsis as well as the Keylon fleet joining the Union vs the Moclan-Krill alliance.
Thank you for including the Mass Effect scene. It had so much impact after building up that group of allies for multiple playthroughs of three games, it deserves to stand with the others. Delenn also can't be beat even if her fleet is small.
You know you've played Mass Effect too many times when you look at that clip and your first thought is "Hmmm, looks like Shepard didn't save the Citadel Council in ME1 in this playthrough..." 😆
My favorite was when the entire Rohirrim fleet came in to attack the Uruk-Hai assault ships invading the Gondor system. Then my next favorite is when they maneuvered to face the much more formidable mercenary Haradrim Dreadnought flotilla despite the massive tonnage disadvantage.
the massive Minbari fleet entrance in the babylon 5 movie "in the beginning" is awesome, especially given how old the movie is. Theres basically enough of them to encircle the entire earth and they all jump in as one. Thousands of blue jump vortexes fill space dropping thousands of heavy cruisers who immediately open up on the defenders
B5 is easily the top 1-3 scifi series of all time. I would like to revisit it, but maybe it is just better to let it go. There is no way to replicate the frantic atmosphere of the B5 universe.
@@leonfairhurst7597 Sorry, I meant a new B5 universe series. I enjoy watching most of the originals and the movies. Even if they are not 4K the stories are always compelling.
I almost forgot the Fleet fight in Serenity! I completely agree with this list! Epic Fleet engagements! Canceling Firefly was on of the biggest Tv show blunders of our time!
There's in Star Trek TNG when Picard is trying ti get the Romulans to be reasonable in the Neutral zone. He caps he argument when Klingon Ships decloak. The Romulans then decide that diplomacy is a better course of action.
Seconded. Picard - "Are you prepared to die today, Tomalok?" Tomalok - "I expected more from you than an idol threat Picard." Picard - "Then you shall have it. Mr Worf" Worf - Aye sir. (Klingon theme music playing) "Klingon Warships, armed and ready sir."
I am going to recommend another one. The Shadow attack on Quadrant 14 seen in Babylon 5 "The Coming of Shadows". It's only 3 ships but in the span of 90 seconds we finally got to see the absolute horrifying power the Shadows have.
I was thinking that or the Battle of the Line; just seeing a wall of jump gates pouring out dozens of Minbari cruisers- each one able to splash any Earth capital ship with near impunity- pouring out with Luna in the background...
@@Sephiroth144 I saw many people on this video recommend the Battle of the Line from In the Beginning. That is why I did not recommend that one. I did not see anyone recommend the Q14 attack. It looks like you and others agree might with me. Until that moment, we only saw glimpses (a few seconds at best) of Shadow ships. They came and disappeared like ghosts. The attack on Q14 was exactly what we expected it to be: mortals trying to fight gods. You could not help but watch in horror as the Narn get wiped out. This feeling is repeated at the end of the Narn-Centauri War with the Battle of Gorash 7. Except in that battle, you watch in horror and sadness as the entire remaining Narn fleet is wiped out.
@@brianwhedon8442 For me, anyway, the arrival of the Shadows at Q14 doesn't have the same impact as the arrival of the Minbari fleet does over Earth. I don't think Q14 really solidified the Shadows as "God Tier"; it could have been a surprise attack by a superior force; we only saw the Narn fighters respond against Capital ships. (I mean, the initial hit was three capitals against a civilian space station that had a cruiser docked with it; not really a challenge foe with the element of surprise) Gorash VII, however, when it showed the utter futility and "godhood" (or Ancient-ness) of the Shadows compared to the younger races- a complete Narn battle group, alert and ready to fight, getting toyed with like a cat with a mouse... that, to me, demonstrated the power differential much more effectively.
@@Sephiroth144 I think the Battle of the Line from In the Beginning is definitely up on the list and worthy of being in this video. That moment was one of the rare times on TV where the visuals matched the foreboding. We spent 3 seasons of Babylon 5 where characters referenced back to the BotL as being a massive space battle where humankind was fighting to just save some of itself from extinction. No chance of winning whatsoever. And that fleet jumping in all at once was exactly as shocking to see as it was to watch. We now knew why the characters that survived that battle were so traumatized by it.
Great scenes but that Firefly ones wins in my mind. That fear that suddenly replaced that smug smile when the reavers can out of the clouds was perfect. But that line from Delen was pretty damn awesome. She was such a powerful character in that show.
An interesting comparison here. Serenity had a 40 million dollar budget (and spent 39 million of it), a year of production time, and has at least a dozen different ship types in clear view. The Rise of Skywalker, with a 400+ million dollar budget, 2 years, and a fanbase with scads of high resolution ship designs they'd gladly sell rights to use, had to reuse assets for the primary enemy ships (old Imperial 1's scaled 50% bigger because they made a model for Rogue 1), and extensively copy pasted ships to fill out the count, including ships that made no sense but they had models for, like Han's cargo hauler, and kept most of them at arms length.
With Serenity, they all actually *cared* about it. Disney may have the money, but they don't give a shit about the production beyond their bottom line.
Yeah, I definitely would _not_ include the Rise of Skywalker one. Not simply for the cheesy cut & paste, but that moments before, it was supposed to be difficult to make it through to where the Empire was. (Having stated that, I wouldn't have included the Imperial ships as that was just copy pasta over and over.) I miss when ships were models and not CGI.
I don't think that matters here though; this ranks the presentation of the fleets, not their composition. But yes, Disney went _extremely_ lazy on ship designs. They should've just given the _last movie_ at least another year to finish.
Not just the copy paste on the reinforcements but the criminally tiny amount of actual fighting shown. We have a huge fleet show up and it does almost nothing on screen. it may as well have been a matt painting of a fleet
I love all these but I think my personal favorite is #4, only because Delenn is so badass in this scene - "If you value your lives, BE somewhere else." Edit: After reading though some of the comments, I am glad I am not the only one who loves this moment.
yep. we all felt the same. Such an emotional build up in that episode, then when it looked like the gamble failed and the battle was lost, Delenn storms in.
4:45 there's an animated version of this, in Tartovsky's 2003 clone wars, which is even more epic. The camera pans up, into space, showing hundreds of stars, and then zooms in, revealing that the "stars" are actually thousands of ships slugging it out in orbit.
This was a good list, with lots of great memories, but was surprised my favorite sci-fi fleet arrival didn’t even get a mention. Final episode of the Orville, the Kaylon wedding party. Easily my most memorable.
Your #1 is a solid choice, but I put your #9 right there. That was the first time we really saw a Starfleet armada of that size. It marked a HUGE change in storytelling and was a tease for everything that followed during the Dominion War. It was also bittersweet, because they lost the station, but promised a fight to get it back. And it was an incredible cliffhanger which ultimately culminated in Sacrifice of Angels, arguably one of the best episodes of Trek ever.
While it was an amazing entrance of a single ship, the definition of a fleet that was provided was 3 or more ships excluding fighters, the Pegasus was the only ship in that instance and therefore doesn't qualify
That pan out of BSG getting pummelled and then you hear the whoosh, whoosh as rockets/missiles and guns fire then that big beautiful bastard soaring past with all batteries firing. God. Damn.
Coolest Star Trek tng moment ever was when the enterprise is met by Romulan war birds and Picard asked if they were prepared to die today as the Klingons de cloak and are surrounding them. Such an amazing moment.
Loved it. Nice someone finally put this together. I still say that the Babylon 5 one is the best. "If you value your lives, be somewhere else!" ,..maybe you had to be there when it first aired. I was :P😃❤ Also always loved that Stargate Atlantis one too.
The increadible Battle for Sol in Mass Effect 3 demonstrates why I hate the Battle of Exogol despite them being very similar in concept. The combined fleets in ME were put together after months of diplomacy, fierce fighting, planning and co-ordination. So the pay-off from seeing the results of your dozens of hours in game, is amazing. Very satisfying. The 'Galaxy Fleet' in RoS on the other hand was basically put together in an afternoon and brought in as a completely unbelievable shock reveal. Just feels hollow. There's only so much I can suspend my disbelief...
Destiny 2's Excision mission features the Coalition Fleet deploying troops, but I don't know if it counts here as the players have seen it over the Last City since Lightfall.
My main issue with it is two things 1) no way all those ships came in at the same time because of hyperdrive speeds 2) THEY HAD THE BEST CHANCE TO SHOW SOME GOOD QUALITY SHIP VS SHIP COMBAT AND WASTED IT GAH
Also, in ME3 there are multiple fleets with distinct ship designs. The SW one is just a blob of ships of all different shapes and sizes. This gives character and depth to the ME3 fleet that the SW one lacks. Something as simple as having one part of the SW fleet be 'miners' comprised of ships with booms/cranes while another part is 'merchants' with a preponderance of containers would both visually break up the fleet and provide narrative backing to the rapid assembly of a hodge-podge fleet ("We contacted the mining guild and the traders' guild. This is what they could assemble on short notice" kind of thing).
the defiant joining the fleet always cracked me up, because if i remember correctly this happens at the end of a season? and at the start of the next season the opening ~10 minutes is bashir talking about how many ships they've lost lmao
9 was the most excited I ever got watching Sci-fi you never saw task forces like that in Star Trek until that episode it got me excited. That being said 4 was probably the most badass fleet arrival in Sci-fi.
My top 5: 5) Covenant Reinforcements Arrive, Halo Reach 4) Rebel Fleet arriving at Scarif, Rogue One 3) Alliance Arrives to save the Council, Mass Effect 2) Serenity and Reaver Fleet, Serenity 1) All Fleets Arriving at Earth, Mass Effect 3 HM: UNSC and Sanghelii arriving at The Ark, Halo 3
Rogue One, when Admiral Raddus jumps in to help the team stealing the Death Star plans. It had a great "the calvary has arrived" sense to it. Followed closely by Darth Vader jumping in to stop them.
To expand the rather narrow range of selections I nominate the first episode of Space Battleship Yamato 2202. Large Earth fleet advances on large Gamilas fleet; they combine and advance on a larger Gatlantian fleet, which deals them serious losses. Then the allies are ordered to scram as the all Gatlanteans (save a large battleship) are annihilated during a one-ship reveal... That ship being Andromeda and her dual dispersing wave motion cannon.
wonderfull compilation, with my personal highlight: Delenn and the white star. But let´s be honest... the appearance of the "reaper-fleet" was epic! I miss Serenity and Babylon 5.
The Minbari fleet arriving at the Battle of the Line in B5 movie Beginnings was pretty awesome. Not to mention the various battles with the Shadows. But any time the Whitestar fleet shows up, is epic.
A couple of years back I watched a list of creepiest music videos where basically everything was boring so you'd never believe they'd be right about the number 1 spot but they absolutely were.
@7:10 For all its many flaws, this moment, this single beat, was the peak of the sequel trilogy. The most meaningful, important and beautiful thing it had to say. "There are more of *us* ." "They have no navy." "It's not a navy sir, it's just...people."
That would have been true if the people navy was in any way earned, explained, or built up to, or made any logical sense whatsoever as to how it could have been rallied, coordinated, assembled, and traveled there.
As I'm watching this all i am thinkg is the Reynolds/reaver arrival better be in it and it had better be number 1 as it's the single best fleet arrival ever filmed and it was in it and it was number 1 and now i like this person that made this video
For me, the arrival of the "Galaxy fleet" in Star Wars 9 was the stupidest thing. For one, the logistics of it simply don't make sense. To have a fleet arrive simultaneously means they would have had to gather the fleet somewhere else, like the Rebel Fleet did in Episode 6. And they made such a huge deal about how difficult it was to reach Exogol even with a small ship and suddenly, tens of thousands of ships of all sizes arrive there at the same time?
Not only was that the stupidest thing, but where is the huge battle that should evolve from that massive fleet? It's nowhere reflected in the movie. Yes, there is some action after the arrival, but none of the grand scale with so many ships. Such a waste..
That's the difference between Star Wars' "Galaxy Fleet" and the Mass Effect's one. In Mass Effect you spend several hours working hard to assemble that fleet. In contrast, the Star Wars' one just seems to have assembled as if they decided to join for a party in the last second.
@@varric Not just working to gather the fleet but they assembled at the Mass Effect Relay leading to Sol before they jumped. If it had been like in Star Wars, the ships would have been scattered across the galaxy, Hackett would have made the call to come suddenly and still, everyone would have arrived at the same time
Nobody talks about Wing Commander movie version? I grew up watching the movie, i know it gets hated for not being game accurate, but the storyline and movie-verse on its own are quite awesome and well-made to me.
Yeah, we don't talk enough about the Wing Commander movie. It's been a while, though, and I don't remember it very well. I do remember liking the scene where the enemy fleet arrives one at a time, and they get ambushed as they arrive.
Well I don't really care the ones complaining. This is a really good compilation of what you believe are the best fleet arrival scenes. The one where Poe has just started to give up hope and then Lando chimes in always elicits an emotional response from me. :) You have earned a new subscriber today.
Some of the Battlestar Galactica remake space battles deserve a mention too. Some great fleet reveals in that when the Cylons appear and launch their attacks!
Yeah there's a half dozen or so fleet reveals from BSG and The Expanse that would bump out the majority of this list, surprised to not even see one included from either show.
I started laughing at "USS Sherman Oaks". Absolute top notch writing! Also, the Klingon's arriving just in time to save the Defiant is probably my all time fav Trek scene!
Some great choices there. It is hard to determine which fleet arrival is better than another as they're all good but like you the Reaver Fleet arrival in Serenity where they are quite literally ' bearing down ' on the opposition is my favourite as well. Great video, congrats.
An honorable mention I would have included: Battlestar Galactica: Razor in the flashback scenes; once Husker forms up and they head back and you see actually fleet on fleet combat, even if only a few capital ships- twas nice. Might even throw in the Frontier Day fleet in Picard- starting with that look at the on-screen Odyssey-class Enterprise-F and then all the Starfleet ship types... can have reasonable issues with the stories and still acknowledge it was a pretty fleet (and varied, as it should be)
I think I was at number 7 when I thought if they didn’t have the Serenity scene in here, it would negligent, criminal. L was surprised it was number 1, but I don’t disagree.
"And then we make the Dominion sorry they ever set foot in the Alpha Quadrant." Best line of the entire series, followed up by the second best line: "Cadet, you took the words right out of my mouth."
*That Mass Effect Arrival truly felt incredible. Hundreds of hours of work across an entire trilogy building up to this one single moment to take back earth. All the relationships, choices and side missions leading up to this epic final battle.*
Go with me on this. Don’t flame me. The moment in How To Train Your Dragon 2 when all the dragons switch sides and recognize Toothless as their Alpha gives a very “Fleet Entrance” vibe. Especially when they start firing on the other dragon. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Ah, yes, #9: An awesome fleet capping off the season only to be shown blown to smithereens in the opening of the next episode. Always gets a laugh out of me every time I watch it.
The arrival of the fleet of Particular Justice over Reach deserves an honorary mention, it's always chilling to hear "Slipspace rupture detected" over and over.
Good list, but personally,. the Lower Decks sequence, which had heart to it, is FAR better than the Rise of Skywalker sequence which was just big for the hell of it.
I think that what makes a fleet arrival scene meaningful is when you're not expecting it, or there's lots of emotion/meaning behind it. Now I'm a Star Trek guy myself, but my top arrival would probably be the galaxy fleet arriving at Exogol followed by the Cali Class ships protecting the USS Cerritos. I like how in the first one, the galaxy essentially bands together and stops living in fear of the empire to confront them and save the day, while in the latter the Cali classes (which were due to be mothballed and generally seen as being low powered, low-tier starships) arrived to show that their true strength lies in the bond the crews have as a ship class (which was slowly built up over the seasons while also setting up the Cerritos to be the hero of the ship class), so the fact that everyone came in to save the Cerritos at that moment was pretty meaningful from a story telling standpoint, and unexpected from an audience standpoint.
The final showdown between Vorlon and the Shadows as pretty fucking epic. You had two of the most advanced species running head to head at each other. Only for the League of Worlds to tell them to fuck off out of here. When the Shadows or the Vorlons went to attack the flag ship that held the Captain of B5 on it. The league ships would suicide their ships to protect him. So while it isn't so much a fleet arriving as it is a completely underpowered fleet. Stepping up to the two strongest fleets in the galaxy. Telling to get bent.
Firefly (Serenity) as number one is a great choice, it is as unique as the show itself. But Babylon 5 is my personal favourite. Maybe because there was no need to fire a shot after arrival.
I mean, the Battle of the Line had only been 12 years prior. The helmsmen on Clarke's fleet probably layed in GTFO coordinates before they were ordered to.
@@Mithguar Just for context. Humans had just gotten out of a war with a species known as the Dillgar. The League of Worlds called on earth to step in. We did earth kicked the shit out of that species to the point they went extinct. A couple of years later. Earth forces ran into the species known as the Minbari. Who did not fuck with other species and let them do their own thing. Well Minbari warrior cast has tradition they follow. They like to show strength in greeting. They opened up all their gun ports in a show of strength. The earth ship it had encountered took it as a threat. Earth opened fire. So Earth opens fire they end up killing the Minbari leader Dukat. If you know that name Star Trek used it too. Just google DS9 copying B5 there is a whole problem. Anyway so they killed Dukat well yup they killed the Minbari leader. Not only was he their leader he was the leader of the religious cast. The final vote to go to war with Earth was the lady seen here. She voted with kill them all. Which is what the Minbari did. At first they hit everywhere humans were. Eventually they stopped hitting colonies and just focused on going to Earth. Their plan was to hit Earth destroy their main support for the military and circle back and wipe the rest out. The plan worked they pushed the military all the way back to Earth. In which they called on everyone. Military, civilian and merchants. If you had a ship if you were brave. Hold the line till we can get as many survivors as we can get off the world before they arrive. The battle of the line happened. Some plot device shit goes down. Don't want to spoil it as it is major plot element to one of the characters. The minbari surrender. Earth gets a big ego about itself. Fast forward years later. After number of the peace stations known as the Babylon project failed either destroyed or vanished. B5 was made and succeeded. Second season rolls around. The Minbari picked the commander of the space station the first time. When he was called to the Minbari homeworld to be a diplomat. Earth wasn't playing around and appointed a new commander a captain. This captain happened to be the only captain to ever destroy and get a victory in the Earth Minbari war. So they assumed homeboy hates the Minbari and is totally loyal to Earth. Well he is loyal to Earth just that he believes in freedom. So when Earth broke off from its values and became a dictatorship. This captain told Earth to go fuck itself. So the Minbari who need the space station for a war that is coming. Tells Earth to go fuck itself too and step up if they think they can.
Man the Dominion War had so many awesome battles. And that ME3 arrival is nuts for how many flashes just keep going in the back. All of these were awesome.
Nice list. :) I would like to submit another candidte for consideration. From Babylon 5: Episode "Walkabout"...with the White Star in threat of destruction by a group of Shadow Vessels, even as a Minbari Cruiser with Telepaths attempts to prevent the Shadows from destroying them, G'Kar, having been spurred to action by an outraged Security Chief, gathers a fleet of ships from the Non-Aligned Worlds, as well as a Narn Cruiser, to even the odds.
@@kevsecker3182 It sucks the show was always on the cutting block. For 5 seasons they never knew if they were going to get anther season. So JMS had to write according this is the last season. So even though he took chances with getting renewed. He knew season 4 was the last and that was it. So he rushed the Shadow War and Earth War to its conclusions. You know full well if he had a 5 season already green lit he would have waited and drawn out the conflict. But man season 4 finishing up all those storylines. It's such a great fucking final season to go out on. Season 5 not so much but B5 is peak Scifi seasons 2-4.
I searched the comments to see if another B5 fan would have mentioned this. This is a great moment, the G'Tok jumps in and opens up both batteries and that kills the Shadow cruiser. When Sheridan says thanks to G'Kar for saving them, he chuckles "I am not on board the G'Tok captain..." and the jumppoint forms and out comes a bunch of Narn fighters and ships from 3+ League races. The music shifts so well and you see Lyta on the bridge of the Whitestar looking out at the fleet of ships and she hears the voice of Kosh clearly say "...And so it begins"
The Ori ships arriving through the supergate with that hum will always make me smile, such dread and anticipation for that finale, one of my favourite episodes of television.
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For those wondering, I do have a separate video on solo ship arrivals. If you are interested, the link is at the end of the comment. I'm not doing this as self promotion, but to reduce the comments asking about single ship arrivals, such as the Pegasus's and Enterprise E's.
The video: th-cam.com/video/9tstmBYdTTk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tNLzst_DidNXkdMK
The link to part two of ship arrivals: th-cam.com/video/vQYjpZhc9dY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kq_es69guSmNiHyu
only ones worth it for me personally was the the rebal fleet at endor,minbari fleet help B5 and Delenn famous words "Be somewhere else", and then the fleets agianst the reapers but where was the geth fleet ?, and finally the firefly reaver fleet, the rest didnt exacly do anything for me
Was about to say where is Pegasus arriving to save Galactica 😂
@@christopherwaltercheetham5905 oh yeah i totaly forgot about Galactica some cool scenes in the show
I think you should add The Expanse to the list they do have some awesome fights
My question for you is why is the fleet that arrives to safe Picard from the romulan fleet in the Picard show not on here?
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"Do not force us to engage your ships."
"Why not?" _excellent_ choice for a moment there. B5 was phenomenal.
Excellent choice, absolutely. Definitely don't piss Delenn off. :) Only quibble : "Minbari"
I always thought it sounded more like he was pleading cause he reallllly didn't want to have to fight them
Captain Picard: "If the cause is just, and honorable, my crew will give their lives."
Captain Drake: "When you put it that way..."
The truth is you could probably make a top ten just from Babylon 5 ...i love the one here but my fave from the series is Ivanova facing down the shadow Earth force fleet..
And they say men don't like strong women in Sci-fi. Horseshit.
"If you value your lives, be somewhere else!" Thank you Ambassador Delen!
RIP Mira Furlan. Gone too soon. Like so many of the B5 cast.
That is never getting old.
Always bring Delenn to a fight.
I got to see that scene first run, which was back before all the internet spoilers. When the Minbari and Deleen popped in I remember shouting "YES" loud enough my downstairs neighbor asked the next day if I was ok.
@@saberridge6867 I also got to watch it happen. Similarly, I remember screaming with joy and getting teary eyed at the Enterprise rescuing Picard on the final episode of TNG, "All good things".
No matter how many times I watch it, Delenn's arrival in Severed Dreams to save Babylon 5 will always brings me to tears.
How is this not #1.
Not a large fleet but her line is pretty hard to top "if you value your lives be somewhere else"
Great Lady. Great line.
Agreed, Babylon five is 30 years old and still holds up today, A great episode with the best of finales.
Ha, I can't even begin to count how many times I've watched that clip over the years
Glad to see the scene from Serenity there! "They won't see this coming. " Later: "Somebody FIRE!"
Man, I peg the Serenity fleet arrival as number one too simply for how the up-til-now cool-as-a-cucumber Operative completely loses his shit as soon as the Reavers appear.
That's what makes them Reavers.
how calm would you be when the armada of space cannibals shows up and they outgun you
@@elijahtourtillott7550 It's not that they _outgun_ the alliance fleet (they don't, all they have is converted civilian ships and they're up against actual warships), it's that thanks to the Operative's decision to park right at the edge of the cloud _they're already in knife-fight range_ which is where the alliance a.) can't really bring its tech superiority to bear and b.) the reavers' crude weapons actually stand a good chance of hitting something.
@@GaldirEonai I was thinking they were outgunned because we know that the reavers have a tendency to just ram everything in dust so by tonnage I would consider this fight being "outgunned" because their ships are also weapons
And this is why on my list of reinforcements arrive/hail Mary's
It's number 2
Solely because you see that man panic
i am a leaf in the wind. watch how i soar.
still Too soon. Love Alan Tudyk as an actor.
Don't 😢
One moment Zen, next shish kebab
@@sabrevanson4412 How DO reavers clean their spears? - still way too soon dammit
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"Sir! They defeated it with a fleet of California-class ships!"
"....A WHAT of California-class?! A fleet of WHAT NOW?!"
"Sir, California class! And... they were all firing Avocado-Toast torpedoes and HOA violation beams!"
Having them all named after California cities is hilarious, i shudder to think of the ambient temperature of the Fresno class is.
Captain WHAT?
He went from cooking in high-end kitchens to ships now?
Wondering how pimped out the USS Beverly Hills would be...
For me, Mass Effect 3 will always be the best Fleet Arrival scene out there. maybe it is because I did not just watch this, I put around 80 hours of work behind this. Every single time.
Exactly! We earned every ship of that armada
The music also boosts it to. 1 shot to win and we got everyone ready to fight. Reapers gonna get hit with the full might of the Milkyway and the last of the Protheien Empire.
Same, 3 games and hundreds of hours went into assembling the best fleet. I also think the Alliance Fleet coming in to save the Destiny Ascension shoulda been on the list. Say what you will about the Council, but I personally think that scene has the same energy as the Ride of the Rohirrim.
@@Capt_Dango "Destiny Ascension. You are all clear. Repeat - You are all clear."
Yes, that's also a great moment, but I must say that this moment was ruined in some localizations. In german for example Joker says: "Sie sind gerettet. Ich wiederhole: Sie sind gerettet." Which translates to: "You are seved. I repeat: You are saved." That sounds a little... well, obvious, I think and therefore stupid. But the whole german localization of the first part was... mediocre at best.
And also probably the only one on here that loses the battle(not counting Shepard and the Crucible that they didn’t even know how to use), getting absolutely wrecked for their trouble.
Thank you for including the Minbari ships defending B5. The perfect victory, making the enemy leave without firing a shot. The scene from Serenity is indeed one of my favorite fleet arrivals.
The Klingons coming in via the Z axis to save the fleet was so badass, i remember watching it as a kid, jumping around my living room, that's how bad ass it was
I remembered that too. I was alone watching it in a basement TV when it aired. It was so awesome, but wasn't able to share that moment with anyone.
Not just that but coming out of the sun. My head canon is that some solar emissions masked their approach or something but it definitely was a callback to WW2 dogfighting tactics.
I fist pumped. I figure they probably were all cloaked, and probably approached from a direction where that many cloaked ships approach would not be detected easily. (a large group of cloaked ships would cause one weird distortion)
Same fam!!
@@jutau it was a long mission, but now it is completed. Thanks for sharing
that babylon 5 scene has always been a favorite and is probably one of the best lines ever spoken ever to force an enemy withdrawal
"I am a leaf on the wind"... "if you value your lives, be somewhere else"... two of my favorite lines in science fiction
I love in serenity how quickly that smile was wiped off his face 😂
Also that line
"SOMEBODY FIRE!!!"
He looked like he seriously crapped himself...
It doesn't matter how many times I complete the game, that Alliance fleet arrival in ME3 never ceases to give me goosebumps. Simply epic.
The four Ori Toiletships bulldozing the combined fleets of the entire Milky Way is an excellent villainous counterpoint to this stuff.
lol, i also always thought they look like toilet seat ships.
What are Ori Toiletships?
@@lordzaboem Ori battleships shaped like toilet seats. Big oblong U's.
@@JoshSweetvale Well the Ori are a bunch of assholes so I guess its fitting.
My fave are the Rebel Alliance arriving on Scariff and Riker commanding the Federation Fleet facing off against the Zhat Vash over Gulion 4. Close seconds are Janeway commanding the void alliance as they jointly escape the void in Voyager and the Seperatist fleet arriving over Cristophsis as well as the Keylon fleet joining the Union vs the Moclan-Krill alliance.
I'm wondering if the California Class fleet is a nod to that last episode in Picard when Riker commands the copy/paste fleet against the Romulans.
At Guilan 4 the copy and paste fleet arrival was meh. But Acting Captain Will Riker commanding the USS Zheng He.....pure Goosebumps.
I’m glad some one else said scariff, probably the best space battle of the modern Star Wars films
@@Fletchman1313 Knowing Lower Decks, it absolutely is.
Serenity is the Star Wars movie we deserved from that era.
Thank you for including the Mass Effect scene. It had so much impact after building up that group of allies for multiple playthroughs of three games, it deserves to stand with the others. Delenn also can't be beat even if her fleet is small.
You know you've played Mass Effect too many times when you look at that clip and your first thought is "Hmmm, looks like Shepard didn't save the Citadel Council in ME1 in this playthrough..." 😆
@@subsidizer292I was legit looking for this 😂
My favorite was when the entire Rohirrim fleet came in to attack the Uruk-Hai assault ships invading the Gondor system. Then my next favorite is when they maneuvered to face the much more formidable mercenary Haradrim Dreadnought flotilla despite the massive tonnage disadvantage.
This is a funny comment, and I would watch the shit out of that
I see what you did there. (At least in the first half of your comment)
Vulcans=Elves, Romulans=Drow, Klingorks.
Mass Effect 3 still the best because of its emotional weight seeing that fleet you'd worked for.
Arrival of the Alliance reinforcements from ME 1 is also nice paragon route of course. Also Sovereign him self had quite the entrance too.
Im Commander Shepard. And this is the full power of the Milkyway *destroys the Reapers*
..too bad that 2 lines are missing : "Quarian fleet reporting, Geth fleet reporting" Incomplete !
You know you played ME enough times if the first thing that cross your mind seing the scene is that Shepard didn't save the Council that time.
"mass effect 3" and "best" in the same line - you probably into ass-to-mouth, eh?
I love the operatives, his calm demeanour goes right out the airlock when Mel brings the reaver fleet to the party.
Delens ultimatum is the most badass one in Sci Fi history.
As far as ultimatums go, for sure. My personal all-time shock entrance is still Giles’ “I’d like to test that theory.”
rival: Ivanova, with the Wrath of God, Death Incarnate.
the massive Minbari fleet entrance in the babylon 5 movie "in the beginning" is awesome, especially given how old the movie is. Theres basically enough of them to encircle the entire earth and they all jump in as one. Thousands of blue jump vortexes fill space dropping thousands of heavy cruisers who immediately open up on the defenders
B5 is easily the top 1-3 scifi series of all time.
I would like to revisit it, but maybe it is just better to let it go. There is no way to replicate the frantic atmosphere of the B5 universe.
That sounds cool, I'm definitely going to check it out if I can find it.
revisit, believe it or not, it gets better each time
@@leonfairhurst7597 Sorry, I meant a new B5 universe series. I enjoy watching most of the originals and the movies. Even if they are not 4K the stories are always compelling.
@@SkywalkerFilms1927 It's called the Battle of the Line
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The reaction to the reavers is so good, he goes from a poet to absolute panic
I would have to agree on your number 1 pick. That scene lives in my head rent free!
I almost forgot the Fleet fight in Serenity! I completely agree with this list! Epic Fleet engagements! Canceling Firefly was on of the biggest Tv show blunders of our time!
There's in Star Trek TNG when Picard is trying ti get the Romulans to be reasonable in the Neutral zone. He caps he argument when Klingon Ships decloak. The Romulans then decide that diplomacy is a better course of action.
“I expected more than an empty threat from you, Picard.”
“Then you shall have it.”
Picard to Romulans: “Shall we die together..?”
Romulan Captain: **flinches**
Riker grinning like a fool in the background.
Now THAT was a better fleet moment than the DS9 stuff. It's not about battle or numbers, it's about using them well.
@@Ryvaken Apples and Oranges. But yeah it is a very, very good scene. Even had the Klingon theme creeping up on you🤘
Seconded.
Picard - "Are you prepared to die today, Tomalok?"
Tomalok - "I expected more from you than an idol threat Picard."
Picard - "Then you shall have it. Mr Worf"
Worf - Aye sir. (Klingon theme music playing) "Klingon Warships, armed and ready sir."
You get a thumbs up for the #1 choice. Lorewise...that is a terrifying reveal.
That B5 scene with Deleen still gets me every time...
The Nova Corps arrival in Guardians of the Galaxy always gives me chills, worth an honorable mention at least. Wish we saw more of them.
This was a very good list but your #1 pick is what made me hit the like button. Browncoats for Life.
I am going to recommend another one. The Shadow attack on Quadrant 14 seen in Babylon 5 "The Coming of Shadows".
It's only 3 ships but in the span of 90 seconds we finally got to see the absolute horrifying power the Shadows have.
I was thinking that or the Battle of the Line; just seeing a wall of jump gates pouring out dozens of Minbari cruisers- each one able to splash any Earth capital ship with near impunity- pouring out with Luna in the background...
@@Sephiroth144 I saw many people on this video recommend the Battle of the Line from In the Beginning. That is why I did not recommend that one.
I did not see anyone recommend the Q14 attack. It looks like you and others agree might with me.
Until that moment, we only saw glimpses (a few seconds at best) of Shadow ships. They came and disappeared like ghosts. The attack on Q14 was exactly what we expected it to be: mortals trying to fight gods. You could not help but watch in horror as the Narn get wiped out. This feeling is repeated at the end of the Narn-Centauri War with the Battle of Gorash 7. Except in that battle, you watch in horror and sadness as the entire remaining Narn fleet is wiped out.
@@brianwhedon8442 For me, anyway, the arrival of the Shadows at Q14 doesn't have the same impact as the arrival of the Minbari fleet does over Earth.
I don't think Q14 really solidified the Shadows as "God Tier"; it could have been a surprise attack by a superior force; we only saw the Narn fighters respond against Capital ships. (I mean, the initial hit was three capitals against a civilian space station that had a cruiser docked with it; not really a challenge foe with the element of surprise) Gorash VII, however, when it showed the utter futility and "godhood" (or Ancient-ness) of the Shadows compared to the younger races- a complete Narn battle group, alert and ready to fight, getting toyed with like a cat with a mouse... that, to me, demonstrated the power differential much more effectively.
@@Sephiroth144 Yes I agree. Both battles book-end the Narn Centauri War. One with awe and the other with despair.
@@Sephiroth144 I think the Battle of the Line from In the Beginning is definitely up on the list and worthy of being in this video.
That moment was one of the rare times on TV where the visuals matched the foreboding. We spent 3 seasons of Babylon 5 where characters referenced back to the BotL as being a massive space battle where humankind was fighting to just save some of itself from extinction. No chance of winning whatsoever.
And that fleet jumping in all at once was exactly as shocking to see as it was to watch. We now knew why the characters that survived that battle were so traumatized by it.
Of them all Delens arrival will always be the greatest flex.
Great scenes but that Firefly ones wins in my mind. That fear that suddenly replaced that smug smile when the reavers can out of the clouds was perfect. But that line from Delen was pretty damn awesome. She was such a powerful character in that show.
An interesting comparison here. Serenity had a 40 million dollar budget (and spent 39 million of it), a year of production time, and has at least a dozen different ship types in clear view. The Rise of Skywalker, with a 400+ million dollar budget, 2 years, and a fanbase with scads of high resolution ship designs they'd gladly sell rights to use, had to reuse assets for the primary enemy ships (old Imperial 1's scaled 50% bigger because they made a model for Rogue 1), and extensively copy pasted ships to fill out the count, including ships that made no sense but they had models for, like Han's cargo hauler, and kept most of them at arms length.
With Serenity, they all actually *cared* about it. Disney may have the money, but they don't give a shit about the production beyond their bottom line.
Yeah, I definitely would _not_ include the Rise of Skywalker one. Not simply for the cheesy cut & paste, but that moments before, it was supposed to be difficult to make it through to where the Empire was. (Having stated that, I wouldn't have included the Imperial ships as that was just copy pasta over and over.)
I miss when ships were models and not CGI.
I don't think that matters here though; this ranks the presentation of the fleets, not their composition.
But yes, Disney went _extremely_ lazy on ship designs. They should've just given the _last movie_ at least another year to finish.
Not just the copy paste on the reinforcements but the criminally tiny amount of actual fighting shown. We have a huge fleet show up and it does almost nothing on screen. it may as well have been a matt painting of a fleet
The Rise of Skywalker scene also looks like visual vomitus. There's a lot going on, but it's all very ugly.
I love all these but I think my personal favorite is #4, only because Delenn is so badass in this scene - "If you value your lives, BE somewhere else."
Edit: After reading though some of the comments, I am glad I am not the only one who loves this moment.
yep. we all felt the same. Such an emotional build up in that episode, then when it looked like the gamble failed and the battle was lost, Delenn storms in.
4:45 there's an animated version of this, in Tartovsky's 2003 clone wars, which is even more epic. The camera pans up, into space, showing hundreds of stars, and then zooms in, revealing that the "stars" are actually thousands of ships slugging it out in orbit.
This was a good list, with lots of great memories, but was surprised my favorite sci-fi fleet arrival didn’t even get a mention. Final episode of the Orville, the Kaylon wedding party. Easily my most memorable.
Your #1 is a solid choice, but I put your #9 right there. That was the first time we really saw a Starfleet armada of that size. It marked a HUGE change in storytelling and was a tease for everything that followed during the Dominion War. It was also bittersweet, because they lost the station, but promised a fight to get it back. And it was an incredible cliffhanger which ultimately culminated in Sacrifice of Angels, arguably one of the best episodes of Trek ever.
Not having the battlestar Pegasus jumping in to save the galactica is criminal 😢
Single ship (and fighters), this is explicitly about fleets.
While it was an amazing entrance of a single ship, the definition of a fleet that was provided was 3 or more ships excluding fighters, the Pegasus was the only ship in that instance and therefore doesn't qualify
@@GaldirEonai still a better scene than almost all the ones given in the video.
@@MrSMLEWeebstill in a seperate vid he made: check the pinned comment
That pan out of BSG getting pummelled and then you hear the whoosh, whoosh as rockets/missiles and guns fire then that big beautiful bastard soaring past with all batteries firing. God. Damn.
“Somebody fire !!!” 😂😂
GREATEST. LINE. EVER!
Coolest Star Trek tng moment ever was when the enterprise is met by Romulan war birds and Picard asked if they were prepared to die today as the Klingons de cloak and are surrounding them. Such an amazing moment.
Loved it. Nice someone finally put this together. I still say that the Babylon 5 one is the best. "If you value your lives, be somewhere else!" ,..maybe you had to be there when it first aired. I was :P😃❤ Also always loved that Stargate Atlantis one too.
I was hoping it would be there. Only 4 ships but Delenn’s statement had more power than any of those larger fleets.
One inclusion Babylon 5, when the Vorlon fleet arrives to take out the Shadows. And also when the Shadows arrive to take otut the Narns in Gorash VII
And the Battle of the Line, when the Minbari fleet jumps in
Another one I haven't seen mentioned from B5, when the first ones all show up to stop the Vorlon Planetkiller.
cant have a top 10 fleet arrivals without the OG Star Wars Endor arrival
The increadible Battle for Sol in Mass Effect 3 demonstrates why I hate the Battle of Exogol despite them being very similar in concept.
The combined fleets in ME were put together after months of diplomacy, fierce fighting, planning and co-ordination. So the pay-off from seeing the results of your dozens of hours in game, is amazing. Very satisfying.
The 'Galaxy Fleet' in RoS on the other hand was basically put together in an afternoon and brought in as a completely unbelievable shock reveal. Just feels hollow.
There's only so much I can suspend my disbelief...
Destiny 2's Excision mission features the Coalition Fleet deploying troops, but I don't know if it counts here as the players have seen it over the Last City since Lightfall.
My main issue with it is two things
1) no way all those ships came in at the same time because of hyperdrive speeds
2) THEY HAD THE BEST CHANCE TO SHOW SOME GOOD QUALITY SHIP VS SHIP COMBAT AND WASTED IT
GAH
@@omega13whitelucario95 They Probably didn't have any money left, other than that i agree.
@@jamesrichardson8484 listen regardless, it was a cool scene that just was so wasted
Also, in ME3 there are multiple fleets with distinct ship designs. The SW one is just a blob of ships of all different shapes and sizes. This gives character and depth to the ME3 fleet that the SW one lacks.
Something as simple as having one part of the SW fleet be 'miners' comprised of ships with booms/cranes while another part is 'merchants' with a preponderance of containers would both visually break up the fleet and provide narrative backing to the rapid assembly of a hodge-podge fleet ("We contacted the mining guild and the traders' guild. This is what they could assemble on short notice" kind of thing).
the defiant joining the fleet always cracked me up, because if i remember correctly this happens at the end of a season? and at the start of the next season the opening ~10 minutes is bashir talking about how many ships they've lost lmao
9 was the most excited I ever got watching Sci-fi you never saw task forces like that in Star Trek until that episode it got me excited. That being said 4 was probably the most badass fleet arrival in Sci-fi.
My top 5:
5) Covenant Reinforcements Arrive, Halo Reach
4) Rebel Fleet arriving at Scarif, Rogue One
3) Alliance Arrives to save the Council, Mass Effect
2) Serenity and Reaver Fleet, Serenity
1) All Fleets Arriving at Earth, Mass Effect 3
HM: UNSC and Sanghelii arriving at The Ark, Halo 3
"Shipmaster, they outnumber us, 3 to 1..."
"...Then it is an even fight."
Rtas Vadum was a badass.
Rogue One, when Admiral Raddus jumps in to help the team stealing the Death Star plans. It had a great "the calvary has arrived" sense to it. Followed closely by Darth Vader jumping in to stop them.
To expand the rather narrow range of selections I nominate the first episode of Space Battleship Yamato 2202.
Large Earth fleet advances on large Gamilas fleet; they combine and advance on a larger Gatlantian fleet, which deals them serious losses. Then the allies are ordered to scram as the all Gatlanteans (save a large battleship) are annihilated during a one-ship reveal... That ship being Andromeda and her dual dispersing wave motion cannon.
Little bummed we didn't see the Fleet arrival in the Battle of Antarctica in SG1. That was such a bad ass show of force from the Tau'ri.
Damn I forgot about that master piece in Serenity.
ok, that was not Bad, but i miss Yondus Funeral... Sad and beautiful...
I agree with #1. Still one of the best large space battle scenes.
wonderfull compilation, with my personal highlight: Delenn and the white star. But let´s be honest... the appearance of the "reaper-fleet" was epic! I miss Serenity and Babylon 5.
It's a small thing, but every time I see that brief few seconds of Wedge Antilles, it gives me such joy.
It's a phenomenon called "memberberries."
It's about the only thing Disney Star Wars has to offer at this point.
"If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
Amazing how many Earth Alliance Captains suddenly remembered they'd left the stove on at home.
Delenn's speech is still one of my fav "badass" speeches in all of scifi.
The Minbari fleet arriving at the Battle of the Line in B5 movie Beginnings was pretty awesome. Not to mention the various battles with the Shadows. But any time the Whitestar fleet shows up, is epic.
the very first time i've agreed with the number 1 spot
A couple of years back I watched a list of creepiest music videos where basically everything was boring so you'd never believe they'd be right about the number 1 spot but they absolutely were.
@7:10
For all its many flaws, this moment, this single beat, was the peak of the sequel trilogy. The most meaningful, important and beautiful thing it had to say.
"There are more of *us* ."
"They have no navy."
"It's not a navy sir, it's just...people."
That would have been true if the people navy was in any way earned, explained, or built up to, or made any logical sense whatsoever as to how it could have been rallied, coordinated, assembled, and traveled there.
As I'm watching this all i am thinkg is the Reynolds/reaver arrival better be in it and it had better be number 1 as it's the single best fleet arrival ever filmed and it was in it and it was number 1 and now i like this person that made this video
For me, the arrival of the "Galaxy fleet" in Star Wars 9 was the stupidest thing. For one, the logistics of it simply don't make sense. To have a fleet arrive simultaneously means they would have had to gather the fleet somewhere else, like the Rebel Fleet did in Episode 6.
And they made such a huge deal about how difficult it was to reach Exogol even with a small ship and suddenly, tens of thousands of ships of all sizes arrive there at the same time?
Not only was that the stupidest thing, but where is the huge battle that should evolve from that massive fleet? It's nowhere reflected in the movie. Yes, there is some action after the arrival, but none of the grand scale with so many ships. Such a waste..
That's the difference between Star Wars' "Galaxy Fleet" and the Mass Effect's one.
In Mass Effect you spend several hours working hard to assemble that fleet. In contrast, the Star Wars' one just seems to have assembled as if they decided to join for a party in the last second.
@@varric Not just working to gather the fleet but they assembled at the Mass Effect Relay leading to Sol before they jumped.
If it had been like in Star Wars, the ships would have been scattered across the galaxy, Hackett would have made the call to come suddenly and still, everyone would have arrived at the same time
Nobody talks about Wing Commander movie version? I grew up watching the movie, i know it gets hated for not being game accurate, but the storyline and movie-verse on its own are quite awesome and well-made to me.
Yeah, we don't talk enough about the Wing Commander movie. It's been a while, though, and I don't remember it very well. I do remember liking the scene where the enemy fleet arrives one at a time, and they get ambushed as they arrive.
I may not agree with the ranking on all of them, but I thoroughly enjoyed remembering these scenes.
Mass Effect allied fleet is insanely immense, but watching the whole thing unfold as the Allies and the Reapers clash never gets old.
A fleet arrival that always gave me chills was the Covenant fleet in Halo: Reach. It just lends weight to the absolute hopelessness of the situation.
Well I don't really care the ones complaining. This is a really good compilation of what you believe are the best fleet arrival scenes. The one where Poe has just started to give up hope and then Lando chimes in always elicits an emotional response from me. :)
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@@MultiGamingNetwork03 thank you! I will say that it is impossible to make everyone happy, as the ones that some love, others hate.
Some of the Battlestar Galactica remake space battles deserve a mention too. Some great fleet reveals in that when the Cylons appear and launch their attacks!
Yeah there's a half dozen or so fleet reveals from BSG and The Expanse that would bump out the majority of this list, surprised to not even see one included from either show.
Ah yes, the not so long awaited but heavily anticipated upload.
Glad to see some really exciting and bombastic moments here.
9:15 she dropped an amazing line there love it
I started laughing at "USS Sherman Oaks". Absolute top notch writing!
Also, the Klingon's arriving just in time to save the Defiant is probably my all time fav Trek scene!
Going into this, I hope there is the Shipmaster scene from Halo. "They outnumber us 3 to 1!", followed by, "Then it is an even fight."
I'll do one better with three words
"Slipspace rupture detected."
Great list, thanks. So many goosebumps. The B5, ST Lower Deck and SW Rise of Skywalker
Some great choices there. It is hard to determine which fleet arrival is better than another as they're all good but like you the Reaver Fleet arrival in Serenity where they are quite literally ' bearing down ' on the opposition is my favourite as well. Great video, congrats.
An honorable mention I would have included: Battlestar Galactica: Razor in the flashback scenes; once Husker forms up and they head back and you see actually fleet on fleet combat, even if only a few capital ships- twas nice.
Might even throw in the Frontier Day fleet in Picard- starting with that look at the on-screen Odyssey-class Enterprise-F and then all the Starfleet ship types... can have reasonable issues with the stories and still acknowledge it was a pretty fleet (and varied, as it should be)
Im surprised the High Charrity fleet arriving at Delta Halo didn’t show up on this list, but excellent choices!
I think I was at number 7 when I thought if they didn’t have the Serenity scene in here, it would negligent, criminal. L was surprised it was number 1, but I don’t disagree.
The Ori arrival and destruction of the fleet is a heartbreaking scene
"And then we make the Dominion sorry they ever set foot in the Alpha Quadrant."
Best line of the entire series, followed up by the second best line:
"Cadet, you took the words right out of my mouth."
*That Mass Effect Arrival truly felt incredible. Hundreds of hours of work across an entire trilogy building up to this one single moment to take back earth. All the relationships, choices and side missions leading up to this epic final battle.*
Blood, sweat, and a lot of goddam bullets.
@@captainhybrid4045 "I don't need luck. I have ammo."
@@varric He he he he
Go with me on this. Don’t flame me. The moment in How To Train Your Dragon 2 when all the dragons switch sides and recognize Toothless as their Alpha gives a very “Fleet Entrance” vibe. Especially when they start firing on the other dragon. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
@@buffalojoe78 I did consider HTTYD 2 when looking for fleet arrivals.
When toothless starts firing on the alpha 👍🏼
Love it. Need a single ship arrival.
“Sir! There’s another ship coming in?!!…It’s the ENTERPRISE!!”
@@tomlindsay2925 I actually do have a video with solo ship arrivals, including the one you mentioned.
Ah, yes, #9: An awesome fleet capping off the season only to be shown blown to smithereens in the opening of the next episode. Always gets a laugh out of me every time I watch it.
No, it was pounded repeatedly BEFORE the next season began, and was "walking wounded" in the opening shots.
The arrival of the fleet of Particular Justice over Reach deserves an honorary mention, it's always chilling to hear "Slipspace rupture detected" over and over.
Small pedantic correction, that isn't Cardassia, that's the system Chintoka in your honerable mentions.
Thank you for confirmation. I was also surprised to see the battle of Chintoka there. 😅
Good list, but personally,. the Lower Decks sequence, which had heart to it, is FAR better than the Rise of Skywalker sequence which was just big for the hell of it.
Man this fleet are some SYFY people awesome video
I think that what makes a fleet arrival scene meaningful is when you're not expecting it, or there's lots of emotion/meaning behind it. Now I'm a Star Trek guy myself, but my top arrival would probably be the galaxy fleet arriving at Exogol followed by the Cali Class ships protecting the USS Cerritos. I like how in the first one, the galaxy essentially bands together and stops living in fear of the empire to confront them and save the day, while in the latter the Cali classes (which were due to be mothballed and generally seen as being low powered, low-tier starships) arrived to show that their true strength lies in the bond the crews have as a ship class (which was slowly built up over the seasons while also setting up the Cerritos to be the hero of the ship class), so the fact that everyone came in to save the Cerritos at that moment was pretty meaningful from a story telling standpoint, and unexpected from an audience standpoint.
the biggest crime with the Exogol fleet is how little of that battle we get to see.
While the Exegol scene was awesome, a part of me was thinking "so... everyone ignored Leia but they listened to Lando?"
The final showdown between Vorlon and the Shadows as pretty fucking epic. You had two of the most advanced species running head to head at each other. Only for the League of Worlds to tell them to fuck off out of here. When the Shadows or the Vorlons went to attack the flag ship that held the Captain of B5 on it. The league ships would suicide their ships to protect him. So while it isn't so much a fleet arriving as it is a completely underpowered fleet. Stepping up to the two strongest fleets in the galaxy. Telling to get bent.
Firefly (Serenity) as number one is a great choice, it is as unique as the show itself.
But Babylon 5 is my personal favourite. Maybe because there was no need to fire a shot after arrival.
I mean, the Battle of the Line had only been 12 years prior. The helmsmen on Clarke's fleet probably layed in GTFO coordinates before they were ordered to.
never watched an episode of B5 in my life but i still agree about this entrance. Most modern Star Wars warpins don't even compare.
@@Mithguar Just for context. Humans had just gotten out of a war with a species known as the Dillgar. The League of Worlds called on earth to step in. We did earth kicked the shit out of that species to the point they went extinct. A couple of years later. Earth forces ran into the species known as the Minbari. Who did not fuck with other species and let them do their own thing. Well Minbari warrior cast has tradition they follow. They like to show strength in greeting. They opened up all their gun ports in a show of strength. The earth ship it had encountered took it as a threat. Earth opened fire.
So Earth opens fire they end up killing the Minbari leader Dukat. If you know that name Star Trek used it too. Just google DS9 copying B5 there is a whole problem. Anyway so they killed Dukat well yup they killed the Minbari leader. Not only was he their leader he was the leader of the religious cast. The final vote to go to war with Earth was the lady seen here. She voted with kill them all. Which is what the Minbari did. At first they hit everywhere humans were. Eventually they stopped hitting colonies and just focused on going to Earth. Their plan was to hit Earth destroy their main support for the military and circle back and wipe the rest out.
The plan worked they pushed the military all the way back to Earth. In which they called on everyone. Military, civilian and merchants. If you had a ship if you were brave. Hold the line till we can get as many survivors as we can get off the world before they arrive. The battle of the line happened. Some plot device shit goes down. Don't want to spoil it as it is major plot element to one of the characters. The minbari surrender. Earth gets a big ego about itself.
Fast forward years later. After number of the peace stations known as the Babylon project failed either destroyed or vanished. B5 was made and succeeded. Second season rolls around. The Minbari picked the commander of the space station the first time. When he was called to the Minbari homeworld to be a diplomat. Earth wasn't playing around and appointed a new commander a captain. This captain happened to be the only captain to ever destroy and get a victory in the Earth Minbari war. So they assumed homeboy hates the Minbari and is totally loyal to Earth. Well he is loyal to Earth just that he believes in freedom. So when Earth broke off from its values and became a dictatorship. This captain told Earth to go fuck itself. So the Minbari who need the space station for a war that is coming. Tells Earth to go fuck itself too and step up if they think they can.
Even after all these years, #4 STILL gives me chills.
Man the Dominion War had so many awesome battles. And that ME3 arrival is nuts for how many flashes just keep going in the back.
All of these were awesome.
Very nice variety of shows on this list. Excellent work!
Nice list. :) I would like to submit another candidte for consideration. From Babylon 5: Episode "Walkabout"...with the White Star in threat of destruction by a group of Shadow Vessels, even as a Minbari Cruiser with Telepaths attempts to prevent the Shadows from destroying them, G'Kar, having been spurred to action by an outraged Security Chief, gathers a fleet of ships from the Non-Aligned Worlds, as well as a Narn Cruiser, to even the odds.
So many great fleet battles… the vorlon shadow final showdown… the fleet arriving at earth to end Clarkes reign…. Top series.
@@kevsecker3182 It sucks the show was always on the cutting block. For 5 seasons they never knew if they were going to get anther season. So JMS had to write according this is the last season. So even though he took chances with getting renewed. He knew season 4 was the last and that was it. So he rushed the Shadow War and Earth War to its conclusions. You know full well if he had a 5 season already green lit he would have waited and drawn out the conflict. But man season 4 finishing up all those storylines. It's such a great fucking final season to go out on. Season 5 not so much but B5 is peak Scifi seasons 2-4.
I searched the comments to see if another B5 fan would have mentioned this.
This is a great moment, the G'Tok jumps in and opens up both batteries and that kills the Shadow cruiser. When Sheridan says thanks to G'Kar for saving them, he chuckles "I am not on board the G'Tok captain..." and the jumppoint forms and out comes a bunch of Narn fighters and ships from 3+ League races. The music shifts so well and you see Lyta on the bridge of the Whitestar looking out at the fleet of ships and she hears the voice of Kosh clearly say
"...And so it begins"
I am a bit disappointed Ender's game isn't included but these in the video are also pretty memorable so I am not as disappointed
I was going to make a similar comment... but did a keyword search for "Ender" and saw you got it. Thanks for mentioning hopefully channel will see it.
I couldn't be more disappointed when that Exogal one happened, what a fucking awful arrival it is, worst space battle in Scifi.
Pretty good. I've been a sci-fi fan for many decades (and WAY before the interwebs). Congrats!
The Ori ships arriving through the supergate with that hum will always make me smile, such dread and anticipation for that finale, one of my favourite episodes of television.
I know these aren't fleets but the sheer panic of having an Orion destroyer jump in less than 20m away from you in freespace is up there