![]() ![]() Last week's episode of "The Orville" included one of the longest space battle sequences seen in contemporary sci-fi, at just under 8 minutes, and it ticked all the right boxes. "The Phantom Menace" showed us how far the technology had come it also showed us that an unlimited VFX budget doesn't always guarantee a good space battle. Early attempts like the vastly underrated "The Last Starfighter" look primitive by today's standards, and a number of enthralling battles in space took place throughout the run of "Babylon 5" and the latter half of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," both which used the best CGI available at the time. ![]() Six years later, "Return of the Jedi" raised the bar even higher.īy this point, practical visual effects had more or less reached their limits and computer- generated technology was rapidly developing. ![]() Not only did we get to see an Imperial Star Destroyer disable and capture a Rebel Alliance Blockade Runner within the first minute, but it also took everything that made an aerial dogfight exciting and put it into space. Then " Star Wars" came along and changed everything. ![]()
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