So, recently I've been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica, and last night I watched Empire Strikes Back and I've been thinking:
Why do all spaceships approach other spaceships in the same orientation?
I mean think about it - there is no up, down, sideways, or back again in space, right? Gravity within spaceships seem to be oriented so that the pilot can sit in his or her seat, but there is not gravity outside of a spaceship. So, it would make sense to me that ships would approach other ships from all sorts of ways, upside down, sideways, any number of different oblique angles and so on. And yet whenever you see one fleet of spaceships approaching another fleet of spaceships, the ships are ALL oriented top to bottom the same way. Is this done because we as an audience member would find it weird and disorienting any other way, or have TV and filmmakers just not thought of this? Or am I mistaken?
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