I think Melanie's right - you've missed the point here, applying real-world rationales to justify your pov.

As to your first point - who says there are two ship types - I think we can't assume that sea-based naval ship styles and methods will be replicated in space. We also cannot posit that there will be "carriers" and "battleships" when we finally start living in space. And the classification of "battleship" in the ship depicted here doesn't have any association with the WW2 "battleship" other than the name. As a parallel, I guess we can use the 17th century classification "frigate" that the British revived - the new "frigate" is basically an anti-submarine ship, as opposed to the 17th-century fast and maneuverable frigates. (Btw, the Arizona was indeed sunk by a bomb, and the reason for that is because her crew was caught flat-footed, and she was trapped, moored in Pearl Harbor instead of cruising free in the ocean, with her anti-aircarft crew ready to repulse enemy fighters - it was not necessarily an indictment of the incapability of battleships to ward off planes, but a result of great planning by the Japanese).

As to your second point - I doubt if "reviving" a ship means actually using the original ship as-is. It is obviously just a conceit used in the story. The real Yamato broke in two. That didn't stop the TV people from using the premise of resurrecting an ancient, intact ship in their TV shows.

As to your third point - well, of course, they have an undefended bottom. They're seagoing vessels. We have to assume that the ship will be converted with a heavy redesign. Watch any of the five Yamato cartoon series.

As to your fourth point - carriers did not replace battleships. Rather battleships became obsolete as the platform for projecting force in the way wars are fought now. Carriers now fulfill a role that didn't exist back before WW2 - a role batttleships were never meant to fulfill. I think you are again projecting equivalencies in the way naval sea-based war is fought with the way they will be fought in space.

As to your fifth point - yes, indeedy, it IS fantasy. I mean, it's ridiculous for the WW2-era Imperial Battleship Yamato to be converted into a space-going warship - the original premise was way out there to begin with, so your gripe about being unable to suspend disbelief is, I think, something you needed to have considered at the get-go: this was a take-off from the Yamato cartoons, and the premise requires that you do have disbelief-suspending skills.

I think you should lighten up a bit, and try and enjoy the story the way it was meant to be enjoyed.

Just an opinion, of course. Feel free to disagree.
 

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