Honor Harrington -- For the Honor of the Treecats, Destroy Everything!!!

[Khedrac]

Something animated would probably be the best bet.

Nice idea - and the disbeleif threshold tends to be lower with animated which would help too!

As for the visual scale problem, that's not insurmountable. The distances could be fudged if need be, you could use the old "show one ship firing and cut to the other getting hit" technique, use an extreme zoom-out, or just show battles almost entirely from CIC.

My problem is that I don't think TV/film makers could bring themselves to do this, they would want to show the nice cinematic panorama shot of enemy ships interacting - exactly as the naked eye cannot see.