Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
Actually, you will find that to the vast majority of viewers - everyone that is unaware of how spaceships really work - banking is necessary for them to both follow the action and retain suspension of disbelief. Nothing breaks suspension more than a ship behaving in an unexpected and to them unexplainable manner.
This is way too true. People in general like for flying things to zoom around and go 'woosh' and bank and climb and all that....even in space. Not to mention fights that happen at a distance of a couple yards.

Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
Actually no, big ships (the Yamato in particular) are shown to tilt in order to ascend/descend. It's weird that the characters in universe keep making ships with their guns all on the top, space battles are more three dimensional than average. They don't do it as much as they move forwards/backwards, but it does happen. Anyway, ascend/descend is meaningless in space, we've got no reference

Also, now people are pointing out the gun thing I'm going to start getting annoyed at it.
Well, at least Star Trek gets this right. The Starships have phasers that can shoot all around. This is even better once you get to the Next Generation and the Galaxy class has phaser banks on the top/bottom/sides of the ship. And we only get to see it like once ever, but Galaxy class ships do have like 12 phaser banks so the ship can shoot in any direction.