Top 10 Fleet Arrivals and Reveals 

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".

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

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

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"Sir, California class! And... they were all firing Avocado-Toast torpedoes and HOA violation beams!"

Having them all named after California cities is hilarious, i shudder to think of the ambient temperature of the Fresno class is.

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

And this is why on my list of reinforcements arrive/hail Mary's It's number 2 Solely because you see that man panic

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)

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.

At Guilan 4 the copy and paste fleet arrival was meh. But Acting Captain Will Riker commanding the USS Zheng He.....pure Goosebumps.

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.

My main issue with it is two things 1) no way all those ships came in at the same time because of hyperdrive speeds 2) THEY HAD THE BEST CHANCE TO SHOW SOME GOOD QUALITY SHIP VS SHIP COMBAT AND WASTED IT GAH

@@omega13whitelucario95 They Probably didn't have any money left, other than that i agree.

@@jamesrichardson8484 listen regardless, it was a cool scene that just was so wasted

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LHQnnoU4i5w.html

Single ship (and fighters), this is explicitly about fleets.

While it was an amazing entrance of a single ship, the definition of a fleet that was provided was 3 or more ships excluding fighters, the Pegasus was the only ship in that instance and therefore doesn't qualify

“I expected more than an empty threat from you, Picard.” “Then you shall have it.”

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 😂

Arrival of the Alliance reinforcements from ME 1 is also nice paragon route of course. Also Sovereign him self had quite the entrance too.

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)

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.

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?"

The final showdown between Vorlon and the Shadows as pretty fucking epic. You had two of the most advanced species running head to head at each other. Only for the League of Worlds to tell them to fuck off out of here. When the Shadows or the Vorlons went to attack the flag ship that held the Captain of B5 on it. The league ships would suicide their ships to protect him. So while it isn't so much a fleet arriving as it is a completely underpowered fleet. Stepping up to the two strongest fleets in the galaxy. Telling to get bent.

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.

@@Mithguar Just for context. Humans had just gotten out of a war with a species known as the Dillgar. The League of Worlds called on earth to step in. We did earth kicked the shit out of that species to the point they went extinct. A couple of years later. Earth forces ran into the species known as the Minbari. Who did not fuck with other species and let them do their own thing. Well Minbari warrior cast has tradition they follow. They like to show strength in greeting. They opened up all their gun ports in a show of strength. The earth ship it had encountered took it as a threat. Earth opened fire. So Earth opens fire they end up killing the Minbari leader Dukat. If you know that name Star Trek used it too. Just google DS9 copying B5 there is a whole problem. Anyway so they killed Dukat well yup they killed the Minbari leader. Not only was he their leader he was the leader of the religious cast. The final vote to go to war with Earth was the lady seen here. She voted with kill them all. Which is what the Minbari did. At first they hit everywhere humans were. Eventually they stopped hitting colonies and just focused on going to Earth. Their plan was to hit Earth destroy their main support for the military and circle back and wipe the rest out. The plan worked they pushed the military all the way back to Earth. In which they called on everyone. Military, civilian and merchants. If you had a ship if you were brave. Hold the line till we can get as many survivors as we can get off the world before they arrive. The battle of the line happened. Some plot device shit goes down. Don't want to spoil it as it is major plot element to one of the characters. The minbari surrender. Earth gets a big ego about itself. Fast forward years later. After number of the peace stations known as the Babylon project failed either destroyed or vanished. B5 was made and succeeded. Second season rolls around. The Minbari picked the commander of the space station the first time. When he was called to the Minbari homeworld to be a diplomat. Earth wasn't playing around and appointed a new commander a captain. This captain happened to be the only captain to ever destroy and get a victory in the Earth Minbari war. So they assumed homeboy hates the Minbari and is totally loyal to Earth. Well he is loyal to Earth just that he believes in freedom. So when Earth broke off from its values and became a dictatorship. This captain told Earth to go fuck itself. So the Minbari who need the space station for a war that is coming. Tells Earth to go fuck itself too and step up if they think they can.

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

So many great fleet battles… the vorlon shadow final showdown… the fleet arriving at earth to end Clarkes reign…. Top series.

@@kevsecker3182 It sucks the show was always on the cutting block. For 5 seasons they never knew if they were going to get anther season. So JMS had to write according this is the last season. So even though he took chances with getting renewed. He knew season 4 was the last and that was it. So he rushed the Shadow War and Earth War to its conclusions. You know full well if he had a 5 season already green lit he would have waited and drawn out the conflict. But man season 4 finishing up all those storylines. It's such a great fucking final season to go out on. Season 5 not so much but B5 is peak Scifi seasons 2-4.

except thats not all of them, the geth(at least visually) are missing in that one

@@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.

The latter is in a separate video for solo ship arrivals.

That was arriving to a wedding!

Thank you for confirmation. I was also surprised to see the battle of Chintoka there. 😅