10 Greatest Battles In Star Trek History

Roddenberry may have wanted a Utopian future, but that doesn't mean it didn't kick ass.

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[jeffreyouriel]

The battle of the Mutara Nebula was in a class by itself. I can't take this list seriously without it..

[nat]

Balance of Terror (TOS) deserves more props for being the original model for all these battles. Balance also had a great plot and characters like Yesterday's Enterprise.

[TheToonMonkey]

Hold on. Enterprise vs Reliant is clearly the best. The way they dance around each other blinded without sensors, and then the Enterprise rises up and BOOM. From hells heart I stab at thee for not including it!

[Pondimus_Maximus]

Good Lord! The Mutara Nebula didn’t break the top ten?! Shaka, when the walls fell...

[thezone]

Not even the new stuff has been able to even come close to matching shit that they pulled off on Deep Space Nine. That show is beyond epic.

[sunspot]

Sorry, the two battles in Wrath Of Khan are still the gold standard. Seeing the Enterprise getting carved up like a roast - and then seeing her flee Regula 1, and finally deliver some badly-earned payback - was absolutely the high point of the series up until that time. It's not just that the effects were brilliantly rendered by ILM, it was the visceral impact of them. I don't know how much sense it makes that 23rd century ships lay broadsides into each other like old sailing ships from hundreds of years before, but I know that visually and emotionally it was dynamite. Nothing else Trek has done since has managed to top it.

Sometimes, less is more.

[dsphipps]

I have to agree with other comments that Star Trek Wrath of Khan and Balance of Terror should both have been included somewhere in the top 10.

[reidtyndall]

I hate to dislike a Star Trek video, but the Reliant vs. the Enterprise not making the list is shameful.

[FreshCutFrenchFries]

I remember being 10 years old and watching ST6 in theaters and absolutely loved the end battle between the cloaked bird of prey and the enterprise! Fav moment ST moment ever included; Sulu's; Fly Her Apart Then!

[peternaylandkust]

The entire episode "Balance of Terror" from the original series--the cat-and-mouse game between the Romulan ship and the Enterprise (a retelling of the Robert Mitchum/Curt Jurgens WWII movie "The Enemy Below") takes top honors for suspense and even-handed portrayal of the adversaries.

[srbaileyjr]

The battle scenes in The Doomsday Machine were epic as well. Particularly given it was filmed in the 60s.

[marz]

10: Year of Hell (VOY)
9: Battle in the Briar Patch (TNG)
8: Battle in the Bassen Rift (TNG)
7: Wolf 359 (TNG)
6: First Battle of DS9 (DS9)
5: Battle in the Neutral (TOS: Balance of Terror)
4: Battle of Sector 001 (TNG)
3: The Battle over Khitomer (TOS)
2: Sacrifice of Angels (DS9)
1: Battle in the Mutara Nebula (TOS)

[vidrowu]

Balance of Terror should be on this list. Sure they had basically no special effects but it was a cerebral battle between two evenly matched captains. Also the Enterprise vs Khan's Reliant in The Wrath of Kahn.

[YTAG]

The Voyager battle with the Vaadwaur seems underrated and deserves a place on the list. The battle does everything right that people complain about with Trek battles and special effects. It has swarms of ships chasing and surrounding Voyager, actual animated shield hits, Voyager firing all phasers repeatedly in rapid succession in all arcs, as well as planetary, atmospheric and background effects.

[Mysticmegster]

Agreed about Voyager. The moment Janeway crashed into the Crenim ship was epic!

[elcalicelt]

Ah, the final battle in “The Wrath of Khan?”

[christopherwilson]

No. Mutara. Nebula. I weep for this generation.

[AnubisX]

Wait no battle of the mutara Nebula from star trek 2?? "to hells heart, i stab at thee, i spit my last breath at thee" (probably misquoted that lol) I really thought that would of been there as it results in the death of a main character.

[jasonmoore]

Notably absent was any of the battles of the NX-01. I guess I’m a casual fan, because I totally dig Enterprise, with special emphasis the season in the Expanse against the Xindi.

[kenduxbury]

You forgot one GREAT one: Voyager Endgame. The finale where Voyager flies through an exploding Borg Sphere is priceless and timeless.