I’m 48 years old and I’ve been laughing at the way Vader says “what” when Han arrives to help Luke, I know I can’t be the only one that finds that funny
Galacticas jump into the atmosphere of New Caprica should have been #1. When I saw that the first time it aired I remembered jumping around like a psychopath laughing maniacally. It was AWESOME.
Centurions were my favorite in the entire show. Often shown as dumb drones, but they had wits (according to the novelizations they were the ones who got to get a second brain, with Supreme Leader getting a third).
@@MasterTobben no it's not. Acting is awefull and the story isn't that appealing. Also FX are a bit lame. Harlock animated movie from the same period was a hundred times better.
U.S.S. Europa: "Oh, an impact. Let's just sit here when, logically, our smaller vessel would actually be pushed backwards, much less make any attempt at reversing under our own power..."
I guess they forgot to turn off the external inertial dampers, if those are thing in the DISCO timeline. Or their plot armor malfunctioned and held them in place.
My willing-suspension-of-disbelief told me they must have some thrusters and technology that "anchors" a ship relative to nearby objects. They don't normally need to worry about an invisible ship ramming into the hull. That would be a very unpopular tactic. And it seems like the scene slowed down for dramatic effect, so they probably didn't have time to move away while getting shook by the hull in their face.
Actually, Galactica was jumping OUT of the atmosphere, not into it - which in my opinion is even more impressive, as it leaves a vacuum that needs to be filled, hence the thunderclap and wind.
One of the most horrible sci-fi shows in recent memory. I couldn't stand Star Dyke, but if she wasn't bad enough, the show itself was just a boring soap opera. It was identical in format to the equally awful Stargate Universe. They both would have done better if they were on weekday mornings, competing with Days of Our Lives and The Young & the Restless.
Whether its the live action version, the original animation, or the 2199 version, the re-birth of the Yamato always gives me goosebumps. YAMATO HASHIN!
Delenn from Babylon 5: "Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!"
Yamato emerging from its sleep from what used to be the bottom of the ocean, is one of the best ship reveals in science fiction, anime or live action. My other favorite from this sequence is the Adama Maneuver, this version of Commander Adama, while not my favorite, in this scene truly shows he has balls so big they produce gravity capable of pulling planets from orbit.
"Plot armor" doesnt mean "balls" ... and both those jumps would have created WAVES OF PRESSURE through "sudden displacement of the atmosphere" and especially the second one would have caused a lot of death and destruction on the ground. Look up "MOAB" ... the "mother of all bombs" ... which KILLS THROUGH SHOCKWAVES/PRESSURE WAVES by ripping your lungs apart.
@@navyreviewer As where the true wreck is in pieces, in the 2202 recollection at 90 seconds, it is recovered and restored and rededicated 2145 as where the exposed wreck seems whole in 2199. th-cam.com/video/ZLnTeb3V9mY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=v9Fh2NVMpGsJ43e_
@@Muck006 I actually wondered about what kind of shockwave would have been created by all that air rushing in to fill the sudden gap, and how it would have affected the ground installations. I am familiar with the MAB and Daisy cutter style bomb's, and thought of that myself. But that was still one hell of a ballsy move for a commander. You can call anything "plot armor", from a fictional point of view, but I was thinking about the point of view of a commander reacting to a fast moving combat situation.
I had the honor of doing some promotional artwork for Battlestsr Galactica, and did a giant painting of the Galactica burning entry, as well as recreation of the 1st Cylon War painting that is in Adama's quarters... Made friends with some of the cast... That show really was lighning in a bottle...
@@jameslopez5652 Thanks! It really is one of the best shows ever. I feel super lucky to have had anything to do the with it, even if it was just promo art. I just wish I could have visited the sets. Would have loved to have sat in the full sized viper... I still keep in touch with Katee once in a while...
Opening scene of A New Hope should be No 1, IMO. If you saw it in person at the time, you knew the world of sci-fi had completely changed. I was 10yo and it literally changed our world.
@@careyfreeman5056 I did put it in part one, though it was relatively low. For me, it wasn't that big, partially because I don't remember when I first saw it and partially because my first exposure to Star Wars was through Lego, with the Padawan Menace.
@SkywalkerFilms1927 you've got to remember what we had prior to that. Ultra Man, Lost in Space (original), original Star Trek. When I (and millions of others) saw that Star Destroyer rip across the screen my mouth was on the floor. Everything changed in that moment in terms of what you expected from Sci-fi.
It definitely was a "You had to be there" moment. Prior to it, was almost nothing Sci-fi of value being produced. The ENTIRE GENRE just exploded afterwards. All the way up to and including today's wonderful stuff. Before New Hope, it was relegated to the books and comics. The timing rolled into the computer and videogames with limitless imaginations becoming realities. All those teenagers who enjoyed the Star Trek series took their kids to Star Wars and culturally changed the entire Earth with possibilities. We are here NOW because of that reveal. (55 on my only imagined phone computer -- yes my ringtone is the ORIGINAL communicator from the Original Series) Nanu Nanu
I'll always be grateful I got to see the original pre-CGI Star Wars movies. And for anyone who wants to correct me, I know that there was _some_ CGI used in the originals but it was very minimal.
That scene of BSG jumping into -- but more so, jumping out of -- the atmosphere when it aired was one of the few literal mouth-open/"Wtf??" moments I've had watching tv.
Same, it is almost as jaw dropping as first witnessing the Yamato rising from under the ground. before that such a thing was unheard of by anyone on Earth, and the fact that as a spaceship its previous life was as a WII battleship was just as mind blowing.
Galactica´s jump into the atmosphere is a masterpiece of a masterpiece! the risk, the math-calculation to make it possible, the tactical part and to jump out again...makes it to the #1 of the best maneuvers with a arrival ever
Awesome comeback for the UNCF Space Battleship Yamato, the USS Enterprise-A, the Kelvin-timeline USS Enterprise, the refurbished USS Enterprise-D, and the surprised Klingon Space Battleship! Nicely done with the entrances! 😊🫡👍🖖
The gun barrels of the Yamato and all the other DELICATE EQUIPMENT should have been bent and USELESS. The main gun is internal, so that's fine ... but people completely ignoring that ROCK IS HARD and METAL CAN BEND is annoying, because this means they are as far from reality as vegetarians thinking "milk/cheese doesnt kill animals" (of course it does, because cows only give milk after having a calf ... and we cant feed all those calfs ... so "killing them" is part of the deal).
I am glad you included the Enterprise D with the Third Nacelle in the list. The old school me will always think of this ship as a "dreadnaught". A Three Nacelle ship harkens back to the days of the board game "star Fleet Battles" where dreadnaughts were three Nacelle ships.
@@stevepreskitt283 Thx for the eye opener. My first indoctrination to the three nacelle ships was as a playable ship on Star fleet battles. Unfortunately, I sucked at that game and lost interest in it until I seen a reminder of SFB on the video game version of Star Trek.
@@themorn2112 The board game was tedious to play, because it necessarily centered on the fighting of ships, and finding a balance of how much detail to include in any tabletop game battle is an ongoing thing. The computer version used the computer to do the work and left you to enjoy making the decisions. When I discovered the game (version II) I finally realized what the board game was trying to do under all the rules and record keeping.
River really did get the Klingon's attention. The way it just slices into the first Klingon battlecruiser while the other fires away making no difference.
The Adama Manouver was the best... a mile in lenght, hundreds of thousands metrico tons, heavy armored ship, in an atmospheric reentry, free falling and glowing red hot and causing a hurricane?. C´mon dude, nothing can beat that XD
I was a kid when StarBlazers was on TV. Watching Yamato rise from the dry seabed always gives me shivers. Absolutely the best. I an mot a fan of live action adaptions to anime, but Space Battleship Yamato, despite the differences with the original series, was great.
So I'm watching this block again, and it just realized when I read the caption, The Battlestar Galactica episode is now officially 20 years old. Unbelievable😮
Yeah, 100%. I remember watching the original on TV as a little kid in the late 1970s- my father, older sister, older brother and I used to watch it regularly. When the updated version came out in the 2000s, we were all over it- and around 3 years ago, I finally got my mother to watch it with me, as well. She ended up loving it just as much as I do, and was so bummed when we got to the end of the series. I can’t believe that the “newer” version is twenty years old- it just doesn’t seem possible. I tried rewatching the original series afterwards, but I just couldn’t sit through it- it’s one of those rare cases where the remake is better than the original. This was a great video- I hadn’t seen the Yamato or the Halo stuff before, and not all of the Star Trek content, but you did a great job of selecting the examples that you did. Thanks!
@@TheProjectHelpDesk That was a big part of why I liked it so much- I found it to be so much more realistic, especially how everything impacted all of the characters- the hopelessness, the small victories, the doubts, etc. I felt it really made me sympathize with the characters, and it had so much emotional weight to it. Not everything was optimistic, the dark attitude was more of how people would truly react.
When your tactical officer starts to raise shields… not “suggests raising shields”… and he’s the one with access to the tactical analysis data… don’t argue with him so you can look over his math before doing the one thing he’s specifically there to do. Warf says he’s raising shields, you let him finish, and then let him report the nuances.
@@Muck006 it wasn't built under ground it was built at the same time as the Executor(it's sister ship){Lusankya was built at Kuat and the Executor was built at Fondor} and it was moved to Coruscant and buried after it was Finished. the Empire claimed it was a New Power Generator for Coruscant also in the book the Scene is based on the Lusankya was put in the ground Vertically
@@joshuaward1390 Yeah I'd love to see a book-accurate version. The ship is literally fighting its way out of the planet, using repulsorlift cradles to help push its fat ass upward while pouring an unimaginable amount of firepower into the planet's shields to punch a hole. Also I'm not convinced it was buried vertically. Don't see anything that says it was (not sure if I still have the book). The amount of damage it caused coming out (259 k^2) suggests it was horizontal. I always imagined it popped out and turned straight up.
Spaceball 1 will NEVER get old Just the slowwwwwww ship then the "we brake for nobody" Oh i hope they get something funnier in the sequel(WHICH YES IS REAL!)
@@tungzauzage977 uhhh no? This sequel will be different It will be as what the fans Wanted "the search for more money!" Space balls is ALREADY a parody movie Its gonna be ANOTHER parody!
By far the best one is reimagined BSG with the Galactica jumping into New Caprica's atmosphere. I remember the few people I was with standing up and cheering. Absolutely brilliant and completely unexpected sequence.
Of all these, Spaceball One is clearly the best. But if I had to grudgingly give a second place, it'd be Executor's reveal, because god damn seeing that the first time was amazing.
To whomever rendered that scene from the Wraith Squadron novel, you are amazing. Thank you. First time in a while I've had a grin that made my cheeks hurt.
Long time Rogue Squadron Fan here, That wasn't Wraith squadron, Wedge didn't create Wraith until after Talon Squadron was destroyed after the Bacta War. The scene of Lusankya's escape was in Rogue Squadron Krytos trap, which is followed by Bacta War then Wraith Squadron.
A well done list! It is good to see, that somebody like you puts so much effort in this kind of topic. Keep on and thank you! So here are my personal top 10: 10.) The appearance and the docking of Mr. Spocks long distance shuttle in Star Trek - The Motion Picture 9.) The Tantive IV and the Imperial Star Destroyer in Star Wars Episode 4 8.) The appearance of the Event Horizon in Event Horizon 7.) The overgiving of the Defiant (Both equal up The Defiant 1 and 2) in Star Trek Deep Space Nine 6.) The appearance of the Kronos 1 in Star Trek - The Undiscovered Country; Kirk: "We have never been so close..." 5.) The overgiving of the Enterprise A in Star Trek - The Voyage Home 4.) The appearance of the Titan at the end of Titan A.E. 3.) The introducing of the Enterprise in Star trek - The Motion Picture 2.) The cutting into the Leonov in 2010 - The year we made contact 1.) Spaceballs beginning 😎
The first time i saw the Infinity punch through that CCS i capered around like an absolute clown. It represented (or was supposed to represent) a shift in galactic power
Old school stuff is always my favorite. "I think you should take a look at the _other_ Battlestar" (which I watched first-run), the "Adama Manoeuvre" and the Enterprise-A reveal are my personal favorites. Knowing the Enterprise-A survived into the 25th century is just a bonus.
10:00 yes yes oh hell yes. The greatest moment in star trek history. I remember when we saw this in the theater opening day, the crowd went nuts on there feet clapping cheering, some even crying 👍
The inclusion of the Executor in Episode 5 was more than welcome, but then you even included the LUSANKYA from that Star Wars fan film, and you made my day with that one.
In the Star Wars comics, the guy who was in charge of firing the Death Star laser intentionally delayed the response this time because he did not want to be responsible for any more deaths.
You can actually see it in the movie. When the Death Star is firing on Alderaan he rips the control down like he's trying to pull start a lawn mower. Above Yavin 4 when he's pulling it down, he's obviously going as slow as possible without raising the suspicion of his superiors.
Some that are also nice : Serenity - the final space battle War of the Worlds (2005) - First Encounter with Alien Tripods Attraction (2018) - Space ship crash, one of the best I've ever seen
I can think of one you might want to include in future videos: The appearance of the Reaver fleet in the sky battle scene in the movie Serenity (2005).
Where these scenes fit into the larger context matters, of course, but Season 2 of Battlestar ending with the cliffhanger of the cylons occupying New Caprica, then being 4 episodes into Season 3 with the entire focus being on how to rescue the colonists. To have it culminate in this minute of Galactica returning had me absolutely levitating.
While there are other SiFi franchises I like more, & love their ships... there has always been a special place in my heart for the Enterprise refit NC-1701 no bloody A, B, C, or D. There was always something so majestic & realistic about that ship.
One of my favorite starship arrival scenes is in Babylon 5. After the original Ambassador Kosh has been killed, the Vorlons send a replacement. Sheriden is outside. on the front tip of the station when the ship comes through, and then it rises up directly in front of him.
I haven't seen the whole video yet, but the scene of Space Pirate Captain Harlock's skull-crested ship coming out of the weird black fog was always cool.
Space Battleship Yamato is my favorite. Whether it's the original anime, the movie or the reimaged anime it's a great reveal. I remember in the late 80s and early 90s, I'd watch the afternoon anime cartoons with the kids. We saw all kinds of Japanese anime, and I loved it.
Delenn's arrival in Severed Dreams or Sheridan's opposing officer arriving to save the day in End Game (Babylon 5) was a better choice with Babylon 5, for sure.
The way the Arcadia in Space Pirate Captian Harlock warp jumps is so cool, it just appears from a black cloud with red lightning flashing. And the fact the front of the ship is literally a giant skull and cross bones makes it so much better.
Space Battleship Yamato was a cartoon called Starblazers when I was a kid. Watched it every morning before school. That was almost beat for beat how it was done in the cartoon. I always dreamed of making the cartoon into a live action movie...But, I got beat to it. I keep intending on carving out some time to watch the Space Battleship Yamato movie.
For those who loved Starblazers / Space Battleship Yamato back in the long ago, I'd suggest the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 anime series over the live action film shown here. It is one of the few reboots I will profess to prefer to the original. Largely as they kept the nostalgia laden sound effects, ship designs, and the classic character look. The graphics will look as good on your big 4k screen as they do in your memories of watching the show on those old 4:3 televisions. Also, the technical detailing of all the spacecraft designs is superior to what we had originally. It is a case wherein the computer graphics actually improve upon the original hand drawn look of the show.
It was to be a pet project by M.I. director McQuarrie in 2011 to make an English version but it never got past scripting and died recently. THE MOUSE attempted one in the mid 90's but it would have been all-American👎👎👎. Odd note that the original producer Nishizaki had died in a boating accident prior to the movie's release.
Star Blazers was a retitle and English dub of Space Battleship Yamato, because a cartoon glorifying a WWII Japanese battleship was believed to be received poorly in the States. They were afraid we'd still be salty 30 years later about Pearl Harbor. So they changed all the character names and the ship as well to English names.
Still we don't have the reveal of the Mothership from Close Encounters. It was an incredible reveal to see the ship rising from it's hiding spot behind Devil's Tower, and then flipping over.
Yamato - This is a GREATLY shortened version of the reveal, which goes on for like 10+ minutes. Before I saw this film, I saw a clip on here of the Yamato rising from the ocean, set to the Starblazers music. It flies into space and has a battle with other ships. It was well done and got me pumped to see the movie. Then I watched it and it moved at a snail's pace. Beyond the slowness of the launch, they fire the main gun, and that takes like 2-3 minutes just to do that. Even firing the smaller guns is a drawn out affair. This may be realistic, but realism doesn't always make the most compelling movies. Turns out that the footage I originally saw was from a Pachinko machine. I'd rather see THAT movie. :(
I enjoy the change of pace. I wish more movies would explore the full range of pacing. Like the old samurai films that linger on a pair of warriors about to duel. I can handle the modern roller coaster movies too, but they can feel a bit cheap when they only give you enough time to acknowledge what's happening without dwelling on it. The movies that are brave enough to really slow down feel more substantial. It's not about realism, but letting you sit in the moment and chew on it for a while. Ironically, that can be more compelling sometimes.
Maybe the sluggishness is why the narrator of the cartoon was always saying, “Hurry Starforce!” I liked the slow reveal. The Yamato was mankind’s last desperate hope for survival.
I thing the Enterprise A from ST4 was one of the best. It had a great reveal, but also lots of emotions. In the theater people clapped and cheered. The Yamato reveal is also awesome. One of my fav cartoons back in the day.
Honorable mention to Spaceball One gets you a subscriber, good sentient. EDIT: AND the first appearance of the Shadows in B5, you have excwllent taste.
Other honorable mentions: Not really a “ship” scene, but the finale of Star Wars: Rebels where Ezra brings in a fleet of Purgils is pretty awesome. From the Stargate movie, Ra’s ship arriving in the middle of Sandstorm. From Stargate SG-1, the first time seeing Thor’s ship Beliskner arrive and basically delete all the Goauld forces. From Stargate SG-1, Apophis’ meeting with rival Heru’er takes a twist when he reveals that he has several cloaked ships with him. From Stargate SG-1’s 9th season finale, the “Supergate” activates and several Ori ships fly out and decimate the allied forces. From Independence Day, of course the reveal of the city ships.
The props department did Scotty wrong in the shuttle pod scene. Kirk was the only one demoted, yet Scotty is sporting a commander's rank insignia instead of a captain's insignia.
He was wearing the Commander rank at the court martial as well. When you watch ST3 it is explained that he is being given the position of Captain of Engineering on the Excelsior. When he is told this he is wearing the Commander rank. When they steal the Enterprise he is wearing the Captain rank. It is possible that being stripped of the position of Captain of Engineering on the Excelsior caused him to revert to his standard rank of Commander with the position giving a brevet rank increase rather than a permanent one.
The Yamato rising is epic. It is the first time fans of Star Blazers or Space Cruiser Yamato have ever seen her in live-action, and that soundtrack... OMG. And they immediately followed it with the firing of the wave-motion gun, with the live action matching the animated sequences. The actors even looked like they were straight from the tv shows. It was truly epic fanservice and very well done. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie was... unbalanced.
But the second didn't end tragically in canon. Trelaina came last second, saved the Yamato, destroyed Zordar and restored Shima to life. The movie just chose to have Kodai sacrifice himself.
@@Linerunner99 Yeah, the movie didn't leave much room for a sequel. Not only did Kodai sacrifice himself and the Yamato, but many of those main characters also perished at one point. It was as if the theme of the movie was self sacrifice for the greater good. Maybe it's better that there are no sequels, no money grabs, and no chance to overkill the franchise. Although the movie itself doesn't stand so well either, other than this scene with the Yamato launching. This is a weird one-off movie.
The Executor bit was impressive. I had not watched it in such a long time, and this sequence is so much better film making than what we get now. Without any obnoxious overexposure...
After all those great shows, there is nothing compared to the optimistic feeling you got from Star Trek. - and remember: Discovery is not Star Trek, it just bought the name.
Here is my own nomination. There's a little known old school anime series called Gunbuster. The gun buster itself is a giant robot that can be called a spaceship by technicalities. It doesn't appear until the end of the third episode out of six episodes. Up until that point, this show had been a space opera built around fairly realistic hard sci-fi. Spaceships obeyed einsteinian laws, ships fired lasers with lenses that had to be manually polished, A lot more realistic than the standard space tropes of the time. So towards the end of this episode, the ship of the protagonists has been surrounded by an alien fleet easily 100 times as dangerous as any enemy they faced up until this point. The situation looks hopeless. Then out of the belly of the ship emerges this giant robot which looks absolutely nothing like anything else in the show to that point. The Gunbuster is a human-shaped art deco robot like something out of a Giant Robo epidode from the 1950s. It stands on the hull of the larger ship as if gravity is just an idea that the Gunbuster is making up as it goes along. The Gunbuster annihilates the alien flagship in seconds. Then the two pilots declare that they are firing their homing lasers -- yea, freaking homing lasers -- that instantly obliterate the entire rest of the alien fleet. The entire scene is purposefully out of sync with everything stylistic choice that the show has established to that point, and it just works.
I would have had the Enterprise scene from The Motion Picture. When Kirk and Scotty examine the ship in dock. Accompanied by the best Star Trek music, in my opinion.
5:29 on up. The tie fighters are flying like grade school kids being let go for recess. Just all over the place with no clear defense groupings or anything. I’m surprised there aren’t any of them colliding into each other.
I feel like the opening shot of Star Wars deserves to be here. The Star Destroyer just appearing in the foreground then running its entire length just past the camera. That and Vader’s entrance in Rogue One.
The others are like a hero's charge over the hill, or the reveal really dragged on (one was the joke, the other was rather meh)... but the final honourable mention from Babylon 5, the first glimpse of the Shadows... came out of nowhere, we barely see five seconds of the ship and its raw power, and takes the cake for the most "WTF was that, what just happened??" ship reveal in sci-fi.
The other race held there is the 12 Hours of Bathurst. The first laps start out just before sun up. I'm from Indiana and have been an Indy race fan since the 70's, the Bathurst track is still the most challenging and exciting to watch.
I’m 48 years old and I’ve been laughing at the way Vader says “what” when Han arrives to help Luke, I know I can’t be the only one that finds that funny
It sounds like that old grandma meme image in my mind.
Just the sheer incredulity of it is so funny.
HWAT?!!
Mace Windu: "WHAT AIN'T NO COUNTRY I EVER HEARD OF!!! DO THEY SPEAK ENGLISH IN WHAT???"
That, plus it was a joy to see the original explosion without the stupid ring-wave.
am so glad the video used the very version of the original Star Wars which I watched 12 times in the theater.
The fact the Infinity just shows up and immediately nukes a capital ship then drops it's own fleet is just ridiculous. I absolutely love that ship.
100%
she didn't deserve to just go quietly into the night off screen. 343 did her dirty.
@@ryabow Remember the Infinity...
@@Fyr365 Fuck remember the Cant remember Infinity
@@SeizureGman Going by what you wrote, username checks out.
Are you okay? 🥺
@@Fyr365 Yer I'm ok why ??
Galacticas jump into the atmosphere of New Caprica should have been #1. When I saw that the first time it aired I remembered jumping around like a psychopath laughing maniacally. It was AWESOME.
Husker had the biggest balls in the entire fleet. When he told Cain, "I'm coming to get my men", she peed herself a little.
No the correct phrase was holy fuck Adama
@@verdebusterAP But lets face it - the second we heard those taiko drums...
WE WERE PUMPED TO SEE SOME SHIT!
Same, I sat up on the edge of our couch. My wife went wow, I was awestruck. Sitting just saying wow, on a tv budget.
Ron Moore knows his stuff.
I've never seen it before. I've never been a fan before. I 100% agree.
I love the cylon's responses. It's like listening to a snarky teenager.
Agreed old school cyclons were based.
I remember watching that as a kid. Seeing it again made me giggle. 😂
Dude was done with Baltar lol
@tungzauzage977 they're funny AF listening to them today lol
Centurions were my favorite in the entire show. Often shown as dumb drones, but they had wits (according to the novelizations they were the ones who got to get a second brain, with Supreme Leader getting a third).
I’m so happy to see Space Battleship Yamato get some recognition!
yes!
Uchuu Senkan Yamato! ^^
Is it worth to se the real live version? Seen the anime and it was really good
@@MasterTobben no it's not. Acting is awefull and the story isn't that appealing. Also FX are a bit lame.
Harlock animated movie from the same period was a hundred times better.
@@vincentperon2950 ??? is this a critique of the OG anime, the 2010s remake, or the live-action?
U.S.S. Europa: "Oh, an impact. Let's just sit here when, logically, our smaller vessel would actually be pushed backwards, much less make any attempt at reversing under our own power..."
I guess they forgot to turn off the external inertial dampers, if those are thing in the DISCO timeline. Or their plot armor malfunctioned and held them in place.
My willing-suspension-of-disbelief told me they must have some thrusters and technology that "anchors" a ship relative to nearby objects. They don't normally need to worry about an invisible ship ramming into the hull. That would be a very unpopular tactic. And it seems like the scene slowed down for dramatic effect, so they probably didn't have time to move away while getting shook by the hull in their face.
Galactica jumping into the atmosphere should have been at least top 3 if not #1. Imo. Absolutely incredible scene!
Actually, Galactica was jumping OUT of the atmosphere, not into it - which in my opinion is even more impressive, as it leaves a vacuum that needs to be filled, hence the thunderclap and wind.
Props - absolutely true. No other ship arrival matches it!
The Adama Maneuver should be MUCH higher on the list. Still gives me chills every time I see it.
Galactica, no contest, the most bad ass moment of a highly underrated show.
One of the most horrible sci-fi shows in recent memory. I couldn't stand Star Dyke, but if she wasn't bad enough, the show itself was just a boring soap opera. It was identical in format to the equally awful Stargate Universe. They both would have done better if they were on weekday mornings, competing with Days of Our Lives and The Young & the Restless.
Whether its the live action version, the original animation, or the 2199 version, the re-birth of the Yamato always gives me goosebumps. YAMATO HASHIN!
"No it is a BattleStar" ... can't think of a better quote in all of TV history.
Delenn from Babylon 5:
"Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!"
@@edwardhuggins84I LOVED that!
@@edwardhuggins84 Too bad Delenn brought in 4 ships otherwise she could be on this list
@@edwardhuggins84 earth capt to helm "helm engage the retreat with maximum speed NOW move"
@@edwardhuggins84 I also loved her "Why?" just before that line.
Yamato emerging from its sleep from what used to be the bottom of the ocean, is one of the best ship reveals in science fiction, anime or live action. My other favorite from this sequence is the Adama Maneuver, this version of Commander Adama, while not my favorite, in this scene truly shows he has balls so big they produce gravity capable of pulling planets from orbit.
I remember watching the emerging of Yamato in Starblazers. Later I saw the famous diorama of the real Yamato's wreck.... Yeah.... Still iconic though.
"Plot armor" doesnt mean "balls" ... and both those jumps would have created WAVES OF PRESSURE through "sudden displacement of the atmosphere" and especially the second one would have caused a lot of death and destruction on the ground.
Look up "MOAB" ... the "mother of all bombs" ... which KILLS THROUGH SHOCKWAVES/PRESSURE WAVES by ripping your lungs apart.
@@navyreviewer As where the true wreck is in pieces, in the 2202 recollection at 90 seconds, it is recovered and restored and rededicated 2145 as where the exposed wreck seems whole in 2199.
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@@Muck006 I actually wondered about what kind of shockwave would have been created by all that air rushing in to fill the sudden gap, and how it would have affected the ground installations. I am familiar with the MAB and Daisy cutter style bomb's, and thought of that myself. But that was still one hell of a ballsy move for a commander. You can call anything "plot armor", from a fictional point of view, but I was thinking about the point of view of a commander reacting to a fast moving combat situation.
@@Muck006 Well your no fun. 😏
I had the honor of doing some promotional artwork for Battlestsr Galactica, and did a giant painting of the Galactica burning entry, as well as recreation of the 1st Cylon War painting that is in Adama's quarters... Made friends with some of the cast... That show really was lighning in a bottle...
Not gonna lie man. Jealous af. Your painting is something I remember still. Watch the show through fairly often.
@@jameslopez5652 Thanks! It really is one of the best shows ever. I feel super lucky to have had anything to do the with it, even if it was just promo art. I just wish I could have visited the sets. Would have loved to have sat in the full sized viper... I still keep in touch with Katee once in a while...
@@Beavernator Nicr. She seems fairly down to earth from what I have read/scene.
@@jameslopez5652 She is, I don't think we've ever even chatted about work, just about how our families are doing?
Opening scene of A New Hope should be No 1, IMO. If you saw it in person at the time, you knew the world of sci-fi had completely changed. I was 10yo and it literally changed our world.
@@careyfreeman5056 I did put it in part one, though it was relatively low. For me, it wasn't that big, partially because I don't remember when I first saw it and partially because my first exposure to Star Wars was through Lego, with the Padawan Menace.
@SkywalkerFilms1927 you've got to remember what we had prior to that. Ultra Man, Lost in Space (original), original Star Trek. When I (and millions of others) saw that Star Destroyer rip across the screen my mouth was on the floor. Everything changed in that moment in terms of what you expected from Sci-fi.
It definitely was a "You had to be there" moment. Prior to it, was almost nothing Sci-fi of value being produced.
The ENTIRE GENRE just exploded afterwards. All the way up to and including today's wonderful stuff. Before New Hope, it was relegated to the books and comics. The timing rolled into the computer and videogames with limitless imaginations becoming realities. All those teenagers who enjoyed the Star Trek series took their kids to Star Wars and culturally changed the entire Earth with possibilities.
We are here NOW because of that reveal. (55 on my only imagined phone computer -- yes my ringtone is the ORIGINAL communicator from the Original Series) Nanu Nanu
Nice to see the original Death Star explosion instead of the remastered version
Seeing all the OG FXs from A New Hope was refreshing!
I'll always be grateful I got to see the original pre-CGI Star Wars movies. And for anyone who wants to correct me, I know that there was _some_ CGI used in the originals but it was very minimal.
Han shot first!
I'm glad I got to see the original first movie run in 75 mm film. It was awesome!
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That scene of BSG jumping into -- but more so, jumping out of -- the atmosphere when it aired was one of the few literal mouth-open/"Wtf??" moments I've had watching tv.
Same, it is almost as jaw dropping as first witnessing the Yamato rising from under the ground. before that such a thing was unheard of by anyone on Earth, and the fact that as a spaceship its previous life was as a WII battleship was just as mind blowing.
Galactica´s jump into the atmosphere is a masterpiece of a masterpiece! the risk, the math-calculation to make it possible, the tactical part and to jump out again...makes it to the #1 of the best maneuvers with a arrival ever
Yeah, cheap effects for the simple minded. Apparently it worked. A lot of excitement about the most unsophisticated part of the show.
Awesome comeback for the UNCF Space Battleship Yamato, the USS Enterprise-A, the Kelvin-timeline USS Enterprise, the refurbished USS Enterprise-D, and the surprised Klingon Space Battleship! Nicely done with the entrances! 😊🫡👍🖖
The gun barrels of the Yamato and all the other DELICATE EQUIPMENT should have been bent and USELESS. The main gun is internal, so that's fine ... but people completely ignoring that ROCK IS HARD and METAL CAN BEND is annoying, because this means they are as far from reality as vegetarians thinking "milk/cheese doesnt kill animals" (of course it does, because cows only give milk after having a calf ... and we cant feed all those calfs ... so "killing them" is part of the deal).
I am glad you included the Enterprise D with the Third Nacelle in the list. The old school me will always think of this ship as a "dreadnaught". A Three Nacelle ship harkens back to the days of the board game "star Fleet Battles" where dreadnaughts were three Nacelle ships.
Before that, even - the three-nacelle Federation-class dreadnought first appeared in Franz Joseph's "Starfleet Technical Manual" back in 1975.
@@stevepreskitt283 Thx for the eye opener. My first indoctrination to the three nacelle ships was as a playable ship on Star fleet battles. Unfortunately, I sucked at that game and lost interest in it until I seen a reminder of SFB on the video game version of Star Trek.
@@themorn2112 The board game was tedious to play, because it necessarily centered on the fighting of ships, and finding a balance of how much detail to include in any tabletop game battle is an ongoing thing. The computer version used the computer to do the work and left you to enjoy making the decisions. When I discovered the game (version II) I finally realized what the board game was trying to do under all the rules and record keeping.
River really did get the Klingon's attention.
The way it just slices into the first Klingon battlecruiser while the other fires away making no difference.
USS Star Empire
With all the problems with Enterprise A, It had to have been assembled by Boeing.
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@@BrickStopmotions Boeing...Boeing.....GONE!
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The Adama Manouver was the best... a mile in lenght, hundreds of thousands metrico tons, heavy armored ship, in an atmospheric reentry, free falling and glowing red hot and causing a hurricane?. C´mon dude, nothing can beat that XD
I was a kid when StarBlazers was on TV. Watching Yamato rise from the dry seabed always gives me shivers. Absolutely the best. I an mot a fan of live action adaptions to anime, but Space Battleship Yamato, despite the differences with the original series, was great.
Thank you SO MUCH for showing the ORIGINAL destruction of the Death Star!!
I was waiting with a grimace lol. Thanks for sticking with the original!
Battlestar Galactica jumping is the most bad ass of all time. The Executor is the classic and Shadow vessel was just epic foreshadowing
but the speech Ivona gave to the human /shadow hybrid is the best F.U ever
@@philiprice7875Indeed!
So I'm watching this block again, and it just realized when I read the caption, The Battlestar Galactica episode is now officially 20 years old. Unbelievable😮
... That feels weird, knowing that 2004 was 20 years ago.
Yeah, 100%. I remember watching the original on TV as a little kid in the late 1970s- my father, older sister, older brother and I used to watch it regularly. When the updated version came out in the 2000s, we were all over it- and around 3 years ago, I finally got my mother to watch it with me, as well. She ended up loving it just as much as I do, and was so bummed when we got to the end of the series. I can’t believe that the “newer” version is twenty years old- it just doesn’t seem possible. I tried rewatching the original series afterwards, but I just couldn’t sit through it- it’s one of those rare cases where the remake is better than the original.
This was a great video- I hadn’t seen the Yamato or the Halo stuff before, and not all of the Star Trek content, but you did a great job of selecting the examples that you did. Thanks!
And that was the REMAKE that is 20 years old. I grew up watching the original which is now 46 years old.
@@tunguskalumberjack9987 Agreed. I loved the darker nature of the remake.
@@TheProjectHelpDesk That was a big part of why I liked it so much- I found it to be so much more realistic, especially how everything impacted all of the characters- the hopelessness, the small victories, the doubts, etc. I felt it really made me sympathize with the characters, and it had so much emotional weight to it. Not everything was optimistic, the dark attitude was more of how people would truly react.
I like how #2 used the original pre-specialized 1977 cut.
When your tactical officer starts to raise shields… not “suggests raising shields”… and he’s the one with access to the tactical analysis data… don’t argue with him so you can look over his math before doing the one thing he’s specifically there to do. Warf says he’s raising shields, you let him finish, and then let him report the nuances.
Awwww man ... That Super Star Destroyer jumping and leaving its silouette of debris is crazy awesome!!!😮😮😮
Building such a ship underground is STUPID and could never have been undiscovered.
@@Muck006 it wasn't built under ground
it was built at the same time as the Executor(it's sister ship){Lusankya was built at Kuat and the Executor was built at Fondor} and it was moved to Coruscant and buried after it was Finished. the Empire claimed it was a New Power Generator for Coruscant also in the book the Scene is based on the Lusankya was put in the ground Vertically
@@joshuaward1390 Muck is trolling all over this comments section.
@@Muck006 Please stop 💩 on our enjoyment of SF cinematography. If all this stuff annoys you then why the hell are you here. Don't be a dick. 🤔
@@joshuaward1390 Yeah I'd love to see a book-accurate version. The ship is literally fighting its way out of the planet, using repulsorlift cradles to help push its fat ass upward while pouring an unimaginable amount of firepower into the planet's shields to punch a hole.
Also I'm not convinced it was buried vertically. Don't see anything that says it was (not sure if I still have the book). The amount of damage it caused coming out (259 k^2) suggests it was horizontal. I always imagined it popped out and turned straight up.
Thank you for including the Yamato. Gives me chills every single time.
Spaceball 1 will NEVER get old
Just the slowwwwwww ship then the "we brake for nobody"
Oh i hope they get something funnier in the sequel(WHICH YES IS REAL!)
She's gone from suck to blow!
Really a sequel, with woke ass humor, save us some money and bin it now.
@@tungzauzage977 uhhh no?
This sequel will be different
It will be as what the fans Wanted "the search for more money!"
Space balls is ALREADY a parody movie
Its gonna be ANOTHER parody!
@@tungzauzage977 besides LOTS of fans have been joking about this but seeing it now? They are accepting it!
@@seantaggart7382 I'd only be kosher with a sequel if Mel Brooks was in charge.
By far the best one is reimagined BSG with the Galactica jumping into New Caprica's atmosphere. I remember the few people I was with standing up and cheering. Absolutely brilliant and completely unexpected sequence.
I remember watching it, and saying to myself "... prepare for turbulence?"
Of all these, Spaceball One is clearly the best. But if I had to grudgingly give a second place, it'd be Executor's reveal, because god damn seeing that the first time was amazing.
To whomever rendered that scene from the Wraith Squadron novel, you are amazing. Thank you. First time in a while I've had a grin that made my cheeks hurt.
That would be Noble Engine; his channel and the full video he made are in the description.
I thought it was also Machinima who helped create that video.
Pretty sure that was The Krytos Trap
Long time Rogue Squadron Fan here, That wasn't Wraith squadron, Wedge didn't create Wraith until after Talon Squadron was destroyed after the Bacta War. The scene of Lusankya's escape was in Rogue Squadron Krytos trap, which is followed by Bacta War then Wraith Squadron.
Yamato - it was the music - just perfection
A well done list! It is good to see, that somebody like you puts so much effort in this kind of topic. Keep on and thank you!
So here are my personal top 10:
10.) The appearance and the docking of Mr. Spocks long distance shuttle in Star Trek - The Motion Picture
9.) The Tantive IV and the Imperial Star Destroyer in Star Wars Episode 4
8.) The appearance of the Event Horizon in Event Horizon
7.) The overgiving of the Defiant (Both equal up The Defiant 1 and 2) in Star Trek Deep Space Nine
6.) The appearance of the Kronos 1 in Star Trek - The Undiscovered Country; Kirk: "We have never been so close..."
5.) The overgiving of the Enterprise A in Star Trek - The Voyage Home
4.) The appearance of the Titan at the end of Titan A.E.
3.) The introducing of the Enterprise in Star trek - The Motion Picture
2.) The cutting into the Leonov in 2010 - The year we made contact
1.) Spaceballs beginning
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babylon 5 its timeless... Sinclair... Zathrus... so many of them should have gotten awards
Delan telling the Earth fleet to leave wow that was bad assed
(helm engage lets get the hell out of here NOW retreat plan)
For the Yamato it's all about the original theme song firing up as it launches. Gotta love it!
The first time i saw the Infinity punch through that CCS i capered around like an absolute clown. It represented (or was supposed to represent) a shift in galactic power
Old school stuff is always my favorite. "I think you should take a look at the _other_ Battlestar" (which I watched first-run), the "Adama Manoeuvre" and the Enterprise-A reveal are my personal favorites. Knowing the Enterprise-A survived into the 25th century is just a bonus.
NCC-1701-A, NX-01, and (miraculously) NCC-1701-D surviving into the 25th Century is just damn beautiful. I love all the Enterprises.
10:00 yes yes oh hell yes. The greatest moment in star trek history. I remember when we saw this in the theater opening day, the crowd went nuts on there feet clapping cheering, some even crying 👍
The inclusion of the Executor in Episode 5 was more than welcome, but then you even included the LUSANKYA from that Star Wars fan film, and you made my day with that one.
5 was so obvious to be included XD This is LEGENDS, this is the SW we WANTED! That we DESERVED!
I have seen Star Wars over a hundred times. I still get goosebumps on "Yahoo!"
In the Star Wars comics, the guy who was in charge of firing the Death Star laser intentionally delayed the response this time because he did not want to be responsible for any more deaths.
You can actually see it in the movie. When the Death Star is firing on Alderaan he rips the control down like he's trying to pull start a lawn mower. Above Yavin 4 when he's pulling it down, he's obviously going as slow as possible without raising the suspicion of his superiors.
Some that are also nice :
Serenity - the final space battle
War of the Worlds (2005) - First Encounter with Alien Tripods
Attraction (2018) - Space ship crash, one of the best I've ever seen
Kudos for using the *original* Death-Star-Go-Boom...
I can think of one you might want to include in future videos: The appearance of the Reaver fleet in the sky battle scene in the movie Serenity (2005).
Oh, good one!
Where these scenes fit into the larger context matters, of course, but Season 2 of Battlestar ending with the cliffhanger of the cylons occupying New Caprica, then being 4 episodes into Season 3 with the entire focus being on how to rescue the colonists. To have it culminate in this minute of Galactica returning had me absolutely levitating.
Honestly Yamato’s revival especially in 2199 is my favorite starship entrance the music makes it all the more better.
yeah they got that wrong, an honorable mention? get real it clearly #1
One entrance I'm personally fond of is from "Last Exile", when the Silvana shows up at the Battle of Minagis.
While there are other SiFi franchises I like more, & love their ships... there has always been a special place in my heart for the Enterprise refit NC-1701 no bloody A, B, C, or D.
There was always something so majestic & realistic about that ship.
when the reaver fleet appears behind Serenity !
That 'Scream' as Enterprise 1701-A goes to warp...!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yamato and Executor reveals should've been in the top 3 with the Millennium Falcon reveal, but thats just my opinion.
One of my favorite starship arrival scenes is in Babylon 5. After the original Ambassador Kosh has been killed, the Vorlons send a replacement. Sheriden is outside. on the front tip of the station when the ship comes through, and then it rises up directly in front of him.
The Black Star warping into the Earth forces was another good one.
Balthazar wearing a cosplay Cylon mascot helmet is so wild!
I haven't seen the whole video yet, but the scene of Space Pirate Captain Harlock's skull-crested ship coming out of the weird black fog was always cool.
Space Battleship Yamato will forever be one of the greatest anime turned live action sequences.
Space Battleship Yamato is my favorite. Whether it's the original anime, the movie or the reimaged anime it's a great reveal. I remember in the late 80s and early 90s, I'd watch the afternoon anime cartoons with the kids. We saw all kinds of Japanese anime, and I loved it.
Delenn's arrival in Severed Dreams or Sheridan's opposing officer arriving to save the day in End Game (Babylon 5) was a better choice with Babylon 5, for sure.
The way the Arcadia in Space Pirate Captian Harlock warp jumps is so cool, it just appears from a black cloud with red lightning flashing. And the fact the front of the ship is literally a giant skull and cross bones makes it so much better.
IMO… #6 reboot BSG …jumping in and out of the atmosphere was the best… that was s a baller scene
Space Battleship Yamato was a cartoon called Starblazers when I was a kid. Watched it every morning before school. That was almost beat for beat how it was done in the cartoon. I always dreamed of making the cartoon into a live action movie...But, I got beat to it. I keep intending on carving out some time to watch the Space Battleship Yamato movie.
For those who loved Starblazers / Space Battleship Yamato back in the long ago, I'd suggest the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 anime series over the live action film shown here. It is one of the few reboots I will profess to prefer to the original. Largely as they kept the nostalgia laden sound effects, ship designs, and the classic character look. The graphics will look as good on your big 4k screen as they do in your memories of watching the show on those old 4:3 televisions. Also, the technical detailing of all the spacecraft designs is superior to what we had originally. It is a case wherein the computer graphics actually improve upon the original hand drawn look of the show.
It was to be a pet project by M.I. director McQuarrie in 2011 to make an English version but it never got past scripting and died recently. THE MOUSE attempted one in the mid 90's but it would have been all-American👎👎👎. Odd note that the original producer Nishizaki had died in a boating accident prior to the movie's release.
Star Blazers was a retitle and English dub of Space Battleship Yamato, because a cartoon glorifying a WWII Japanese battleship was believed to be received poorly in the States. They were afraid we'd still be salty 30 years later about Pearl Harbor. So they changed all the character names and the ship as well to English names.
Still we don't have the reveal of the Mothership from Close Encounters. It was an incredible reveal to see the ship rising from it's hiding spot behind Devil's Tower, and then flipping over.
@@gouryg4774 I forgot that one when making my list; I put it on the list for part 3.
The number one reveal in Star Wars is the reveal of the Death Star in Rogue One when the ISDs come out of the shadow of the dish.
Some nice cuts in this video. Thx for showing the old school Death Star blowing up without the cgi Shockwave ring.
Great picks! For an anime suggestion; the SDF-1 in ep 1.
The arrival of the Red Legion at the start of Destiny 2 is pretty amazing, as is the rise of Atlantis at the start of SG:A
The Adama manoeuver was so badass !
The sonic boom when the ship blinked out and the air rushed in where it was...❤😮
I hope Serenity arriving at the Mr. Universe planet with his little surprise makes it on these list :))
I didn't have it here, but I did put it in my fleet arrivals video; it's too good not to put it on a list.
@@SkywalkerFilms1927 ...ahhhhh.
I just found your top rated vids list so i will go watch some more.
Galactica jumping into New Caprica's atmosphere will always be my choice of #1
Love these clips. I still play Eve Online and it’s always good to see the fleet, small gang, or wing man land on grid.
Nice one! Thanks for using the original footage of the Death Star blowing up. I never like the edited version with the big light ring.
Yamato - This is a GREATLY shortened version of the reveal, which goes on for like 10+ minutes. Before I saw this film, I saw a clip on here of the Yamato rising from the ocean, set to the Starblazers music. It flies into space and has a battle with other ships. It was well done and got me pumped to see the movie. Then I watched it and it moved at a snail's pace. Beyond the slowness of the launch, they fire the main gun, and that takes like 2-3 minutes just to do that. Even firing the smaller guns is a drawn out affair. This may be realistic, but realism doesn't always make the most compelling movies. Turns out that the footage I originally saw was from a Pachinko machine. I'd rather see THAT movie. :(
I enjoy the change of pace. I wish more movies would explore the full range of pacing. Like the old samurai films that linger on a pair of warriors about to duel. I can handle the modern roller coaster movies too, but they can feel a bit cheap when they only give you enough time to acknowledge what's happening without dwelling on it. The movies that are brave enough to really slow down feel more substantial. It's not about realism, but letting you sit in the moment and chew on it for a while. Ironically, that can be more compelling sometimes.
Maybe the sluggishness is why the narrator of the cartoon was always saying, “Hurry Starforce!” I liked the slow reveal. The Yamato was mankind’s last desperate hope for survival.
I thing the Enterprise A from ST4 was one of the best. It had a great reveal, but also lots of emotions. In the theater people clapped and cheered. The Yamato reveal is also awesome. One of my fav cartoons back in the day.
3:25 “I really think you should look at the other battlestar” absolutely sent me
Ok the spaceballs reveal in my opinion is the best no matter what
Uuuuummmmmmmmmm the introduction of the imperial star destroyer in the beginning of the "New Hope" should have been #1
Honorable mention to Spaceball One gets you a subscriber, good sentient.
EDIT: AND the first appearance of the Shadows in B5, you have excwllent taste.
PS - nice choice on the death star footage - no unnecessary ring coming out of the explosion - that's pre-re-release. *Thumbs up*
For sure - the Praxis effect should have remained unique to "The Undiscovered Country", in my opinion.
Other honorable mentions: Not really a “ship” scene, but the finale of Star Wars: Rebels where Ezra brings in a fleet of Purgils is pretty awesome.
From the Stargate movie, Ra’s ship arriving in the middle of Sandstorm.
From Stargate SG-1, the first time seeing Thor’s ship Beliskner arrive and basically delete all the Goauld forces.
From Stargate SG-1, Apophis’ meeting with rival Heru’er takes a twist when he reveals that he has several cloaked ships with him.
From Stargate SG-1’s 9th season finale, the “Supergate” activates and several Ori ships fly out and decimate the allied forces.
From Independence Day, of course the reveal of the city ships.
The props department did Scotty wrong in the shuttle pod scene. Kirk was the only one demoted, yet Scotty is sporting a commander's rank insignia instead of a captain's insignia.
He was wearing the Commander rank at the court martial as well.
When you watch ST3 it is explained that he is being given the position of Captain of Engineering on the Excelsior. When he is told this he is wearing the Commander rank. When they steal the Enterprise he is wearing the Captain rank.
It is possible that being stripped of the position of Captain of Engineering on the Excelsior caused him to revert to his standard rank of Commander with the position giving a brevet rank increase rather than a permanent one.
The Yamato rising is epic. It is the first time fans of Star Blazers or Space Cruiser Yamato have ever seen her in live-action, and that soundtrack... OMG. And they immediately followed it with the firing of the wave-motion gun, with the live action matching the animated sequences. The actors even looked like they were straight from the tv shows. It was truly epic fanservice and very well done. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie was... unbalanced.
it was more of the journey from the first movie and the tragic ending from the second.
But the second didn't end tragically in canon. Trelaina came last second, saved the Yamato, destroyed Zordar and restored Shima to life. The movie just chose to have Kodai sacrifice himself.
@@Linerunner99 I meant Farewell-movie, not CE series
@@Linerunner99 Yeah, the movie didn't leave much room for a sequel. Not only did Kodai sacrifice himself and the Yamato, but many of those main characters also perished at one point. It was as if the theme of the movie was self sacrifice for the greater good. Maybe it's better that there are no sequels, no money grabs, and no chance to overkill the franchise. Although the movie itself doesn't stand so well either, other than this scene with the Yamato launching. This is a weird one-off movie.
The Executor bit was impressive. I had not watched it in such a long time, and this sequence is so much better film making than what we get now.
Without any obnoxious overexposure...
After all those great shows, there is nothing compared to the optimistic feeling you got from Star Trek.
- and remember: Discovery is not Star Trek, it just bought the name.
5:01 thats how I enter high school
I make my present known to bullies
Here is my own nomination. There's a little known old school anime series called Gunbuster. The gun buster itself is a giant robot that can be called a spaceship by technicalities. It doesn't appear until the end of the third episode out of six episodes. Up until that point, this show had been a space opera built around fairly realistic hard sci-fi. Spaceships obeyed einsteinian laws, ships fired lasers with lenses that had to be manually polished, A lot more realistic than the standard space tropes of the time. So towards the end of this episode, the ship of the protagonists has been surrounded by an alien fleet easily 100 times as dangerous as any enemy they faced up until this point. The situation looks hopeless.
Then out of the belly of the ship emerges this giant robot which looks absolutely nothing like anything else in the show to that point. The Gunbuster is a human-shaped art deco robot like something out of a Giant Robo epidode from the 1950s. It stands on the hull of the larger ship as if gravity is just an idea that the Gunbuster is making up as it goes along. The Gunbuster annihilates the alien flagship in seconds. Then the two pilots declare that they are firing their homing lasers -- yea, freaking homing lasers -- that instantly obliterate the entire rest of the alien fleet.
The entire scene is purposefully out of sync with everything stylistic choice that the show has established to that point, and it just works.
Ah back when we thought ships that sunk were still for some sort of baffling reason fully intact if not better than new.
I remember watching Battlestar Galactica as a kid (the O.G not the remake) and that response from the cylon is so funny! 🤣
I would have had the Enterprise scene from The Motion Picture. When Kirk and Scotty examine the ship in dock. Accompanied by the best Star Trek music, in my opinion.
Awesome opener! The ORIGINAL "Battlestar Galactica!"
I would've put the Lusankya and the Yamato higher, but great video nonetheless!
Glad to see you give the Yamato the praise she deserves. Great lists both patrs 1 & 2
I think the abandoned ship in the original Alien (1979) was possibly the most jaw dropping. Completely unique and outside all preconceptions
worth every moment to see the original version of the Death Star explosion
That Klingon ship is like something out of Warhammer 40K
Can't wait for the space balls 2 movie😮
5:29 on up. The tie fighters are flying like grade school kids being let go for recess. Just all over the place with no clear defense groupings or anything. I’m surprised there aren’t any of them colliding into each other.
I feel like the opening shot of Star Wars deserves to be here. The Star Destroyer just appearing in the foreground then running its entire length just past the camera. That and Vader’s entrance in Rogue One.
@@thewarroom1944 both appear in part 1, though I should've put them higher up.
> This reminds me of a stand-up comedian on stage giving out a dozen joke punchlines without any lead dialog to any.
The others are like a hero's charge over the hill, or the reveal really dragged on (one was the joke, the other was rather meh)... but the final honourable mention from Babylon 5, the first glimpse of the Shadows... came out of nowhere, we barely see five seconds of the ship and its raw power, and takes the cake for the most "WTF was that, what just happened??" ship reveal in sci-fi.
The other race held there is the 12 Hours of Bathurst. The first laps start out just before sun up. I'm from Indiana and have been an Indy race fan since the 70's, the Bathurst track is still the most challenging and exciting to watch.