re: The Battle of the Mutara Nebula - Best Sci-Fi battle ever?

I too have loved this movie from the time I first saw it.

The best Star Trek ever-up to the renaissance of the Franchise with Chris Pine where the first massively imbalanced firefight with Nemo ranks up there, if not equal to the Mutara Nebula fight, a very close second.

“Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's. And yours. I dare you to do better.”

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The strategy, both leaders getting the upper hand at different moments, would rank among peak Naval warfare movies if it were in that genre.

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I would suggest it is that genre and does rank highly among them. Very reminiscent and suggestive of The Bedford Incident and The Enemy Below. Three dimensional chess with life and death consequences.

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Every battle on DS9.

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I think it's two very different types of battles.

I never cared much for the DS9 battles because, in order to have fleets that big, the ships have to be destroyed WAY easier than normally depicted.

Think about the fact that in Wrath, both ships are trading blows without their shields; those ships are withstanding attacks purely based on how sturdy they are.

In DS9 the ships, aside from the Defiant, look like they were designed to explode on contact.