My top ten favorite sci fi fleet arrivals!
**Spoiler Alert** Full spoilers coming after the premier.
Spoilers from the following movies and shows:
Movies: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith; Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi*; Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker**; Serenity**
Shows: Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (S5, E26)**, (S6, E6)**, (S6, E26)**; Star Trek: Lower Decks (S3 E10)**; Babylon 5 (S3 ,E10)**; Stargate SG1 (S9, E20)**; Stargate Atlantis (S4, E11)**;
Games: Mass Effect 3** (not my gameplay)
0:00 Intro
0:45 Honorable Mentions
3:03 10 Rebel Fleet at Endor
3:54 9 Defiant and Rotarran Join Allied Fleet
4:24 8 Republic and CIS Fleets At Courascant
4:54 7 All Cali-class Ships Help Cerritos
6:09 6 Allied fleet Arrives at Asuras
7:04 5 Galaxy Fleet Arrives at Exogol
8:23 4 Whitestar and Mimbari Fleet at Babylon 5
9:50 3 Allied Fleet Attacks the Reapers
11:02 2 Klingon Fleet Helps Defiant
11:59 1 Firefly and Reaver Fleet Arrive
13:12 Outro
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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?!"
I shit you not, more epic fleet jumps and hot drops happen every day in eve online
Not a single Halo moment? Shame
I have to mention because I would hate myself if I didn't the arrival of the wave motion gun fleet in space battleship Yamato 2202 during the battle of Saturn and I also just for fairness the arrival of the Gamilan fleet a little while later at I think earth itself or maybe it was mars. I can't remember off the top of my head which defense line they were at but most likely it was mars.
Damn I forgot about that master piece in Serenity.
"If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
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.
Technically, by 20th Century large navy standards (USN, RN, IJN) a division of ships is 2-5; a squadron is two or more divisions; a flotilla is two or more squadrons; a fleet is two or more flotillas for about 32+ ships.
By 18th-19th Century standards a “full” fleet had three squadrons, the Van(guard), the Center, and the Rear(guard) commanded by a Vice (Van) Admiral, an Admiral, and a Rear Admiral, usually with about 4-8 ships under the direct command of each, for about 12-24, although there might only be two squadrons (and admirals, of various grades). Suffren’s “fleet” in the Indian Ocean was really nothing more than a squadron of about 4-8 ships-of-line.
Public knowledge has plummeted so badly in the last 50 years that even reporters (who should know better) have taken to calling anything gray that floats a “battleship” and more than one a “fleet”. Science fiction and space fantasy have perverted terms out of all recognition with the label “battlecruiser” slapped on ships haphazardly with little awareness that such a ship was fast, heavily armed and WEAKLY protected.
Star Wars perverted the term “destroyer” from an escort (“torpedo boat destroyer”) into a capital ship. The term “dreadnought” has lost all meaning as well, having originally meant a capital ship with a uniform armament of the heaviest weapons available with no intermediate sized weapons between that calibre of weapon and purely defensive armament. Post-WW2 glorification, and historical misinterpretation of Taranto, Pearl Harbor and Kuantan has also imbued the term with an air of obsolescence that belies the fact that these ships were the ne plus ultra of the early 20th Century. Also lost is the fact that at Kuantan and even as late as 1944-1945 it was taking the effort of an entire fleet of carriers to bring down the largest modern ships of the type.
Taranto and Pearl Harbor proved nothing other than any ship of any type can be sunk at anchor or at pierside, especially if taken by surprise. Kuantan proved 80 peasants could overwhelm 2 knights…especially if the knights were armed only with daggers and the peasants with spears, which would be a fair analogy for the relative effectiveness of the two capital ships AA in the battle…which distinctly contrasted with the AA firepower of modern American battleships less than a year later.
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.
You forgot the many Fleet Battles,
From Space Battleship Yamato
No matter how many times I watch it, Delenn's arrival in Severed Dreams to save Babylon 5 will always brings me to tears.
You forgot starblazer 2202
Good list
Timestamps please next time. Thank you!
That one episode of Star Gate I watched about the Stargate. It's really A Star Trek type transporter without the sparkle.😮 You go in and replicated on the other side..
A little fun.
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.
the very first time i've agreed with the number 1 spot
Loved these. Good job. Wish the ME3 was better. You go through all the work of building this alliance and it doesn't even show in the big space battle.
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!
4:49 Fascinating role reversal… it would have been Anakin and Ahsoka, with her doing the reckless maneuvers and saving him… now Anakin is the one saving his master, in similar fashion.
7:47 The ship directly to the right of the Falcon, is 'The Ghost' – the ship owned by Hera Syndulla – which directly helped to start the whole 'Rebel' concept.
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
Ros was the most useless fleet ever
Destiny 1's Taken King prologue cinematic has a great arrival – the arrival of Oryx and his fleet. No combat, just a giant angry space god and his fleet going towards saturn, and the blotting out of the sun to create the symbol of Oryx was a great finish.
Horrible movie !! Basura
If you value your life, be somewhere else 😂👍🏻
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.
Exegol was BS! the Empire had that in the bag, but BS writing changed that. that many imperial star destroyers? would have mopped the floor with them, but "palpatine returned, Somehow" ruined it.
Star Wars: The empire brought peace, to an unjust galaxy. if the rebels werent the "hero" in the story. we would be rooting for the guys keeping things in check, preventing genocide. bring a common currency and system to the galaxy. Anakin was right. and the last three movies destroyed his legacy. and that of lucas. Hell. look at thrawn. study a peoples art. and wanted to understand everything about their culture. fully understand. granted to exploit their weaknesses. but. he still fully understood them. and thats who the emperor trusted more than vader.
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.
"It's the…. Oakland??"
Too much verbiage and unreadable. Can the kitch and just get on with it.
Im a ship nerd I love me some space battles so logically I should love the Rise of Skywalker reveal. Except it’s absolute trash, nobody gets any screen time to do cool things, characters don’t get moments, Wedge is on screen for 2 seconds not even in an Xwing. They made what could have been cool into a series of where’s Waldo pictures. =
Disney Star Wars us utter shite.
Really enjoyed that, thanks for putting it together. 👏