Agree. Maybe the marines go on a Mars mission while the Kitty Hawk waits in orbit. After completing their objective, they find out that the pirates they've been fighting against on the surface have commandeered the Kitty Hawk and are taking her as a prize.
Sounds terribly unbelievable, it's a fucking cruiser, not some small boat!
There are thousands of better and more logical ways.
Please remain grounded people!
Also, space ship fights are incredibly non-cinematic when portrayed realisticly. ( Don't point to B5 or BSG, Newton Physics don't make realistic space warfare ). That's the reason why we never saw a single one outside of a book :-)
I'd love zero g sections, Dead Space, Crysis and above all else Shattered Horizon have shown how awesome those are. But we don't need giant space ship fights here, no matter how much I love those.