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[General Sci-fi] How accurate is the flickering lights and sparks flying everywhere when a spaceship is under attack?

In Sci-fi (specifically Battlestar Galactica and the Stargate series), whenever a spaceship is under attack, inside the ship there are giant explosions of sparks and smoke and flickering lights. How accurate is this? Would this happen to a real spaceship? Isn't this bad for the ship?
gpt
It depends on the weaponry, in the event of high-energy weapons, this could cause not-critical uninsulated electrical items to surge (I.e. lights) and cause arcing of high voltage low amp sparks between surfaces.

So while it looks bad. All the critical systems are well insulated from the surges.