* Ruri skirts this a lot, but she about tops herself for good when she wrests control of the ''Nadesico'''s computer from Nergal, then proceeds to hack into United Earth Forces network and lock down the entire base, trapping everyone inside, appearing on all their security screens in a silly-looking cat costume and apologizing in advance ("Please keep quiet for a short while") for good measure.
* In Episode 20, Yurika gets a chance to show off her strategic skills by leading the enemy ship into a trap; in order to destroy their super-weapon.
** Hell, she shows this in the ''second'' episode, when she deliberately powers off the Nadesico and seemingly surrenders to the United Earth Forces, only to escape and regain control of her ship when she reveals that she only went over there in the first place in hopes of finding information about the deaths of Akito's parents.
* When the military tries to rewrite Omoikane, Ruri and Uribatake send in Akito via a VR program to secretly ensure that the military only erases the data the Nadesico crew wants them to. As he comes upon the main computer area, Omoikane summons Gekiganger 3 in order to stop him from advancing further, and is on the verge of dealing out a CurbStompBattle to the SuperDeformed Aestivalis-Akito fusion. Upon realizing that, because it's a virtual space, ''Akito can affect it too'', he does just that, leading to [[MirrorMatch Gekiganger vs. Gekiganger]], before he then uses the anime's MidSeasonUpgrade into Gekiganger V, and ''then'' transforms into the [[SerialEscalation still more-powerful]] Dragonganger that never made it into the anime, defeating the self-defense program and saving the day.
** Episode 6 shows Akito's just as crafty as the girl who's obsessed with him. When his Distortion Punch doesn't work on a battleship, he first cuts across the entire hull to find its weak point, slashes it open, and then gives it a huge Gekigan Flare strike, blowing the entire thing up with just a small mech and a well-placed MegatonPunch.
* The last moments of the ''Crocus'': using its SelfDestructMechanism, it destroys an entire Jovian fleet and collapses a Chulip wormhole, keeping the Nadesico from being captured/destroyed.