Top 10 Fleet Arrivals and Reveals
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- 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
. - Hry
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: czcams.com/video/9tstmBYdTTk/video.htmlsi=tNLzst_DidNXkdMK
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
"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".
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
😭😭😭
Glad to see the scene from Serenity there! "They won't see this coming. " Later: "Somebody FIRE!"
"Do not force us to engage your ships."
"Why not?" _excellent_ choice for a moment there. B5 was phenomenal.
"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!"
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
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)
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.
That is a detailed breakdown of the definition of a fleet; thank you for posting it.
Perhaps you're taking all this a little too seriously. A naval officer will be expected to fully understand all these terms: for laymen a fleet is a few ships.
You’re completely misunderstanding the carrier vs. battleship matchup. The fact it takes a ridiculous amount of aircraft to sink battleships is irrelevant because the battleship can only defend itself and has basically no offensive capability against an aircraft carrier, simply because it can’t get close enough to open fire.
THAT is why battleships are obsolete and why carriers rendered them obsolete. Surviving is not the same thing as actually doing your job.
Your peasants vs. armoured knights analogy is misleading for that reason: what it ACTUALLY shows is that armoured knights vs. Peasants armed with long-range weapons and horses of their own will at best result in the armoured knights surviving but without being able to kill any of the peasants.
In the sci-fi Pentalogy I'm writing, I am relatively picky about my terminology for groups of ships, and ranks. Of course, some of my definitions of smaller ships (scouts & corvettes are a little squishy), but I am fairly picky also about the naming convention for different levels of ships. (If you know the naming convention, you could see the name of a ship and know whether it is a battleship, cruiser, destroyer or other)
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.
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.
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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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.”
"If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
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
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.
Not having the battlestar Pegasus jumping in to save the galactica is criminal 😢
Single ship (and fighters), this is explicitly about fleets.
the very first time i've agreed with the number 1 spot
Ah yes, the not so long awaited but heavily anticipated upload.
Glad to see some really exciting and bombastic moments here.
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 😂
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.
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.
Great list, thanks. So many goosebumps. The B5, ST Lower Deck and SW Rise of Skywalker
Really enjoyed that, thanks for putting it together. 👏
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.
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!
A great list, really enjoyed watching this. thank you :)
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.
I love in serenity how quickly that smile was wiped off his face 😂
star wars pretty much sucks at everything fleet space battle.
One of the best entrances of all time IMO is Delenn arriving in a Whitestar with three Minbari battlecruisers to protect Babylon 5.
'Only one human captain has ever survived battle with the Minbari. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.'
Humans destroyers leave....
I'm going to have to disagree on the first point. The Battle of Endor is a masterpiece.
Rogue One’s fleet battle also whips
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.
I think the scene where the Klingons, Romulans, and others arrive to try and save the Federation fleet from destroying themselves in Star Trek: Prodigy should at least be an honorable mention here.
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?"
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.
seeing the new Star Destroyers coming out of the ground, in The Rise of Skywalker, was like the empire rising from it's grave.
Sure, but those weren't new. Palps had been building a fleet of 10k ships that used designs that were basically obsolete by the original trilogy already. Someone well in the know of things said that the production used the 3D models built for Rogue One to cut costs.
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.
Damn I forgot about that master piece in Serenity.
"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."
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.
"I am a leaf on the wind..."
Seeing all Citadel races work in unison against galactic threat... Only Sheppard could puled that off :D .
except thats not all of them, the geth(at least visually) are missing in that one
I agree with #1. Still one of the best large space battle scenes.
Serenity is the Star Wars movie we deserved from that era.
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.
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!
Serenity made me give you a like. Well done.
Small pedantic correction, that isn't Cardassia, that's the system Chintoka in your honerable mentions.
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.
Good list
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.
#3 ... I will always have to hold back tears because 3 games of hard work, bringing competing races together, working to mend years of bad blood between them. My reward was a fleet of thousands of ships willingly following the Normandy into hell against techno-organic Cthulhu.
"It's the.... Oakland??"
Oooooh you got some B5 in there, very nice.
ok, that was not Bad, but i miss Yondus Funeral... Sad and beautiful...
Love the Mass Effect fleets arriving
Of them all Delens arrival will always be the greatest flex.
Everybody gangsta, until Delen rolls up with war cruisers
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.
The fleet coming to the rescue at Exogol is my favorite. It gives me chills every time. I might had added another honorable mention - the Rebel Fleet arriving at Scarif in Rogue One.
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.
Thank you.
Alright. I did managed to predict the number 1 on this one. I always think about the bad guy losing it "somebody fire!". Thought that was amusing.
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..
I'd like to point out that when the Atlantis ships arrived at the Replicator homeworld, that's the ONLY time railguns have actually destroyed anything other than a fighter or an Alkesh.
A good honorable mention addition would have been the episode in Star Trek "Strange New Worlds" where Kirk effectively mimics a fleet of hundreds of ships.
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.
I feel like Exodus Part 2 of Battlestar Galactica, where we have the "Adama Maneuver" and Battlestar Pegasus jumping in to the fight should be in here somewhere.
The latter is in a separate video for solo ship arrivals.
When Admiral Ackbar swung into view and barked his command I thought he said "Bullcr@p!"
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.
Although it does not qualify under your rules since there were only two Colonial Battlestars left in the universe, a top-ten arrival is definitely when the Pegasus arrives and sacrifices itself to assist the Galactica in saving the humans from New Caprica.
The only FLEET I disagree with was the 3rd fleet; Separatists & Republic Fleets did not "arrive", they were "INTRODUCED", as they had long since arrived and were fully engaged as we all can fully see.
Just my opinion.
However, this was an awesome sequence, and I can find no flaw with the order either.
A missed honourable mention though could have included the WhiteStar fleet going up against the Drahk
“Somebody fire !!!” 😂😂
I think from Recent Star Wars, best warp in scene was in Rogue One when rebel ships try to run when Imperial ships warp in and one of them just smashes on a hull of a star destroyer. Somehow same case in Episode 8 destroyed imperial fleet...
The Orville ha d a great fleet scene.
That was arriving to a wedding!
Nice.
You forgot the many Fleet Battles,
From Space Battleship Yamato
I have to add... The Krill fleet showing up to chase away the Kaylon in The Orville Season 2. And the Klingon cleave ship with the combined fleet in Star Trek Discovery Season 2. And actually, the Kaylon fleet showing up (Rogue One Style) to help the Union against the combined Krill/Moclan fleet.
Based on your definition two fo my favorites would have been: Rebel Fleet arrival at Scariff & Klingons uncloak surrounding the Romulans in TNG "Shall we die together?"
I shit you not, more epic fleet jumps and hot drops happen every day in eve online
list Accepted.
If you think the fleet arrival in the Last Skywalker was better than the rebel fleet alliance arriving on Scarif in Rogue One, you're crazy.
People in my theatre laughed at the former and cheered at the latter.
Why not only one human captain has survived battle with a Mumbai fleet, he is behind me, you are in front of me, if your value your lives be somewhere else. No response other than leaving real fast. This is one of the most bad ass moments from the most amazing series very few know about but owe so much to Babylon 5. The best series finale ever.
I rly like the SBY 2202 Saturn fleet arrival. So many ships just warping then firing. You should rly see it
#3 is the best, and nearest to my heart
The citadel fleet arriving at earth in mass effect is my personal favourite. Number 2 would be Delen arriving at babylon 5
Nice video, pity the way movie studios are going I doubt we will get epic scenes like this on the big screen any more.
Btw, i would highly recommend looking up top movies form 2000. There are a lot of great movies form that year!
I know, it is not a fleet as mentioned in the video. But the uss enterprise saving spock in his time ship ....
Serenity was soo good!
Rogue One, battle of Scariff.... with Sabaton as the music! :)
The fact the only game is mass effect and top 3 is amazing
Serenity ship battle is def the best reveal by far
Delen was so cool. I miss that show.
you forgot some in the mass effect fleet arrival...the Geth come also :D
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
3:54
bro just let the Defiant join the rebel
That was a mistake, though I'm sure the Rebels would appreciate it.
Wait, where's the Rebel Alliance arrival at Scariff ?!? That should be like #1
P.S. Firefly/Serenity deserves to be at the top of this list! " I'm a leaf on the wind!"