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* In ''[[Andromeda]]'', another [[Gene Roddenberry]] series, capital ships occasionally got close enough to one another to fire Anti-Proton guns at each other. But most of the time they lobbed relativistic missiles at blips on the tac screen several light-minutes away. And due to gravity manipulation most ships could maneuver like fighters anyway.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and [[Stargate Verse|its sequels]] started to feature space battles that fit this trope perfectly once the [[Humans by Any Other Name|Tau'ri]] developed their own spacecraft using [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]. [[Boarding Party|Boarding Parties]] often played an especially large role, however, and early on the still-experimental [[ISO Standard Human Spaceship|human ships]] were more prone to [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]].
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' would partake in this or [[Old School Dogfighting]] (the latter typically for the [[Space Fighter|fighters]], but occassionally for the faster or more advanced capital ships as well). If one side got the jump on the other before they could react (typically by [[Hyperspeed Ambush|ambushing them]] as they exited a [[Cool Gate|Jump Gate]], or jumping on them from a [[Faster-Than-Light Travel|jump point]] of their own making once the target had been lured into a predefined killzone in a inversion of the [[Hyperspeed Escape]]) then the fight would be [[Curb Stomp Battle|spectacularly brief]]. If both ships had fair warning that a fight was about to ensue, then it would be relatively lengthy, with the ships launching fighters and long-range attacks, using electronic countermeasures or [[Shoot the Bullet|interceptor weapons systems]] to avoid incoming fire while trying to get close enough to allow their own weapons systems to [[Point Defenseless|overcome the enemy's defenses]]. On at least one occassion, a duel between two enemy warships resulted in ''[[Mutual Kill|both]]'' [[Mutual Kill|ships being destroyed.]]
** The first battle of the Earth-Minbari War (after the failed first contact) was near the Vega colony. The Minbari fleet closed to weapons range and waited for the slow Earth ships to take the first shot. The whole battle lasted about 12 seconds with most Earth ships destroyed in the first Minbari volley. Only one ship (a prototype ''Omega'') managed to get close enough to [[Ramming Always Works|ram]] a ''Sharlin'' war cruiser. Nearly all battles against the Minbari were usually [[Curb Stomp Battle|pretty short and one-sided]]. Oh, and to add more similarities with the Age of Sail, humans had to "eyeball" their weapons at the Minbari (i.e. visual targetting only), as the Minbari stealth systems prevented normal weapons lock.
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