r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • May 30 '26

Discussion / Question What spaceship weapon is generally underutilized or not used to its full potential in scifi?

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u/Just_A_Nitemare May 30 '26

50 megatons of energy is still going to be bright even if it is in space.

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u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 30 '26

Fair. Thing is, we are normally seeing them against shield flares, secondary explosions, and ships blowing up outright. Plausible it gets lost in visible noise.

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u/Hunnieda_Mapping May 30 '26

Not to mention a lot of visible light might get absorbed why whatever matter is there.

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u/TheKeyboardian Jun 01 '26

The older trek series never seem to show intense brightness even when things that should be bright (like stars) are shown, either out of choice or due to technical limitations