Talk:Battle of Cimtar/Archive 1

Pearl Harbor Reference, and other ?'s

Is the Pearl Harbor Reference really all that appropriate? Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack against an unsuspecting stationary garrison. The Battle of Cimtar was more of a trap/ambush that lured the Colonial fleet into one spot, allowing the Basestars to do an end-around and wipe out the colonies. I was also unsure of the formatting (how many "="'s to use), and the tense, so I tried to leave them as close to the original as possible. Also, if anybody knows of a more appropriate picture for the battle template, I'd welcome it. I just grabbed the first picture of the old Galactica I could find here. --Steelviper 16:27, 15 December 2005 (EST)

Looks good. Glad you took in Ricimer's battle page template; it will work great for the TOS battles (and there are a lot of them). I don't see the need of the Pearl Harbor reference, either, same criteria. Later someone with a DVD copy can get more than few good screenshots to place here; I think the battlestar there is a suitable placeholder. I'd stick with the header conventions that we use in the RDM pages to be a guide. --Spencerian 17:01, 15 December 2005 (EST)

Since there was no battle of Cimtar in the RDM universe, I don't think this page needs to be namespaced. --April Arcus 19:35, 15 December 2005 (EST)

It seems like there are a lot of TOS articles that got (TOS) tagged onto the end of them, perhaps "just in case". What would the process be to get this moved to "Battle of Cimtar"? Just copy the content over to the "plain" battle and make this one a redirect? --Steelviper 13:53, 16 December 2005 (EST)

No, that will wipe out the edit history. There's a "move" tab at the top of the page, after [edit], [+] and [history]. You should use that. --April Arcus 14:38, 16 December 2005 (EST)

Aha! Thanks! That IS useful. I'll keep that in mind for future "renamings". --Steelviper 14:42, 16 December 2005 (EST)

Columbia?

Chris Pappas's site (http://www.chrispappas.com/archives/names.html) mentions that the battlestars present at Cimtar were the Galactica, Atlantia, Triton, Pacifica and the *Columbia* --Jcnventura 10:35, 16 March 2006 (CST)

It'd be good if we could get a quote from the Saga of a Star World where each is mentioned. Basically somebody should go back and confirm the audio. I've personally listened to the battle in detail. --Steelviper 10:39, 16 March 2006 (CST)

In the same site (http://www.chrispappas.com/archives/batlstar.html), there are transcripts to support each battlestar present at Cimtar. "Battlestars Atlantia and Acropolis losing speed.", but an alternate transcript could be "Battlestar Atlantia and Acropolis losing speed.", meaning that the a ship present, but not a battlestar. The Columbia as a battlestar present there is supported by Vulpa's dialog in "Gun on Ice Planet Zero - Part 1". Another point pro-Columbia is that it is consistenly included in the list of Battlestars in the videogame and the new series. -- Jcnventura 11:21, 16 March 2006 (CST)

I'd lean towards leaving it out then. It's kind of odd to say that there are five battlestars present... then list six names. It might merit a note on the Columbia page, though. --Steelviper 11:33, 16 March 2006 (CST)