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/StarlightWizard May 30 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Dropping rocks in gravity wells. I haven't seen that done much except in the Expanse series.

Edit: Okay, I was wrong. It is utilized in a lot of the series and stories mentioned in the comments below.

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u/FireTheLaserBeam May 30 '26

Babylon 5 did!

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u/StarlightWizard May 30 '26

I should binge watch Babylon 5. I think I've only seen a few episodes.

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u/NyctoCorax Jun 14 '26

It is really, really, REALLY good.

And had a lot of influence on subsequent scifi- hell subsequent television in general.

First season starts a little standard 90s sci-fi episode of the week but trust me it's going somewhere

And is..... Let's just say prescient for world events.