Battlestar Galactica II (No Joke)

[Suicide Junkie]

No, you missed my point. What I am saying is that BG is more realistic than you are giving it credit for. I think you are misunderstanding the physics involved in moving about in zero G. The thrust, the majority of it anyway, would be coming out the back, otherwise you wouldn't be going forward. You would also apply side thrust, either by jets on the side of the nose, or by angling some of the thrust coming out the back, to turn the ship.

Ah, but the problem he was describing is the fact that those ships turn as if they had the main thrust coming out of the bottom, instead of the back.

The ship pulls up by 10 degrees, and ends up going directly forwards (10 degrees off the old course), and at the same speed as before.
To do that, you'd need a large thrust downwards (and a little bit of retro), and the main engines in the back certainly can't vector the thrust that much (> 90 degrees!)

There also seems to be an awful lot unmodded SE4's Thrust = Speed in these shows, too.