Re: Trek/SFB conversions

>> (Can ya' tell I'm a Babylonian at heart?)
>
>Do you really think B5 is any better? 

*chuckle*
I hope you put your abestos suit on when you said that, David.	;-)

>I'm not an expert on B5. I've
>got a heap of borrowed tapes of season one. One story concludes
>with a space-battle settled, not by tactics, but by the "player
>characters" effecting the destruction of the enemy fleet by
>suitably heroic action from a nearby planet. They even brought along 
>a sacrificial NPC. Very Trek. I hope that's far too vague not to 
>count as a spoiler.

Well, for one, your sacrificial NPC here plays roles in later eps. There
was a purpose to that whole event (though I agree, I would have liked to
have seen more in the space battle in that story).

Two, there are actually quite a number of space combat segments laced
through the B5 storyline that utilize tactics and strategy. Some of the
ones that come to mind are "Signs & Portents", "The Coming Of Shadows"
(albeit massive tech level differences there downplay tactics, but the
tactics *are* there: 'the Shadows only send as large a force as is
minimally
necessary to do the job'), "All Alone In The Night", "And Now For A
Word"
(okay, so that was more of a slugfest than really using tactics), "The
Long
Twilight Struggle" (most prominent with tactics, even though the tech
levels
were vastly different), "Fall Of Night" (again, good tactics using
fighters
vs ship), "Matters Of Honor" (though some may argue that wasn't
'tactics'
but rather cheesy, lame method of resolving a situation - but then what
*is* tactics but using whatever's at your disposal to resolve the
situation
in your favor??), "Messages from Earth" (again, 'cheesy' tactics, but it
works, and I count 'em), "Severed Dreams" (though action here is a bit
fast
to pick out a lot of overall tactics), "Interludes & Examinations"
(though
we dont' get to see NEARLY enough of the space battle here!!),
"Walkabout",
and "Shadow Dancing".

Three...I don't have a three.  :)  I hope you can get ahold of some of
the eps above (some are better than others for space combat).

Mk
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